Hi,
can someone recommend me dictionary with these specs:
-not very big so I can easy handle it along my textbook
-for upper beginner/lower intermediate (currently with AIAIJ)
-no romaji
-good bounding with vinyl cover so it can survive
(-good typography and thin silk pages will be nice )


I have found some in amazonJP but have no idea which to choose as I cannot see the content:

ライトハウス和英辞典

Sanseidos デイリーコンサイス英和・和英辞​典

ニューホライズン英和・和英辞典

グランドセンチュリー和英辞典

ジーニアス和英辞典

スーパー・アンカー和英辞典

Thanks!

Is it absolutely necessary to get a printed one? I smartphone with a few epwing dics, or a denshi jisho is much quicker to look up things in.

That said, you can find the E-J version of the Sanseido one here: http://www.sanseido.net/
It's not the J-E version though.

Try doing a Google image search on each one. I tried it with a few and each brought up at least a few pictures of the inside pages.

I have iphone and electronic one, but wanted to get also printed as I love printed materials. I do not want to stay all the time in front of computer, phone....

You're looking for a "furigana dictionary". The most popular one is the Kodansha Furigana Dictionary, but I haven't used it so I can't comment on it. It comes in a regular-priced paperback edition and an expensive hardcover edition. It's available from European Amazon sites, so that's a plus.

Personally I'm not bothered by romaji in a dictionary as it makes it more convenient to look words up. I do find romaji distracting in textbooks, though.
I use the Langenscheidt Pocket Japanese Dictionary because it's small and handy and it covers most anything a beginner like me might want. It's also durable with its "turtle shell" cover. It's in romaji.
I also have the Oxford Pocket Kenkyusha. It's heftier than the name implies, and actually doesn't carry much more than the Langenscheidt. However, pitch accent is marked on every word, and it has example sentences when clarification is needed. Its downsides are a flimsy build and a bad romaji system: tokei becomes tokee, hitsuyou becomes hitsuyoo; to add insult to injury, eien becomes eeen, even though the i is actually pronounced in this case.

@OP Ah, OK. You might want to look into pocket dictionaries made for Japanese learners, though I haven't seen one entirely without romaji. The pocket Langenscheidt one already mentioned was pretty good from what I remember, though I haven't used it since I got a smartphone.