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(JAPANESE PHOTO BOOKS.)
Select group of 8 Japanese photo books from the 1970s, many featuring images of
women, and some with colorful, 70s-inspired design.
Each with many reproductions, featuring work by Hajime Sawatari (2),Wakamatsu, Ichimura, and
YasuhiroYoshioka (3), in a variety of formats, but all as issued.
FIRST EDITIONS
, 4
ARE SIGNED
.
Vp,Vd
[1,500/2,500]
Hajime Sawatari. Nadia. Square folio, photo-pictorial wrappers. First edition, signed by Sawatari. 1973.
Hajime Sawatari.Alice.Illustrated with reproductions of Sawatari’s photographic interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s children’s
story,“Alice inWonderland.”Oblong 4to, gilt-lettered textured green cloth; photo-pictorial paper-covered slipcase, slight
wear at the edges; original printed bellyband. First edition, signed by Sawatari in silver ink. (Tokyo), (1973).
TadWakamatsu. Ipy Girl Ipy.Tall 4to, photo-pictorial wrappers; purple belly band. First edition. 1970.
Nakamura. Ema Nude in Africa.Tall 4to, photo-pictorial wrappers. First edition, signed. 1971.
Tetsuya Ichimura. Come Up. Illustrated with reproductions of Ichimura’s evocative photographs. Square 4to,
white wrappers with a stapled binding; acetate dust jacket; slipcase with a large blue label, slightly worn. First
edition, signed by Ichimura. (Tokyo): Shashin Hyoron-sha, (1971).
YasuhiroYoshioka. Illustrated with reproductions ofYoshioka’s abstracted photographs of the human body. Small
4to, white-stamped black cloth; acetate outer wrapper; in the folded card slipcase. First edition, self-published by
Yoshioka. Np, (1963).
Yasuhiro Yoshioka. Nude, Paradise of Sodom.With texts by Kazuo Shiraishi, Nagisa Oshima, and Masao
Adachi. Model MihiroWakabayashi. Rare vivid erotica book illustrated with reproductions ofYoshioka’s black-
and-white and color photographs. 4to, floral printed wrappers; photo-pictorial and matching floral dust jacket.
First edition. (Tokyo, Japan): (Hagashoten), (1971).
Yasuhiro Yoshioka. Sodom no Rakuen. Small folio, loose contents with reproductions of color and black and
white photographs; enclosed in a 4-fold case with a photo-pictorial covers; also in an additional folding printed
slipcase. First edition. 1971.