Barakei / Killed by Roses.
Tokyo, Shueisha, 1963
First edition, number 1392 of 1500 copies, signed by Hosoe and Mishima in black ink on limitation; Folio (420 x 270 mm, 16½ x 10¾ in); preface by Mishima, black-and-white photographs by Hosoe printed in sheet-fed gravure, design by Sugiura Kohei, bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper; illustrated cloth-covered boards, original plastic dust-jacket, shrunken slightly as usual, a near-fine copy in the publisher's very good illustrated cardboard box with rubbing and wear to extremities; [102]pp (incl. two folding, limitation leaf, and four printed rice paper leaves).
The Open Book pp194-5; The Photobook A History I, pp 280-1, The Book of 101 Books pp164-7; The Japanese Photobook 1912-1990 pp368-9.
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