This feels closer to art or design object than it does a publication.

This edition of Playboy was also the subject of a free speech case in the 1980s. This is a more recent issue, but these rarely come to market.

The Braille edition of Playboy only translates the journalism from the magazines and was funded by the Library of Congress’ National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, who funded numerous popular magazines for visually impaired readers.

However, Republican Sen. Mack Mattingly and eventually Chalmers Wylie, a Republican senator from Ohio, eventually succeeded in defunding the Library by the exact amount it spent to produce the magazine ($103,000 annually).

Free speech advocates eventually succeeded in overturning this ruling citing that this defunding was essentially censorship.

Needless to say, copies of this edition are rare. They are also about 4x the size of regular Playboy issues as Braille requires much more page space.

This is in perfect condition.