Japan, 1951-1960 from Six by Six (6 x 6) Set Five. by KAWADA, Kikuji

Paso Rablos, CA: Nazraeli Press, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. Number 332 of only 500 copies. The 25th entry in the second series of One Picture Books. Includes 11 duotone plates. A fine copy. Includes a laid in 5" x 7" original photograph that has been signed by Kawada on the verso.

Iwanamishoten, 2004. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 310x268mm

Nazraeli Press, 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist..

Asahi Sonorama, 1979. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1

E-129: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Very Good. 2003. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan. 2003. 244 pgs. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white and four-color plates. Text in Japanese and English. First Edition/First Printing. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelfwear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Essays (in Japanese and English) by Mark Holborn and Kyoko Jimbo. Includes a list of plates, exhibition checklist, audio transcripts, biography, list of major works and bibliography. Published on the occasion of a major 2003 retrospective exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. A comprehensive catalogue featuring Kawada's major projects and lesser-known works: The Map, Sacré Atavism, parco dei mostri, The Castle: Ludwig II, Microcosmos, The Hell, The Dream of the Stones, Grotesque Garden,… Read More

Case Publishing, 2016. Softcover. Fine/No jacket. Signed by the photographer.

Nazraeli Press. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2005. First Edition. Hardback. 1590051238 . [Nazraeli Press facsimile reprint of the 1965 first edition - Signed by Kikuji Kawada on verso of the rear endpaper. Accompanied by the original English/ Japanese booklet which prints a new Essay by Kawada and gives a list of the photographs, hand-numbered, unpaginated, 461/500] The slipcase remains bright, sturdy and clean, bound in black cloth with bevelled edges and a photo-illustrated jacket laid to the covers, no tears, scuffs or discernible wear; The pamphlet remains stiff and clean, staples tight and free from oxidation; The book itself is bound in black cloth with embossed black titles, corners sharp, cloth clean and free from blemishes; Internally clean, no ownership marks or annotations, pages crisp, illustrated copiously with high-quality fold-out reproductions of Kawada's photographs; Binding tight. Overall an exemplary copy of this handsomely produced edition. Scarce.… Read More

Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2005. Kawada, Kikuji. 8vo., [3], [46] gatefold leaves, [3] pp., all illustrated from photographs. Bound in black cloth, titled in red ink on the upper cover and spine. Signed in Kanji by the photographer on the final leaf. [with] Paper wrapper booklet of [16] pp., which includes a five page introduction by Kawada, and captions for all 190 images in both English and Japanese; numbered 411 of 500 copies. All housed in an illustrated slipcase; all fine, as new. This newly designed edition by Naomichi Kawahata, which is limited to 500 numbered and signed copies, closely follows the original presentation of the exceedingly rare 1965 first edition of CHIZU [THE MAP]. Parr and Badger, Volume 1, p.286 -287.

Paso Robles: Nazraeli Press, , 2014. Rilegato mezza tela, sovracoperta (half-cloth binding, dust jacket). Ottimo (Fine). Six by Six: Set 5, Volume 3. With a separate exhibition-quality original print, numbered and signed by the Artist, on 11 x 14 inch paper. 25 black and white photographs / Con una stampa originale sciolta su carta pesante, numerata e firmata da Kikuj Kawada (Esemplare 74/100. Cm 35,5x27,5). 25 fotografie in bianco e nero. 4to (cm 37x29,5). pp. 32. Ottimo (Fine). Prima edizione di 100 esemplari numerati e firmati (First edition of 100 numbered and signed copies).

Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 1965. . First edition; 4to (225 x 150 mm, 8¾ x 6 in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Seikosha, text by Oe Kenzaburo, design by Sugiura Kohei and Ishio Toshiro; black endpapers, black paper-covered boards, printed black and grey spine label, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, minor wear to extremities, illustrated card portfolio, publisher's printed cardboard slipcase, spine lightly toned, minor wear, tri-fold tan printed text sheet, recto printed in Japanese verso in English laid in, previous owner's name on front free endpaper dated 66/1/10, near-fine; [98]pp (including 45 gatefolds). Kikuji Kawada's The Map is a high point of Japanese photography and book design, published on August 6 1965, the twentieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. It comprises photographs of the ruined dome of Hiroshima's Prefectural Industry Exhibition Hall, now preserved as a peace memorial known as the Atomic Bomb Dome, and the abstract surfaces of its stained, scorched… Read More