The Complete Reprint of Physique Pictorial [3 Vols. in Slipcase]

Köln: Taschen, 1997. 3 vols. Issues individually paginated; b&w illus. Illustrated pink boards; housed in illustrated pink slipcase. Mild soiling to textblock tops; light crimping to some page edges of Vol. 3. Better than very good in a slipcase with light soiling, wear to rear panel edges. 

Facsimile reprint of the complete run of American beefcake magazine Physique Pictorial, as published, edited, and photographed by Bob Mizer published between 1951 and 1990; a touchstone of homoerotic gay publishing, which skirted the era's strict obscenity laws by couching its content in the form of bodybuilding and figure modeling. Introduction by Wayne E. Stanley in English, German and French.