OHTAKE, Shinro

America II 1989

Tokyo: Sublime of Alfa Cubic Co. Ltd., 1989. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to 1000 copies. INSCRIBED by Ohtake in Japanese to a noted Japanese designer, with Ohtake's crayon drawings in the marginalia of four pages. A wild book of collages, drawings, and found items that Ohtake collected on an 85 day trip through America in 1989. A few page edges slightly bent, else fine in cut laminated boards; housed in a tab enclosed slipcase, itself a cacophony of color. Unknown book in America.