Autographed Large-format hardcover book titled The Playboy Book: The Complete Pictorial History, commemorating forty years of Playboy. Features extensive photographic and editorial content covering Playboy from the 1950s through the 1990s. This copy is personally inscribed and signed by Hugh M. Hefner on the front endpaper, reading: “To Michael Roux, Five decades of memories, With Best Wishes, Hugh Hefner.”
Black hardcover with Playboy rabbit logo and Forty Years on the front cover. Illustrations and photography throughout. Includes original dust jacket. Condition shows general handling wear, scuffing, and surface marks to the cover and jacket consistent with age. Interior pages appear intact.
This item is in good pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface markings. Please reference all photos for full details.
Book: 12 1/4" x 9 1/2" x 1". Weight: 4.4 lbs.
This item is originally from the collection of liquor icon Michel Roux. One of Mr. Roux’s signature spirits at Crillon was absinthe, the anise-flavored spirit known for its popularity among 19th-century artists like van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. It was banned by the United States in 1912 amid concerns that wormwood, one of its ingredients, which contained thujone, caused hallucinations. In 2000, Mr. Roux introduced a legal absinthe, Absente, which used a sister botanical, Southern wormwood, with only trace amounts of thujone.
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