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Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1929-1930 (Showa 4 and 5). Large octavos (29 × 19.6 cm). Publisher's cloth-backed boards with vignette to front board and gilt titles to spine; 381 and 115, 18, [1] pp. The first volume with 350 pp. of plans and drawings, a few in color; the second volume In the original card slipcases with decorative title label affixed to panels. Light wear and scuffing to slipcases; very minor foxing to boards and endpapers; else about very good. Asahi Shimbun is one of the five national newspapers in Japan, and one of the nation's oldest and largest national daily newspapers, which began publication in Osaka in 1879. The newspaper held this competition for small and mid-size houses and villages in 1929, and the submissions ranged widely from distinctly modern and progressive to more traditionally inflected designs. One of the projects was by Kiyoshi Kikkawa, who collaborated on the Aoikan cinema in 1924 with Tomoyoshi Murayama (Tokyo). The competition was also not purely an academic…
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Asahi jūtaku zuanshū: Kenshō chūshō jūtaku 85an [Asahi housing designs: small and medium size housing competition, 85 plans]. WITH: Asahi jūtaku shashinshū [Photo book of winners of the Asahi Housing Plan Competition]. Volume 1 and 2 (complete)
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Marcatrè. Rivista de Cultura Contemporanea. Nos. 1 (Nov. 1963) through 66/67 (July 1972) (All Published)
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[Titles, subtitles and numbering vary: Nos. 1-18 subtitled "Notiziario de Cultura Contemporanea"; nos. 56-62 alternately numbered as 1-7; no. 64/65 entitled "Marcazero" with cover title "Marca 3"; no. 66/67 entitled "Marcauno" with cover title "Marca 3"] 66 issues (publisher's serialization lacks a no. 63) in 25 fascicules (many showing multiple issue numbers) comprising a complete run of the legendary Italian journal founded by Eugenio Battisti that was strongly associated with the writers of Il Verri and Gruppo 63, notably among them Gillo Dorfles, Edoardo Sanguineti, Umberto Eco, Paolo Portoghesi, Enrico Crispolti, etc., featuring cultural criticism, essays and reviews on topics including mass culture, design, architecture, literature, music, the visual arts, cinema, politics, and other topics, illustrated throughout with reproductions of photographs, paintings, drawings, architectural plans, musical notation, and experimental page spreads, some foldout. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled, some…
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