The Beauties in Myths / Noriyoshi Ohrai / 1987 / Japan

An extremely lush Japanese art book featuring 91 paintings by Ohrai that featured on the covers of Japanese SF magazine 'SF Adventure' published between 1980 and 1987.

A cavalcade of amazing full-bleed (including some pull-out pages) pairings of ancient and future goddesses and princesses - historical, mythical and real. Curated and designed with typical Japanese graphic panache.

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First edition. Softcover. Published in 1987. 130 pages densely illustrated in colour throughout.

Condition: A fine copy protected in a translucent mylar sleeve. Obi has small tears at the spine. Interiors are excellent, almost as new.