Tokyo

Folio (345 x 257 mm), pp.[iv], 9 (preface), [14]-184. 168 black-and-white photographs printed in gravure, texts by Maurice Pinguet and Klein. Edges lightly foxed. Original cloth, spine lettered in red and white; light rubbing to tips and corners. Original dust-jacket printed in black and red; rubbing to tips, short closed tear to head of upper panel, shallow scratch to lower panel. Near-fine.

First edition. Tokyo is the fourth of Klein’s four city books. In his preface Maurice Pinguet compares the work to that of 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.’

Roth, A. et al. Open Book, pp.206-7; Auer, M. and M., 802 photo books, p.437.