Year: 1964
Place: Chicago
Publisher: Playboy Press
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Pages: 192
Condition: VG
Cover condition: G
Binding: HC with DJ
Illustrated: In colors
Ft: 29x22 cm. 760 gr.
- THE BEST FROM PLAYBOY NUMBER ONE is the quintessence of PLAYBΟΥ, α giftable, keepable deluxe edition of the choicest features in fact, fiction and photography from the world's favorite sophisticated men's magazine.
Sparkling with color, decked with award-winning art, THE BEST FROM PLAYBOY is brim full of reading pleasure. Included are such masterpieces of edge-of-the-seat fiction as "The Fly" by George Langelaan; such spoofs as our inimitable "Salute to Madison Avenue, such wickedly witty behind-the-sceners as "The Miss America Joke!" Cartoons by Phil Interlandi, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Gahan Wilson and many others; the antic avuncularity of "Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book," the warmhearted nostalgia of Charles Beaumont's tribute to "Chaplin," the firework dazzle of "The Cannes Film Festival" -these are only samples of this ebullient sampler spiced with selections from PLAYBOY's famed repertoire of jokes, quips, brainteasers, and After Hours commentary. Topping them all is "The Complete Jayne Mansfield"-16 colorful pictorial pages combining PLAYBOY's famous Mansfield features of the past with new photos, never before published, of the reigning sex queen.
(Should these entertainments whet a thirst for more, then the best news of all is that, as the name implies, this volume is but the first in a forthcoming series.) ©PLAYBOY PRESS.
- CONTENTS:
THE FLY-fiction: GEORGE LANGELAAN
THE MISS AMERICA JOKE-article: OLIVER KINCAID
LOGIC-games: ALAN JEFFORY
PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES-humor.
PLAYING THE PIPER-modern living
UNCLE SHELBY'S ABZ BOOK-humor: SHEL SILVERSTEIN
THE SKINDIVER AND THE LADY-fiction: T. K. BROWN III
PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
CHAPLIN-article: CHARLES BEAUMONT
THE BUTTONDOWN BOYS IN THE FROZEN NORTH-fiction: STEWART PIERCE BROWN
SYMBOLIC SEX-humor: DON ADDIS
PLAYBOY SALUTES MADISON AVENUE-pictorial
MONEY AND CONFORMITY-article: J. PAUL GETTY
CORRIDA-article: BARNABY CONRAD
THE RIGHT APPROACH-fiction: P. G. WODEHOUSE
THE PROS OF PARIS— article: SAM BOAL
AND SO TO BED- compendium
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SLEEP-article: DR. THEODOR REIK
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SLEEP-article: JOHN PFEIFFER
BEDS FROM OTHER TIMES AND PLACES— pictorial
THE PLAYBOY BED-modern living
THE ODDBALL-humor: JULES FEIFFER
THE WRONG BED-ribald classic: BOCCACCIO
THE FAR OUT FILMS-article: ARTHUR KNIGHT
I LOVE YOU, MISS IRVINE-fiction: JOHN WALLACE
THE BREAKING OF THE FAST-food: THOMAS MARIO
VERY LATE IN THE EVENING—fiction: RAY BRADBURY
NUTS!— humor: ROBERT PAUL SMITH
THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL-article: CYNTHIA GRENIER
TROUBLE IN MAKEOUTSVILLE-fiction: HERBERT GOLD
PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: MILES DAVIS-candid conversation
THE KNACK OF PACKING-attire
THE COMPLETE JAYNE MANSFIELD-pictorial
HIALEAH RACE COURSE-man at his leisure.
