signed

This Face contains 500 head and shoulder portraits of Zi U, a Chinese sex worker in Beijing, taken at regular intervals over a single working day.

First edition, signed in black ink on front free endpaper; (188 x 142 mm, 7½ x 5½ in); colour photographs by Xu Yong, text by Zi U in Chinese and English; grey endpapers, olive flock covered boards, titles to spine in blind, colour photo-illustrated dust-jacket, printed in grey, black, and red, fine; 552pp.