Jan Heemskerk [ed.] - Playboy Nr 1: Mei. De Nederlandse Playboy [Jerney Kaagman]

Jan Heemskerk [ed.] - Playboy Nr 1: Mei. De Nederlandse Playboy [Jerney Kaagman] - Haarlem - Uitgeverij Spaarnestad BV - 1983 - 1st edition - [134] pp - Stapled wrappers - 21 x 28 cm.

Condition: Good - NB without the Dutch flag wrap-around band.

First (actually third) Dutch issue of the well-known American nude magazine by Hugh Hefner (1926-2017) with his foreword. Illustrated with photos, reproductions and advertisements in colour and black and white. The cover got a red-white-blue wrap-around band.

In October and November 1982 the 'zero issue' and a second test copy appeared. This number one was the official debut of the nude magazine in the Netherlands and was launched in an edition of 135,000 copies. The first Dutch Playmate was Ellen Soeters (1956-), visible on the cover and photographed as centerfold by Wim Baggelaar.

¶ Cf. Hemels/Vegt II.B p. 884. The first issue of the first volume includes a nude photo session of Earth and Fire singer Jerney Kaagman (1947-) by Billie Glaser; a story by Walter van den Broeck ('Het Kruis', with illustration by Marcel Rozenberg); E.L. Doctorow on Orwell's 1984; Jef Rademakers about the Amsterdam sex club Yab Yum and 'Erotiek in de Nederlandse Film' part 1: 'Historisch overzicht'.