Tokyo, Heibonsha, 2004
Presentation copy inscribed to Hilary Gerrard. presentation copy inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for over thirty years and a director of the Beatles company Apple Corps. Toki (Moment) is Ishimoto's meditation on mortality. It features his photographs of footprints in the snow, wet leaves on tar, crushed aluminium cans, and blurred street portraits.
First edition, presentation copy inscribed in pencil on the title-page in the year of publication; 4to (299 x 254 mm, 11¾ x 10 in); black-and-white photographs, texts by Tsujii Takashi, Ishimoto Shigeru, and Ishimoto Yasuhiro, light toning to edges; blue cloth-covered boards, titles stamped to spine and front in black and in blind, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, publisher's grey printed cardboard slipcase, lightly worn and toned, and wraparound band short tear and light creasing and a couple of nicks, near-fine; 211, [5]pp (incl. one gatefold).
First edition, presentation copy inscribed in pencil on the title-page in the year of publication; 4to (299 x 254 mm, 11¾ x 10 in); black-and-white photographs, texts by Tsujii Takashi, Ishimoto Shigeru, and Ishimoto Yasuhiro, light toning to edges; blue cloth-covered boards, titles stamped to spine and front in black and in blind, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, publisher's grey printed cardboard slipcase, lightly worn and toned, and wraparound band short tear and light creasing and a couple of nicks, near-fine; 211, [5]pp (incl. one gatefold).
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