4to. Numerous reproductions of Hosoe’s photographs. Poems by Taro Yamamoto. Text by Ed van der Elsken and Tatsuo Fukushima. Stapled pamphlet containing the English translation of the Japanese text laid in. Original gray-stamped yellow boards; original dust jacket (price-clipped, chipping and sunning to spine); original printed card slipcase (slight soiling and wear to extremities). Laid-in: Stapled pamphlet containing the English translation of the Japanese text. 

 

FIRST EDITION of Hosoe’s study of the human body, an “attempt to catch the human drama, its secret rites held in darkness.”