Playboy After Hours
October, 1961
For the delectation of those who have exhausted the entertainment value of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary and the Manhattan telephone directory, we'd like to suggest Books in Print, a stupefyingly exhaustive catalog of 225,000 currently published authors and titles, as a rich new source of light reading pleasure. On all counts—staggering weight (eight pounds), unwieldy dimensions (8-1/2 x 11), healthy cost ($17.50) and preposterous length (2050 pages)—this pleasingly plump tome qualifies as an...
