Playboy’s Silverstein Around the World

Displaying the wit and marvelous drawings that made Shel Silverstein one of the most beloved artists of the century, Playboy’s Silverstein Around the World collects and reproduces the twenty-three travel pieces Silverstein created for Playboy between 1957 and 1968. While children and adults alike know Shel Silverstein for his classic books The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, and Where the Sidewalk Ends, they may be less aware that Silverstein also created a dazzling series of illustrated comic travelogues published by Hugh M. Hefner in Playboy. Playboy’s Silverstein Around the World not only reproduces these fascinating articles in facsimile form, it also provides an introduction with never-before-seen photos and drawings and rare, illuminating biographical detail. Beginning in May 1957 with “Return to Tokyo,” the pieces reproduced in this book took Silverstein from Scandinavia to Africa and the Middle East, from Paris and London to Moscow, ending in the summer of 1968 with the two-part epic “Silverstein Among the Hippies.” This unique collection is a legacy of the close relationship between Silverstein and Hefner, who saw the great potential of this particular combination of artist and assignment, and the social revolution led by Playboy in the 1950s and 1960s. With its wry, ribald humor and beautifully produced color illustrations, this tableau of the mid-twentieth-century world is sure to please and fascinate Silverstein’s millions of fans.

Contents:
• Foreword By Hugh M. Hefner
• Introduction By Mitch Myers
• Return To Tokyo (May 1957)
• Silverstein In Scandinavia (July 1957)
• Silverstein In London (October 1957)
• Silverstein In Paris (January 1958)
• Silverstein In Moscow (March 1958)
• Silverstein In Italy (June 1958)
• Silverstein In Switzerland (November 1958)
• Silverstein In Spain (March 1959)
• Silverstein Fights A Bull (April 1959)
• Silverstein Among The Arabs (August 1959)
• Silverstein In Africa (October 1959)
• Silverstein In Greenwich Village (September 1960)
• Silverstein In Alaska (May 1961)
• Silverstein In Hawaii (June 1961)
• Silverstein Plays Ball (June 1962)
• Silverstein In Miami (March 1963)
• Silverstein In A Nudist Camp (August 1963)
• Silverstein In Mexico (March 1965)
• Silverstein On Fire Island (August 1965)
• Silverstein In London (June 1967)
• Silverstein In Hollywood (January 1968)
• Silverstein Among The Hippies (July 1968)
• More Silverstein Among The Hippies (August 1968)
• Acknowledgments