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Yoshio Shimozato [下郷羊雄]. Mesemu zoku: Chōgenjitsushugi shashinshū [『メセム属』超現実主義写真集] / Mesemb: 20 photographies surréalistes (Genus Mesemb: 20 Surrealist Photographs)

Yoshio Shimozato [下郷羊雄]

Mesemu zoku: Chōgenjitsushugi shashinshū [『メセム属』超現実主義写真集] / Mesemb: 20 photographies surréalistes (Genus Mesemb: 20 Surrealist Photographs)

Published 1940

Book with twenty-two relief-halftone reproductions of photographs; letterpress text; publisher’s original spiral binding with paper covers, front cover with line-block title and die-cut hole

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Medium Book with twenty-two relief-halftone reproductions of photographs; letterpress text; publisher’s original spiral binding with paper covers, front cover with line-block title and die-cut hole
Dimensions Pages: 7 3/8 × 5 1/16 in. (18.8 × 12.8 cm); Book (closed): 7 3/8 × 5 5/16 × 3/8 in. (18.8 × 13.5 × 1 cm)
Publisher Yoshio Shimozato [下郷羊雄] , Nagoya, Japan
Printer Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (大日本印刷株式會社), Tokyo, Shinjirō Kikuchi (菊地真次郎)
Edition 200. This copy no. 147
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 521.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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