Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos)! Size: 8.5" x 12". Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust jacket (paperback): clean, bright, bumping and rubbing to top edges, tiny tear at front top and back top corner tip, price label on front inner flap. Ships from California. Ships same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! ABOUT: Foreword Twenty-five years have passed since traveling became a part of my lifestyle. For me, traveling means the creation of fond memories. And in times of happiness and sadness, I find that along with my memories, beer and wine have become steady companions. In a life that has become one long journey, I came to collect objects as fragments of =yr memories both consciously and subconsciously. One of the forerunners of my telethon is the beer coaster. Many things in the beer coaster attracted me. First, it is a microcosm which contains any dements, advertising, design, themes of sales campaigns and so on. In this sense, it is Ike the origin of graphic design. And this element is most attractive. In a way my collection of beer coasters resembles that of emblems, although they do differ in aim SI is reasons for which I started the collection. Thus, "Beer Coasters" follow my earlier book. -Emblems" published in November, 1987. The coasters I gathered have the names of the product and brewery for advertisement These were supplied by the breweries free of charge to the beer halls and bars Bch serve their particular brand of beer. In Germany there are about two thousand breweries, most of which produce their own beer coasters ("Bier Filz" in German). However, this was not the first time I published my beer coaster collection. It was first introduced in "The Beer Coasters Collection" published by Kodansha in May, 1985.