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Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine to fine condition. Elephant Folio Wooden Box. Unpaginated. Original red quarter cloth over heavy photo-illustrated boardswith silver lettering on spine, housed in white lacquer wooden box (19 1/4 X 17 1/4 X 2") with signed and numbered (91/100) color print, mounted to thick plexiglass block, and book laid in. White silk pull levers. Book with silver edges. Red endpapers. Title page black with white lettering. "What Yanagi pays attention to are the cultural codes embedded within the great architecture and passageways (arcades) that have frozen the atmosphere of modernism amidst the acceleration of the period. The Elevator Girls, like apparitions, appear as its peculiar signs. This fabricated space of modernism, stripped of a time axis, is simultaneously akin to a future city where all excitement has faded. Yanai's Elevator Girls reside in both a past and future time-space." (Aomi Okabe). White wooden box with light smudeges.

Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 72 pages. One of only 100 copies. Features an essay in English and Japanese by Aomi Okabe. Includes 48 color images by Yanagi of Japanese "elavator girls" in fantasy settings. A fine copy in accordion-bound covers and in a very near fine white wooden box. No dust jacket as issued. Includes an original color c-print affixed to a 1" thick piece of plexiglass that measures 6.25" x 7.25." The photo is signed and numbered on the verso. A beautiful and elaborate production. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require additional shipping. International buyers please contact for shipping rates.