Inimitable Blonde (vintage pinup digest magazine, 1950s)

Pearlite Enterprises, 1950s. Very Good. Vintage nude pinup digest magazine featuring model known as "inimitable blonde," name uncredited, posing & emphasizing natural assets, in the nude w/ drapes, on couches, black high heels, great centerfold. Exotic bleach blonde w/ lush dimensions, curious appeal. Hundreds of similar digest magazines were produced by fly-by-night operations, mainly around New York, notably Burmel Publishing (Lenny Burtman's enterprise). Many were published as photography and/or art "studies" booklets, w/ technical camera data, exposure chart, & the standard emphasis on sexual liberation; early issues featured several models per issue & many maintain airbrushing techniques rolled over from nudist magazines, much of the posing naturally obscures otherwise censored areas. Still scarce institutionally. 32pp, 5.25 x 8.25 inches, B/W throughout, duochrome wrapper, saddle-stapled. Very Good Plus, faint rubbing, pencil price.Jim Linderman, "Proto-Porn: The Art Figure Study Scam of the 1950s," 2012.