Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you've ever experienced. You're about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men's magazines-not magazines about sports, not fashion, not hunting or fishing or how to build a birdhouse in ten easy steps, but those titillating periodicals embracing the subject dearest to all heterosexual men's hearts and other body parts: the undraped female form. Editor Dian Hanson traces the fascinating development of ...
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Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you've ever experienced. You're about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men's magazines-not magazines about sports, not fashion, not hunting or fishing or how to build a birdhouse in ten easy steps, but those titillating periodicals embracing the subject dearest to all heterosexual men's hearts and other body parts: the undraped female form. Editor Dian Hanson traces the fascinating development of the genre from 1900 to 1969 in three compact, informative volumes. In Volume 1 you'll learn about the first magazines that appeared around 1900 in France, Germany, and the U.S., and follow the development of the genre through the First and Second World Wars. Covered are men's magazines masquerading as movie magazines, humor magazines, art magazines, nudist magazines, and "spicy" fiction. Volume 2 documents the proliferation of pin-up magazines following the Second World War, most notably a little item called Playboy that debuted in December 1953 and spawned dozens of imitators. This volume also charts the emergence of English men's magazines, fetish magazines, and the top five covergirls of the 1950s. Volume 3 begins with an explosion of new American pin-up magazines following the loosening of U.S. obscenity laws, and continues with French titles in decline, England going pervy, nudists going hippy, and Germany going pervy, hippy, and political.
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Seller's Description:
As New in Not Issued jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7æ-9æ" tall. Hardcovers, three volume set bound in bold pictorial paper covered boards and housed in original publisher's similarly illustrated cardboard slipcase. Vol. I: From 1900 to Post WWII; Vol. II: From Post-War to 1959; Vol. III: 1960's at the Newsstand. Text in English, German and French. Over 800 pages in three volumes. Illustrated throughout with erotic drawings and photographs, nearly all in full color. First edition thus. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and apparently unread set. As new in an as new slipcase. No International shipping. Priority domestic shipping will require additional postage.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 7.25" x 9.25" Like new in slipcase and in original shrinkwrap. Over 800 pages in three volumes. Volume 1, from 1900 to post-WWII; Volume 2, from post-WWII to 1959; Volume 3, 1960s to the newsstand. Text in English, German & French. Inquiries welcome.