[MALE NUDITY AND PHYSICAL CULTURE] THE YOUNG PHYSIQUE.GAY INTEREST. A long run of this pioneering magazine with the color covers. Beginning with Volume I, Number 1 [August, 1958 -- cover dated "September" -- through Volume VII, Number 5 (cover dated "December-January 1967). Six large black half morocco bound volumes, in protective slipcases. 'Young Physique' magazine was a prime example of the "beefcake" genre. The issues had a centerfold with a young model wearing a posing strap (g-string) -- many with creative sets designed by the well-known gay photographer James Bidgood. Showing total nudity was illegal before 1962, so all models had to wear posing straps. The loosening of controls on pornography made these magazines less profitable by the later 1960's. Few runs of this most popular magazine of its kind will be so well preserved and bound as this set. PROVENANCE: Estate of Jim Graham, former Washington, DC, Councilman Estimate $900-1,200
