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SIGNED. BARAKEI - ORDEAL BY ROSES, 1963, COPY NO 979 /1500EX, EIKOH HOSOE, YUKIO MISHIMA.


Perfectly complete box, really very good condition!


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"Ba Ra Kei" (Ordeal by Roses), the original 1963 edition, perfectly complete with dust jacket DJ Dust

Photography - Quantity: 1 - Inscribed by author, Signed, Signed by author, Signed by illustrator, Dust jacket, Slipcase, Fold out maps or plates - Book

Signed; Eikoh Hosoe, Yukio Mishima - Ba Ra Kei [Ordeal by Roses, original first edition] - 1963

An exceptionally signed copy on the front title page by Giovanni Chiaramonte (1948 - 2023), absolutely impossible to find on the internet, whether signed or unsigned, as it is completely out of print. 160 pages and 72 color photographs taken between 1980 and 1999 across the

Photography - Quantity: 1 - Signed, Dust jacket - Book

Signed Giovanni Chiaramonte - Nascosto in prospettiva, - 2007

Limited edition, Erwin Olaf’s Own nr 138, unused copy

Photography - Quantity: 1 - Signed by author - Photo book

Erwin Olaf - OWN - 2011

THIS IS THE VERY FIRST PHOTOBOOK AUCTION ON CATAWIKI - dedicated entirely to the world of the former "DDR"/"GDR" ("GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC" or "EAST GERMANY") which existed from 1949 to 1990.

Still largely undiscovered and unexplored, this field offers a wealth of fascinating

Art, Photography - Quantity: 1 - Dust jacket - Photo book

Thomas Billhardt, Eberhard Hackethal, Eduard Klein - Chile (WITH ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET). Hoffnung eines Kontinents - 1972

Knoll at the Museum refers to the exhibition held in 1972 at the Pavillon de Marsan, at the Museum of Design, Arts, and Decorative Arts in Paris, which celebrated the first 25 years of Knoll.
Project by the Vignelli brothers, photo by Herbert Matter.
Good condition with a small

Applied art, Art - Quantity: 1 - Reference book

Fratelli Vignello - Knoll au Musée - 1972

Exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Ferdinando Scianna (rare signed copy). 230 pages and nearly 200 photographs, mostly full-page black-and-white images printed in very high quality. Publisher's binding with illustrated dust jacket.

Ferdinando Scianna was born in 1943

Sociology, Art - Quantity: 1 - Signed, Dust jacket - Book

Signed; Ferdinando Scianna [Magnum] - Le Forme del caos - 1989

Take advantage of this great opportunity to acquire the sold-out photo book 'Aufsicht' by Wolfgang TILLMANS as a signed copy!

As always, Café Lehmitz Photobooks from Cologne guarantees precise and reliable descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance, and

Signed, Wolfgang Tillmans - Aufsicht - 2002

Unobtainable signed copy by the photographer and photography historian Italo Zannier of a monograph on the painter Giuseppe Zigaina in the prestigious collection 'I Quaderni di Imago' (The Notebooks of Imago), featuring texts in English and Italian, including a piece by Pier

Art, Photography - Quantity: 1 - Signed, Dust jacket - Book

Signed; Italo Zannier - Zigaina (with a text of Pier Paolo Pasolini) - 1970

Photography - Quantity: 1 - Dust jacket - Book

Bruce Davidson - England / Scotland 1960 - 2005

First TRUE 1980 edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's 'Unfinished Tales'... inside fine condition, folding map - in fine condition, dust jacket present in very good condition, only light signs of wear. Very well preserved copy!!! Stains on fore edge not affecting the inside. Top edge

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Dust jacket - Book

J. R. R. Tolkien - Unfinished Tales - 1980

Luxurious edition of 'Illuminations,' a collection of prose poems or free verse composed by Arthur Rimbaud (and, to an uncertain extent, Germain Nouveau) between 1872 and 1875, and published partially in 1886 and, in its entirety, posthumously, in 1895.

This edition consists of

Poetry - Quantity: 1 - Slipcase - Book

Rimbaud ; Alain Gourdon (préf.) - Manuscrits autographes des Illuminations d'Arthur Rimbaud - 1984

Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s 
by Ivan Vartanian and Ryuichi Kaneko.
As new - with original bellyband.
* Publisher ‏ : ‎ Aperture.
* Publication date ‏ : ‎ 2009.
* Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition (1st printing)
* Language ‏ : ‎ English.
* Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages.
*

Photography - Quantity: 1 - Book

Ivan Vartanian and Ryuichi Kaneko - Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s - 2009

Posthumous original edition and first version (1958) published in the collection 'Les Cahiers verts', of 'La Menteuse', a novel by Jean Giraudoux, whose manuscript was reviewed by R. M. Albérès and Jacques Bour under the supervision of his son Jean-Pierre Giraudoux with Les

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Jean Giraudoux - ‎La Menteuse. Les Gracques [ex. de tête sur vélin pur fil n°41/162] - 1958

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