Bulfinch, 1990, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, First
WEBER, BRUCE. Bear Pond, quarto, first edition, Bulfinch, 1990, pp. (viii), 200, beige cloth boards with title stamped in white lettering, paper dust jacket. 105 black and white plates, male nudes in pastoral settings, plus the eight page Reynolds Price poem "Gold Day." "In Bear Pond ... the portraitist and photographer Bruce Weber dwelt on the plastic beauty of the athletic male body. His sculptural nudes are often very natural and relaxed, and are reminiscent of those by the German naturist photographers of the inter-war years; the fascination they exude is of an unmistakeably homoerotic nature." -- Alessandro Bertolotti, "Books of Nudes" Dust jacket shows faint rubbing at some corners, no tears. Boards show a bit of wear at extremities, leaves tight with some darkening at edges, pinhole-size mark at top edge. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Photography; United States; 1990s; Erotica. ISBN: 082121831X. ISBN/EAN: 9780821218310. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52644.
WEBER, BRUCE. Bear Pond, quarto, first edition, Bulfinch, 1990, pp. (viii), 200, beige cloth boards with title stamped in white lettering, paper dust jacket. 105 black and white plates, male nudes in pastoral settings, plus the eight page Reynolds Price poem "Gold Day." "In Bear Pond ... the portraitist and photographer Bruce Weber dwelt on the plastic beauty of the athletic male body. His sculptural nudes are often very natural and relaxed, and are reminiscent of those by the German naturist photographers of the inter-war years; the fascination they exude is of an unmistakeably homoerotic nature." -- Alessandro Bertolotti, "Books of Nudes" Dust jacket shows faint rubbing at some corners, no tears. Boards show a bit of wear at extremities, leaves tight with some darkening at edges, pinhole-size mark at top edge. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Photography; United States; 1990s; Erotica. ISBN: 082121831X. ISBN/EAN: 9780821218310. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52644.