Titles starting with 1 from Harper's Books, Inc.

Tokyo: Shaken,. 1968.. Second Edition. (The first edition sold poorly and the original publisher, Shashin Dojinsha, went out of business. Tomatsu then created his own publishing company, Shaken, and reused unsold copies of the first edition, stickering the spines with the name of the new publisher, and altering the copyright page. Otherwise the books are identical.) Small square quarto. One of the cornerstone books of postwar Japanese photography. In this brilliantly edited volume, Tomatsu moves away from a... more information

New York: Viking Press. (1946).. Third printing. Quarto. Photo direction by Edwin Rosskam, with images selected from the files of the FSA, including the great shot on the dust jacket by Walker Evans. Fine in a very good plus jacket, complete, with a small tape-repaired tear at the rear spine gutter, and a few instances of inoffensive coloration with black marker where the fragile paper jacket had rubbed. One of the great jackets in 20th century American photobooks. ... more information

Winterthur: Buchdruckerei Winterthur. [n.d.].. First Edition. Quarto. Company book with a series of bw photographs at the rear shot by Jakob Tuggener (in the style of Fabrik), Hans Linck, and Otto Engler. Boards slightly bowed, few spots of foxing, leather spine label bit rubbed; still near fine in gilt-stamped linen boards. ... more information

Tokyo: Toseisha. (2001).. First Edition. Small thick quarto. SIGNED by the photographer. 237 bw images of rural Japan shot between 1973-1981; the third and final book of Kitai's post-protest work, focusing on life in rural Japan. Fine in photo- illustrated wrappers. ... more information