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Grey cloth in dust jacket. 138 Pp. 140 full page photographs by David Larcher and Philip O. Stearns Good condition. Inscribed to previous owner from the publishers, dated July'66 on f.e.p.

4°. 143 S. mit 140 Duotone Tafeln. Orig.-Leinenband mit illustr. Schutzumschlag. Bertolotti 198. - Erste Ausgabe. - Mit eigenhändiger Widmung des Verlegers. - "Although they attempted to imitate Haskin's style, the many British photography books that inundated the market did not succeed in equaling his powers of suggestion. It was clear that the theme of sexual liberation and the woman's body was being brought into play, especially if she was young. In "Six Nymphets" (1966), David Larcher and Philip Olcott Stearns - the first a photo reporter and the second a fashion photographer and former assistant to John Rawlings - attempted to excite the reader by recountin the adventures of saucy girls, but the visual effects were flat and conventional. The word "nymphet" in the title had come into common use after success of Nabokov's Lolita as a name for very young, very immodest girls, and was clearly designed to titillate the reader" (A. Bertolotti). - Schutzumschlag im oberen Rand mit geringf. Läsuren, gutes Exemplar. Sprache: englisch.…

Londres, Kings Road Publishing, 1966. Relié: 25.5 x 31 cm, 144 p. Édition originale avec 120 photographies reproduites en noir. Cartonnage gris, jaquette illustrée. En très bon état.