The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre. Kodansha Publishers, 1973. Large tall 8vo in stiff wraps. 88 pp. Illustrated with photographs by Kaneko Hiroshi. Fine copy
First-ever translation into English of the legendary book of poetry “BLOD” written by the Danish art historian and publisher R. Broby-Johansen in 1922, for which publication he was sentenced to jail for its sexual immorality: In vivid and gory details, the poems depict the red-light district of Copenhagen’s underbelly. In…