Seventeen’s Map

First edition. Sq. 4to [30x30cm]. Unpaginated; c. 90 b/w. plates. Original black limp card wrappers with title in Japanese to front and English to rear. In beige dust jacket with same design. Covers slightly rubbed to edges. Tail-edge a little marked. Jacket faded to spine area and slightly creased and rubbed to spine ends and corners. Lacking obi. *** A book of portraits of 17-year olds by Japan’s foremost documentary photographer George Hashiguchi. All the portraits are framed within the model’s environment: their bedroom, a street on their way to school, their local gym. Superb. Introduction in Japanese and English.