Book# 35465

Sale 2166 Lot 79 (EROTICA). Set of 4 titles documenting illict Japanese urban culture of the 1980s and 1990s. Together, four volumes. Each illustrated with black-and-white and color reproductions of photographs by various photographers of nighttime activities (in the manner of Kohei Yoshiyuki), the infamous chikan on trains, and sexual encounters. Tall 4tos, wrappers and photo-pictorial dust jackets, lightly edgeworn. first editions. Vp, Vd Estimate $1,000-1,500 Includes Hiroshi Takano. Document Waishoku Bunka [Document Obscene Culture]. (Hamashobou, 1982) * Ikko Kagari. Document Tsukin Densha [Document Commuter Train]. (Hamashobo, 1982) * Tousatsu, Peeping Special. (Outoushobo, 1985) * Hirofumi Nagashima. Chikan Rush [Pervert Rush]. (Heart Deluxe, 1994).

 

Auct. Swann Photographic Litertaure & Photographs, sale 2166, New York, NY, 12 Dec. 2008, estimate:
 

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