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William Klein. William Klein: Tokyo. Crown, 1964.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covers shelfworn. Dust jacket torn and creased along edges.Stamped from the James Alinder collection.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$602.94 + shipping
Description: In-4° (355x260mm), pp. 184 interamente illustrate con fotografie in b.n. di William Klein. Legatura editoriale t. tela con sovraccoperta nera con ideogramma in rosso. Perfetto stato. Prima edizione. Here is Tokyo. Not Tokyo for the tourist or Tokyo or travel posters, but everyday Tokyo in all its contradictions, discords, beauty, and appeal (dal risvolto di sovraccoperta). "Like Hokusai, William Klein has created a Mangaa 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" (Maurice Pinguet). William Klein's lasting legacy to photography will be his four city books: New York (1956), Rome (1959), Tokyo and Moscow (both 1964).Tokyo is my favourite, not least because it sees Klein returning to the city whose photographic culture he helped to revolutionize. In 1964 Tokyo was the most populous city on earth and the world's media were about to descend to cover the Olympic Games. Three years later James Bond arrived in You Only Live Twice, sealing a popular iconography for Tokyo that barely seems to have changed. Klein's assessment of the city incorporates every Tokyo cliché but in pushing them to breaking point it soars above them too.After New York and Rome Klein increased his page size so that when you open up the full-bleed double spreads of Tokyo they are more than half a metre wide. With those dense, complex compositions in your lap you feel like you're up close to a huge mural, not a page.this is where Klein is at his best, achieving the most powerful effects with the most unlikely material. I've no idea why he was in attendance at a meeting of an agricultural committee or how he got so close to the ceiling but his shot through a chandelier of bored bureaucrats in session is such a photographic joy. It is difficult to look at it and not imagine Klein muttering to himself: 'Jeeeesus this is boring! What can I do here? Ah, a chandelier! '.Of all his books it is Tokyo I take down from the shelf most often. It's so rich, so relentlessly inventive that I can never remember it all and find myself constantly surprised. It was published in New York and Tokyo. I've no idea how Tokyo received it. No doubt it was measured against the experience of those who lived there. For the rest who saw it in 1964 I imagine it was seductive, bewildering, breathless, cacophonous, grotesque, gorgeous, informative and very intelligent. It is still. (David Campany, William Klein Abc). Inglese
Seller: Gilibert Libreria Antiquaria (ILAB), Torino, TO, Italy
Klein, William. Tokyo. Crown Books, New York, 1964.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A number of small, mild rub marks to the covers else a clean copy of the First Edition in a clean and bright jacket with a couple of very short tears, mild edge wear a small amount of clear tape repair. An attractive and collectible example of an Increasingly scarce Book. ; Oversize Volume
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Klein, William. Tokyo. Crown Publishers, E-356, 1964.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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; 184 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
KLEIN, William. Tokyo. Crown Publishers, Inc, New York, 1964.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$775.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Photography - Klein, William. Tokyo (Signed). Crown Publishers, New York, 1964.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbound folio-size volume in dustwrapper. Preface by Maurice Pinguet. First edition of the third volume in Klein's "City" photobooks (Preceded by New York and Rome). 184 pp. Other than the brief preface the book is comprised entirely of large full-page black and white gravure photographs of striking images of daily life in Japan's largest city. A handsome very good copy in dustwrapper. As with many copies we have handled over the years, the dustwrapper suffers from edge-chips, paper loss and creasing. This copy is no exception. Still, a decent example. This copy also benefits from it being SIGNED by Klein on the title page and he has added some Japanese calligraphy adjacent to his signature. A very large and heavy volume. Additional shipping charges may apply.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Klein, William. Tokyo.. Crown Publishers, New York, 1964.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition (English), first printing. Signed in black marker on the half-title page by Klein. Hardcover. Fine white linen cloth, with debossed title stamped in red and black on spine, with red endpapers and photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and notes on the plates by William Klein. Preface by Harrison E. Salisbury. 184 pp., with numerous black and white plates, beautifully printed in rich photogravure. 14 x 10-3/8 inches. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004).]. Good (boards slightly splayed, moderate soiling and scuffing to the edges, binding loose, dealer sticker on front free-endpaper, red chop-mark on half-title page, plates are clean), in Good dust jacket (top edge is worn and curled, 3/4-inch chips missing from crown and heel of spine, 1/2-inch chip missing from upper left rear corner, 5-inch closed tear extending down from the crown of the spine across the front of the jacket, three 2-inch closed tears along top edge, stray marks and abrasions). One of Klein's five 'city books,' which include: New York (1956); Rome (1960), Tokyo (1964); Moscow (1964) and Torino '90 (1990). Signed by Author.
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.