Naked Festival by Tamotsu Yato & Yukio Mishima - 1969

Black and brown buckram boards with debossed Japanese characters to front board; gilt particulars to spine. Pictorial dust jacket protected in mylar. Photogravure plates throughout. Also published in Japanese under the title Taido (Way of the Body). Essay by Hitoshi Tamari; edited by Keizo Aizawa. Translated by M. Weatherby and Paul T. Konya. Dust jacket states: "140 photographic studies in gravure of over 50 of Japan's most perfectly developed young men--young men who in their single-minded devotion to a rigorous training regimen might even be called Japan's new breed of samurai." No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Small closed tears and minor losses to dust jacket (see image). 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.

E-295: John Wetherhill,. Very Good. 1966. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by John Wetherhill, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan. 1966. X, 75 pgs. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and inscribed by Yukio Mishima on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chip present to the crown of the spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 140 photographic studies of over 50 of Japan's most perfectly developed young men - Young men who in their single-minded devotion to a rigorous training regimen might even be called Japan's new breed of samurai. To quote from the accompanying essays, these studies do indeed "raise physique photography to the level of photographic art" and, for the first time, show the Japanese male physique "in all… Read More

Tokyo: John Wetherhill, Inc. (1966)., 1966. First English edition; preceding the much more common Grove Press edition. Photographs by Tamotsu Yato; Introduction by Yukio Mishima; Essay by Hitoshi Tamari; Edited by Keizo Aizawa. 4to. Frontispiece photograph. x, 75 pp. Bound in black and in brown cloths with Japanese character boldly stamped in black front cover. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Translated from the original Japanese, with slight adaptations to make them clear to the Western reader, by M. Weatherby and Paul T. Konya. INSCRIBED in English by Mishima: "To Yutaka (Kosaihira) with the best wishes of Yukio Mishima April 69." Kosaihira is one of the bodybuilders photographed in the volume. This is a fine book in a price clipped very good plus DJ with several small edge chips/tears top. Mishima's signature has become very scarce on the market in recent years.. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.