THE CULTURE OF THE NUDE IN CHINA. [A collection Of Soft Focus Photographs Of Chi

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Berlin [1928], Eigenbrodler. Pictorial stiff wrs., [32]p.,32 black & white full page photos of young nude Chinese girls & women, 20 x 27cm., FINE COPY, very RARE in original dust jacket in mylar protector. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION . *** **** *** . . AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE BOOK IN ANY LANGUAGE . . . FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH IN THE RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET . . . 32 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF NUDE CHINESE . . . YOUNG GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN . * . *** **** *** . . AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE BOOK IN ANY LANGUAGE . . . FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH IN THE RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET . . . 32 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF NUDE CHINESE . . . YOUNG GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN . * Beautifully bound in yellow stiff boards with red printed scissor-cut decoration, with title in both Chinese Hanzi characters reading: BAI MEI YING, and English title. The contents are printed on double-folded leaves, bound Chinese style with stitched spine. . Contains a collection of 32 soft focus photographs of Chinese nude young girls and women. . *** A FINE RARE COPY WITH ORIGINAL DUST JACKET: Seldom found in fine condition, with the very RARE original pictorial dust jacket with a Chinese nude girl on the cover. in a Mylar protector. . *** FIRST & ONLY ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION: This is the very rare and highly desirable English language edition of the book. . It was issued two variant but identical FIRST EDITIONS, Berlin, 1928 by Eigenbrodler-Verlag: a. The German language b. The English language . Both are identically bound with the exact same 32 black & white photographs and binding, the language is the only difference. . The book has three pages of introductory text. . *** THE SUBJECTS: . The superb photographs taken by Von Perckhammer show typical nude Chinese girls and young women. They are delicate, willowy young females, "au naturale," who relax for their pose. . This is a very early and fine example of Chinese nude photography by a foreigner. This book shows several "models" posing for the camera, some are seated by opium lamps, indicating they are possibly attendants or workers in opium dens. Others may be "sing-song" girls or prostitutes. All strike 'artistic' poses, expressing a 'passive' nature. . * Published works of this nature and period are exceptionally RARE & quit obscure. . The photographer did a few other standard photographic essays about China. . He also did a somewhat similar but more serious photographic study on the statistics and details of Japanese body types. A stunning insight to the study of nude Chinese girls and women in the 1920's. Scans can be sent by email. bound in yellow stiff boards with red printed decoration and Chinese Hanzi Chinese characters, English title, and decoration symbol, bound Chinese style with stitched spine. . Contains a collection of 32 soft focus photographs of Chinese nude young girls and women. . *** A FINE RARE COPY WITH ORIGINAL DUST JACKET: Seldom found in fine condition, with the very rare original pictorial dust jacket with a Chinese nude girl on the cover. . *** FIRST & ONLY ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION: This is the very rare and highly desirable English language edition of the book. . It was issued two variant FIRST EDITIONS, Berlin, 1928 by Eigenbrodler-verlag, in the German language and the English language editions. Both are identically bound with the exact same 32 black & white photographs. . *** THE SUBJECTS: . The superb photographs taken by Von Perckhammer show typical nude Chinese girls and young women. They are delicate, willowy young females, "au naturale," who relax for their pose. . This is a very early and fine example of Chinese nude photography by a foreigner. This book shows several "models" posing for the camera, some are seated by opium lamps, indicating they are possibly attendants or workers in opium dens. Others may be "sing-song" girls or prostitutes. Per the Wikipedia article [below]: ".In 1928 two volumes of his photographs were published in Berlin: one of carefully.

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THE CULTURE OF THE NUDE IN CHINA. [A collection Of Soft Focus Photographs Of Chi