This is not a continuous run- being sketchily represented but 1970-1985 are only missing 4 centerfolds out of a possible run of 192. A very few may have minor seam or edge splits or corner pinholes but I characterize the collection as a whole as "Fine". This is a very nice and varied collection of the original playmate centerfolds (with staple holes!) removed by the former owner from the original monthly magazine and preserved separately. VG-FN, NO DJ, Unbound, Duofold Folios, 231 pgs. Modern pulp fiction / crime detective mystery first appearance with rare autograph from the legendary pin-up photographer and model Bunny Yeager, collectible. Cover photography by Herb Ritts of Elle Macpherson, centerfold photography by Arny Freytag of the 1994 Miss May Playmate Shae Marks. First appearance story ever by Lawrence Block of "Dogs Walked, Plants Watered". Additional second autograph laid-in from Bunny Yeager with inscription on her photography studio stationery letterhead. Scarce signature, inscription and "Lipstick Kiss" by Bunny Yeager on the editorial of Bunny's Honeys with models Betty Page, Myrna Weber, Cindy Fuller, Joyce Nizzai, Lisa Winters and more. Appears unread, micro-chips, rubbing to corner extremities, minor creases to covers, centerfolds intact as originally issued, pages are clean, bright, unmarked and binding tight. The magazine played an important part in the so-called Ôsexual revolutionÕ and still remains one of the most recognizable brands in the world. Its final printed issue was released on March 17, 2020, with the magazine now available online. The first issue of Playboy was released on Octowith Marilyn Monroe as the first centerfold and sold over 50,000 copies. Boyle, George Plimpton, Scott Turow, Thom Jones, a 20 question interview of Al Franken, and more of what Playboy is known for. Thompson, Lauren Weisberger, Chuck Palahniuk, T.C. This issue includes a lengthy and candid interview with Jack Nicholson and articles and fiction by Norman Mailer, David Mamet, Frank Gehry, Hunter S. The front panel of the dust jacket is identical to the issueÕs front cover. Hardcover, bound in black cloth with gilt stamping at the spine. This is the last anniversary edition that Hugh Hefner (1926 - 2017) edited and produced during his lifetime, offering his unique perspective as a summing up of the life and impact of the magazine and his career. Playboy Magazine Founder Hugh HefnerÕs copy with his bookplate affixed to the front pastedown and a letter of provenance from the Hugh M. In 1992, Hefner shelled out $75,000 to for the crypt above Monroe’s in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, telling the Los Angeles Times: “Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up.”ĭuring a 2012 interview with CBS Los Angeles, he said he would have “loved” to have dated her.First Edition. Instead, she delivered one of her most memorable lines to Time. Asked whether she really had nothing on during the photo shoot, she quipped, “I had the radio on.'” When the photo surfaced in 1952, according to Time Magazine, studio bosses begged Monroe, then a rising star, to deny they were of her. The shoot might have ruined Monroe’s career, if she hadn’t handled it so masterfully. She has been quoted saying she had “a real washboard stomach” in the photo because she hadn’t eaten much in several days.
Hefner never paid Monroe for the use of her photo, shot by photographer Tom Kelley in 1949, when she was desperately short of cash. In its first issue, in 1953, she was named “Sweetheart of the Month,” a title that would later evolve into “Playboy Playmate.”Īlso Read: Hugh Hefner Sex Diaries: Who Gets Mythical Videotapes, Logs of Mansion Romps? Hefner, who died at age 91 on Wednesday, will be buried in Los Angeles’ Westwood Village Memorial Park in a plot right next to Monroe’s, People reports.Īs Hefner said in an interview with “Fresh Air” in 1999, he was trying to draw attention to his publication when he paid $500 to buy a nude photo of Monroe.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner will spend eternity buried alongside the woman who deserves credit for his early success: Marylin Monroe.