Item #5501 [Signed by Keiichi Tanaami] Weekly Playboy Magazine, no. 5, March 1968. Keiichi Tanaami.
[Signed by Keiichi Tanaami] Weekly Playboy Magazine, no. 5, March 1968

[Signed by Keiichi Tanaami] Weekly Playboy Magazine, no. 5, March 1968

Tokyo: Sheuisha, 1968. 184pp. Very good, some loss to spine and bumping to wraps, inside pages clean. Signed by artist Keiichi Tanaami on a fold-out Beatles poster. Item #5501

Japanese men’s culture magazine, unaffiliated with the American Playboy Magazine. [Japan’s Monthly Playboy was the official Playboy counterpart]. Includes black and white and color printing, comics, stories, music, fashion spreads, and nude photographs. This issue is heavily influenced by hippie culture, with a photo spread of hippie body painting, back to school photo spread with psychedelic fashions, and more. Japanese language text, with innovative printing methods - text and photographs on newsprint, color photographic pages, fold-out poster and photo pages, mini booklets within the magazine, and incredible 1960’s graphic design. Includes poster designed and signed by Keiichi Tanaami, acclaimed artist and graphic designer.

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