Badessi, Laurent Elle and Sondra Gilman — Skin

Zurich, Switzerland, Edition Stemmle, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 143 pp., and stuffed with an absolutely stunning array by the New York-based photographer Laurent Badessi of both black-and-white and full color nudes as can be imagined, black and white, mostly of skin, on salt flats and against white backgrounds, muscles and torsos. Quite glorious. Thumbnails, captioned, are provided at end.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,