Paris: Calavas Freres Editeurs, ca. 1875-80. Large quarto. Unpaginated. Original marbled paper boards rebacked in red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Binding protected by modern mylar. Marbled front and rear endpapers. Total of 560 original French nude photographs featuring children, women, and men in allegorical poses. Each photographic plate..... More
Prague: Nakladatelstvi E. Beaufort A. S., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (14)pp., (1) 46 (1) plates. Original orange cloth with printed paper label affixed to cover, in facsimile yellow photo-illustrated dustjacket. Textured endpapers. Title page printed in brown. Rights reserved and printed by E. Beaufort A. S. This work is..... More
Hamburg: Verlag H. v. Seggern & Sohn, 1923. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. [2]pp (Title), [6]pp (Introductory text), 12 loose leaves (Plates), as issued. Original photo-illustrated paper portfolio. Rare portfolio of twelve photogravure plates of nude photography by Jozsef Pecsi (1889-1956), an influential Hungarian photographer whose Budapest studio was one of..... More
Zürich: Moritz Kreutzmann, [1899]. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (12 3/4" x 17 1/4"). Title-page & 24 plates resting in original half red cloth over printed paper-covered boards portfolio with string ties. Scarce portfolio containing 24 photogravures by Hugo Richter of female nude models. Late 19th century work published to serve..... More
Prague: Nakladatelstvi E. Beaufort A. S., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (14)pp., (1) 46 (1) plates. Original orange cloth with printed paper label affixed to cover, protected by modern mylar. Textured endpapers. Title page printed in brown. Book block pages light yellow. Rights reserved and printed by E. Beaufort A...... More
![Item #39195 Femmes [Collection d'Etudes Photographiques du Corps Humain, No. 1]. Sasha Stone](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/39195.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1434442595)
Paris: Editions Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1933. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 20 loose leaves (title-page + nineteen plates numbered 2 to 20, some coated and some un-coated), as issued. Original photo-illustrated paper portfolio. Cover photograph mounted on stiff paper portfolio. Book housed in a custom-made green cloth clamshell-box, with title..... More
Berlin: Rich. Eckstein Nachf. ND (ca 1905). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 20 loose plates, as issued. Original decorative full cienna cloth, with embossed green lettering and Art Nouveau decoration on front board. Decorative nude photograph at center of front cover and on title-page. Collection of 20 1900s glamour nude offset..... More
[Paris]: [E. Bernard], [1904]. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 45 loose leaves (Plates). Contemporary 3/4 red cloth portfolio over paper covered boards, with original photo-illustrated cover pasted to front board. String ties. First issued in 1902, and sold by subscription, this monthly illustrated journal contained a large selection of photographed nude..... More
Minneapolis, MN. Bart Publications, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (9 x 11 1/2"). 79pp. Original full burgundy cloth with gold lettering to front cover. Written and conceived by Hugh McMillen Hutton, famous American illustrator and cartoonist, this book introduces the art of drawing the human figure from observation. This..... More
Verlag "Geist und Schönheit" 1940. 3 of 3 albums. Hardcover. Folio. Paper-covered portfolio with pictorial paste-down and gilt lettering on cover. Folding flaps. Title-page in black and red. 16 beautiful mounted b/w photographs of women in the nude. Photos by A. Binder, Dr. Hans, Rich. Heinz, Reinhold Leßmann, G. Riebiecke..... More
Chicago: Paris Art Publishing Company, 1933. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. Unpaginated [27 pages]. White illustrated wrappers with modernist art deco design in grey and a photographic reproduction on the front cover. This extremely scarce publication was issued in conjunction with the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, for its "Streets of..... More
![Item #38908 Studies in Black [SIGNED WITH AN ORIGINAL SILVER GELATIN PRINT]. Tony Butcher, Peter...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/38908.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1434442544)
London: Tony Butcher, 2002. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Large quarto. 134pp. Original black cloth, with silver lettering on spine. Book housed in its matching publisher's slipcase. An original 9 1/2 x 7 1/2" silver gelatin print resting at pocket on inside of front cover. Half-title blind-stamped and hand-signed by..... More
Magdeburg: Mitteldeutsche Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt GmbH, 1947. Orplid-Mappe. Softcover. Twelve b/w reproductions of photographs of women in the nude in illustrated paper portfolio. Illustration on the cover after a drawing by Aristide Maillol. Some sunning to back cover. 12 photographs by "Deutscher Meister der Kamera" (German masters of the camera)..... More
Zurich, New York: Edition Stemmle, 1998. Hardcover. 4to. 143pp. Glossy black paper cover boards with white lettering to spine in original pictorial dj. Some scuffing and rubbing to dj, not affecting text or image. Red glossy end papers (rest of back is printed on black glossy photo paper). Signed and..... More
![Item #29953 Männlicher Akt [DDR-Aktfotografie] (119 plates of Male and Female Nude). n/a](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29953.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1434441954)
[DDR]: (ca 1985). Quarto. 119 plates in plastic sleeves. Beautiful collection of nude figure studies from the former East German Republic (DDR). 94 plates depict the male nude, and 25 depict a nude couple in different poses. Captions in German. Plates in very good condition. More
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England: The John Hassall Correspondence Art School, ND. First edition. Softcover. Folio (9 7/8 x 12 1/2"). 30pp. Original illustrated string-bound wrappers. Illustrated with 15 tipped-in b/w photographic reproductions of women and men in the nude, (11 show women and 4 men) "the purpose of this work..... More
Chicago: Art Photography Magazine, n.d. [ca. 1951?]. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 64pp. Spiral-bound, glossy photo-illustrated sepia-toned wrappers, with white lettering on the front cover. This is volume two of the Figure Photography Annual special issue, published by Art Photography Magazine. Profusely illustrated throughout with the gorgeous b/w nude photography of..... More
Egestorf, Germany: Robert Laurer Verlag, 1927. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 48 (1)pp. Original purple textured wraps with red vignette and lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Publisher's device on half-title. With many award-winning nude photographs. Third publication of the series "Bücher des Lebens (Books of Life)." Collection of thirty-six..... More
New York: Greenberg, (1936). Softcover. 4to. Unpaginated (2,54pp). Original illustrated spiral-bound wraps protected by modern mylar. Profusely illustrated with 54 full-page b/w reproductions of photographs by John Mc Sherry of women in the nude. Mc Sherry's unique use of light and shadow creates warm, sensual images of his 'natural' looking..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons; Broadway House, 1940. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 15pp., 48 plates. Original light blue cloth with pink lettering and ruling on paper labels on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Collection of forty-eight nude photographs of females representing forty-three nationalities providing a wide variety of..... More
![Item #48620 Jock Sturges. New York 1996–2000 [SIGNED]. Walter Keller](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48620.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1636583047)
Zurich Berlin New York: Scalo, 2000. Hardcover. Signed Jack Sturges on title page. Folio. 111 (1)pp. Original cream cloth with black lettering on spine in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Cream endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. Design Werner Holzwarth. Production Steidl, Göttingen. Illustrated with eighty-eight striking full page photographs, eight..... More
New York: Atria Books, 2011. Hardcover. Folio, 233pp. Original photo-illustrated boards with white and black lettering on spine. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece. Title page printed in red and black. Signed by Mazzucco at end of photographer's note. "Until recently, the culo as an object of erotic worship had taken a...... More
Wien: Gottschammel und Hammer, nd (ca. 1939). First edition. Folio. 12 loose plates, as issued. Original black paper portfolio containing 12 duotone photographic reproductions of female nude studies. Portfolio housed in original publisher's illustrated slipcase. Photographs by Dr. Alfred Grabner, Michael Neumüller, Kálmán Szöllösy, Gyula Ramhab, J. Meienberg, and Oskar..... More
New York: Knight Publishers, Inc., 1937. First edition. Spiral Bound. Folio. Unpaginated. Original photographic wrappers over spiral bound stiff paper boards. Photographic title page. Book housed in original publisher's photographic box. Scarce work consisting of about 218 photogravures divided into three sections: Morning; Noon and Night. Almost all of the..... More
Wien, Berlin, Leipzig: Verlag für Kulturforschung, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 129 (2)pp., 176 plates. Original black cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Publisher's device on title page. Documents for sexual research published by the Institute for Sexual Research, Wien. A sex-psychological examination of the characteristic milieu and..... More