Volume 1

Los Angeles: [Bob Delmonteque], 1957.
First Edition.

27cm x 21.5cm. [28] pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.

Bob Delmonteque (1921-2011), a Detroit-born bodybuilder first gained fame as a physique model for Douglas of Detroit in the late 1940s before establishing his own Los Angeles based photography and mail-order business. This volume reproduces 25 original catalogue sheets at an enlarged scale, supplemented by a series of full-page plates. Models include Glenn Bishop, Richard Alan, and Norman Tousley, though Delmonteque himself appears frequently, both as photographer and subject.

Minor rubbing to spine. Near Fine Condition.

AU$250.00

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