28 Girls

Folio. Original illustrated wrappers. Copper sellotape marks to reverse of covers and first and last two pages. First page with two sharp vertical creases. Some further light creasing to leading corners. Covers a little toned. *** Shinoyama’s first book. About 75 full page photographic reproductions, in col and b/w., some adverts and a four-page biography printed on yellow paper and with an illustration by Makota Wada. A cross between a magazine and a book; a popular style that would become known in Japan as a ‘mook’. Main text in Japanese and English.