What are the best Yoshitaka Amano art books?

Amano's art lives in books, and the books span forty years, so the shelf is best entered by era. His own collections begin with Maten in 1984, gathering the early fantasy paintings of the freelance years, and Imagine in 1987, which collects his Tatsunoko period. Japan: Final Fantasy, published in 1994, was the first great gathering of the game art in one object.

For Final Fantasy alone, the standard object is The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy, which collects his illustrations for the first ten games, through Final Fantasy X, across three large volumes. For the novels, his Guin Saga collection appeared from Hayakawa in 1996, and the Library's Vampire Hunter D shelf keeps its own page for the D art books that gather four decades of Kikuchi covers.

The one essential book about him, rather than by him, is Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography, Beyond the Fantasy: a 328-page landscape hardcover containing nearly 400 illustrations and photographs, published in English by Dark Horse. As a physical object it is this hub in print, Tatsunoko stills, novel covers, game paintings and gallery panels between two covers.