Barakei: Ordeal by Roses. Photographs of Yukio Mishima by Eikoh Hosoe

New edition, 1985. Re-designed by Kiyoshi Awazu. Folio. Publisher’s purple cloth boards with silver design stamped to front and same design blind-stamped to rear cover; silver titles to spine. Lacking dust jacket. Boards faded and with a stain to tail (front, spine and back). Interior excellent. *** New edition of Eiko Hosoe’s collaboration with author Yukio Mishima. The first international edition was published in 1971, just after Mishima’s death by suicide. This new edition has been completely re-designed.