damonwad

That's very sad to hear. My sincere condolences.

55 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

The mystery deepens. 1st print nn#6 with 12 titles and globe endpapers... laminated.

I have to say, the laminate is so thin and peely, I can imagine they tried it out on the first runs and gave up. The vast majority of 1st prints i've seen online or in hand don't have it and don't show traces so they must've printed them with and without in the 1st prints.

That said, this is a very cool, fat volume, in better shape than usually seen. I mean they are usually thrashed and heavily spine rolled so i've never bought one before. There are some cool interior illustrations as well, including a familiar skull 

Another nice one and interesting about the lamination.  I like the interior illustrations too and don't think I have any pb's with them.  

1 hour ago, Surfing Alien said:

NFS! I did say it was a fantasy . 

What?!  I already bought my tickets for Memphis.

2 hours ago, PopKulture said:

Once again, amazing high-grade examples! I don't know how you keep coming up with such nice examples with everyone at home scouring online n all...

I know you've mentioned you like to actually (gasp!) read your books - are you able to do so without damaging them? I'd be scared to open them beyond two inches or so, so perhaps you are adept at reading at an angle?  

Thanks, but with all the other cool books being posted I'm obviously missing plenty. Now if I could only find that show where SurfingAlien's table is set up at.

 No "angle" reading. Except for the digests, I need to get reading copies of most of the others. It's a pain, but with some exceptions, I can usually find beat up copies for a few bucks and pass on the ones I don't destroy to family and friends. I also recently got a Kindle Oasis as a gift and am surprised I like it so much. I still much prefer books, but as my eyesight dwindles with age, it's nice to have the adjustable brightness and font sizes. Having a gazillion books to choose from doesn't hurt either.

1 hour ago, Pat Calhoun said:

Oh, good on you. Just the display of those beauties is a tremendous and wonderful evocation of the Woolrich legacy. When I was a kid, intolerant of anything but pulp SF and ignorant of the fact that Woolrich qualified in that group too, I always knew he was waiting for me, and every time they played that silly song of 'Night Has a 1000 Eyes' on the radio I would smile in anticipation. Decades later, when I got a copy of the Dell and read it: all promises were fulfilled. Thank you.

Thank you and for the nudge to start reading his books in the first place. I could do without ever hearing that song again but I'm glad the decades wait was worth it for you.

I just noticed they made a film version (1948) with Edward G. Robinson that I'll have to try to track down.

24 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

Picked up a decent copy of one of Gibson's non Shadow pbo's. The Atlas Mystery digests have a pretty cool comic book vibe to them.

Cool cover. A hot babe in a red dress, a Rondo Hattonesque bad guy and an Atlas globe.  

I'm a big Savitt fan but not real familiar with his interiors. Thanks for posting.

Even though it's not one of my favorite Savitt covers, I still kick myself for not bidding on the Hi-Yo Silver #36 cover auctioned on Hakes 7 or 8 years ago.

He sure liked his horses.

1 hour ago, Surfing Alien said:

I have that one, may have to give it a shot next. I have one story left in Deadly Night Call - that one has been a breezy read with some classic twists 

Glad to hear that the short story Woolrich's are good too. I've read 4 of his books and liked them all. His reputation is well deserved.

2 hours ago, Pat Calhoun said:

Excellent - John Dickson Carr is an adroit author, and many of his books are also cool vintage PBs, but I think in 'The Crooked Hinge' he transcended himself and produced a masterpiece.

I read it a month or so ago and really liked it. The Hollow Man is next on my Carr "to read" list.

On 10/29/2020 at 6:03 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

'The Mechanical Monarch' is a great science fiction novel. My copy, with the blurb from 'British SF PBs' by Harbottle and Holland, shows both the funkiness and glory of the mushroom jungle. One of my fave books under the wrong title... I like the way Ace worked 'Extra Man' in there, and suspect that Tubb was inspired by the original 1953 appearance of the title yarn of this PKD collection which has some similar themes...

 

Thanks for another good recommendation, Pat. It took some interesting turns after what started off looking like a straight forward Apollo 13 type story.

2 hours ago, frozentundraguy said:

Those Ace "D" doubles look to be nearly flawless!

Thanks for sharing the Ace "F" doubles. It looks like I have a few more titles to add to my want list!

Thanks.

My Ace Double D and F want list is pretty simple. I just need all but 12 of them.

4 hours ago, Pat Calhoun said:

'The Mechanical Monarch' is a great science fiction novel. My copy, with the blurb from 'British SF PBs' by Harbottle and Holland, shows both the funkiness and glory of the mushroom jungle. One of my fave books under the wrong title... I like the way Ace worked 'Extra Man' in there, and suspect that Tubb was inspired by the original 1953 appearance of the title yarn of this PKD collection which has some similar themes...

Nice books and thanks for the interesting info, Pat.  I'll be sure to read this one soon.

1 hour ago, OtherEric said:

A couple pickups today.  The Avon lists 12 books both on the inside and the back cover and has globe endpapers, so should be a first based on what we've discussed here.  The Lancer is a bit outside my normal collecting goals, but looked interesting for four bucks:

 

Nice one.

I'd agree it's a first and any of the first 12 books with Globe ep's, 12 titles inside and 12 on back cover should be firsts unless new info comes out. The only slight question would be that laminated Big Four copy you pointed out earlier but I'd go with your prototype theory on that one.

57 minutes ago, BitterOldMan said:

Just picked this beauty up today at my favorite second hand book store, Kayo Books, owned by Maria and Ron. Looks practically new.

 

 

Great looking book.

It also instantly made me think of Heck's Horrific #3 cover (minus the bullet hole).

36 minutes ago, DanCooper said:

 

I believe Russ started as editor of CBM with issue #84 (August 2001)

Comic Book Marketplace's "Jump The Shark" moment:

"Hey look at Galactus, that little bald guy on the cover of FF48!"

 

 

 

 

 

It's been a long time so maybe I'm remembering wrong but I think he even mocked Kirby's cover art here, thinking The Watcher (Galactus) was a regular sized person but just drawn with horrible perspective.

I'm sure there's earlier but this is November, 1946. 

Not my copy.

41 minutes ago, Surfing Alien said:

I don't know if this is Hoffman but it's in the style... was just looking back through these posts and everybody got so excited about Damon's pretty Mysteries/Westerns and Eric's Avons that this here gem didn't get its due.

It is the 1st paperback Sci-Fi Anthology and 1st "pure" Sci-Fi paperback - it opened the floodgates all the way back in 1943.

A Muy Importante (forgive me but it's bigger than English!) book.

That's a real nice copy and it's on my radar again. I know y'all heard this before but I had a pretty pretty copy back when

It's hard to get attention when the other book he posted had a half naked woman in a bubble.

I didn't know anything about the book though, so thanks for the info. Definitely on my list now.