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.\n\nFirst 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.’\n\nRoth, A. et al. Open Book, pp.206-7; Auer, M. and M., 802 photo books, p.437.