OtherEric

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A few today. Super happy with the 35; I'm not a fan of the color bleed on the cover but it's structurally in amazing shape... and it's one of the crazy hard to find issues.

Tacoma. I went to high school at Bellarmine in the late 80's; I remember spending my lunch money getting some of my first ever golden age books there, among others.

I miss O’Leary’s to this day.

They're not without their appeal, but they're a bit of a niche item, I think. I'm happy with the one bound volume of Four Color Comics I have, but don't feel the need to seek more out. The one bound volume of pulps I had was amateurly put together and I disassembled it into its component issues.

A cheap issue to tide me over as I make payments on a copy of #1...

The comics are mostly out of my range, other than the "Out of the world Adventures" pulp hybrids, and those have already been shown. I'm fond of the Avon paperback covers as well, though:

Not a paperback, but worth posting here. Gambled a little ordering this, it was from a store I like and trust but the price was suspiciously cheap. Turns out the book had been professionally rebound, with the original front cover, back cover, and spine art all preserved. Very well done, and the book itself is a first print, first state; missing the contest form. I'm quite happy with it, it even has a nice gift inscription on the flyleaf from 1906.

That’s a beautifully presenting 5.0.

Hubbard has commanded a premium as long as I've been collecting pulps, there are a lot of people who want all of his stuff. As near as I can tell, that group wants the stories and doesn't care about the covers as such.

I don't have any interesting sales to discuss right at the moment, but we've taken over two or three other threads in the past few weeks discussing various prices realized on books. I thought we could use a specific thread, similar to the "heating up on eBay" threads other subforums have, to discuss interesting realized prices. This will leave the selling thread for actual selling and trading.

The problem, or at least one of the problems, is that those are not the original staples. The actual staples would go through the spine of the book and close at the centerfold, not through the entire book and close at the back. That drops the grade significantly. More generally, the low eye appeal and chewed up spine would drop the value of the book, even if the technical grade was higher. What I personally would do is remove the added staples, realign the cover, and then assess things from there. But just at a glance, the book is pretty much a dollar bin candidate, so I would be most concerned with maximizing eye appeal as a reader copy for myself.

A year ago, I would have agreed with you, hands down. But looking at recent auctions, it looks like The Spider is rapidly pulling ahead. It's all down to the covers, I think; and just in general the more sedate covers on Street & Smith aren't going to be in as high demand. We're seeing that on Astounding SF as well. Once you start looking at first appearances, the Shadows & Doc Savages will definitely continue to be the higher demand books, I think. But for the bulk of the run covers will rule.

OK, not remotely a comic related magazine... but found at a local bookstore today for under $10:

The early 80's Berkely Books edition of Elric of Melniboné. At least some of those were the editions I got when I first read the Elric stories, along with some of the DAW editions from the 70's.

While I believe most if not all the issue is in the public domain, it will be indisputably be completely PD in 2024. While I'm in no position to do this, I've thought it would be fun to print a facsimile edition with new cover art but the old style trade dress, with somebody doing cover art for The Call of Cthulhu in the style of either C. C. Senf or Brundage.

I sort of get it in the 30's... Lovecraft's stories didn't obviously lend themselves to Brundage's artwork. I will never, EVER, understand why they felt "The Ghost Table" was a better choice for cover story than "The Call of Cthulhu", though!

I've told the story before, but when I was very young my Uncle had the Superman book, it was one of my first encounters with old comic stories and almost certainly the first Golden and and even Silver Age stories I ever saw. I always loved reading it when we went over to visit, no matter how many times I had seen it before. He passed away about 10-15 years ago now, with my Aunt dying a few years later. But a year or two before she died she gave me the Superman book for Christmas, and every time I see it I remember them. I actually have quite a few books on my shelves from friends and family that have passed away. It's always nice to see them, to remember our shared love of reading and other good memories. If you look at the picture of my Oz shelf on page one, you'll see a few duplicate books at the bottom. Most of those have different cover art, but the copy of Wishing Horse of Oz has been in my family since before I was born. I have the earlier edition with the color plates as well, but I'm not getting rid of my family copy ever. Sorry if I got a little bit maudlin and off topic, thank you for reading.

Four Lovecraft covers across all titles, not just WT. February and June 1936 Astoundings.

Thank you all for your assessments, I appreciate you verifying my first impression was correct and the book was severely misgraded by the seller. I'll live with it, though.

Two in today, won as a lot on the bay. I was basing my bid purely on the 81 with the Frazetta cover, but I'm certainly not unhappy getting the 1st Rook in 82 as well. I also got in a Vampirella #31 with the Frazetta cover, but to see that you'll need to check the Vampi thread.

In today, courtesy of @jimjum12. I bought it in his recent magazine sale, but when he realized he had actually listed a different copy he had already sold he refunded my money and sent me the book anyway! A truly classy, generous act!