Ishihara Teruo (5 results)

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. No jacket. In Japanese with English insert.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine softcover exhibition catalog of Man Ray's work in the collection of Teruo Ishihara. Text primarily in Japanese, with an insert in English of the items in the exhibition. Illustrated. 55 pages. M06652.

THE DELUXE EDITION, LIMITED TO ONLY FIFTEEN SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES. 56 pp. printed on extremely fine, thick glossy paper. Profusely illustrated. 8 tipped-in original color photographs of the exhibition. ONE OF ONLY 15 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES, WITH AN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH, SIGNED BY TERUO ISHIHARA ON THE VERSO. This deluxe edition also contains a leaflet and a lecture ticket. Both are present and in perfect condition (the owner of this copy evidently didn't attend the lecture, so the ticket is complete and untorn). 4to. Original photographic wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT. Like new. Of the greatest rarity.…

Signed limited edition, number 16 of 20 copies signed by the author, additionally with a presentation inscription from the author on the half-title, "For Roger Wicker. Thank you very much. Teruo Ishihara. September 27 1993." This attractive publication, by a leading Japanese collector of Man Ray art and archives, is accompanied by a selection of material, sent by Ishihara to Wicker, concerning other exhibitions of the artist in Japan. Wicker was the proprietor of Berkeley's Turtle Island Book Shop. Loosely inserted in the catalogue is a typed letter signed from Ishihara, dated the same day as the presentation, thanking Wicker for helping him source material related to Man Ray. The related ephemera includes Ishihara's 1994 folding change of address notice (number 2 of 20 signed copies with a laid-down colour photograph), a typed letter signed with eight colour photographs of a December 1996 exhibition in Nagoya, a further typed letter signed, two loose exhibition photographs, assorted flyers, and a booklet for the 1987 show at Kodama Gallery, Osaka. Items from Ishihara's collection appeared in "Man Ray of Our Affections: An Exhibition Celebrating the 135th Anniversary of His Birth", 11 January - 23 March 2025, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. Quarto, 32 pp. With 16 colour photographs laid down on folding card leaves, 2 colour photographs laid down on acetate leaf; title page (guarded with acetate) with laid-down photograph, pink paper silhouette of hand and arm, and printed title label; bound-in colour bifolium advert for 1991 exhibition; in-text explanatory keys identifying exhibits in photographs. Text in Japanese. Original green card wrappers, front cover with window looking through to title page. Sunning to spine of catalogue, light general creasing: a fine collection.…