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ED VAN DER ELSKEN
Sweet Life. Tokyo: Tokyo Photographic School, 1968. Square 4° (290 x 290mm). 153 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, spine and covers lettered in white, without dust-jacket as issued, original cardboard slipcase, printed paper label on spine overlapping onto covers (lettering slightly dulled, wear to slipcase). First Japanese edition - the rarest of the various issues of Elsken's masterpiece, 'a sprawling, exuberant cornucopia'; Sweet Life, with Frank's The Americans, defined the photographic odyssey genre (The Photobook). The Photobook, pp.254-55.
De Ontdekking van Japan -- The Discovery of Japan. Amsterdam: Fragment, 1988. Square 4° (300 x 300mm). With the original booklet laid-in. Original light grey cloth, spine blocked in blind, front cover blocked in blind and red, original dust-jacket (dust-jacket with light wear and light soiling). FIRST EDITION. (2)
Sweet Life. Tokyo: Tokyo Photographic School, 1968. Square 4° (290 x 290mm). 153 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, spine and covers lettered in white, without dust-jacket as issued, original cardboard slipcase, printed paper label on spine overlapping onto covers (lettering slightly dulled, wear to slipcase). First Japanese edition - the rarest of the various issues of Elsken's masterpiece, 'a sprawling, exuberant cornucopia'; Sweet Life, with Frank's The Americans, defined the photographic odyssey genre (The Photobook). The Photobook, pp.254-55.
De Ontdekking van Japan -- The Discovery of Japan. Amsterdam: Fragment, 1988. Square 4° (300 x 300mm). With the original booklet laid-in. Original light grey cloth, spine blocked in blind, front cover blocked in blind and red, original dust-jacket (dust-jacket with light wear and light soiling). FIRST EDITION. (2)
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