Robert Mapplethorpe. The Black Book

Square 4to. Black cloth boards with blind-stamped black lettering. Very minor foxing to top-edge. Dust jacket slightly tanned. German edition. Text (a poem by Ntozake Shange) in German and English. 91 b/w plates. Unpaginated. *** First German edition, published in 1986, of this popular and often reprinted book. Portraits of muscular and well-endowed black men. Includes some of Mapplethorpe’s best-known work like ‘Man in a Polyester Suit’.