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Gros & Delettrez

201 - [NUDISM AND NATURISM. MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY].
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Estimate €120 - €150
Description
[NUDISM AND NATURISM. MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY]. SET of 5 titles. -HELIOS. [NATURISM MAGAZINE] 2 Swedish issues. 1953 and 1957. Black-and-white or colour heliogravure photographs. 2 stapled booklets, small in-4 format Numerous photographs. - ROYE. The English Maid. Forty-eight Photographic Studies. London, G. Routledge, 1939. Small in-4, publisher’s half-percaline binding. 48 black-and-white photographs (discreet handwritten annotations at the bottom of some). - Le Livre des Charmes. Published by Editions de la Bourdonnais, 1937. Small quarto, paperback, with flaps. 80 pp. 29 plates of female nudes, photographed in black and white. A few faint foxing spots on the cover, but a fine copy. -NATKIN, Marcel. Photographs by BRASSAI, JAHAN, SOUGEZ and BOUCHER. The Nude in Photography. Editions Mana, Editions Tiranty, 1949. Large in-8, paperback, with illustrated padded half-leather cover. Printed in black and salmon pink, heliogravures. 32 illustrations. A fine copy. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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