Tadanori Yokoo's Posthumous Collection.

YOKOO, Tadanori. 
Tadanori Yokoo's Posthumous Collection. 
First edition. Small 4to. 128pp with a laid in 4pp text sheet. Printed wraps in a cardboard slipcase. Colour and b&w plates throughout. English and Japanese texts. Tokyo: Gakugei Shorin, 1968. 
A very good copy. 

Tadanori Yokoo's first book and a major survey of his psychedelic graphic work throughout the 1960s. The confusing 'posthumous' title refers to an elaborate prank by Yokoo who, at age 29, wrote a fictional obituary advertising his own death. This book further embellished the story, being laid out as a memorial catalogue raisonee. Indeed the publication even includes a document of the artists' staged funeral attended by Mrs Yokoo, Kazuhito Tanaka and Shoji Terayama. An excellent reference and artwork in itself with a text by Yukio Mishima.