The Male Swinger · No. 11
NPC’s The Male Swinger No. 11 cost $5, called itself the “World’s Largest Male List,” and filled its pages with real men writing in by code number.
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Vintage is final sale. Every mark we mention is in the photos.
Condition report
Good. A solid copy of the personals-era Swinger with warm period color, some rubbing along the right edge and one old red pen circle inside. Every mark is in the photos.
Flaws notedCover wear, Writing, stamps, or labels
PagesNot fully verified
The story
The Male Swinger No. 11 opens on a man losing his jeans beside a yellow sofa, and the cover makes the real pitch along the bottom: "Personals," "World's Largest Male List." Inside, the ads are filed by code and sorted by place, from Albuquerque and Albany to Amagansett and Wilkes-Barre. A Princeton college student, 21, wants to meet other guys. A Pittsburgh chubby chaser says only heavy-set chubbies need apply, and a Scranton model, 21, will "pose free for any type of photos or movies."
Plenty of the advertisers sent their own snapshots, so the black-and-white pages fill up with a hairy chest, a pair of horn-rims and a man posing against a brick wall, each one tagged with his code. Between the lists the color sets go full tilt on a gold sheet and striped pillows. On this copy an earlier reader circled the Scranton ad in pink ink.
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Why it matters
It's a working personals book with the advertisers' own photos printed beside their ads, and this copy still carries a previous owner's pink-ink circle around one of them.
The copy in hand
What we checked before listing it.
Good. A solid copy of the personals-era Swinger with warm period color, some rubbing along the right edge and one old red pen circle inside. Every mark is in the photos.
Visible in the photos.
Noted in the listing.
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