Dec 07, 2006 - Sale 2097

Sale 2097 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500
HOSOE, EIKOH. Ba-Ra-Kei [Killed by Roses]. Introduction by Yukio Mishima. Illustrated with reproductions of Hosoe's extraordinary photographs. Tall folio, photo-pictorial cloth, lightly worn at edges; printed vellum preliminaries, minor foxing; original acetate dust jacket; original board slipcase, worn. Roth 164; Parr/Badger 281; Hasselblad 194. first edition, one of 1500 numbered copies signed by hosoe and mishima. Tokyo, 1963