First edition of Tokyo Suburbia by Takashi Homma (1998)

First impression 

Large format hardback in ear fine condition 

Some wear to extremities of boards

Due to the nature of the chopped board binding some very minor wear to extremities of pages

No other internal marks

Comes with a loosely laid text booklet 

Accompanied by the original publisher’s shrinkwrap (opened along one edge; retained for provenance)

About

“…At first glance, we can make the standard response: suburbs are soulless places, the same the world over, deadening, artificial environments to which only airheads could aspire, bland facades behind which lie nothing but stunted lives and unrequited passions. But Homma’s suburbs seem also to evince more positive qualities. Like Ebenezer Howard’s original vision of the garden city, they seem remarkably well landscaped, luxuriant and well manicured, with little hint of the graffiti and rubbish that accompany the suburbs of the West. The sun seems always to be shining and there are McDonald’s aplenty…The tone of Homma’s book is ambiguous enough both to intrigue us and keep us guessing.”

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II