Love Ikon by Ikejiri Kiyoshi - 2001.

Le Havre, France: L'Art Penultieme / APKI 015, 2001. Hardback covered in cloth and rough sandpaper; die cut cover and first page; bound-in ribbon ties. First edition thus. Fine. Unpaginated (76 pages); 34 hand-cut, tipped-in color photographic plates; 6.5 x 6.75 inches. No. 74 from an edition of 100, SIGNED BY IKEJIRI with his hand stamp. Out of Print. This is the European edition of the Japanese Love Icon by Ikejiri. The photographs are mostly female nudes staged in violent and erotic tableaus, drawn from Japanese and Western literary traditions. Many of the images have been distressed with scratching to the negatives or have been rendered with an altered color palette. FREE SHIPPING, insurance and tracking within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging.