Tokyo: ggg Books, 1993.
Price: $1,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. 63, [1]pp. Illustrated in color. Decorated glazed boards. Text in English and Japanese. Fine in fine printed wraparound band. Artist monograph published in Japan as part of a series on American designers and graphic artists, this was the first monograph published about Bass, and the only one published while he was alive (he died three years later). The text consists solely, aside from captions and publishing information, of brief one-page introductions by Lou Dorfsman and Martin Scorcese. This copy Inscribed by Bass: "For Mr. Ono from Saul Bass." Shigeki Ono was a designer with the book's printer and directed the printing of most of the books in this series (although not this one).
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