Alice Bloch FIT WOMEN IN MOTION - 1st Ed. (1927) RARE In DJ - NUDE FEMALE PHOTOS
Item History & Price
(Photography / Health and Fitness) Bloch, Alice. HARMONISCHE SCHULUNG DES FRAUENKORPERS: NACH GESUNDHEITLICHEN RICHTLINIEN IN BILDERN UND MERKWORTEN [HARMONIOUS TRAINING OF THE WOMAN'S BODY: ACCORDING TO HEALTH GUIDELINES IN PICTURES AND WORDS]. Heavily illustrated with evocative black and white photographs. Stuggart, Germany: Dieck & Co., 1927. First edition. Quarto. Text in German. Scarce first edition of this fantastic and early look at women's bodies and their physical fitness ...needs (with accompanying photographs in action) by Alice Bloch, who was the head of the orthopedic-gymnastic institute in Stuttgart and the author of "Your Child's Body" and "Children's Gymnastics in Play". Bound in the publisher's red cloth covered boards, with gilt-stamped titles. Contents foxed. The rear hinge is just barely starting. In the elusive photo-illustrated dust jacket, which is somewhat rubbed and worn, with some small chips and tears and a piece missing from the spine head. Rare! Please see photos for additional condition clarity.
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