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Over 150 photo books from a private collection for sale. Signed titles, some in their original packaging and collector's editions with print from 2010 to 2016. Also to find next days with detailed description in the 'other second-hand photo books' section

In her rare, out-of-print volume 'Dildo', published in a very limited edition of only 55 copies, Japanese photographer Momo OKABE accompanies her friends in their transformation from woman to man. She developed her intimate, artistic photographs by hand.

Jin OHASHI is one of the most popular and important photographers in Japan today. This photo book, nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation Award 2013 is a fundamental work that reflects the life of an individual and not of society as a whole.

The out-of-print volume 'Early Works' by Issei SUDA contains black-and-white photographs that were published in several magazines between 1970 and 1975, prior to the 'Fushikaden' series - this photo collection is like a prologue to his personal history.

with photo books by Mark STEINMETZ, Anthony HERNANDEZ, Bevan DAVIES, Katy GRANNAN, Sage SOHIER & John HUMBLE, Sage SOHIER, Mark STEINMETZ

This Nazraeli 'NZ Library Set #4' consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes by Steve BANKS / Katy GRANNAN / Abelardo MORELL / Catherine OPIE / Mark STEINMETZ / Jack TEEMER, collected in a slipcase. All texts are in English, limited to 350 copies!

The NZ-Library Set #2 consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes from Robbert FLICK / Kazuo KITAI / Philip MELNICK / John SCHOTT / Toshio SHIBATA / Mark STEINMETZ. In an extra made slipcase, richly illustrated, texts in English, Ltd. to 350 copies!

This is the beginning set of the Nazraeli 'NZ Library' series, collected in a slipcase. Included are six signed photo volumes by Bevan DAVIES / John DIVOLA / Steve KAHN / Idris KHAN / Daidō MORIYAMA / John SCHOTT. Texts in English, limited to 350 copies!

With its generous image flow, this book, 'A Diary', celebrates important Japanese photographer Daido MORIYAMA as the 2019 Hasselblad Award winner and his highly influential, lifelong radical and authentic approach to photography.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 32,5 cm., 128 pp., 90 ills., Ltd. to 500 copies

The out-of-print photo book compendium 'Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s' by Kaneko & Vartanian presents relevant publications of that era. Some of the most influential works and forgotten gems are presented and placed in a sociological context.

The photo volume 'Wonderful Days' by Masahisa FUKASE contains about 30 b/w shots of Masahsa FUKASE's apartment with cats, interior and his wife Yoko. Without further information in the book, the date of the photos can be estimated between 1960s to 1980s.

New edition. 'So it goes, so it goes' by Miho KAJIOKA presents a work about time, memory and place. The series shows intuitive images of fragments of their everyday life at different points in time. Inspiration was Kurt Vonnegut's novel 'Schlachthof 5'.

HC with dust jacket, 27 x 34,5 x 2,5 cm. (8 x 13,5 x 1 inch.), 240 pp., 320 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

The out-of-print monograph by Japanese photographer Yoshiko SEINO, 'The Sign of Life', contains photographs taken during 2000-2002 in many places in Japan. With the essay 'Short Circuit the Whole of Creation!' by Asako Imaeda in English.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 20 cm., 190 pp., highly illustrated, English

This new edition of 'A Hunter' by Daido MORIYAMA features the photo book with a carefully researched and designed booklet including readable essays as well as an invaluable commentary in English regarding the book as a whole and each individual photograph

In out-of-print photo book 'Illuminance', Rinko KAWAUCHI continues her investigation of the particular in the everyday, magically drawn to the fundamental cycles of life and the seemingly unintentional, fractal-like order of nature in formal structures.

The selection made for this book, 'Photographs 1951-2000', shows why Shomei TOMATSU is regarded by almost all living Japanese photographers - including the stars of the scene like Nobuyoshi ARAKI or Daido MORIYAMA - as 'godfather' of Japanese photography.

Facsimile. pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), ca. 20 x 25 x 1 cm., 32 pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to 250 copies with 2 different silk-screened covers (= 500 copies in total!)

'Tokyokei' documents both: Issei SUDA's very personal view of his hometown and an important Japanes period. This photo book is perhaps the most personal title of the Japanese master. It contains 106 previously unpublished b/w photos from the 1970s and 80s

'Pantomime' by Daido MORIYAMA features the more or less complete series of his pictures of fetuses, stored in formalin, photographed at a maternity hospital in Kanagawa. This was his first own project after three years’ work as an assistant to Eikoh HOSOE

The out-of-print volume 'Matter / Burn Out' by Daisuke YOKOTA is a documentation of the exhibition of the same name in Xiamen, which was burned after its completion. This was documented, with the data processed, manipulated and revived to create this book

Out-of-print 'Immerse' by Daisuke YOKOTA closes his Teikai trilogy. Dream-like b/w images meet abstract colour works, mixed with nudes. He brings fragments together to showcase the way he has developed his artistic approach since his first TEIKAI volume.

This edition of 'Chizu / The Map' by Kikuji KAWADA is an exquisite facsimile of the two-volume maquette, which also includes a booklet of texts and an interview with the Japanese artist revealing the evolution of one of the best photobooks of all time.

This set includes all three different designs and book formats of the 'No more no less' photo book project which has been iniciated by Thomas SAUVIN and Kensuke KOIKE. The base was a found manuscript with pictures about the work with portrait photography.

Re-edit, English Ed., Slipcased HC + pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31,5 x 3,5 cm., 328 pp., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

'Provoke. Between Protest and Performance ', accompanied the first exhibition as a catalog, which was shown through the magazine and the photographers involved - Daido MORIYAMA, Takuma NAKAHIRA, Yutaka TAKANASHI - and determines its historical relevance.

The 'Hiroshi Sugimoto Collection' includes the five volumes from 2014 to 2019. Adopting different conceptual approaches and astounding aesthetic expedients, these series investigate his obsession though the photographic medium: the 'fossilization of time'

Three slipcased HC, 30,5 x 14 x 46 cm., 966 pp., color ills., multilingual text: German / English / French

Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 40 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

Self published out-of-print photographic volume 'Distance. 1991-1995' by Koji ONAKA is about an unspecified city and in its industries. The black-and-white images show railroad infrastructure and roads, as well as a worn port. Signed & numbered (178/300).

The out-of-print volume 'Vertigo' by Daisuke YOKOTA is a kind of evolutionary sequel to 'Back Yard'. It contains close-ups as well as bird's-eye views of files. It refers to and clarifies the editing methods used by making the viewer aware of the sequence

Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 41 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

The volume 'Picture of My Life' by Junpei UEDA is the result of workshop in Tokyo, where he created 21 copies. This edition is as close as possible to the original edition, but in a larger print run of 500 copies to make it available to a larger audience.

'Waga Tokyo 100' tries to record Shitamachi Tokyo. Instead of drawing a portrait of the city, however, the Japanese photographer Issei SUDA documents the people who live there. Although it is not a narrative, the selected photos form a whole.

Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 cm., 48 pp., 21 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

The monograph 'Small Biography' features photographs by Shoji UEDA from the 1930s to the 1990s, originally published in Camera Mainichi magazine between 1974 and 1985. The limited edition of 1000 copies was numbered with an ink stamp on the colophon page.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued) in slipcase, 37 x 27 x 2 cm., 90 pp., b/w ills., Japanese/English, Ltd. to 900 numbered copies

'The Journey to Osorezan' is probably a metaphor for the changes that characterize Issei SUDA's own path through life. The mood in the book becomes increasingly contemplative. Not a dark book, but one without fear of accepting a life without illusions.

Out-of-print catalog 'Soul and Soul by Kiyoshi Suzuki', coincided a retrospective exhibition. It brings together the two mediums in a worthy tribute to the artist that surveys both his approach to photography and the various book dummies that he designed.

In out-of-print photo volume 'A Criminal Investigation', Yukichi WATABE documents investigations into a gruesome murder. The images unfold in the style of 'film noir' and involve the viewer. Image by image, the mystery engulfs the one who has to solve it.

The book 'Remote Past a Memoir: 1951-1966' by Kikuji KAWADA focuses on Japan in the 1950s and 60s, in which he established his own photographic voice; it includes work that is highly regarded by other Japanesephotographers such as Ihei KIMURA & Ken DOMON.

'Tenko', is an intersection between the photos of artist HANAYO, mother of Tenko, and the mystical, sensual photos of Tenko's favorite children's book, 'Alice' by Hajime SAWATARI, one of the first books Tenko came in contact with during her childhood.

The classic volume 'Light and Shadow' by Daido MORIYAMA in a new version. This reprint includes a bound edition as well as a paperback supplement with detailed information on each photo, an exclusive commentary by Daido MORIYAMA and a subscribed interview

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 27,5 x 1,5 cm., 104 pp., 91 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to only 91 copies (with different print)

A faithful faksimile of the artist book 'Snowflakes Dog Man' by Hajime KIMURA. Three offset printed volumes in a black screen printed and handmade cardboard. The dreamy softness and delicacy of the images is intoxicating and disturbing at the same time.

HC in Japanese binding, 24,5 x 34,5 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., 40 color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 27 x 19 x 3 cm., 436 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

In photo volume 'Red String' by Yoshikatsu FUJI, the thread that still connects the family even after the separation is taken up again. Designed as a double volume, it reassembles collected family images and thus reveals the lineage that was predetermined