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[MAVO] HAGIWARA Kyo^jiro : SHIKEI SENKOKU

[MAVO] HAGIWARA Kyojiro. SHIKEI SENKOKU. Tokyo, Taisho 14 [1925]. Prelims, 11pp, 6pp., 161pp., 5pp., finals. Profusely illustrated throughout in linocuts by Okada Tatsuo, Toda Tatsuo, and Yabashi Kimimaro. Wrappers designed by Okada. INCLUDES THE OKADA-DESIGNED SLIPCASE. Perhaps the most important Mavo-inspired volume, and, in its first edition, as here, the rarest. Far more difficult to find than the second edition. The cornerstone of any MAVO collection. Neither I nor any of my colleagues have ever seen the first with the slipcase (though the facsimile produced by the Kindai Bungakkan does have an identical rendering of the black design on white background, so they must have either borrowed or own a copy that they reproduced). Neither the Pompidou show nor the Uruwa Museum catalog illustrate the first edition, even without its jacket - they both show the second edition with the red on blue background slipcase. In quite good condition overall, unsophisticated with a bit of rubbing and loss to the fragile spine and soiling and starting to the slipcase. To call it simply rare seems inadequate., Good

[MAVO] HAGIWARA Kyo^jiro : SHIKEI SENKOKU

[MAVO] HAGIWARA Kyojiro. SHIKEI SENKOKU. Tokyo, 1925. Prelims, 11pp, 6pp., 161pp., 5pp., finals. Profusely illustrated throughout in linocuts by Okada Tatsuo, Toda Tatsuo, and Yabashi Kimimaro. Wrappers designed by Okada. With the Okada-designed slipcase and very scarce as such. Perhaps the most important Mavo-inspired volume. Here in the second issue with the addition of color to the covers and a few of the plates. A cornerstone of any MAVO collection. The spine is darkened, the covers and slipcase are a bit rubbed. But all and all, a good copy of this fragile work. For more on its importance, see Weisenfeld's book, MAVO, JAPANESE ARTISTS AND THE AVANT GARDE, pp. 97-101., Good

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