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How To Place An Order Magazine Title Index Magazine Condition Grading
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Issue Date: |
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January, 1955 |
Vol. 2 No. 2 issue. Bettie Page Playmate, Artist’s Ball Pictorial (with Tina Louise, others), Fiction by Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck Erskine Caldwell |
Not Available |
NA |
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February, 1955 |
Jayne Mansfield Playmate. Boxing 1955, Fiction by John Jakes |
Not Available |
NA |
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March, 1955 |
No issue published |
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April, 1955 |
Playmate – Marilyn Weltz, Naked Advertising Pictorial, Fiction by P.G. Wodehouse |
Not Available |
NA |
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May, 1955 |
Playmate – Margueritte Empey. Double Exposure Pictorial (Bettie Page, Bunny Yeager, others), Fiction by Irwin Shaw |
Not Available |
NA |
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June, 1955 |
Playmate – Eve Meyer. All-Star Jazz Band, Ronald Searle Sketchbook, Illustrator’s Show, Fiction by John Collier |
Not Available |
NA |
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July, 1955 |
Playmate – Janet Pilgrim. Fiction by Michael Arlen, Herbert Gold |
Not Available |
NA |
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August, 1955 |
Playmate – Pat Lawler. New Jazz Audience by Dave Brubeck, Woodcuts by John Held Jr., Fiction by P.G. Wodehouse |
Not Available |
NA |
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October, 1955 |
College Issue. Playmate – Jean Moorehead. Anita Ekberg Pictorial, Fiction by Thorne Smith, James Jones, Anson Mount |
Not Available |
NA |
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November, 1955 |
Playmate – Barbara Cameron. Gina Lollobrigida, West Coast Strippers, Jonathan Winters |
Not Available |
NA |
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December, 1955 |
A |
Good |
$60.00 |
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January, 1956 |
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G/VG** |
$75.00 |
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February, 1956 |
Playmate – Marguerite Empey. Will Success Spoil Jayne Mansfield by Earl Wilson, Boxing 1956, Stan Kenton, Fiction by John Collier, Don Marquis |
G/VG** |
$60.00 |
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March, 1956 |
Playboy’s TV Playmate (First Centerfold Foldout) – Marian Stafford. The First Night of Lent by Ray Bradbury |
Not Available |
NA |
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April, 1956 |
Playmate – Rusty Fisher. Benny Goodman on Jazz, Diana Dors, Fiction by Roald Dahl |
Not Available |
NA |
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May, 1956 |
Victor Borge, Fiction by Erskine Caldwell |
G/VG** |
$50.00 |
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June, 1956 |
Playmate – Gloria Walker. June Wilkinson, Chess Articles, Fiction by Ray Bradbury |
Not Available |
NA |
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July, 1956 |
Playmate – Alice Denham. |
Not Available |
NA |
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August, 1956 |
Playmate – Jonnie Nicely. Dobronyi Sculpture insert, The Death of Painting by Evelyn Waugh, Isles of Greece, Shel Silverstein – 2 copies |
Good |
$45.00 |
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September, 1956 |
Playmate – Elsa Sorensen. Hemingway Profile, Boxing by John Lardner, Haiti, Filming the Folies Bergere, Playboy’s Penthouse Apartment |
G/VG, minor edge insect damage** |
$50.00 |
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Same |
G/VG, centerfold missing |
$15.00 |
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October, 1956 |
Playmate – Janet Pilgrim. College Issue, Hemingway, How To Bathe A Poodle, The Playboy Jazz Poll |
G/VG** |
$50.00 |
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November, 1956 |
Playmate – Betty Blue. Fiction by P.G. Wodehouse, Adrian Conan Doyle |
G/VG** |
$50.00 |
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Same |
G/VG |
$50.00 |
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Same – 2 copies |
Good |
$40.00 |
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December, 1956 |
Third Anniversary Issue. Playmate – Lisa Winters. Broadway, Hemingway, Playboy’s Christmas Cards |
G/VG** |
$50.00 |
**With small 2 or 4 digit year number written in ink by month on front
cover
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January, 1957 |
Holiday Issue. Playmate Portfolio, Comes the Revolution – with comment by George Jessel, Fred Astaire, Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers & others, Fiction by Ray Bradbury, “The Hustler” by Walter Tevis |
Not Available |
NA |
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February, 1957 |
The New Jayne Mansfield, Fiction by Budd Schulberg, 1957 Playboy Jazz All-Stars |
Not Available |
NA |
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March, 1957 |
Bunny with Binoculars cover. Boxing 1957, The Vargas Girl, Zsa Zsa in Vegas |
Not Available |
NA |
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April, 1957 |
Sports Car cover. Exurbanites at Play, The Compleat Sports Car Stable |
Not Available |
NA |
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May, 1957 |
Cruise Ship Arrival. Li’l Abner’s Gals by Al Capp, Shel Silverstein, It’s Like This With TV, Return to Tokyo, Knack of Packing |
Not Available |
NA |
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June, 1957 |
Playboy Cuff-links cover. Rock ‘n’ Roll by Leonard Feather, Contour Contact |
G/VG** |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Good, soiled cover |
$25.00 |
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July, 1957 |
Playboy’s Yacht Party. Silverstein in Scandinavia, Silverstein in Scandinavia |
Good |
$30.00 |
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August, 1957 |
Victorian Bathing Beauty cover. Denison’s Sports Cars, Maize, Male Modeling |
Good, wear |
$20.00 |
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September, 1957 |
Mixed Drink cover. Francis Wallace’s 18th Football Preview, “Open Season on Guests” – Opinion by John Steinbeck, Westerns |
G/VG |
$50.00 |
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Same |
G/VG** |
$50.00 |
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October, 1957 |
Fiction by John Wallace, Robert Bloch & Henry Slesar, The Pious Pornographers, Latin Quarter Lovelies, Compleat Fidelitarian, Silverstein in London |
Good, ink along page edges |
$20.00 |
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November, 1957 |
Poker from Stud to Strip, Bullfighting, Jazz with Ella and the Duke, Loren vs. Mansfield |
G/VG** |
$35.00 |
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December, 1957 |
Christmas & 4th Anniversary Issue. Fiction by Budd Schulberg, Gerald Kersh, Mike Wallace Interviews Playboy |
G/VG** |
$50.00 |
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Same |
Good |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Good, soiled, inked out price |
$30.00 |
**With small 2 or 4 digit year number written in ink by month on front
cover
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January, 1958 |
Holiday Issue. Playmate Portfolio, Silverstein in Paris, Basic Bar, “Just Like the Girl” (fiction) by James Jones, “The Rumbling, Rambling Blues” (fiction) by Jack Kerouac |
G/VG |
$60.00 |
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Same |
G/VG** |
$50.00 |
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Same |
Fair/Good, cover wear |
$20.00 |
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February, 1958 |
Ice Skater cover. Nude Jayne Mansfield, 1958 Jazz All-Stars, Fiction by Bill Safire, The Beat Mystique – 3 articles |
G/VG** |
$50.00 |
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Same |
Good |
$40.00 |
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March, 1958 |
Now Showing cover. Michiko Hamamura, Brigitte Bardot, 1958 Boxing, Silverstein in Moscow |
G/VG** |
$35.00 |
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Same |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Good, scuff |
$25.00 |
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April, 1958 |
Playboy in Las Vegas. “The Short-Short Story of Mankind” by John Steinbeck, Little World of Orville K. Snav, Prestige on Wheels, Minsky in Vegas |
G/VG** |
$50.00 |
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Same |
Good, creases |
$40.00 |
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May, 1958 |
Country Club Playmate. Life and Death of a Spanish Grandee, Clams, Birth of a Broadway Show |
G/VG** |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Good, ring mark on cover |
$25.00 |
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June, 1958 |
Photographing Your Own Playmate. Silverstein in Italy, Little World of Harry Kurnitz, San Francisco |
G/VG** |
$35.00 |
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July, 1958 |
Picnic Capers. Six Records In Search of a Penthouse by Leonard Feathers, Berman on the Telephone |
G/VG** |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Good |
$30.00 |
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August, 1958 |
Models in Windows cover. Fiction by Robert Bloch, The Lobster, Sick World of Jules Feifer |
G/VG** |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Good |
$30.00 |
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September, 1958 |
Playboy’s College Playmate – Teri Hope. Football Preview, The Bosom |
G/VG** |
$40.00 |
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October, 1958 |
Portfolio of Wine, 2 Playmates, 1959 Jazz Poll, The Stereo Scene, Pros of Paris |
G/VG** |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Good |
$30.00 |
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November, 1958 |
Skiing cover. The Word on Frank Sinatra, Brigitte Bardot, Silverstein in Switzerland, Fun & Fashion on Skis |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Fair/Good, cover wear |
$20.00 |
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December, 1958 |
Fifth Anniversary Issue. Most Popular Playmates of the Last Five Years, Fiction by Steve Allen, Garson Kanin |
Good, cover stains** |
$20.00 |
**With small 2 or 4 digit year number written in ink by month on front
cover
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January, 1959 |
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G/VG** |
$45.00 |
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Same |
Good, cover tear |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Good, light crease, black crayon |
$35.00 |
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February, 1959 |
1959 Playboy Jazz All Stars, Lenny Bruce profile |
Not Available |
NA |
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March, 1959 |
Modeling in Clay cover. Silverstein in Spain, Stereo Equipment |
G/VG** |
$35.00 |
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Same |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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April, 1959 |
Playboy Weekend Hideaway, Tina Louise, Silverstein Fights a Bull, Seafood Dining |
G/VG** |
$45.00 |
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Same |
Good |
$35.00 |
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Same |
Fair, scuffed cover |
$15.00 |
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May, 1959 |
Playboy’s House Party. The Weird World of Gahan Wilson, The Art of Travel, |
Good, insect damage at spine |
$30.00 |
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June, 1959 |
Girl on Scooter cover. Origins of the Beat Generation by Jack Kerouac |
Good |
$30.00 |
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Same |
Good, stamp on cover |
$25.00 |
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July, 1959 |
Swimsuit Sail cover. The Little World of Oscar Levant, Beat Poems by Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, The Coffee Houses of America |
G/VG** |
$35.00 |
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August, 1959 |
Bosom in |
Not Available |
NA |
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September, 1959 |
Pigskin Preview, The Miss America Joke |
G/VG** |
$35.00 |
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Same |
G/VG |
$35.00 |
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Same |
G/VG – no centerfold |
$10.00 |
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October, 1959 |
Kim Novak, Elaine Stewart, Silverstein on Safari in Africa, Jazz Poll |
G/VG** |
$45.00 |
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November, 1959 |
And So to Bed, Bedroom Attire, Sleep, Satire by Andy Rooney |
Good, stain |
$25.00 |
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December, 1959 |
Sixth Anniversary Issue. Fiction by Jack Kerouac, Roald Dahl, Sherlock Holmes Satire by Gahan Wilson |
G/VG** |
$50.00 |
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Same |
Good, chipped upper edge |
$35.00 |
**With small 2 or 4 digit year number written in ink by month on front
cover