Zappa Vox Yagi, Yasuo
		Byakuya Shobo Ltd., Tokyo 1988 ISBN: 4-89367-131-6 168 + 476 pp, box of 2 paperbacks, 28 x 22,5 cm Japanese

ARF: Biblio
FZ Japanese bibliography
Zappa books in Japanese
List of some Zappa Vox owners

This is a very nice box, put together under supervision of graphic illustrator Yasuo Yagi. Until this first book about Zappa was published in Japan the main written source were album sleeve notes in Japanese written by the same Yasuo Yagi.

This limited edition (3000) box was issued on Frank Zappa's 48th birthday – 21st December 1988. The box is a real piece of art and should be the ultimate target for every Zappa books collector. Some day I will write a manual – how to bid on Japanese auctions.
 

		Zappa Breath, In The Year Of The Plague. Vol.1 Yagi, Yasuo
		Byakuya Shobo Ltd., Tokyo 1988 ISBN: 4-89367-131-6 476 pp, paperback, 27 x 22 cm Japanese

This book is dedicated to F.Z. on his 48th birthday, Dec. 21st 1988. All books are numbered.  This one here is #1041 out of 3000.
 

Cover	Contents	Impressum

The book is mostly black-and-white. Some pages from the book:

		Viva Zappa Chevalier, Dominique
		Byakuya Shobo Ltd., Tokyo 1988 ISBN: – 168 pp, paperback, 27 x 22 cm Japanese

Japanese translation of Viva Zappa by Uchibori Yuko. Added to the original content is chapter Another Material, pp.129-168, containing detailed discography, videography and bibliography.