May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
KAWAUCHI, RINKO.
Utatane [Siesta].
Design by Shoko Yamana. Illustrated with reproductions of Kawauchi's dream-like, slightly surrealist, photographs of the everyday. 4to, white wrappers; photo-pictorial dust jacket, lightly soiled; printed bellyband, also lightly soiled. Parr/Badger II 316. first edition.
Tokyo, Japan: Little More, 2001

Additional Details

The bellyband on the copy offered here was apparently the first iteration, which was subsequently changed to a simpler version (with less text) after Kawauchi won the Ihei Kimura award in Japan.