The Playboy Book: Forty Years (Hardcover)

by Gretchen Edgren (Editor)

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Product Description
The fortieth anniversary celebration revisits and remembers Playboy's extraordinary journey--the triumphs and tragedies, the strategies and surprises, the mansion and the mystique, the legend and the playmates--in a visually stunning Playboy scrapbook.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Stoddart (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881649032
• ISBN-13: 978-1881649038
• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 9.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,378,718 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The History And Important Bits Of Playboy, January 14, 2000

By	CaptHowdy "CaptHowdy" (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada) - See all my reviews

What can you say about this thing? It's Playboy! It's a history of the first forty years of Playboy magazine. I'm not afraid to say that I can be your basic white trash and enjoy this one. It shows the stories, news, sports, cartoons, and the women that Playboy has had between it's covers.

What is neat about the book for me, were two things:

The history of Playboy. For example did you know that January 1958's Playmate Elizabeth Ann Roberts had to get a note from her mother to appear nude in Playboy? Hefner was then charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and from then on demanded that all his model be 18.

The women. Not all Playmates became stars, but a lot were interesting like the above mentioned Playmate. There have been major stars like Betty Page, Marilyn Monroe, Sharon Stone, Pam Anderson, Vanna White, Madonna, Tanya Roberts, et cetera, et cetera, in the magazine as well.

Say all you want, I'm glad this one is on my bookshelf to peruse through.

10 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect book for the playboy magazine lovers, July 16, 1998

By	[e-mail] (Orland Park, IL United States) - See all my reviews

Here you have 40 terrific years of playboy magazine's greatest accomplishments summed up in these few hundred pages. If you enjoy looking at all beautiful women from 1954-1994, its here. This book also includes 40 years of American music ,fashion,sports,motion pictures,books, and anything interesting that you have incountered in the last 40 years. Its a must for any Playboy fanatic, and has Mr.Hugh Hefner as a role model .

6 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a coffee table book but it looks like one., January 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Playboy Book: Forty Years (Paperback)

This book has high quality photos printed on high quality paper. So, it's worth owning. Just don't get the pages sticky.