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The Bedside Playboy

Hugh M. Hefner

First published 1963
Publisher Playboy Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 511
Price $5.95

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Page Title Author(s) Type
9 Softly Walks the Beetle John Collier Short Story
21 A Fledgling of L'Amour Alexander King Essay
29 The Best of All Possible Worlds Ray Bradbury Short Story
38 The Pious Pornographers Ivor Williams Essay
55 The Story of Dumb Hanns Charles Whiting Short Story
57 Night Ride Charles Beaumont Short Story
74 How Not to Write a Best Seller Larry Siegel Short Story
77 Five-Card Poker and the Hell with It Max Shulman Essay
83 A Jackpot of Corpses Ben Hecht Essay
88 The Millionaire Mentality J. Paul Getty Essay
97 The Father and Son Cigar Nelson Algren Essay
113 Advice About Women Erskine Caldwell Short Story
123 A Cry from the Penthouse Henry Slesar Short Story
135 The Voyage of the Peanut Harvey Jacobs Short Story
155 Tune Every Heart and Every Voice Irwin Shaw Short Story
167 Dear Ann and Abby: Anonymous Short Fiction
176 The Perfect Alibi Mike McGrady & Joe Hickey Short Story
179 The Way of a Traveling Man J. A. Gato Short Story
181 Triplication Robert Sheckley Short Story
187 Americans Go Home Leslie A. Fiedler Essay
206 The Emancipated Man John Wallace Short Story
227 With All Due Respect Fred McMorrow Short Story
243 The Roger Price Theory of Nomenclature Roger Price (1918-1990) Short Fiction
250 Conversation with a Bug Jack Sharkey Short Story
255 Ode to a Housefly Ernie Kovacs Poem
256 The Book of Tony Ken W. Purdy Short Story
273 Hospitality Lesley Conger Short Story
276 Marcianna and the Natural Carpaine in Papaya Bernard Wolfe Novelette
301 Visiting Fireman Art Buchwald & Herb Caen Short Fiction
327 To Be Courteous to Women William Saroyan Short Story
334 Made by Hand Gregory Corso Poem
334 To Lindsay Allen Ginsberg Poem
335 To Harpo Marx Jack Kerouac Poem
337 Harpy T. K. Brown, III Novelette
363 Falconry: Who Needs It? P. G. Wodehouse Short Fiction
369 Sleepers, Awake! Herbert Gold Short Story
381 Rocket to the Renaissance Arthur C. Clarke Essay
395 Double Standard Fredric Brown Short Story
400 The Cuckold and the Cakes Anonymous Short Story
404 The Sensible Man Avram Davidson Short Story
409 Take Your Seats Ray Russell Short Story
412 No Such Thing As a Vampire Richard Matheson Short Story
421 O Debt, Where Is Thy Sting? Carlton Brown Short Fiction
429 The Murder of Edmund Grant Robert Cenedella Short Fiction
442 A Second Father Budd Schulberg Novelette
468 The Manipulators Vance Packard Essay
484 We're Running a Little Late Garson Kanin Novelette
vii Introduction (The Bedside Playboy) Hugh M. Hefner Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Bedside Playboy Cover 1966 Four Square Books Paperback Anthology 414
The Bedside Playboy Cover 1968 Playboy Press Paperback Anthology BC0114 603