Tokyo by KLEIN, William - 1964

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1964 Cloth. 4to. First edition. Very good +, in like dust jacket with a few very small closed tears and chips at extremities. Profusely illustrated with full page black & white photographs of Tokyo by Klein. Preface by Maurice Pinguet.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

New York: Delpire, 1964. 184pgs, black boards, no DJ as issued. Forecorners and spine ends show faint shelfwear. Thin scrape along lower back board about 4 inches in length. White and red lettering on the spine and front board. Black and white photographs throughout. Internally fine copy. One of William Klein's four city books which also included New York, Rome and Moscow. He is noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small Folio.

[Paris], Delpire éditeur, 1964. . First edition, French issue (there were also American, Italian, and Japanese issues, all were printed in Japan by Zokeisha; a German edition was issued the following year); folio (347 x 253 mm, 13¾ x 10 in ); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure, text by William Klein, minor toning to edges, print production holes to last leaf and rear endpapers; black endpapers, printed paper-covered boards, black, red, and grey, light shelfwear, rubbing to corners, an excellent copy; [16], 15-184pp. Tokyo is the fourth of Klein's four classic city books, following Life is Good & Good For You in New York: Trance Witness Revels (1956) and Rome (1959) and contemporaneous with Moscow (1964). Together, these four books arguably represent Klein's most significant contribution to the history of photography.In 1961, Klein visited Japan, where his first book, Life is Good & Good for You in New York (1956), had a profound influence on a young generation of Japanese… Read More

E-356: Crown Publishers. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Crown Publishers, Inc, New York. 1964. 184 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. Price-clipped DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Here is Tokyo. Not Tokyo for the tourist or Tokyo or travel posters, but everyday Tokyo in all its contradictions, discords, beauty, and appeal. "Like Hokusai, William Klein has created a Manga a sudden throng of images, faces, streets, crowds, and attitudes, intense and confused, where the past merges with the future in an uproar of appearances. All are instantaneously caught, still moving, alive, and gesturing"EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall;… Read More

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1964. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features a preface by Maurice Pinguet. One of the brilliant books in Klein's "city" series. A beautifully printed book in mostly full page gravure images taken throughout the title city. The photographs by Klein capture the energy and soul of Tokyo A clean near fine copy in black cloth boards with some very minor wear in a near fine dust jacket with a few tiny edge tears and some minor wear to the base of the spine. A lovely copy.

New York : Crown Publishers, 1964., 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 9, [1], 15-184 pp. ; 32 cm. ; folio ; illustrated with 183 black and white photographs ; 28 cm. ; LCCN: 64-21769 ; OCLC: 1691744 ; LC: DS896.5; Dewey: 915.2135 ; black cloth with red and white lettering, in like-colored dustjacket ; edge wear to dustjacket ; slight edge wear to bottom of spine ; black ink mark-through of two lines on front ep ; This is one of the epoch-making photojournalistic photo-essays by photographer William Klein--who also photo-documented Moscow, New York and Rome as pa rt of this series--whose photos cut through the Japanese masks of tatame and hone to reveal the inner character of the Japanese people. ; A monumental photographic achievement that forever changed the approach to photojournalism ; text in English ; scarce ; VG/G .

New York: Crown Publishers, 1964. First edition of the fourth volume in Klein's acclaimed series of "city" books. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Preface by Maurice Pinguet. An exceptional example, uncommon in this condition.