Harumi Girls, Harumi Yamaguchi, Parco, 1978, Very Good Catalogue w/DJ

Yamaguchi, Harumi, et al. Harumi Girls (Tokyo: Parco; Maruzen, 1978).

Japanese, a Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket, SC, fo, 16 1/2" x 11 3/4," unpaginated, c. 93 pp., including illustrations.

ISBN: N/A

Text in Japanese. Pages read right to left. Very Good black paper wrappers. Covers have slight wear to extremities and a small closed tear along front outer joint, else clean and intact, binding tight. Very Good pictorial paper dust jacket with illustrations on front and back panels, black lettering on white spine. Dust jacket has slight age toning, mild wear to extremities, light rubbing, slight bumping to top edges, and wrinkling and a closed tear measuring 2" in upper corner of fore-edge on front panel (back panel, if reading right to left). Pages pristine and intact. Replete with full-page color illustrations, principally illustrations with little text. Parco View 2, a catalog of illustrations by Harumi Yamaguchi (b. 1941), a Japanese illustrator who has worked as an independent artist and for companies such as Parco, a department store chain. Featured herein are her full-page illustrations of her famous creations, the "Harumi Girls," who are Yamaguchi's depictions of "pin-up" girls. Harumi's portrayals of these women have an element of satire as they often feature exaggerated facial expressions and poses. Published by Parco. Distributed by Maruzen.