Original Collector’s Hardbound Edition of the 25th Anniversary Issue of Playboy Magazine, January 1979
by HEFNER, HUGH, RAY BRADBURY, MARLON BRANDO, JOHN UPDIKE, ANNE RICE, TOM ROBBINS, SHEL SILVERSTEIN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Playboy Enterprises, Inc, 1979. First Edition. Playboy Magazine Founder Hugh Hefner’s copy with his bookplate affixed to the front pastedown and a letter of provenance from the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation laid in. Hardcover, bound in silver cloth with the Playboy Bunny logo stamped the the front board. Touch of handling to the boards and some minor age-toning to the interior, else fine. This issue includes a lengthy and candid interview with Marlon Brando, fiction by Arthur C. Clarke, John Updike, and Tom Robbins; essays, humor, and commentary by Ray Bradbury, Gore Vidal, Anne Rice, Jules Feiffer, Bill Cosby, and Shel Silverstein, and more of what Playboy is known for.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22943E
- Title
- Original Collector’s Hardbound Edition of the 25th Anniversary Issue of Playboy Magazine, January 1979
- Author
- HEFNER, HUGH, RAY BRADBURY, MARLON BRANDO, JOHN UPDIKE, ANNE RICE, TOM ROBBINS, SHEL SILVERSTEIN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Playboy Enterprises, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1979
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2005
Santa Barbara, California
About James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
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