Unrecorded edition, signed. Hand-coloured woodblock throughout. 290 by 185mm. Orihon (accordion) binding, original muted red and cream covered boards with woodblock printed title slip on yellow paper with hand colouring, faint foxing to upper board and marks to lower, internally crisp, a near fine copy. Unpaginated [10]pp. N.p., privately printed, no date [but c, 1947.
Kawakami Sumio's book of dapper couples, printed in a large format with vibrant hand-colouring.
The first edition of this book was printed in 1947, with a different binding. The bibliography does not mention the present copy, which is bound as an orihon (accordion binding), as opposed to the fukuro-toji (Japanese stab stitch) binding of the first edition. Though the blocks are the same, Kawakami has also opted for a narrower format, so there is less white space around the plates. This is possibly due to the binding, where part of the paper is folded to be adjoined to the following sheets. Though the present book is signed, there is no colophon to indicate when it was published, or its limitation.
Rare. No copies in OCLC, or any visible record elsewhere.
