Health and Efficiency

Mexico City: Editorial RM, 2009. First edition. 87pp; plates. 8vo. Black velveteen stamped in silver to front board and spine, lacking a jacket as issued. Fine, with original loose title sheet laid in.

A collection of images of nude women from the pages of 1950s issues of nudist magazine Health and Efficiency, to which Mexican artist and tattooist Jerónimo López Ramírez has made salacious and frequently diabolical alterations. With an introduction by Abraham Cruzvillegas.