RARE 4 x 5 PHOTOGRAPH OF PLAYBOY PLAYMATE JULY 1956 NUDE MODEL ALICE DENHAM For Sale

Rare vintage photograph of nude model Alice Denham, circa 1955. Gelatin silver print, 4 x 5 inches. Very good condition. The word NYLON of course is not on the actual photograph. The illustration for this image gives a good representation of the tonality of the photograph. A wonderful truly vintage photograph and not one of the usual later garbage reprints found on . U.S. Shipping is $7.50. International shipping is $18.00. Combined shipping is available. New York State residents must add 8.875% sales tax. Payment must be received within 5 days of sale closing. Good luck to all buyers.

Alice Denham was a fashion model, actress, and author. During her modeling career, she was featured in various men\'s magazines. She was Playboy magazine\'s Playmate of the Month for the July 1956 issue. Alice earned a bachelor\'s degree from the University of North Carolina in 1949 and a master\'s degree from the University of Rochester in 1950.

After completing her education, she went to New York City for literary fame and romance. She was photographed for fashion magazines, detective magazines, paperback covers, comic strips, and movie posters. For a spread in True Adventures magazine, Girl Gun Runners of Saigon, she posed as four different Vietnamese women holding an array of weapons as they took position on a ridge. Alice made her way easily into Manhattan\'s literary salons. Several fell for her looks and women loved her nerve. Actor James Dean was very close to her until he fell hard for the Italian actress Pier Angeli.

Alice published her first novel My Darling from the Lions in 1967, which attracted little attention. She also did some copywriting; mostly penning dust jacket copy for publishers. In 1974, she wrote her second novel Amo about a feminist centerfold who has a fantasy life on another planet. Her third novel came Secrets of San Miguel? in 2013. She served as an adjunct professor of English from 1970 to 1980. She also held fiction-writing seminars at the University of Toronto for several years. Her most famous writing venture was her autobiography: \"Sleeping with Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-All of Literary New York in the 1950s and 1960s\".