[Erotica] [Nude photography] Das deutsche Aktwerk Berlin, B. Schultz, (1940). 24 photographic plates on sturdy cardboard, (a few w.) patterned protective tissue paper, sheet w. table of contents (lacking title leaf). Loose as issued in orig. (worn) portfolio w. cover illustration. Folio. Foxed. Photos by a.o. Josef Pecsi, Ursula Lang-Kurz, Kurt Wendler, Dorothea Wilding, Willy Zielke, Heinz von Perckhammer, Bruno Schultz, Carl Semon, Alfred Grabner, Lala Aufsberg, Trude Fleischmann, Max Rothkegel, Gerhard Riebicke, Heinz Hajek-Halke and Franz Kepler.

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