first edition
1971
by HOSOE, Eikoh
Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1971. Prints fine, first text sheet with a corner crease, with near fine cardboard insert, large white folder, and photo-illustrated black portfolio folder; publisher's printed cardboard folder with light wear at the corners and edges, else near fine.. First Edition. Large portfolio, consisting of twelve 23 1/2 X 16 1/2 mechanically reproduced gravure plates from Eikoh Hosoe's Man and Woman, with 2 text sheets, the same size as the prints, in Japanese and English. Issued as part of a series of portfolios on important Japanese photographers; this Hosoe set is portfolio number 8.
(Inventory #: 24704)