damonwad

Some random westerns.

6 hours ago, Scrooge said:

Recently acquired this Gene Autry, # 41 from 1950. If you look at the cover gallery for the Autry's at the GCD - https://www.comics.org/series/12576/covers/ , this cover stands out -

 

 

I like this one too. A huge improvement over the boring monochromatic backgrounds before and after this one (and scattered throughout the series).

They really hit their stride with the watermelon eating cover though.

2 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

Alas this one did not fare so well. I know we all have USPS horror stories, this one stung because it's my favorite Berkley cover along with Black Opium, and difficult to find as nice as it was with the white cover 

I mean, you really have to be trying, to fold a book so hard that the pressurized corner explodes into dust 

That stinks. Looked like a really nice copy.

25 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

I like how Pocket handled fat books, they split them into two volumes. The Hunchback is 657 pages combined.

Nice. I like the split volumes better too.

6 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

My copy is deep in storage, but I think I saw a copy at a local used bookstore a couple weeks ago.  I'll look next time I'm there and see if I can get a photo.

I would post my Dune paperback as well, but that's in storage too.  So a couple different Dune images instead:

(Don't be too impressed, the HC is a book club edition I lucked across a few years ago.  I need to get a dust jacket protector for it ASAP, though.)

Even if a BC edition, still very cool. 

And I don't own many magazines but those pre-book Dune Analog's would be some I'd love to get. Great looking copy.

35 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

I think Dune is only about 500 pages in paperback.  The thickest vintage paperback I can ever recall owning (and it's not that old, late 60's or so) was Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.  I want to say it was around 1500 hundred pages? 

Just try finding a copy without a extremely rolled and cracked spine; I'm pretty sure there's no way to actually read it without causing some significant damage.

I'd like to see a copy of that book. That's huge for a pb.

1 hour ago, PopKulture said:

Hemingway's "Men at War" is a fairly thick book, some 600+ pages if I recall correctly. I don't have my Signet "Fountainhead" handy, so I'm no help there (although I guess any one of us could just look it up, but that seems like cheating!).  

No cheating allowed.

25 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

Pretty copies 

I need to re-read "Grapes" myself, when I don't have a semester end deadline to enjoy it more   I think my fattest is either Dune or one of the Signet Ayn Rand books, i'll have to check them.

Love Norton's yarns, they're great adventures.

Robert Silverberg, is a whole other level in my mind. His early books are fun reads but starting with "Thorns" in 1967, through "The Stochastic Man" in 1976, he wrote a body of work that is mind boggling in variety, originality and character depth. They're very psychological and soul-baring, not swashbuckling adventures, so not everyones cup of tea but I love them. "A Time of Changes", "The Book of Skulls" and "Dying Inside" are my favorites.

Thanks for the info. I haven't read any of Silverberg's books yet but I'll check out one of the one's you mentioned.

Also, I'd be interested in seeing how many pages the Dune or Rand's have. Anyone have a War and Peace pb?

23 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

 Nice book. Globe end papers mean 1st printing every time, off the top of my head  I'm not sure at which "no number" they ended the globe endpapers. The no numbers go up to number 40 I think and I'm pretty sure the later ones did not have globe end papers. For those you can only tell 1st print by being roughly near the number of the book in hand. They released a couple at a time so it will only be the exact number for certain ones.

Thanks, that helps a lot.

One step closer to not feeling like such a newb. 

Does anyone know how to tell the first printings of the early Avon's? 

Do they need to have the Globe endpapers?  Do they also need a certain number of available Avon titles listed on back (this copy has 16)?

1 hour ago, Pat Calhoun said:

glad to hear Gardner is being enjoyed - the Perry Mason books are glorious reads - fast-moving and full of GA charm. His other two series: the DA books and (under pseudo) the Lam-&-Cool books offer the same top-notch entertainment

 

Looking forward to getting into some of the other Gardner's too. You seem to know what you're talking about. 

1 hour ago, Surfing Alien said:

 

 

This one has everything - a tough Lionel White movie tie-in Signet with a wild Maguire bondage cover that is unfaded and pretty sharp.

Love it. I had to pry my eye's away from Maguire's art to notice the book was the basis of the cool Kubrick/Hayden film.

51 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

Sweet bunch of books Damonwad! I have some of the Thompson Lions but not that one. They're tough to put together these days with what they go for in nice shape. A big regret was selling a very nice copy of Killer Inside Me and a pristine copy of Sins of the Fathers, which is probably the rarest of all Thompson books, even though it's not a 1st Ed. I'll likely never get them in that condition again unless a fortuitous circumstance comes around because I just have a mental block paying many hundreds of dollars for books that used to go for $50 - $100 I know... I need to get over the past (and my inner cheapskate ) I've posted my copy of Farm Girl, she's a honey

I don't think I've seen a copy of Sins of the Fathers but Killer Inside Me is high on my want list. Those would be painful to replace.

I have the same mental block with some comics, My inner cheapskate almost always wins out.

How's a guy supposed to get any work done.

More westerns.

Some cats and dogs.

Another great recommendation from Pat C. was Gardner's Perry Mason books. I've read about 8 so far and was surprised at how much I liked them. 

1 hour ago, frozentundraguy said:

1 hour ago, Surfing Alien said:

Won't be your last 

Sweet books!

 

They can bee addictive! 

 I can tell. That series has lots of great books.

1 hour ago, Surfing Alien said:

A couple of arrivals today. Another hard boiled Eton, unread with blazing colors

 

And an unread Avon bondage cover classic. It's a little off register, so has a 3d effect, but the lamination and spine are like it was printed yesterday

 

Both great books and I don't think I've ever seen an off register paperback cover before.

Some kudos for ComicLink.  Yesterday, I received my auction wins only 10 days after placing my bids.

In comparison, I received my winnings from 2 different CC auctions last year that each took about 6 weeks to arrive.