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Nice! I especially love that Science 5!

Nice! You should post them in the Double your Pleasure thread. (thumbs u And congrats on not getting ripped off by Uthe.

Just to make the bump more fun, here's a recent pick up that BZ would appreciate. First Solomon Kane by REH and first published work by Tennesee Williams.

Nice!

Very cool! The Mandrake and Phantom Feature Books are definately on my want list.

Congrats on picking up a sweet book! Great colors!

Is that from Russ Cochran's personal library? That is very cool!

Nice! Tip Tops rule!

Nice! I really like the Avon Fantasy Readers. Some surprisingly lurid covers for the late 40's/early 50's and full of great reprints from Weird Tales.

Wow! That's some serious GGA!

Just listed a nice pulp grail - Amazing Stories vol 3 no. 5 (1st Buck Rogers). Link

Couple of new Amazings. Finally got one of these:

Bats 1 and PL 17. The others are great books, but these weren't really weren't tough choices for me.

I started just reading it - I found the text online so I don't have to risk damaging my copy: Vengence of Nitocris His writing is a bit flowery but not bad I suppose considering he was apparently only 16 when he wrote this. The story is about a semi-mythical female pharaoh, Nitocris, mentioned in a passage in Herodotus. She takes revenge on her people after they killed her brother, the previous pharaoh. I'm just impressed that a 16 year old kid had already read Herodotus.

Thanks! I'm pretty stoked about it. Here are a couple of interior shots:

This looks like a fun project. Earlier in this thread I posted a complete list of REH stories in WT including the Conan stories so that covers that. Skull Face and Others from 1945 does have a few Conan stories - "The Hyborian Age," "The Phoenix on the Sword," "The Scarlet Citadel," "The Tower of the Elephant," "Rogues in the House," and "Shadows in Zamboula." As far as know, this is the first time any of the Conan stories were published in book form. Avon Fantasy Reader published several REH stories in the late forties and early fifties including two Conan stories, both in 1949 - "Queen of the Black Coast" (no. 8) and "A Witch Shall be Born" (no. 10). Ace published "Hour of the Dragon" in 1950 under the title Conan the Conqueror as a double paperback (the other side is The Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett). Next came the Conan series published by Gnome (see Tupenny's sweet collection above for a visual reference). They were: Conan the Conqueror (1950) The Sword of Conan (1952) The Coming of Conan (1953) King Conan (1953) Conan the Barbarian (1954) Tales of Conan (1955) The Return of Conan (1957) These contained the Conan stories that were edited by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter that were the basis for the later Lancer/Ace paperback series that most of us probably grew up with. Tales of Conan is all non-Conan stories by REH that were rewritten by de Camp as Conan stories. The Return of Conan is not by REH but is the first Conan pastiche by Bjorn Nyborg. Several Conan Stories were published posthumously for the first time (all edited by de Camp): "The God in the Bowl" in Space Science Fiction, Sept. 1952. "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" in Fantasy Fiction, Aug. 1953. "The Treasure of Tranicos (aka The Black Stranger)" in Fantasy Magazine, Mar. 1953. "The Vale of Lost Women" in The Magazine of Horror, Spring 1967. Next would be the Lancer/Ace paperbacks and the Donald Grant editions in the 60s and 70s, but I need to get to bed so those will have to wait for another time.

A big thank you to Bronzilla for hooking me up with this REH mini-grail. The cover story "Red Shadows " is the first appearrance of Solomon Kane. It also contains the story "The Vengence of Nitocris," which is the first published work of some guy named Tennessee Williams. Thanks JR! (thumbs u

A big Thank You to Bronzilla for selling me this one!

Awesome JR!

Nice bargain pick up! That's probably about what you would pay for a modern off the stands nowadays (and Airboy is probably a better read anyway). (thumbs u

Damn Lauren! That's awesome!

These are all just amazing church SF covers! I'm blown away! Such sweet books.

What a great book!

Don't worry I'm broke anyway. Sharon that's a great find! Is it a full run?

soon Ok Ryan, here you go. Church copy of Superworld #1: Oh my!