The Last Word from Paradise by Peter Beard, First Edition

The Last Word From Paradise by Peter Beard

First Edition, First Printing, 1978

This is an extremely rare first edition, first printing of “The Last Word From Paradise” by Peter Beard published by the Seibu Museum of Art to coincide with the major exhibition “The Last Word From Paradise” held at the Seibu Museum in Tokyo in April and May of 1979. With the characteristic collage elements from his other works mostly absent from this production, the spotlight here is on Beard's black-and-white images of wildlife enacting their Darwinian struggle for survival on their home turf.  The book contains numerous black and white illustrations with several double gate-fold plates. The text is in Japanese and the book is unpaginated.

Measuring approximately 10” x 8 1/2”, the book is hardbound in a photo illustrated dust jacket. The condition of the book is FINE - in a FINE - dust jacket with very minor shelf wear to the dust jacket and some minor adhesive residue to the last endpaper where a price sticker was removed. Overall, this is an exceptional copy of an extremely rare Peter Beard edition.