first edition
1964 · New York
by KLEIN, William
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1964. First edition. A near-fine copy in a worn jacket with significant losses. Folio (13.5 x 10 inches). 184 pages. Cloth; dust jacket (the photo shows mylar protective reflection). Introduction by Maurice Pinguet. First edition of one of Klein's four "city: books, a stunningly and exuberantly designed book carrying on the model Klein had devised in his 'Life is Good and Good for You in New York': powerful full bleed images, one after the other, relentless showing the vitality of Tokyo. Pinguet compares the book to Hokusai, "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.
(Inventory #: 410759)