Where can I get appraised, and perhaps sell, a complete Playboy collection?

Rare Books, there's a place hear called "1/4 Price Books", riffing on the Chain "Half Price" but really he's a antiquity vendor.
See the listing in Houston?

 

3 or 4 years ago, number one signed by H Hefner sold for more than 80.000 $
mag was in new condition

 

Can anyone explain what this has to do with Ferrari? Maybe check with your local pawn shop!

 

Maybe move to the Business and Investments forum?

 

Well the forum title does not specify Ferrari or even general automotive "collectables [sic] literature and models"...... .......

 

In an introduction to Volume 1, Number 1, it clearly states that Playboy not ‘a family magazine’. In a throwback to more chauvinistic times the introduction carries on: ‘If you’re somebody’s sister, wife or mother-in-law and picked us up by mistake, please pass us along to the man in your life and get back to your Ladies Home Companion.’ The landmark magazine is set expected to fetch just over £1800 when it is auctioned on Thursday April 30. Laura Yntema, the auctions manager at Nate D. Sanders in Los Angeles, USA, said: “Only about 54,000 copies of the first issue Playboy were printed because Hugh Hefner didn’t know if it would be successful and if there would be another issue. ‘But it sold out almost immediately. ‘This was mostly because of Marilyn, but also because the market didn’t have anything like it at the time. ‘So these first issue copies are quite rare, because so few of them were printed and also, no one expected how popular Playboy would become.’ Unsurprisingly for a magazine almost 62 years old, there is some surface abrasion but the rest is in an overall in very good condition.


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A lot Check this one out:/https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/ferrari-on-cover-of-playboy-in-1978.587461/
And who knows how often there is a Ferrari pictured in Playboy magazine over the years.

 

It's certainly rare to have the full set, (must have lived in one spot a LONG time) although in Estate Sales it's common for me to find many consecutive years.
So, to be 18 in December of 1953, how old would one be?

And how old now.....hhmmmm..calculator gives 84.

I ran across one with Karissa Fare the other day, (think it was end of year Playmate recap 1990) you would have to know her real name, to find her involvement in a mass murder....by 1993 she was facing serious charges....Elvin Bishop's daughter, and four others. Not only dead, but sawed to pieces and stuffed in duffle bags.....ugh.

In an old Galveston home (attic) I once found that vintage "skin mags", they had names like "Health and Sunshine".
Became a 'code word' between me and the ex.....

Surely drilling deeper, you can find a recent sale of a full set, after Hef's passing???

 

Cavallino magazine Full Sets are in our Ads for $4 each, go with that!


No cherry picking allowed (I know, I know.....)

Google found it, in 2016, a full set as yours was offered at $34,999.00
As a cached ad, it's hard to confirm if a deal was ...ahem....consummated......



There's an article on the "Most Valuable 10" also.
Good reading.

 

Playboy has become a bit of a dinosaur now.
Since the popularity of the internet, the magazine is struggling to stay relevant.
I haven't seen one on a newsstand for years.