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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 by Hajime Sawatari (2), Wakamatsu, Ichimura, and Yasuhiro Yoshioka (3), in a variety of formats, but all as issued. first editions, 4 are signed. Vp, Vd
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 in Wonderland." 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).
Tad Wakamatsu. 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).
Yasuhiro Yoshioka. Illustrated with reproductions of Yoshioka'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 Mihiro Wakabayashi. Rare vivid erotica book illustrated with reproductions of Yoshioka'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. Jyuai [Animal Love]. 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.
