Nus Japonais

First edition. Beige card wrappers. In pictorial dust jacket. Near fine. Dust jacket a little rubbed, especially to spine ends. 8 pages of introduction by Robert Guillan (in French) followed by c. 20 fold-out leaves (equivalent of 80 pages) with b/w photographs of nude Japanese women, reminiscent of the work of photographer John Everard. (His ‘Oriental Women’ in particular comes to mind.) *** Masaya Nakamura (1926-2001) was a Japanese photographer particularly known for nude photography.