Best Time

Jimi Suzuki

Published by Jimi Suzuki, 1997

About this Item

(Chiba: Jimi Suzuki, 1997). Limited Edition, one of 1000 copies, First Edition, SIGNED, a Fine book in a Fine slipcase. Text in English and Japanese hiragana. Tall 4to,14 ½? x 9 ¾.? Gray boards with edges exposed, backed with gold cloth, comes in a translucent, black, and yellow plastic slipcase. Printed black lettering on front, back, and spine. Lettering to slipcase spine. Pages, covers, and slipcase are pristine. Signed ?Jimi 2005? on first page in silver pen. Back colophon: ?This book ?Jimi Suzuki-Graphic Works? has been printed as a limited edition of one thousand copies.? Scarce in the trade. 141 pp., including illustrations. A beautiful book replete with eye-catching color photographs of Suzuki?s art. Interspersed among the photographs are biographical essays about Suzuki by different authors, an interview with Suzuki, and a list of works in the back. Includes a special essay about Suzuki and Rosanjin by book dealer Richard L. Press, who owned this copy. Mr. Press?s description: ?For the design and production of this book Jimi engaged the best designers, Mitsuo Katsui and Kozo Kakei. Production was done by the Katsui Design Office Inc., 1-9-3 Higashi-Sugano, Ichikawa-Shi Chiba 272, Japan. . The book itself is a tour de force of book design and bookmaking. ? Jimi is a polymath artist so to speak: collagist, graphic artist, painter, sculptor, conceptual artist. He had a show at the Corcoran Gallery at age 23 and it was just up from there.?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Best Time
• Publisher: Jimi Suzuki
• Publication Date: 1997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • CALIFORNIA ART and ARTISTS