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Playboy Jan 1966 -Dec 1966.

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Jan 1966

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PLAYMATE: Judy Tyler

COVER: Patti Rynolds; Cover opens to two pages of framed centerfolds and rabbit playboy lounging.

PICTORIALS: Playmate review pictorial features all 12 Playmates from 1965 including Allison Parks, Pat Russo, Dinah Wills, Sally Duberson, Sue Williams, Jessica St. George; Pictorial Essay of the Playboy masion features great shots of the House of Hefner plus an interesting essay about Hef and his home.

INTERVIEW: Princess Grace (Kelly) of Monaco

FEATURES: An essay by W. Somerset Maugham, his credo and wisdom; Memoir by Jean-Paul Sartre: "The Parisians and the Germans"; J. Paul Getty discusses "Living With Automation"; Bennett Cerf weighs in with "A Luncheon At The Ritz"; fiction includes "The Last Act" by Roald Dahl, "The Man Child" by James Baldwin, and "Despair" by Vladimir Nabokov; cartoonists add the following features: "Did I" by Jules Feiffer, "Little Annie Fanny" by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder, "Sex In The Stone Age" by Richard Armour; a two page foldout on heavy cover stock features the Vargas Girl on one side and LeRoy Neiman's renderings of Manhattan on the other.

PAGES: 262

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Feb 1966

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PICTORIALS: 10 pages on the Girls of Rio; History of Sex In Cinema pictorial covers "The Thirties - Europe's Decade of Unbottoned Erotica" including Charles Laughton, Jane Seymour, Hedy Lamarr, and rare shots of early erotic films.

INTERVIEW: filmmaker Federico Fellini

FEATURES: Ribald Classic, "Madam Filippa's Defense," is adapted from Boccaccio's "Decameron"; Nat Hentoff presents Playboy's Jazz '66 with winners of the tenth annual poll and nice photos of Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Desmond, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, the Modern Jazz Quartet and others; full-page Vargas Girl; fiction: "A Valentine" by William Saroyan; Part III (of IV) of "Despair" by Vladimir Nabokov.

PAGES: 192

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Mar 1966

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PICTORIALS: ; Trio con Brio: Rosanna Podesta, Christiana Schmidtmer, Shirley Ann Field; uncovering Berkeley's Mondo Theater production "Revelations".

INTERVIEW: Bob Dylan

FEATURES: Panel discussion on Law Enforement with Melvin Belli, William Turner and other top cops; 8 pages of photos of planes, in "The Modern Planseman", including Hawker Sidley DH 125, Lockheed Jetstar, Lear Jet Model 23 and others; full-page Vargas Girl; fiction: Part IV (of V) of "Despair" by Vladimir Nabokov; Part one (of two) of Ian Fleming novelette, "Octopussy".

PAGES: 176

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April 1966

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PICTORIALS: The Playboy Cover Story, features 10 pages of the making of the world's most famous covers with Vargas, the Femlin, the Playboy Rabbit, Donna Michelle, Cynthia Maddox, and others, plus over 40 covers; The History of Sex in Cinema Part Eight: Sex Star of the '40s features Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh, Mae West, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Lamour, Lana Turner, Betty Grable, and two outstanding pages of Jean Harlow.

INTERVIEW: Head of the American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell

FEATURES: Fiction: Part Two (of two) of Ian Fleming novelette, "Octopussy"; and "Marriage, Food, Money, Children, Ice Skating" by Herbert Gold; Part V (of V) of "Despair" by Vladimir Nabokov; Tom Wolfe, Ramsey Lewis and Michael Caine in "On The Scene"; full-page Vargas Girl.

PAGES: 224

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May 1966

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PICTORIALS: PMOY Allison Parks; Pictorial of Playmate Jo Collins on a good-will trip to Vietnam.

INTERVIEW: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

FEATURES: Part 25 of the Playboy Philosophy by Hugh Hefner; Woody Allen is the model in article on cameras and photo gear; two-page Vargas Girl; Little Annie Fanny meets TV execs.

PAGES: 230

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June 1966

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PICTORIALS: 12-page pictorial on the Girls of Texas

INTERVIEW: Mike Nichols

FEATURES: full page Vargas Girl; fiction: "The Light Of Darkness" by Arthur C. Clarke and My Father and His Gangsters" by Herbert Gold; extensive section on Humphrey Bogart including "The Man and The Myth" by Kenneth Tynan and "The Career and the Cult" by Bosley Crowther; A Bogart Quiz, and a Bogart Filmography and bibliography; Jimmy Breslin lights up with "Marvin The Torch"; cartoonist John Dempsey presents 4 pages of nudists.

PAGES: 200

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July 1966

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COVER: Patti Reynolds, Penny James, Joann Russell, Barbara Shaw, Joey Thorpe

PICTORIALS: 5-page pictorial of Sean Connery with Sue Ane Langdon and Jean Seberg from the movie "A Fine Madness"; 8-page Ursula Andress pictorial with stills from :The Blue Max" with Geogre Peppard, "What's New Pussycat," The Tenth Victim," and "Up to His Ears".

INTERVIEW: Ralph Ginzburg

FEATURES: Parody of Secret Agent Oy Oy 7, Israel Bond - "On The Secret Service of His Majesty The Queen" (Part 1 of 2) by Sol Weinstein; 4 pages of paintings by Leroy Neiman at The Royal Ascot horse races; fiction by Ray Russell, "The Better Man"; William Saroyan, "Don't Laugh Unless It's Funny"; Max Lerner with "Red China, The U.S. and the U.N."; "Gyps That Pass In The Night" by J. Paul Getty; exceptional 2-page Vargas Girl as Batwoman; Ford's DT40 race car; Little Annie Fanny gets cuaght under the robes of the KKK.

PAGES: 170

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Aug 1966

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PICTORIALS: 6-page Jane Fonda pictorial from French films "La Curee" and Roger Vadim's "Circle of Love"; 10-page pictorial on the Bunnies of Dixie, including Playmates Jan Roberts, Carrie Radison and others; The History of Sex in Cinema Part Nine: The Forties - War and Peace in Hollywood, features Lana Turner, John Wayne, Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Dorothy Lamour, Veronica Lake, Betty Grable, Jane Russell, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth and others, plus the bare-breasted centaurs from Disney's "Fantasia" that were cut from the film.

INTERVIEW: H.L. Hunt

FEATURES: Rare fiction by Gahan Wilson, "The Manuscript of Doctor Arness"; Herbert Gold, "My Father, His father and Ben"; Woody Allen explains "The Discovery and Use of the Fake Ink Blot"; Parody of Secret Agent Oy Oy 7, Israel Bond - "On The Secret Service of His Majesty The Queen" (Part 2 of 2) by Sol Weinstein.

PAGES: 180

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Sept 1966

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PICTORIALS: Topless clubs on the West Coast, featuring Carol Doda at the Condor Club and Yvonne D' Angers at San Francisco's Off Broadway club; History of Sex In Cinema Part Ten: The Forties - War and Peace in Europe features continental stars Anna Magnani, Silvan Mangano, Simone Signoret, Daniele Delorme, Martine Carol and others; brief pictorial of actress Jocelyn Lane;

INTERVIEW: Timothy Leary

FEATURES: 2-page Vargas Girl; Playboy's pre-season college football All-American team photo includes standouts Ray Perkins (Alabama), Floyd Little (Syracuse), Bob Griese (Purdue), Diron Talbert (Texas) and Bear Bryant as head coach; fiction by Lawrence Durell, "All To Scale"; Nat Hentoff reports on "The Cold Society"; a two page LeRoy Neiman painting of America's Cup yatchs; Little Annie Fanny visits a convention.

PAGES: 286

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Oct 1966

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PICTORIALS: 6-page Ann-Margret pictorial from film "The Swinger"; The Bawdy Bard pictorial features erotic scenes set to Shakespeare's famous lines; History of Sex In Cinema Part Eleven features Sex Stars of the 40s, including Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Esther Williams, Veronica Lake, Jane Russell, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Errol Flynn, Robert tMitchum, Lana Turner, Gene Tierney, Ingrid Bergman and others.

INTERVIEW: Mel Brooks

FEATURES: Fiction by Ray Bradbury, "The Man in the Rorschach Shirt"; P. G. Wodehouse, "First Aid For Freddie"; full-page Vargas Girl; Little Annie fanny makes the music scene.

PAGES: 228

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Nov 1966

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PICTORIALS: 10-page pictorial of see-through and micro women's fashions; Pictorial of Montgomery Clift's last film, "The Defector" with actresses Ingrid Weber, Francisca Gedzek, Uta Levika; History of Sex In Cinema Part Twelve: The Fifties- Hollywood Grows Up, features Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Carroll Baker, Deborah Kerr, Gloria Swanson, James Dean, Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Ava Gardner, and others.

INTERVIEW: Norman Thomas

FEATURES: Fiction by Herbert Gold, "The Ancient Company"; Ray Russell, "A Most Miraculous Organ"; William Saroyan, "The Swimmers"; J. Paul Getty ponders "How I Would Start Again Today"; Nat Hentoff profiles the Supreme Court; Cartoonist John Dempsey presents "The Honeymoon"; full-page Vargas Girl.

PAGES: 254

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Dec 1966

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Playboy Jan 1967 -Dec 1967.

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Please note that despite the very tame contents of this magazine that you still must be over 18 years of age to order copies.

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Jan 1967

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PLAYMATE: Surrey Marshe  COVER: Judy Tyler, Melinda Windsor, Dianne Chandler

PICTORIALS: Playmate Review pictorial features playmates of 1966, including Tish Howard, Dolly Read, Linda Moon, Susan Denberg, Lisa Baker, Melinda Windsor and others; pictorial: The Playmate as Fine Art features renderings of playmates by contemporary artists including Salvador Dali, Roy Schnackenberg, George Segal, Frank Gallo, Alfred Leslie and others; History of Sex In Cinema Part XIV: Sex Stars of the Fifties features 13 pages of Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Diana Dors, Arlene Dahl, Anita Ekberg and many others.

INTERVIEW: Fidel Castro

FEATURES: Five artiles on Lenny Bruce: "Lenny on Life and Death" by Lenny Bruce, "The Last Show" by Dick Schaap, "Who Be Kind To" by Allen Ginsberg, "Memoriam" by Reverend Howard Moody, and a collection of tributes by Phil Spector, Jules Feiffer, Paul Krassner, Hugh Hefner, Newsweek, and others; fiction by Ray Bradbury, "The Lost City Of Mars"; Isaac Bashevis Singer, "The Riddle"; P. G. Wodehouse, "George and Alfred"; Len Deighton, "An Expensive Place to Die", (Part 2 of 4); two page foldout Vargas Girl on heavy cover stock with LeRoy Neiman painting of NY Disco on opposite side; Jules Feiffer's Hostileman returns in a six-page color cartoon; Little Annie Fanny becomes a superhero.

PAGES: 272

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Feb 1967

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PICTORIALS: 13-page pictorial "The Girls of Casino Royale" with text by Woody Allen, features Joanna Petit, Ursula Andress, Fiona Lewis, Barbara Bouchet, Dolly Read, Daliah Lavi and other beauties from the 007 spoof;

INTERVIEW: "Rush To Judgment" author Mark Lane

FEATURES: Fiction by Len Deighton, "An Expensive Place to Die", (Part 3 of 4); Irwin Shaw, "Where All Things Wise and Fair Descend"; articles include "Where Are the Russians" by John Bentley; "Quitting Time" by J.. Paul Getty; Nat Hentoff covers Jazz '67, with Duke elington, Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie being inducted into the Hall of Fame; full page Vargas Girl.

PAGES: 198

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Mar 1967

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PICTORIALS: 4-page pictorial of actress Sharon Tate, shot by Roman Polanski; 10-page pictorial on the Bunnies of Missouri.

INTERVIEW: Orson Welles

FEATURES: Fiction by Len Deighton, "An Expensive Place to Die", (Part 4 of 4); Ray Russell, "Comet Wine"; Vance Packard reviews "Executive Salaries"; Marvin Kitman plots to control American business in "The First National Fiduciary Im[perialist Trust Syndicate Cartel Pool Combine"; Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee of "The Avengers" TV show in On the Scene segment; page 2 Smirnoff Vodka ad features Zsa Zsa Gabor; full page Vargas Girl.

PAGES: 190

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April 1967

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PICTORIALS: Seven-page pictorial Playmate Play-off with PMOY finalists Lisa Baker, Tish Howard and Susan Denberg; History of Sex in Cinema Part XV: Experimental Films, focuses on underground, off-beat and foreign films from the twenties through the fifties, including films by Salvador Dali, Kenneth Anger, Hans Richter, Peter Weiss, Andy Warhol and others.

INTERVIEW: Arnold Toynbee

FEATURES: Four pages of "Satyrs & Nymphs" by Playboy contributing cartoonist Eldon Dedini; three articles on how to abolish the personal income tax by Pete Hamill, Jack Anderson and Bishop James Pike; Jules Feiffer opines, "Loathe Thy Neighbor"; full page Vargas Girl.

PAGES: 214

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May 1967

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PICTORIALS: 8-page pictorial of Italian actress Sylva Koscina;

INTERVIEW: Woody Allen

FEATURES: Fiction by regular cartoonist Gahan Wilson, "The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be"; John D. MacDonald, "Quarrel"; Rafael Steinberg, "Day of Good Fortune"; article on the CIA, by US Senator Stephen Young; article on Grand Prix racing (with six pages of exceptional photos by Horst H. Baumann) by Ken W. Purdy; full-page Vargas Girl; Lucius Beebe recall the days of dining cars in "The Golden Age of Mobile Gastronomy"; Little Annie Fanny visits Las Vegas.

PAGES: 206

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June 1967

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PICTORIALS: 6-page pictorial on the Oriental Beauties of the James Bond film, "You Only Live Twice", including Mie Hama, Hisako Katakura, Yuka Minami, Yumi Fujiwara, Akiko Wakabayashi and others (Text by Roald Dahl); History of Sex in Cinema, Part XVI: The Nudies, features burlesque and nudie films including "The Immoral Mr. Teas", "Paradisio", "Eve and the Handyman", "Once Upo A Knight", "Mondo Freudo", and others, featuring work of Russ Meyer, and photos of Meg Myles, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Lorna Maitland, Lili St. Cyr, Candy Barr and others.

INTERVIEW: None

FEATURES: Panel discussion on "Religion and the New Morality" with Dr. Harvey Cox, Dr. James Luther Adams; Rev. Howard Moody, Rabbi Richard Rubenstein, Rev. James Pike and others; Dan Greenburg and James Ransom present "A Snob's Guide to Magazines"; "Business Is Business", by J. Paul Getty; one of America's great horse players advises in "Horse Sense" by Ernest Havemann; fiction by Herbert Gold, "Peacock Dreams"; Hoke Norris, ""It's Not Far, But I Don't Know The Way"; full page Vargas Girl; sketches and notes by Shel Silverstein in London.

PAGES: 222

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July 1967

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PICTORIALS: 12-page pictorial of the Girls of Paris

INTERVIEW: Michael Caine

FEATURES: Fiction by Evan Hunter, "A Horse's Head" (part 1 of 2); P.G. Wodehouse, ""Ukridge Starts A Bank Account"; Henry Slesar, "The Prisioner"; four pages of surfing paintings by LeRoy Neiman; full-page Vargas Girl.

PAGES: 178

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Aug 1967

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PICTORIALS: Lisa Baker PMOY; Sherry Jackson (played Danny Thomas' daughter on Make Room for Daddy.) now all grown up.

INTERVIEW: F. Lee Bailey

FEATURES: The GTby Ken W. Purdy, highlights the super Gran Turismo autos including the Toyota 2000, Iso Grifo, Maserati Ghibli, Lamborghini Miura, Ferrari 330 GTC, Lotus Europa and others; fiction by Gerald Green, The Dispatcher,Evan Hunter, A Horse's Head,and G. L. Tassone, Room 312; article by Jacob Brackman, The Undergound Press; 2 page Vargas Girl; Little Annie Fanny in Paris.

PAGES: 178

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Sept 1967

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PICTORIALS: Mara Sykes, member of the Sexual Freedom League; Susan Strasberg and Peter Fonda in clips from the film,The Trip;

INTERVIEW: NY City Mayor John LindsayFEATURES: Football greats Warren McVea, Gary Beban, Larry Csonka, Ron Yary, Leroy Keyes, Ted Hendricks, Dennis Byrd and others in Pigskin Preview All-America Team photos; fiction by Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Courtship; article by Nat Hentoff, Youth - The Oppressed Majority; Double or Nothing full page Vargas twins; Little Annie Fanny gets some college kicks with friend Ralphie.

PAGES: 262

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Oct 1967

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PICTORIALS: The Foxfeatures Sandy Dennis and Anne Heywood in the making of film by the same name, adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's evocative book; The New Wave Makersfeatures nudity and scenes from hippie Haight Ashbury district with text by Herbert Gold.

INTERVIEW: Jim Garrison

FEATURES: Fiction by Ray Russell, Ripplesand Harlan Ellison and Haskell Barkin, Would You Do It For A Penny; Memoir by Norman Mailer, The Crazy One; articles include: Computers - Their Built-In Limitationsby Max Gunther, Computers - Their Scope Todayby Ernest Havemann and the 1968 Playboy Jazz and Pop Poll; 2-page Vargas Girl, Trick or Treat?.

PAGES: 216

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Nov 1967

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PICTORIALS: Playboy's Charter Yacht Partyfeatures a lavish on-the-ocean party with four luscious playmates; History of Sex In Cinema, Part Seventeen, the Stag Filmfeatures scenes from classics "Masked Rape", "Busty". "The Pick Up", and Candy Barr in "Smart Alec."

INTERVIEW: Michelangelo Antonioni

FEATURES: Fiction by Evan Hunter, The Sharers,Frederik Pohl, Speed Trapand Ken w. Purdy, Long way Up, Short Way Down; article by J. Paul Getty, Familiarity Can Breed Contempt; Woddy Allen presents My Family Photo Albumfeaturing sepia-toned photos of Wody's "family" and plenty of bare-chested ladies; four pages of LeRoy Neiman paintings from the Nation Horse Show; full-page Vargas Girl; George Plimpton, David Wolper and Lou Rawls in "On the Scene" segment.

PAGES: 238

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Dec 1967

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PLAYMATE: Lynn Winchell  COVER: Sharon Kristie

PICTORIALS: Art Nouveau Eroticafeatures drawings of artists Aubrey Beardsley, Norman Lindsay, Gustav Klimt, Franz von Bayros and Franz Christophe; Frank Bez photographs The Wicked Dreams of Elke Sommer; The Bunnies of Hollywoodfeatures Playmates Heidi Becker, Pat Wright, Astrid Schulz, Nancy Scott, and a stunning full page photo of Gwen Wong, among others.

INTERVIEW: Johnny Carson

FEATURES: Fiction by Irwin Shaw, The Mannechon Solution,P. G. Wodehouse, A Good Cigar Is A Smokeand Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Lecture; three short plays by Terry Southern, Arthur Koppi and Jack Richardson; articles by John Bartlow Martin, The Criminal Mentality, Robert Graves, The Criminal Mentalityand Justice William O. Douglas, The Attack On Privacy; Walter Matthau in "On The Scene" segment; two-page Vargas Girl; Little Annie Fanny goes undercover with James Bomb.

PAGES: 320

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