Description
New York, Garden City Publishing, 1932
Bound in green cloth, 21 x 14.5 cm, 300 pages, black and white photographs. Text in English. First edition.
An important account of the reception and perception of nudism/naturism in America, published one year after ”Among the Nudists”, in which the authors recount their experience of the French and more importantly the German Naktkultur , which goes back the late 19th century and was a major influence on Nudism in other Western cultures. Another edition was published in 1932 by Alfred A. Knopf, but without the illustrations. This copy is complete with the scarce dust jacket. Period dust jacket with advertisements for other titles on the verso. With beatiful endpapers feauturing nudists hanging around.
With 24 illustrations.
Why go naked?
Who goes naked?
What to do naked?
When to go naked?
Where to go naked?
This book answers these questions!
Frances Merrill and Mason Merrill
A good copy in a good dust jacket. Head and lower of the spine bumped, else good. Not a spot of rust. Dust jacked faded from exposure to the sun (like a proper nudist), with some creases and small tears to the ends. Still a presentably copy of a classic.
