International Cover Models Magazine May 1980 Issue 20 Sporting Girls SKU 1535

Original vintage International Cover Models Magazine – Number Twenty, published May 1980. The publication information visible inside confirms the May 1980 date.

A fascinating period men's magazine combining glamour photography, sporting features, interviews, entertainment and late-1970s/early-1980s popular culture. The magazine describes itself as “The Magazine for the Sporting Man Who Likes Sporting Girls” and carries an adults-only notice across the top of the front cover.

The beach-themed front cover features a female glamour model photographed kneeling on the sand beside the sea, with a white mesh-style top. Original UK cover price was £1.10, with a Canadian price of $2.75.

Featured Content

Cover stories and features visible in the supplied photographs include:

• Feature on a leading Swedish film star
• Probe interviews casting directors
• Billiards
• Tennis
• Snooker
• Doncaster Races
• Debbie Visits Portsmouth
• Star Sign: Aquarius
• General sporting coverage
• Glamour/model photography
• Film and cinema-related editorial material

The interior editorial explains the magazine's mixture of sporting features and glamour material and refers to its film-related coverage and contemporary cinema features. The photographed page also contains period advertisements and promotional material relating to adult-oriented cinema releases, making the issue an interesting snapshot of British men's-magazine publishing around 1980.

Adult Glamour Content

This is an adult-oriented vintage men's magazine and contains nude glamour photography within, including full-page photographic spreads. The photographs supplied show an interior full-page/double-page glamour feature presented against a pale blue studio-style setting.

This is an original period publication, not a modern reproduction.

Condition

Used vintage condition with age and handling wear.

From the photographs:

• Front cover remains generally clean, bright and well-presented.
• Light surface rubbing and handling marks are visible.
• Some minor edge and corner wear is present.
• The spine shows normal rubbing/handling associated with age and reading.
• Slight corner softening and small edge imperfections can be seen.
• Interior pages appear generally clean and strongly coloured for their age.
• Some natural page curvature and light age-related handling are visible.
• Binding appears intact in the photographs.
• No obvious major writing or large missing sections can be seen in the supplied images.

Overall, this appears to be a presentable surviving example of a roughly 46-year-old magazine, but it is not mint and should be purchased with normal vintage wear in mind.

Please study all photographs carefully as they form an important part of the condition description.

Important – Original Extras

Any items, gifts, supplements, loose photographs, promotional material, inserts or other extras that may originally have been supplied with this magazine are no longer included unless they are specifically shown in the photographs.

This sale is for the magazine itself only.

Packaging

UK orders: Magazine will be sent securely in a hardback envelope.

International orders: Magazine will be sent in a cardboard mail-size box for additional protection in transit.

SKU: 1535