Sex

Madonna; photos by Stephen Meisel; edited by Glenn O’ Brien, art direction by Fabien Baron. Sex First UK Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1992. Published with the principal aims of publicity and to shock, this was Madonna in her prime, at her most provocative, her most mischievous. Here she actively confronts convention and sexual mores using mostly images of herself and photos of her with various celebrities including Isabella Rosselini, Vanilla Ice, Naomi Campbell, and Big Daddy Cane. Hardcover, folio, 14 x 11, unpaginated [126 pp], illustrated throughout in b/w and color gravure printing, minimal text. Original spiral bound aluminum boards, with title stamped into upper cover, and cut-out symbol of an X at center of lower cover. Reference numbers blind-stamped on rear board. Includes an 8 page color comic bound-in at the rear of the book and CD in a Mylar pouch. Packaging is a silvered pictorial Mylar bag with headshot of Madonna printed in blue.