Description

Softbound, quarto size volume bound in flexible pictorial covers. 160 pages. Parallel text in English, German and French. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and paintings, chiefly in black and white albeit with some color images. New edition, the first being published in 1995. “This is a collection of images taken from twenty years of American muscle magazines. Hollywood writer F. Valentine Hooven III investigates the evolution of this slice of American culture, with the primary focus on the priorities of homoerotic aesthetics as they have changed over the years.” [publisher’s description] No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. As new.