Gold In The Attic

Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, Feb 1, 2004
Byline: Lauren Barack
"Magazine junkies, pay attention
That habit of cramming closets and attics full of old magazines could pay off. Disregard the pleadings of your spouse (or other co-dependents) to toss those dusty piles. Instead, look through them for buried treasure.
If you have a first edition of Playboy, featuring the world-famous nude of Marilyn Monroe, it's a prized collectible (one recently fetched $3,301 on eBay.) But you can get hundreds, sometimes thousands, for hard-to-find editions of obscure fashion, photography and design magazines. The premiere issue of Visionaire, a fashion mag from 1991, can command $2,000."

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