WATANABE,
 Katsumi.
 Shinjuku
 Guntoden
 66/73.


(Tokyo):
Bara‐gahosha,
1973.

First
edition.

Paperback
original.
 The
photographer’s
first
book
published
in
an
edition
of
500
copies,
half
 of
 which
 were
 destroyed
 by
 accident.
 
 A
 cult
 classic
 portraying
 (almost
 exclusively)
 portrait
 images
 of
 the
 denizens
 of
 Shinjuku.
 
 A
 near
 fine
 copy
in stapled
 wrappers.


 This example signed by Watanabe ‘photographer on demand’.