James Bond First Editions

The Playboy Book. Forty Years.

EDGREN, Gretchen, HEFNER, Hugh (introduction).

Chicago, IL: Playboy Enterprises, 1994. [History / Anthology] FIRST EDITION, first printing. Association copy SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY HUGH HEFNER. Large octavo (31 x 24cm), pp.368. Illustrated in colour throughout, with folding plates at rear. Publisher's hardcovers in jacket, priced at £30 (a UK-priced jacket- likely exported). Minor annotations to Playmate list, a little bleed from sharpie used, extremities bumped. Warmly inscribed to Dorshka Raphaelson [Dorothy Deborah Wegman Raphaelson (1904-2005)], an American dancer, Ziegfeld Girl, and vaudeville performer. An anniversary celebration of the famous men's literary magazine with chapters from the 'fifties to the 'nineties. Hugh Hefner (1926-2017) was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, in which several of Ian Fleming's James Bond stories first appeared and where several 'Bond Girls' were photographed. This copy from the collection of Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Item #74568

Price: £395.00