damonwad

On 12/2/2023 at 9:28 AM, MrBedrock said:

12, 14, 15, 19, 21 (my favorite), 22, 26, 27, 29 and 30

Great looking books. I'm a Lone Ranger fan but I especially love the Gollub covers in the teens and twenties.

On 11/8/2023 at 5:23 PM, Surfing Alien said:

A couple of Minty fresh early Dells

 

"Four Frightened Women", Dell Books #5 from 1942, is the first Mapback and the second Gerald Gregg cover.

 

"The Unicorn Murders" Dell Books #16 from 1943 is just a great early Gregg  Art Deco cover. This copy is definitely a unicorn

 

There's something about the Giant Eyeball/Keyholes on the fronts of the earlies that is super appealing.

 

Those are great looking early (and earliest) mapbacks. 

I must have been distracted by the books, since I just noticed your unicorn joke. Ha.

On 11/10/2023 at 11:45 AM, Steppenwolfscomics said:

That's a beauty. 

On 10/21/2023 at 4:10 PM, Darwination said:

Not gorgeous, nice work Black Lizard

 

The Black Lizard books were the first Thompson's I read. This was about 25 years ago and I think they all had black and white photo covers then.

On 10/21/2023 at 2:42 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Nice... both on the never ending want list now

   I thought you had them all and were just slow rolling us.

On 9/28/2023 at 9:47 AM, OtherEric said:

The Only Peter Cheyney books I have are from the Murder Mystery Monthly series:

 

Avon #80 is by Cheney and has the same cover art as the MMM #15 (without the skulls) but has a different title. Not sure if it's the same book though.

A few with non-religious covers.

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A couple more.

On 8/25/2023 at 2:32 PM, OtherEric said:

Bought at the local store today to show here, since I’ve already got a copy in storage.  I believe this is the thickest vintage paperback at 1600 pages.  The spine is about as you’re going to get unless you find a genuinely unread copy, I think:

That's huge. The biggest pb I have is the Bantam Grapes of Wrath at only 570 pages.

On 8/20/2023 at 3:20 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Top 5 to me, along with, what I consider to be it's companion and superior,  probably #1 in my Maguire list... "The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah"

Signet paid better and I have no doubt Maguire wanted to impress the art director at this point in time. What a masterpiece of pb art it is...

 

What a great cover that I somehow didn't even notice before. Very pretty copy too.

One of my few promo books. I've seen 3 versions of this one so far. One with the Monsanto emblem above the girls head and no price, one without the Monsanto emblem but with a 10 cent price in the upper right and this one with neither. 

On 6/30/2023 at 6:35 PM, The-Collector said:

Strange Adventures 21 CGC 7.0 OW/W. Cool Murphy Anderson cover you don't often see in grade. A raw GD+ sold on the bay recently for $170. Asking $575.

 

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Blondie

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White Princess

On 5/5/2023 at 2:00 PM, OtherEric said:

Everybody sitting comfortably?  Because I've got a fair number of books in today.

We'll start with one of the two big ones... We Can Build You by PKD.  As near as I can tell, this is the last book I needed for the full set of PKD first edition first printing paperback originals.  So a pretty major milestone for me; if anybody wants me to try and do a group shot let me know.

 

Cograts and I'd definitely like to see the group shot.

On 5/4/2023 at 2:51 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Right?  There's a kind of discipline there that I absolutely don't have.  @damonwad is a precision collector whereas I'm like a dog in a meadow, running back and forth to the next thing.  It's impressive to see. 

Luckily, I have 5 or 6 other collecting interests to keep me busy, or I'd definitely have the "dog in the meadow" approach. There are just so many cool pb's out there.

I also didn't mind my snails pace since I originally planned to read a copy of every book I bought, but that plan's been shot to hell. Was introduced to some great authors though.

On 5/4/2023 at 7:25 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Outstanding display! And your collection has grown quite a bit from your first shelf pic way back when

This is basically where I'm going. I have a set of Billy cases with mixed solid and glass doors in our living room and I keep my Peanuts PB collections and my meager Arkham and other Specialty press collections in there, but it's mostly for art objects from our travels and curios like my father's stripes from WWII.

For the comic room I am going with a deeper Ikea shelf system that will allow the double layers of pb's (those are double layers right?) but also deep enough to house my LP record collection on the bottom shelves behind solid doors. On the uppers with the glass doors I plan to layer them like you have here but they are deep enough that I'll be able to turn some around front for display through the glass. The design is all in my imagination still right now but it should happen in the next month or so.

Thanks. These are only single layer. I have another 50 or so books to add when I get the time but still have plenty of space on these shelves with my small collection . You, and most of the others that post here, obviously need much more shelf space. Looking forward to seeing what you end up with.