Retro Radio: Six Decades of Design 1920s-1970s

This book was indeed brand new, still sealed in it's original wrapping. It was shipped promptly, was well priced and and packaged. I would buy from this seller again.

very enjoyable. i keep looking at it again and again.

Over the years, I have enjoyed acquiring books on collectibles....mostly of the radio and phonograph hobbies. When I saw this book introduced, I was thrilled at the chance to add to my collection and find a book that would show some of the designs and beauty of early radios. Unfortunately, I could not have been more disappointed. The author did not spend a lot of research time garnering pictures from a variety of collectors and showing exquisite samples. Rather, he took one man's accumulation of radios....the good, the bad, and the ugly. Thus, you see radios with missing veneer, torn grill cloths, and rather ordinary radios. To add further insult, the pages with the pictures are blank. There is no information on the radio....no manufacturer, date of manufacture, information about the design....nothing. You just have some good pictures of some very poor radios.There are a couple of exceptions, but it is rare that I am this disappointed with a purchase. When I consider all that this book could have been and what it offers, I believe that the book garners a rating of 1 star. Hopefully someone else will release a proper book showing the industrial design, art deco, beautiful mirrors, veneers, and gorgeous catalin varieties which are the heritage of the radio era. This book is not one of them!

Super fast undamaged delivery of a great book of illustrations

Nice book for a radio aficionado. Great photography in this book.

This is a beautiful book of photographs of vintage radios, many I had never seen before. The book is a clean presentation of how the designs of the radios evolved over the decades. I bought the book to give as a gift and ended up ordering more. If you are looking for an in depth description of each radio other than the date each was released, this book is not for you but the author states in the intro that his goal was to show the progression in design and that's what the book accomplishes.

There is a nice assemblage of photos, like a simple photo book. Heads-on shots, no more. But although the book description on amzn mentions materials used and other characteristics. This is JUST photos. NO TEXT WHATSOVER. Not even make/model/material (e.g wood, veneer, plastic, bakelite, catalin), designer when known (eg at least one radio was designed by famed auto designer Raymond Loewy -- you wouldn't know it from this book). No context to anything. An "index" which is nothing more than thumbnail shots, shows year (which can be an approximation). Almost nothing of value to anyone truly interested in deco radio history, what to look for, technology evolution. It is a quick read though. 3 minutes. Maybe. Sad.

Basically a photo album with no detailed information about the radio pictured in the main part of the book. If you want to know what year the radio was made you have to look it up in the index, but even that won't tell you the company that made the radio. That info would be helpful since some of the older radios have no nameplate on the front. So if you want details this isn't the book for you.

Não gostei porque comprei achando que era rádio e era um livro. O anúncio me levou ao erro já comprei outros e chegaram normal

Only pictures, there are very few older radios, radios are poor quality and so are the pictures.