MALE NUDES: AROUND THE GLOBE: PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENNO THOMA

Berlin, Germany: Bruno Gmunder Verlag, 2010. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. Berlin, Germany: Bruno Gmunder Verlag, 2010. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 230 pages. Landmark collection of all-color male nudes. The single most beautiful collection in the legendary Bel Ami Series. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run by Bruno Gmunder Verlag as a hardcover original only. An Import title, none of the copies was commercially sold in the United States. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Benno Thoma and Bruno Gmunder Verlag: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Benno Thoma. The very brief Essay by Martin Stroop is printed on the DJ flaps. There is no text in the book itself. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In matching pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Benno Thoma's "Around The Globe". His very first all-color collection of male nudes, featuring a very generous selection of Bel Ami models in sumptuously produced "location shoots", and thus indisputably the best in the latter's Series thus far. "You've never seen Bel Ami like this! Renowned photographer Benno Thoma shot the boys of Bel Ami, showing Lukas, Tommy, and all the others in perfect glory. Set against lavish backdrops and in masterfully composed erotic settings, these images are emotional like never before. Benno Thoma is undoubtedly an artist. He bathes his models in luxuriously sensual colors. His sense of style makes this opulent book the high point of Bel Ami photography books" (Publisher's blurb). Together with Corbin Fisher's "Boys Unlimited", this is the best book on Bel Ami ever published (and there are many). An absolute "must-have" title for Benno Thoma and Bel Ami collectors. This title is a contemporary erotic art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: This is an Import title, not commercially available in the United States. The publisher is no more. Its last remaining copies sold for up to $500. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with full-page, full-color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BENNO THOMA AND CORBIN FISHER'S "BOYS UNLIMITED" TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3867871531.