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HOSOE, Eikoh and Yukio Mishima. Embrace. Shashin Hyoronsha Publishing House, Tokyo, 1971.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Text in Japanese with a preface by Yukio Mishima but with some titles in English. A collection of over 60 black and white nudes beautifully printed using the photogravure process. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a very near fine cardboard slipcase. Also includes a laid in note from a later date that has been signed by Hosoe. A lovely copy of one of Hosoe's best books.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$877.88 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Rare signed copy Embrace by Eikoh Hosoe
Seller: pericles, Le Bois Randenais, France
HOSOE EIKOH (1933-). Hoyo / Embrace. , 1971.
Price: US$1042.48 + shipping
Description: Tokyo, Shashin Hyoronsha, 1971, 265 x 365mm, 94 p.70 photographies pleine page. Préface de Yukio Mishima. Conception graphique de Hosoe.Pleine toile en couleur avec titre au dos et sur les plats, jaquette identique, emboîtage avec étiquette collée, bande annonce rose.Prix dartiste de Japan Professional Photographers Society.Exemplaire neuf, signé.Réf.: 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers, Tokyo, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2000, p.277. Lhistoire de lÈre Showa par les photographes. Tokyo, Heibonsha, 1983, p.187-194.Eikoh Hosoe : 1950-2000 Photographs. Tokyo, Kyôdô Tsushin-sha, 2000, p.108-127, 254.(104111) Livres
Seller: Chloé et Denis Ozanne, Paris, France
HOSOE, Eikoh.. Embrace.. Tokyo Shashin Hyoronsha Publishing House, 1971.
Price: US$1058.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed on the first page; folio (356 x 253 mm, 14 x 10 in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Nissha Printing Co., preface by Mishima Yukio, design and layout by Eikoh Hosoe; black endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in white on spine and sides, printed dust-jacket, black and pink, publisher's cardboard slipcase with title label in black and white and orange printed wraparound band, fine; [96]pp. Signed copy of Hosoe Eikoh's Embrace. This book develops ideas from his 1961 book Otoko to Onna / Man and Woman. It explores the relationship between men and women in a series of abstract close-ups in which the female body is bleached to white in contrast with the darker tone of the male.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
HOSOE, Eikoh.. Embrace.. Tokyo: Shashin Hyoronsha Publishing House, 1971, 1971.
Price: US$1590.03 + shipping
Description: First edition, inscribed by Hosoe in Japanese to the half-title and with his signature below in Roman letters, dated 10 August 1974, together with a postcard from the artist addressed to fellow photographer Eva Rubinstein in New York, bearing the message "Hope your show was successful, too! Eikoh". A superb association for this important work of photography. Folio. Original black cloth, Japanese titles to spine and boards in white. With dust jacket. Half-tone photographs throughout. Very light offsetting from laid-in postcard to the half-title, the faintest of tanning towards edges. An excellent copy in the bright dust jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Hosoe, Eikoh. Embrace. Shashin Hyoronsha Publishing House, Tokyo 1971, 1971.
Price: US$2565.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 14 x 10 inches, unnumbered pages, black cloth with cardboard slipcase, Dust Jacket, Signed by the photographer in Kanji on Japanese title page, With cardboard slipcase including orange printed wrap around band. Preface by Yukio Mishima. The book features a stunning series of Hosoe's stark, sculptural nude studies. Two small promotional brochures for the book and the publisher laid in. All text in Japanese. First Edition edition. Fine.
Seller: Dawson's Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.