{"title":"Japanese Editions","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublications, artist books, and printed matter in Japanese or produced within Japanese publishing contexts. Editions, translations, and original Japanese-language objects: works that carry their content through a different language system, where translation, typography, and publishing context become part of the object’s form.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kitajima-keizo-photo-express-tokyo-no-2-1979","title":"Keizō Kitajima — Photo Express Tokyo No. 2, February 1979","description":"\u003cp\u003eTokyo, February 1979\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover photographic booklet\u003cbr\u003e16 pp.\u003cbr\u003e25.8 × 18.3 cm\u003cbr\u003eBlack-and-white offset print with spot colour\u003cbr\u003e200 yen cover price\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecond issue from Keizō Kitajima’s \u003cem\u003ePhoto Express Tokyo\u003c\/em\u003e, a twelve-part sequence of monthly photographic booklets published in 1979 in connection with his year-long exhibition project at CAMP gallery, Tokyo. Each issue contained sixteen pages and operated as both publication and immediate extension of the exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe images are high-contrast, nocturnal, unstable. Figures emerge through flash, grain, clothing, cigarette smoke, sunglasses, surface glare. Tokyo appears less as city than as printed impact: bodies pressed into black ink, social space reduced to gesture, pose, and exposure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover gives the structure clearly: Tokyo, No. 2, February 1979, 200 yen. The publication is not a later photobook in the conventional sense, but a fast object — made to circulate close to the time of the photographs and the exhibition itself. The booklet format keeps the work provisional, serial, and disposable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Surface rubbing, creasing, edge wear, and handling marks throughout. Stapled spine intact. General wear consistent with age and circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA printed fragment from one of the key late-1970s Japanese photobook projects: serial, urban, immediate, and already half-consumed by its own reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis appears to be an original 1979 issue, not the 2012 Steidl\/Le Bal facsimile, based on the single No. 2 booklet format, 200 yen cover price, period wear, and absence of slipcase, ISBN, or reprint markings. The 2012 edition reissued all twelve booklets as a facsimile set in slipcase. Offered as “apparently first issue” pending colophon confirmation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item, apparently first issue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CAMP Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53289130983762,"sku":"KITAJIMA-PET-02-1979","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kitajima_-Keizo.-1979-Photo-Express-Tokyo---back-cover.jpg?v=1777192178"},{"product_id":"kathy-acker-blood-and-guts-in-high-school-japanese-1992","title":"Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992 (Japanese edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992\u003cbr\u003eJapanese edition\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Sachie Watanabe\u003cbr\u003eHardcover with dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e263 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJapanese edition of Kathy Acker’s \u003cem\u003eBlood and Guts in High School\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Hakusuisha in 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcker’s text is carried into another language system: English title, Japanese title, blue printed surface, white jacket, translated body. The object does not simply reproduce the book; it relocates it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside, the instability of the original remains visible through translation, handwriting, repetition, and diagram. The photographed spread holds several languages at once: English, Japanese, Persian script, phonetic instruction, bodily vocabulary. The page becomes lesson, wound, and index.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition places Acker inside a different publishing context, where the work’s violence and fragmentation are retained but visually reordered. Translation becomes part of the object’s structure: not secondary, but material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light wear to dust jacket, minor edge wear and handling marks consistent with age. Interior clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hakusuisha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53300341997906,"sku":"ACKER-BLOODGUTS-JP-1992","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Acker_-Kathy.-Japanese-edition_-Blood-and-Guts-in-high-school--cover.jpg?v=1777319662"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/japanese-editions.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}