Femmes. Collection d'études photographiques du corps humain n° 1.

Folio: 20 ff., some on glossy photographic paper (some marginal tears).

In leaves under grey paper folder, title ill. with a photograph (scratches on the illustration, spine and flaps with tears and sl. splitting).

First edition, complete with 22 photographs reproduced on 20 plates, including the title mounted on the folder. Sasha Stone (1895-1940), Russian-born photographer, worked in Berlin, then founded with his Belgian wife Cami, the Studio Stone in Brussels in 1931. After his divorce in 1939 he founded a new studio, but fled Belgium in May 1940 and died from disease in France, on 6 August. In 1933, the French magazine "Arts et métiers graphiques" published this collection of studies of female nudes, as the first in a series of three planned portfolios on the human body. The other two, "Hommes" and "Adolescents", were never executed.