MALE NUDES: THE YOUNG PHYSIQUE JULY-AUGUST 1965 ISSUE: THE FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION

New York City, NY: The Young Physique Publishing, 1965. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: The Young Physique Publishing, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 90 pages. Rare The Young Physique, Les Demi Dieux, and Jerry Albanese collectible item. A fine copy of the July-August 1965 Issue. Which was the very first - and only - Issue published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. All other Young Physique Magazine Issues were softcover originals only. There is no ISBN. The Issue is now rare. A brilliant production by The Young Physique: Oversize-volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and centerfolds of various male nudes, all of them taken by now-legendary professional studios in the United States. The frontispiece features Les Demi Dieux Studio and one of its iconic models, Jerry Albanese. Text by The Physique Magazine editors. Printed in gravure (for the black-and-white images) and color in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "The Young Physique: July-August 1965 Issue". The first and only Issue in hardcover format - and its best Issue ever. Idealized - yet accessible, as it were - male nudes that hark back to the Pictorialist tradition and look towards Modernism at the same time. As such, they are among the most stunningly beautiful male nudes ever produced. In their uninhibited celebration of the male body, it was actually The Greeks who first showed us the way. It is therefore interesting that many contemporary photographers of the nude still feel the need to hide (as if in shame) rather than to show (with pride and without any inhibition) . The Young Physique led the way back in 1965. An absolute "must-have" title for The Young Physique, Les Demi Dieux, and erotic photography collectors. This title is a late-modern erotic art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with gravure and color plates and centerfolds. Some of the most beautiful models, photographed by some of the most brilliant photographers of the male nude. A fine copy. .