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One of the most beautiful and sought after fashion photo-books ever published. First 1986 hardcover, slipcased edition of Comme des Garçons 1981—1986. A document of early 1980s Comme through the iconic images of Arthur Elgort, Hans Feurer, Eddy Kohli, Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Paolo Roversi, Oliviero Toscani, and Bruce Weber.

Since the inception of Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons in 1969, founder Rei Kawakubo applied a particular aesthetic to every aspect of Comme des Garçons, extending her vision to the company's packaging, furniture, interior design, graphic design, and publishing, including a selection of some of the fashion world's most visually compelling and challenging books and printed materials.

This wonderful and very iconic collection of photographs presents Rei Kawakubo's groundbreaking, innovative designs from an exciting period of Comme des Garçons history, between 1981 and 1986, as photographed by some of the most important fashion photographers of our time, including Arthur Elgort, Hans Feurer, Eddy Kohli, Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Paolo Roversi, Oliviero Toscani, and Bruce Weber, among others.

This gorgeous and rare clothbound volume, housed in original printed cardboard slip-case, perfectly captures a very important and exciting moment in the history of fashion, and is considered one of the most-collectable and prized fashion photo-books to come out of the 1980s.

Very Good-Fine copy preserved in Very Good cardboard slipcase with only light tanning / light wear.

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The first issue of one of the most sought after fashion publications of the 1990s, the impeccably produced, over-sized, unbound cult fashion folio magazine produced by stylist Joe McKenna and privately issued in 1992. Photographs by Bruce Weber, Peter Lindbergh, Ellen von Unwerth, Steven Meisel, Paolo Roversi, George Platt Lynes, and more. Design by Sam Shahid. Joe's was created at the height of the super-model era and a time in fashion of great artistic sophistication. A bold integration of art and fashion, the publication's success lies in the freedom that McKenna gave to the photographers and writers, away from the constraints of commercial publications. The magazine was funded by the ads, placed by designer friends of McKenna with no strings attached. A second issue only was published in 1998. Only two issues were ever made.

Articles include an illustrated discussion of the work of Parisian Maison Alaïa, Donald Windham on Tennessee Williams and Montgomery Clift with photos by George Platt Lynes and Karl Bissinger, Jean Paul Goude on Vanessa Paradis, with photographs by Paolo Roversi, Anna Sui on muse Wallis Franken, photographed by Steven Meisel and studies of Dirk Bogarde and artist Paul Cadmus.

The magazine ends with the controversial homo-erotic images of identical twins in Bruce Weber's photo-story 'The Last Days of Summer'. WARNING: This copy is priced to reflect the fact that this important section has been meticulously hand-censored wherever a penis is concerned due to it being copy imported into Tokyo in 1992 under strict print regulations. Sadly, this effects three Weber photographs, and one Paul Cadmus photograph.

Average-Good copy due to wear to cover boards and Japanese censorship outlined above. All other contents perfect.

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First 1981 edition of The Complete Etchings of Keito Joh between 1974—1981, featuring over 100 copperplate works of Japanese artist Keito Joh, whose prolific output throughout the 1970s—1980s depicts sensual naked figures, grotesque, fantastic plants and metaphysical landscapes composed of fine mesh-like lines, similar to porcelain cracks, that are inspired by the veins in leaves. "My childhood friend is nature", says Joh, born in 1946 in Aichi prefecture (Honshu island), whose delicate, organic line-work tames the inner vision of a wild beast. Keito Joh had a troubled youth, but loved music and painting, and during his high school years met painter Masaharu Kondo, who became his mentor and set him on his artistic path. Kondo's vibrant surrealistic abstractions, sharing the expressive intensity of artists such as Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Tarō Okamoto, influenced the work of Joh, but the youths extremely intimate, delicate threads unify his wild thickets of naked metamorphosing flesh and flora in a matrix of interlocking line, giving his work a distinct quality.

Keito Joh began his career in the 1970s with solo exhibitions and quickly gained international recognition, notably winning a grand prize at an artists' exhibition in Genoa, Italy, in 1972. A master of engraving and etching, training under Yo Kanno, like many erotic artists he collaborated with Japanese poets and literary figures to illustrate their works with erotic and expressive prints. Joh's idiosyncratic, sensuous, and psychedelic erotica gained a serious following in the 1970s, and became very well known in Japan, but today he is almost completely unknown in the West.

VG copy in VG DJ w. VG obi.

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First Edition of the catalogue raisonné of the engraved work of German Surrealist Hans Bellmer, published in 1969 by Éditions Denoël, Paris. Wrapped in the publisher's debossed black covers featuring Bellmer's Céphalopode of 1965, this handsome volume opens with "Morale of Engraving", a four page introduction by author Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues (in French). The rest of the book is made up of 141 reproduced engraved works of Bellmer, including his exquisite works complimenting Georges Bataille, Marquis de Sade, Joyce Mansour, Louis Aragon, Charles Baudelaire, and others, followed by a 7 page catalogue raisonné index, including work title, date, process and technique, dimensions, printing justifications, editors and other details. An essential title in any Bellmer collection and important reference.

Very Good copy, tanning and some marks to board/page edges with age.

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First 1972 softcover edition of the first major international survey of "Arthropods", an experimental artistic phenomenon born out of the happenings of the 1960's to encompass many ventures into radical environmental design. A survey of more than thirty international experimental architecture groups, artists, and designers, including portfolios on, among others, Superstudio, 9999, Experiments in Art et Technology, Ant Farm, Archizoom, Haus-Rucker-Co, God et Co, Cedric Price, PULSA, and Experiments in Environment (Anna and Lawrence Halprin). The author was a member of the environmental design and planning firm of Lawrence Halprin et Associates, and a former editor of Progressive Architecture.

"England's Archigram group proposes sensitizing the service network of a city to respond instantly to new situations by computer; Superstudio of Florence is into a series of investigations dealing with the impact of manmade buildings on the landscape that involves the creation of giant continuous monuments straddling the horizon; Missing Link Productions of Vienna has devised soft, amorphous "Children's Clouds" to hang between buildings in crowded cities, interconnecting the children of many families in a kid's play-community high above the traffic; Edward Suzuki of South Bend, Indiana, proposes an air-inflated system of plastic units to make a cheap, expandable, foldable, floatable, mobile home; in "Apparitions on the Ponte Vecchio," an environmental happening by 9999 of Florence, people's perception of an ancient monument was transformed for a brief period by projected Op-art slides and supergraphics.

Jim Burns has metaphorically termed these and many other flourishing groups of environmental designers "Arthropods" (invertebrate animals with articulate, segmented bodies and limbs) in order to reflect their flexibility, adaptability, and unique capacity for individual creativity within a cooperative venture. No longer affecting the old-fashioned elitist practice of designing exclusively for aloof corporate, governmental, or institutional clients on isolated building plots, these young designers and planners are trying to be responsive to the needs of people and to enhance the positive physical and social connections that make human habitations human. Their startling creations provide dynamic approaches at all levels of life-from sleeping and recreation to urban planning and ecological conservation.

In ARTHROPODS, Burns investigates the achievements and goals of more than thirty international groups and shows in an informed, sympathetic text, with a wealth of illustrations, how they intend to ameliorate man's lot in an increasingly desensitized atmosphere and put him in creative control of his environment.

Jim Burns is a member of the environmental design and planning firm of Lawrence Halprin & Associates, where he concentrates on people's participation in planning processes. He also conducts an interdisciplinary information network with Nilo Lindgren and George Novotny, and leads workshops in participatory processes at the School of Art and Architecture, Cooper Union, New York. Articles and presentations of work by him have appeared in Progressive Architecture (where he was formerly Senior Editor); Design & Environment; The Drama Review; Source; Crafts Horizons; New York Times; San Francisco Chronicle; and a new volume in the Vision + Value series of Gyorgy Kepes. He has been involved in staging exhibits and events for the American Federation of Arts, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, and New York Parks, Recreation, and Cultural.

Good—Very Good copy with light wear to extremities, light creasing to covers.

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Wonderful, scarce Japanese souvenir photo booklet for Clive Barker's Nightbreed, a 1990 American dark fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella Cabal, starring Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, and Doug Bradley. The film follows an unstable mental patient named Aaron Boone who is falsely led to believe by his doctor that he is a serial killer, taking refuge in an abandoned cemetery called Midian among a tribe of monsters and outcasts known as the "Nightbreed" who hide from humanity. A flop upon release, the film has become a cult hit from the height of horror fantasy film-making. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast, and production information.

Fine copy.

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First 1984 edition of this major collection of the flourishing illustrated eros of Japanese artist Keito Joh, whose prolific output throughout the 1970s—1980s depicts sensual naked figures, grotesque, fantastic plants and metaphysical landscapes composed of fine mesh-like lines, similar to porcelain cracks, that are inspired by the veins in leaves. "My childhood friend is nature", says Joh, born in 1946 in Aichi prefecture (Honshu island), whose delicate, organic line-work tames the inner vision of a wild beast. Keito Joh had a troubled youth, but loved music and painting, and during his high school years met painter Masaharu Kondo, who became his mentor and set him on his artistic path. Kondo's vibrant surrealistic abstractions, sharing the expressive intensity of artists such as Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Tarō Okamoto, influenced the work of Joh, but the youths extremely intimate, delicate threads unify his wild thickets of naked metamorphosing flesh and flora in a matrix of interlocking line, giving his work a distinct quality.

Keito Joh began his career in the 1970s with solo exhibitions and quickly gained international recognition, notably winning a grand prize at an artists' exhibition in Genoa, Italy, in 1972. A master of engraving and etching, training under Yo Kanno, like many erotic artists he collaborated with Japanese poets and literary figures to illustrate their works with erotic and expressive prints. Joh's idiosyncratic, sensuous, and psychedelic erotica gained a serious following in the 1970s, and became very well known in Japan, but today he is almost completely unknown in the West.

This over-sized, lavishly illustrated (in colour and monochrome) volume reproduces an abundance of his prints, drawings and paintings, alongside essays, and a profusely photographically illustrated biography tracing his career.

VG copy in original publisher's vinyl dust jacket (w. the usual age shrinkage of this type of Japanese dust jacket).

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Our Feature Presentation curates an assortment of pages scanned from over 70 vintage Japanese cinema pamphlets, known as 映画パンフレット (Eiga panfuretto) ranging from 1950-2000.

Sold during a film’s run, these pamphlets typically included interviews with the cast and director, production notes, behind-the-scenes details and film stills. During the boom of Japanese cinema and imported Hollywood films in the 1950s, such programs became standard for most major releases and collectible items among cinephiles.

Ranging from Bresson to Fulci, The Evil Dead to The Virgin Suicides, each page highlights the unique and vibrant design of these pamphlets, showcasing rare film stills and production imagery.

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Stunning hardcover catalogue published on the occasion of the largest traveling Moomin exhibition ever staged, Moomin: The Art and The Story, Japan, 2019. Beautifully designed by the exhibition designer Yuria Oshima, this comprehensive book delves into the world of Tove Marika Jansson's Moomins in such detail that only a Japanese book could. Made in collaboration with the Moomin Museum in Tampere, who loaned 500 works for the exhibition, almost every exhibited item is captured here in in print across various paper stocks, including a miniature inlayed facsimile of the marvellous Trollvinter, first published in 1957. There is so much material captured in this book that has not been previously published, including countless original sketches and illustrations, paintings, first-edition Moomin books, all the original Moomin dolls, products and animations, commercial Moomin work, personal photographs of Jansson and much more, all thoroughly indexed. 2019 also marked the 100th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Finland, Tove Jansson’s native country. Jansson visited Japan twice, in 1971 and 1990, each time making social and professional connections, sketches, and photographs. She also passionately collected the prints of 19th Century woodcut masters like Hiroshige, Hokusai and many more, which are captured here alongside her own artwork, drawing out the obvious influence, and admiration Jansson had for Japanese art. Also includes her Japanese hotel drawings, correspondences and photographs of her visits. An invaluable and inspiring resource for any Moomin fan.

Tove Marika Jansson (1914 – 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and Paris. Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943. She continued to work as an artist and a writer for the rest of her life, and it was with the creation of her much-loved Moomin characters that she become known around the world. Jansson wrote the Moomin books for children, starting in 1945 with The Moomins and the Great Flood. Her books became international classics translated to 35 languages. For her work as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966.

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"Get with Stone, Take the Trip!"

Very rarely seen 1978 Japanese souvenir photo booklet for 1974 Australian outlaw biker film cult classic Stone, written, directed and produced by Sandy Harbutt. "Five years before MAD MAX, producer/director/co-writer/star Sandy Harbutt – in his first and only feature film – ignited Australia’s exploitation explosion, launched a global censorship battle and delivered what may still be the best biker movie in history: When an undercover cop (Ken Shorter of SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY) infiltrates an outlaw motorcycle gang (led by Harbutt), he’ll straddle 7000 RPM of screaming steel for a full-throttle hell ride through sex, violence, and Down Under vengeance. Hugh Keays-Byrne (Immortan Joe in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD), Helen Morse (PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK), Roger Ward, Vincent Gil and Reg Evans of MAD MAX fame, and members of the Sydney Hells Angels co-star in the “ass-kicking bite of entertainment that delivers on every level” (DVD Drive-In)"—Severin

Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast and production information.

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Japanese souvenir photo booklet for George Miller's Mad Max, a 1979 Australian dystopian action film produced by Byron Kennedy. Mel Gibson stars as "Mad" Max Rockatansky, a police officer turned vigilante in a near-future Australia in the midst of societal collapse. Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, and Roger Ward also star. The award-winning, though polarizing upon release, film helped open up the global market to Australian New Wave films and has become an international cult classic, giving rise to three sequels: Mad Max 2 (1981), Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Fury Road (2015). Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, poster designs, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast, and production information.

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Rare 1983 Japanese souvenir photo booklet for Cannibal Holocaust, the extremely controversial cult 1980 Italian exploitation/mondo/shockumentary cannibal film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Gianfranco Clerici. Produced as part of the contemporary cannibal trend of Italian exploitation cinema, Cannibal Holocaust was inspired by Italian media coverage of the Red Brigades' terrorism and influenced by the Mondo documentaries of Gualtiero Jacopetti. Filmed primarily on location in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia with a cast of mostly inexperienced American and Italian actors interacting with actual indigenous peoples, the film starred Robert Kerman as Harold Monroe, an anthropologist who leads a rescue team into the Amazon rainforest to locate a crew of filmmakers that have gone missing while filming a documentary on local cannibal tribes. With a mixture of real and staged violence, combined with handheld camerawork and rough, unedited film quality, Cannibal Holocaust achieved notoriety as its graphic violence aroused a great deal of controversy. Seized after its release in Italy with the makers were convicted of obscenity, the film was released in 1982, but banned in the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and several other countries due to its graphic content, including sexual assault and genuine violence toward animals. The film's plot and violence have been noted as commentary on journalistic ethics, the exploitation of South American countries, and the difference between Western and non-Western cultures, yet these interpretations have also been met with criticism, with any perceived subtext deemed hypocritical or insincere due to the film's presentation and the extremely questionable conditions behind its making. The controversial film quickly became a grindhouse smash, but it's biggest and only artistic impact on horror is surely its innovative found-footage conceit, which led to the emergence of an entire subgenre in recent years. Unrecommended viewing. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast, and production information.

Very Good copy with light wear.

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"Experience the graphic reality of DEATH, close-up"

Very rare Japanese souvenir photo booklet for Faces of Death, the controversial 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" and "Alan Black" respectively.

Banned in 46 countries, Faces of Death is regarded as one of the most depraved films ever – a ‘shockumentary’ full of autopsies, plane crashes, animal attacks, executions, even the inspiration for Spielberg's monkey brains scene in Indiana Jones. When Faces of Death hit Japanese cinemas in 1978, under the title Junk, it was a massive hit. But it wasn't until the VHS boom that Faces of Death became a cult classic. It was illegal to distribute it in Britain, but it was unstoppable in the USA. When a wave of violent horror films that came to be known as “video nasties” flooded rental stores, Faces of Death was “the most popular nasty of them all.”

The film, presented as if it were an actual documentary, centers on pathologist Francis B. Gröss, played by actor Michael Carr, who presents the viewer with footage showing different gruesome ways of dying from a variety of sources. Many scenes were faked for the film, but most portions include pre-existing video footage of real deaths and its aftermath. Unrecommended viewing.

Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast and production information.

Very Good copy with light wear.

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Very rare Japanese souvenir photo booklet for Faces of Death 2, the controversial straight-to-video 1981 American mondo horror documentary film directed by John Alan Schwartz, the follow-up to 1978's Faces of Death, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" & "Alan Black" respectively. Mortuaries, accidents and police work are filmed by TV crews and home video cameras. Faces of Death II contained real footage of a dead body being pulled from under a pier, Guerrilla death squads in El Salvador, napalm bombings in Vietnam, Buddhist self-immolations, the drugging of a monkey, a dolphin slaughter, a train disaster in India, Cambodian patients with leprosy, a death museum featuring Joaquin Murrieta's preserved head, a driver high on PCP and a boxer going down for his “final” count. Much like the PSA Aircraft crash, the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan occurred recently before the film's completion, and was included as well. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast and production information.

Very Good copy with light wear.

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Wonderful, very rare Japanese souvenir photo booklet for Autopsia (Autopsy), a 1973 Spanish Mondo-style docudrama by director Juan Logar about a war correspondent who comes back home and has a spiritual crisis about his own mortality. Surreal fantasy sequences are mixed with graphic real autopsy footage. Heavily illustrated throughout with b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast and production information.

Very Good copy with light wear.

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Very rare Japanese brochure from around 1988, promoting the release on VHS (we think!) of The Holy Mountain, the cult classic 1973 Mexican surreal film directed, written, produced, co-scored, co-edited by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky, who also designed sets and costumes, inspired in part by René Daumal's Mount Analogue. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism is a surreal sojourn for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures representing the negative aspects of the seven planets, to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment. Following Jodorowsky's underground hit El Topo, acclaimed by both John Lennon and George Harrison, the film was produced by the Beatles manager Allen Klein and John Lennon and Yoko Ono put up production money. It was shown at various international film festivals in 1973, including Cannes, and limited screenings in New York and San Francisco, gaining cult status. The Holy Mountain is a mythical, mystical masterpiece, a Hieronymus Bosch painting come to life - part spiritual quest, part science fiction, part social satire, and completely without comparison.

This rare collectible brochure published by Allen Klein's ABKCO gives synopsis and introduction to the film, illustrated throughout with glorious stills, including a four-panel colour fold-out, Japanese texts, cast and production information, even Holy Mountain manga! A wonderful piece of printed history to Jodorowsky's masterpiece.

Very Good copy with some handling pinches.

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Wonderful, scarce Japanese souvenir photo booklet for Federico Fellini's Satyricon, a 1969 Italian fantasy drama film written and directed by Federico Fellini and loosely based on Petronius's work Satyricon, written during the reign of Emperor Nero and set in Imperial Rome. The award-winning film is divided into nine episodes, following Encolpius (Martin Potter) and his friend Ascyltus (Hiram Keller) as they try to win the heart of a young boy named Gitón within a surreal and dreamlike Roman landscape. It received acclaim from international critics, with particular praise toward Fellini's direction and Danilo Donati's vivid production design. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast, and production information. Includes four-panel double-sided colour fold-out.

Good copy with light wear.

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Very rare Japanese brochure from around 1985, promoting the release on VHS (we think!) of La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet), the 1973 French/Czech experimental science fiction animated film, directed by René Laloux and written and designed by Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor. The film was animated at Jiří Trnka Studio in Prague. The allegorical story, set on the distant planet Ygam, is based on the 1957 novel Oms en série by French writer Stefan Wul. Enslaved humans called Oms are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants, the Draags. Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor and is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms, who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. La Planete Sauvage was awarded the Grand Prix special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. It is one of the greatest animations ever made.

This collectible brochure gives synopsis and introduction to the film, illustrated throughout with stills, Topor's designs, Japanese texts, cast and catalogue information. A wonderful piece of printed history to René Laloux's chilling psychedelic masterpiece.

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Rare 1987 Japanese souvenir photo booklet for the The Nest, a 1988 American science-fiction horror film directed by Terence H. Winkless of Bloodfist (1989) fame. After writing for The Howling, The Nest was Winkless' directorial debut, produced by Julie Corman. Based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Eli Cantor (published under the pseudonym Gregory A. Douglas), the film stars Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz, and Terri Treas and takes place in a small New England town that is overrun by genetically engineered killer cockroaches. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast and production information.

Very Good—Near Fine copy with light wear.

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Rare 1984 Japanese souvenir photo booklet for the 1977 American cult horror classic The Hills Have Eyes, written, directed, and edited by Wes Craven, following his directorial debut, The Last House on the Left (1972). Starring Susan Lanier, Michael Berryman, and Dee Wallace, the film follows the Carters, a suburban family targeted by a family of cannibal savages after becoming stranded in the Nevada desert. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast and production information.

Very Good copy with light wear.

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Very rare 1986 Japanese souvenir photo booklet for the 1984 New Zealand zombie film Death Warmed Up directed by David Blyth. Pre-dating Peter Jackson's arrival (Bad Taste) by three years, New Zealand's first horror movie sees Michael Hurst making his movie debut as he fights mutants (including Bruno Lawrence) on Waiheke Island. Hurst's character is out to avenge the mad scientist who forced him to kill his parents. A grand prize-winner at a French fantasy festival, with cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky on the jury. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast, and production information.

"It was New Zealand’s first film to heavily borrow exploitation elements from the international horror scene and package them up with enough antipodean flavours to energise a generation of movie mad kiwis."–Ant Timpson, on the 'Words & More' section of his blog Filmhead

Very Good copy with light wear.

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Rare Japanese souvenir photo booklet for Tobe Hooper's masterpiece Poltergeist, a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper from a story by Steven Spielberg. Starring JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson and Beatrice Straight, the film focuses on a suburban family whose home is invaded by malevolent ghosts that abduct their youngest daughter. Spielberg conceived Poltergeist as a horror sequel to his 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind titled Night Skies; however, Hooper was less interested in the sci-fi elements and suggested they collaborate on a ghost story. The film received critical acclaim and commerical success and is considered a horror classic. Heavily illustrated throughout with glossy colour and b/w stills from the film, alongside texts in Japanese about the film, cast, and production information.

Very Good copy with some light spine wear.

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