Tokyo on a Five Day Pass: with Candid Camera

Bristol, Horace. Tokyo on a Five Day Pass: with Candid Camera. Tokyo: East-West, 1951. First edition. Large square octavo. Unpaginated. Half red cloth over photo-illustrated boards. Contains newspaper clipping of Horace Bristol obituary, published in the Los Angeles Times of August, 7, 1997.

“Inspired and challenged by the discovery of new and excitingly superior cameras and lenses of Japanese design, photographer – correspondent Horace Bristol, whose work has appeared regularly in the major European and American magazines for the past 15 years, has undertaken to demonstrate the versatility as well as the amazing fidelity of the new Japanese 35 mm camera equipment.” – The publisher.

Illustrated throughout with b/w photographic reproductions after original image from Bristol. Text in English. Binding with minor rubbing to extremities. Torn sticker of Japanese bookstore tipped to inside front cover. vg- to near fine. Hardcover. (52659) $95