Pan to ninfu [Pan and Nymph]

£1,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A simple book evoking the ancient Greek God Pan by night, pursuing nymphs. According to the bibliography, a single copy of this book was published in 1948, made especially for the 22nd Kokugakai exhibition (an annual group show of printmakers and artists). Fourteen years later, in 1962, Kawakami printed this book again, but in an edition of 40 copies. The colophon in these books states that it was made in 1948, but really this (second) edition was printed later. Rare. Only 2 copies in OCLC (Princeton, Harvard)

• Binding: Hardcover

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