Lot 179
Playboy Magazine - Collection of 52 Early Magazines. A collection of 52 issues of Playboy magazine, including all issues from 1956, 1957, 1958, and 1959, as well as the January and September issues from 1954. Additionally: the 1964 issue of "The Best From Playboy" featuring "The Complete Janye Mansfield," and the 1970 "The Best From Playboy"which includes a retrospective tribute to Marilyn Monroe, an article by Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud, and an interview of Fidel Castro.
Playboy was founded by Hugh Hefner in Chicago in 1953. It featured nude pictures of women, tame by today's standards, as well as journalism and fiction. The first issue in December 1953 featured Marilyn Monroe. Many well-known writers have contributed to Playboy, including Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Ian Fleming, Alberto Moravia, Roald Dahl, Ben Hecht, Jules Feiffer, and P.G. Wodehouse. Cartoonists such as Jules Feiffer and Shel Silverstein also contributed. Total of 52 magazines, all in very good to fine condition.
Estimated Value $800 - 1,000.
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