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(TAKAHASHI, SHOKEN). Takahashi, Shoken. Tokyo, JAPAN: Takeshobo, 1994. First Edition. Small Folio. Boards in Printed Dust Jacket. Erotic Photography Monograph. Very Good -/Good +. np, profusely illustrated in color. Text in Japanese and English. The "IkeIke Girls" were a popular early -to-mid-nineties Japanese Pop Idol trio. "Sumilon" is a lavish Shashinsu Glamour photobook by the noted erotic photographer Shoken Takahashi featuring the group posing nude at an exotic beach resort. Published in 1994 it contains both playful and pensive full frontal pictures of the group's final lineup - Kyoko Maki, Yuko Miyabi, and Hitomi Akiyama - alone and together. None of the copious below-the-waist photgraphy in this Japanese publication has been airbrushed, blacked-out, or pixilated. A brand new, most handsome example of the first edition of this uncommon (not a single copy is currently cited in OCLC WorldCat) item additionally BOLDLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED "Ike 2 Girls" / "Kyoko" / "Hitomi" / "Yuko" in black marker on the front pastedown. 4-88475-291-0 Inventory Number: 027102