Hugh Hefner’s Playboy (6 Volumes Collectors Edition)

Taschen has announced an incredible six-volume limited edition anthology of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy, celebrating the decadence, sophistication and wit of the original men’s magazine and its creator.

Hugh Hefner’s Playboy highlights the extraordinary years between 1953 and 1979, with a huge selection of centerfolds and writing by Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac and Ray Bradbury. It also includes some of the most important Playboy Interviews, including those with Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Richard Nixon, and Roman Polanski. This huge collection contains a vast selection of personal photos many previously unseen. These include behind-the-scenes shots from the Playboy Mansion, Playboy Clubs, and the Big Bunny jet. This is the definitive history of Playboy and its legendary founder.

• The Hugh Hefner’s Playboy 6 Volumes Collectors Edition is released in a very limited number of only 1,500 sets,each numbered and signed by Hugh Hefner
• Six volumes totaling 3,506 pages
• packaged in a 10mm-thick Plexiglas box
• Features 59 of the hottest Centerfolds in full size
• Contains all 312 covers from the magazine’s first 25 years
• Comprehensive overview of artwork and pictorials by all of the important Playboy artists and photographers
• Contains a facsimile edition of Playboy s groundbreaking first issue, featuring Marilyn Monroe’s iconic nude portrait
• Hefner s text in English with German, French and Spanish translations

Special bonus: includes a 7 x 7 cm piece of Hef’s legendary silk pajamas