Tenmaku No Machi [A Town of Tents]: Mind Games.

£500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Mind Games is Suzuki Kiyoshi's third book, taking its title from a song by John Lennon. The Japanese title refers to the first chapter, 'People under the Tent,' which contains photographs of a travelling circus troupe that invoked memories for Suzuki of his childhood. The subsequent chapters are named 'Aqua', 'Lying in the Ruins', and 'Fool on the Road', the last being a photographic essay about a homeless man named Urasaki Tetsuo whom Suzuki befriended. Scarce. First edition; 8vo (180 x 102 mm, 7 x 4 in); black-and-white photographs, text by Fukuda Sadayoshi in Japanese and English, design by Suzuki Hitoshi, minor toning to edges; card endpapers printed in silver, black and white illustrated wrappers with flaps, affixed to spines as issued, extremities rubbed, textured cream dust-jacket printed in silver, bi-fold colour plate laid in, a very good; [100], 12pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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