Title: Five Girls
Author: Sam Haskins
Published: 1962
Publisher: Crown Publishers
First edition/first impression (‘MCMLXII BY CROWN PUBLISHERS, INC.’); US; large hardback with dust wrapper (not price-clipped, showing $10.00); covered in clear, removable protective wrapper

Very Good+/Very Good: book has a bit of yellowing to front free pastedown, a bit of bumping at head & foot of spine, internally clean & unmarked; dust wrapper has chipping, short tears & a bit of paper loss at head & foot of spine and at inside flap fold corners, shelfwear at edges inc a few short closed tears, creases to inside flaps

Large hardback first edition of Sam Haskins’ first photobook. Five 'luscious, enchanting girls' - Bes, Gill, Anna, Helmi and Shirl - photographed in various states of dress & undress, and generally looking like they're having a whale of a time. Includes the famous shot of Gill which was used as the cover for The Last Shadows Puppets' first LP.

I have included only some of the less risqué shots in the images posted here…..

Sam Haskins was a South African born British photographer, who moved to London in 1968. He is best known for his contribution to nude photography, especially his three 60s black & white erotic/art photobooks Five Girls, Cowboy Kate, and November Girl. Haskins pioneered new ways of photographing the female nude - employing innovative experiments in black-and-white printing, photographic grain, image collaging, cropping and book design, and his work was a great influence on fashion designers, film makers and photographers of the day, and since (e.g. David Bailey, Wingate Paine, Jeanloup Sieff, Yves Saint Laurent, Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, along with Madonna's Sex book).

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