Contents Lists

Playboy [v22 # 4, April 1975] ($1.25, 226pp+, quarto) [WGC] 84 · Lady Spain · Herbert Gold · ss 103 · Bockman · Jordan Crittenden · ss 145 · No Fear of Flying · Nicholas Gabyev, retold by · vi; from Russkiya zavetniya skazki.
Playboy [v22 # 5, May 1975] ($1.25, quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 84 · The Spoils of Buenavista · Oakley Hall · ss 118 · Australia and Canada · John Updike · ss 128 · Going Home · Julius Horwitz · ss 147 · Clark Ghent’s School Days · Robert S. Wieder · hu
Playboy [v22 # 6, June 1975] ($1.25, quarto) Information from EBAY auction. · Blue Dog Mobile on Augusport Hill · Peter Lars Sandberg · ss · Never Beat a Full House · William Kuhns · ss · The Stain That May or May Not Have Been Guacamole · Jordan Crittenden · ss
Playboy [v22 # 7, July 1975] ($1.25, quarto) Information from EBAY auction. · Johnny Guts · Gerald Green · nv · Dunlup Crashes In · Larry McMurtry · ss
Playboy [v22 # 8, August 1975] ($1.25, quarto) [TM] · Playboy Interview: Philip Agee · Misc. Material · iv · A Kafka Story, But It’s True · John Marks · ar · The CIA’s Quiet Little War in Laos · Fred Branfman · ar · The CIA Scalpel Cut Deep · Kenneth Barton Osborn · ar · Vengeance Under the Law · Peter Schrag · ar · The Girl from Playboy · Kim Komar · pi · Dr. Bell’s Monster · Craig Karpel · ar · Love For Rent · Donn Pearce · ar · Always Home · David Ely · ss · Scandinavian Modern · Lillian Muller · pi · Bech Third-Worlds It · John Updike · ss · The Ices Age · Emanuel Greenberg · ar · Playboy’s Pro Football Preview · Anson Mount · ar · Head Raider · Wells Twombly · ar · Loose Living · Robert L. Green · ar · B-Tower West Wall · Peter Lars Sandberg · ss · The Vargas Girl · Alberto Vargas · pi · The Four Wishes of Saint Martin · Anon. · vi · Little Annie Fanny · Harvey Kurtzman & Will Elder · cs
Playboy [v22 # 9, September 1975] ($1.25, quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 80 · Flashman in the Great Game [Part 1 of 3] · George MacDonald Fraser · sl 97 · And Don’t Forget the One Red Rose · Avram Davidson · ss
Playboy [v22 #10, October 1975] ($1.25, quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 97 · Flashman in the Great Game [Part 2 of 3] · George MacDonald Fraser · sl 145 · A Message from Home · Danny Santiago · ss
Playboy [November 1975] (quarto) Information from EBAY auction. 96 · Flashman in the Great Game [Part 3 of 3] · George MacDonald Fraser · sl 125 · Been Going Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me · James Petersen · ss 148 · Dengué Fever · Paul Theroux · ss
Playboy [v22 #12, December 1975] ($1.75, quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 102 · Time Is Money · Lee Falk · ss 111 · Skin Flick · Evan Hunter · ss 124 · Playboy’s Christmas Cards · Judith Wax · pm 204 · The Shepherd · Frederick Forsyth · ex
Playboy [v23 # 1, January 1976] (quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 81 · The Doorbell · Vladimir Nabokov · ss 150 · Falconer · John Cheever · ss 177 · Tooth · C. E. Poverman · ss
Playboy [v23 # 2, February 1976] (quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 64 · The True American · Melvin Van Peebles · ss 111 · God and the Cobbler · R. K. Narayan · ss
Playboy [v23 # 3, March 1976] (quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 114 · The Autumn Dog · Paul Theroux · ss 134 · The Golden Whatever · Jordan Crittenden · ss
Playboy [v23 # 4, April 1976] (quarto) Information from EBAY auction. · The West End Horror [Part 1 of 2; Sherlock Holmes] · Nicholas Meyer · sl
Playboy [v23 # 5, May 1976] ($1.25, 222pp+, quarto) [WGC] 103 · Goldilocks and the Three Beers · Danny Santiago · ss 116 · The West End Horror [Part 2 of 2; Sherlock Holmes] · Nicholas Meyer · sl 139 · The Hanged Man Watching · Pietro Aretino · vi; from I Ragionamenti, Venice 1536.
Playboy [v23 # 6, June 1976] (quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 88 · Jenny and the Ball-Turret Gunner · John Irving · ss
Playboy [v23 # 7, July 1976] (quarto) Information from EBAY auction. · Last One Out · David Ely · ss · A Feast of Snakes · Harry Crews · ss
Playboy [v23 # 8, August 1976] (quarto) Information from EBAY auction. · The Makeup Man · William Harrison · ss · The Great American Lay · Laurence Gonzales · hu
Playboy [v23 # 9, September 1976] ($1.50, 214pp+, quarto) [WGC] 90 · Slapstick or Lonesome No More! · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ex 135 · The Devil and the Peasant Wife · Florence Clowes, retold by · vi; from a traditional Polish tale. (the illustration for this can be ironed on to a t-shirt)
Playboy [v23 #10, October 1976] ($1.50, 234pp+, quarto) [WGC] 88 · Roots - The Mixing of the Blood · Alex Haley · ex 96 · The Bric-a-Brac Man [Part 1 of 2] · Russell H. Greenan · sl 105 · Blue Skies, No Candy · Gael Green · ss 145 · The Family Jewels · Giambattista Basile & John G. Dickson, retold by · vi; from Il Pentamerone, 1637.
Playboy [v23 #11, November 1976] ($1.50, 258pp+, quarto) [WGC] 110 · The Bric-a-Brac Man [Part 2 of 2] · Russell H. Greenan · sl 157 · Definitions · Captain Grose · ms; from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London.
Playboy [v23 #12, December 1976] (quarto) Information from EBAY auction. · Trial of the Warlock · Norman Mailer · nv · What Is Life? · Robert Sheckley · ss
Playboy [v24 # 1, January 1977] (quarto) no fiction.
Playboy [v24 # 2, February 1977] (quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 76 · The Trolls of God · James Powell · ss 115 · Garp’s Night Out · John Irving · ss
Playboy [v24 # 3, March 1977] (quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 114 · Set of Two: _ · Loser Wins · Paul Theroux · ss _ · The Tennis Court · Paul Theroux · ss
Playboy [v24 # 4, April 1977] (quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 114 · Voyages of a Mile-High Fille de Joie · Judith Johnson Sherwin · ss
Playboy [v24 # 5, May 1977] (quarto) from TOC, fiction only.

97 · The Other · Jorge Luis Borges; trans. by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss
112 · Oral History · Nadine Gordimer · ss A Soldier’s Embrace, Viking Penguin, 1975
131 · Silversmith Wishes · Robert Sheckley · ss
Playboy [v24 # 6, June 1977] (quarto) from TOC, fiction only. [DKL] 111 · So Long, Old Buddy · Robert F. Young · ss 136 · Bernstein in Mexico · Gerald Green · ss
Playboy [v24 # 7, July 1977] (quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 90 · Adulterer’s Luck · Paul Theroux · ss 106 · Manhattan Pit Stop · Stroker Ace · ss
Playboy [v24 # 8, August 1977] ($1.50, 210pp, quarto) [WGC] 74 · The Honourable Schoolboy [George Smiley] · John le Carré · ex 137 · Pussy’s in the Well · Pietro Aretino & Carlo Matteo, retold by · vi; from I Ragionamenti, Venice 1534.
Playboy [v24 # 9, September 1977] (quarto) from TOC, fiction only. 109 · A Moon in June · Loyd Little · ss 150 · Beggarman, Thief [Part 1 of 2] · Irwin Shaw · sl
Playboy [v24 #10, October 1977] ($1.50, 278pp, quarto) [WGC] 110 · Beggarman, Thief [Part 2 of 2] · Irwin Shaw · sl 175 · Riddles and Night Secrets · Giovanni Francesco Straparola & John G. Dickson, retold by · pm; from Le Piacevola Notti, 1550.
Playboy [v24 #11, November 1977] ($1.75, 282pp, quarto) [WGC] 130 · In the National Interest · Marvin Kalb & Ted Koppel · ex 179 · Italian Tales · Poggio Bracciolini & Carlo Matteo, retold by · vi; from the Facetiae of Poggio Bracciolini, 1450.
Playboy [v24 #12, December 1977] ($2.25, 374pp, quarto) [WGC] 77 · Buck Rogers and I · Ray Russell · ar 138 · Abhorrent Green Slippery City · Bernard Malamud · ss 145 · Star Spats · Laurence Gonzales · hu 146 · Whoooooosh, When Rocket Ships Were Really a Blast · Kerig Pope & Ron Villani · pi; includes a punch-out Do-It-Yourself Rocket Ship. 174 · The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol · Philip José Farmer · ss 246 · Tomeu and His Daughters · Richard Willis · vi; from the Mallorquin tale Enginy d’un qui havia feta donació.
Playboy [v25 # 1, January 1978] ($2.25, 294pp, quarto) [WGC] 170 · Full Many a Flower · Irwin Shaw · ss 192 · Doctor Fastest · Erich Segal · ss 198 · The Czar’s Cadets at Peterhof · Mikhail Lermontov; trans. by Walter Arndt · vi
Playboy [v25 # 2, February 1978] ($2.00, 212pp, quarto) [WGC] 88 · The Human Factor · Graham Greene · ex 143 · There’s Room for Two · Marquis de Sade & Steven Raichlen, retold by · vi
Playboy [v25 # 3, March 1978] ($2.00, 250pp, quarto) Information from EBAY auction. · Kalki [Part 1 of ?] · Gore Vidal · sl 153 · The Black Cat · A. J. MacPherson, retold by · vi; from Gazette Anecdotique du Règne de Louis XVI.
Playboy [v25 # 4, April 1978] ($2.00, quarto) Information from EBAY auction. · A Born Again Hustler · Art Buchwald · ss · Kalki [Part 2 of ?] · Gore Vidal · sl
Playboy [v25 # 5, May 1978] ($2.00, 262pp+, quarto) [WGC] 111 · The Darkwater Hall Mystery · Kingsley Amis · ss 118 · The Faint · John Updike · ss 165 · Boss’s Wife · Anon. · pm; a 19th century Australian bush ballad.
Playboy [v25 # 6, June 1978] ($2.00, 282pp+, quarto) [WGC] 146 · A Party in Miami Beach · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss 168 · Hokey Pokey · Daniel Curley · ss 181 · Under the Beard · Vladimir Sanin · vi; from Severnye Skazki, 1909.
Playboy [v25 # 7, July 1978] ($2.00, 244pp+, quarto) [WGC]

94 · Galahad · Walter L. Lowe, Jr. · ss
102 · The Accompanist · V. S. Pritchett · ss Winter’s Tales 24, ed. A. D. Maclean, St. Martin’s, 1978
163 · The Magic Staff · retold by Bonnie & Jack Carey · vi; a Latvian folk tale.
Playboy [v25 # 8, August 1978] ($2.00, 242pp+, quarto) [WGC] 92 · The Death Freak · John Luckless · ex 149 · Ambassador at Large · Anon. · pm; attributed to Captain Morris, author of Songs Drinking, Political and Facetious, circa 1790.
Playboy [v25 # 9, September 1978] (quarto) Information from EBAY auction. · Arthur Rex · Thomas Berger · ss · Sex and the Triple Znar-Fichi · Arthur Rosch · ss
Playboy [v25 #10, October 1978] ($2.00, 290pp+, quarto) [WGC] 114 · Falling Angel [Part 1 of 2] · William Hjortsberg · sl 173 · A Tale of Sileny Cunning · Matteo Bandello & Kenneth Marcuse, retold by · vi; from Certain Tragicall Discourses, 1567.
Playboy [v25 #11, November 1978] ($2.00, 314pp+, quarto) [WGC] 124 · Perfect Match · Barbara Rochelle · ss 168 · Falling Angel [Part 2 of 2] · William Hjortsberg · sl 193 · The Wife Who Came Back · Jack O’Donnell, retold by · vi; from a Siamese folk tale.
Playboy [v25 #12, December 1978] ($2.50, 392pp+, quarto) [WGC] 136 · The Flounder · Günter Grass · ss 235 · Switching · Trevanian · ss 254 · The Case of the Missing Jewel · Jascha Kessler & Kuchik Ebdal · vi; from the Persian Riyadh al-Hikayet, 17th century.

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