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Following the remarkable success of last year's limited deluxe edition we're pleased to present The Complete Centerfolds in a new compact package. The content remains the same—every Centerfold from every issue. That's over 600 beauties. We've also added the Centerfolds from 2007 to make this Playboy's most complete photographic volume to date. Hefner introduces the book and literary luminaries including Paul Theroux Jay McInerney and Daphne Merkin comment on the social mores and cultural climate of each decade. This chronological collection provides an unparalleled view of our evolving appreciation of the female form: from the fifties fantasy of voluptuous blondes to the tawny beach girls of the seventies to the groomed and toned women of today. The Complete Centerfolds is a breathtaking tour de force..
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The 2009 Iron & Lace Custom Bike and Centerfold Model Calendar sponsored by Mikuni Carburetors and Performance Machine features the world's top custom bikes together with sexy centerfold models in revealing lingerie. Photographed by Jim Gianatsis, Iron & Lace offers a month by month look at the top winning bikes from the 2007 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show's Calendar Bike Building Championship including the Best of Show winner from Greg Westbury of WestburyHotRods.com Also featured are incredible customs from former Best of Show winner the legendary Japanese builder Shinya Kimura of Zero and Chabbot Engineering fame, plus Joe Takai of Mercury Customs, Yasuyoshi Chikawaza , Hiroyuki Hirato, Kevin Brooks of Thunder Mountain Motorsports, Ron Simms, Barry LaCour of Top Shelf Customs, Jesse Rooke and Todd Silicatio. And just to keep things in perspective, Ron Simms also brought us his beautiful 1919 Harley-Davidson factory board track racer. This year's Iron & Lace Calendar Kittens photographed with the bikes are as beautiful as ever with Playboy models Tamara Witmer and Tiffany Toth, Miss Hooters National Swimsuit Pageant finalist Cora Skinner, Katerina van DeerHan and sexy cover model Carrie Ann Stroup..
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Beloved Bunnies In celebration of Playboy magazine’s 50th anniversary, TASCHEN brings you this ultimate Playboy Playmate tribute featuring each and every Playmate of the Month since issue number one. Beginning with Marilyn Monroe herself and including such favorites as Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jenny McCarthy, this chronological look at the history of Playboy centerfolds includes photos of the Playmates as well as updated personal information about their lives to this day - just enough to spark your memory or pique your interest and surely leaving you yearning for more...

Hugh Marston Hefner was born in Chicago on April 9, 1926. The first issue of Playboy magazine, featuring the now-famous calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe, was produced in 1953 on a card table in his South Side apartment. Playboy grew at a phenomenal rate and by the end of the decade, the magazine was selling more than a million copies a month. At the start of the Sixties, Hef began to live out the "Good Life" depicted in the pages of his publication. He hosted a popular syndicated television show called Playboy’s Penthouse, purchased the Playboy Mansion, and opened the first Playboy Club on the Near North Side of Chicago. Throughout the Sixties, Hef and Playboy became what Chicago columnist Bob Greene has called "a force of nature." Hef wrote an extended series of editorials titled "The Playboy Philosophy," championing the rights of the individual and challenging the country’s heritage of puritan repression. By 1971, when Playboy Enterprises went public, the magazine was selling 7 million copies a month and there were 23 Playboy Clubs, resorts, hotels and casinos with more than 900,000 members worldwide. Hef established a second residence in Los Angeles, which quickly became known as Playboy Mansion West, and in 1975 decided to settle there permanently. In 1980, Hef championed the reconstruction of the Hollywood sign (then in serious disrepair) and was honored with a star on the Hollywood walk of fame for his efforts.

Since the mid-Eighties, daughter Christie Hefner has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Playboy Enterprises, but Hef continues to serve as the magazine’s editor-in-chief..
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With the first Centerfold, who just happened to be the radiant Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Hefner masterminded a cultural icon: Playboy's Playmate of the Month. Now, for the first time ever, Playboy has gathered together every Centerfold from every issue into one luxurious collector's edition. That's over 600 beauties. We've reproduced these Centerfolds exactly as they appeared in the magazine to create a full-size, deluxe volume. Paging through this colossal, chronological collection provides a breathtaking view of our evolving appreciation of the female form: from the fifties fantasy of voluptuous blondes to the tawny beach girls of the seventies to the groomed and toned women of today. Housed in a handsome leather briefcase lined with velvet, this impressive tome is the ultimate indulgence for every passionate collector.

Read Hugh M. Hefner's Foreword

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This candid analysis shows how boys are brought up to both depAnd on and yet fear the perceived power they think women hold over them and, most importantly, how this prevents true emotional intimacy between men and women. Learn from their inspiring and instructive stories..
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PAM ANDERSON centerfold, Eddie Murphy interview.
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Playmate of the Month ANNA NICOLE SMITH (As "Vickie Smith") photographed by Stephen Wayda. Interviews Michael Jordan by Mark Vancil. "The Joe (Heller) and Kurt (Vonnegut) Show" by Carole Mallory. Profile "The Worst Senator in America" (Alfonse M. D'Amato) by Joe Conason and Jack Newfield. 20 Questions John Leguizamo by Warren Kalbacker. Features "In The Company of Coyotes" by Elizabeth Royte "Playboy's 1992 Baseball Preview" by Kevin Cook. Elizabeth Ward Gracen (Miss America 1982) (cover and inside) photographed by Richard Fegley, photos by Byron Newman..
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