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OtherEric

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    Let’s do this. I’m the oddball who appreciates the series by getting a set of reading copies, but I do appreciate them:
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    Ronald Clyne
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    August 1948 Arkham Sampler, with the fourth and final installment of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath". Somewhat surprisingly, there was no Lovecraft material in the last four issues of the Arkham Sampler, so this is the last issue I'll post here.
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    The book I showed does have overhang, it just survived well. With that said, the printers were highly inconsistent and the overhang wasn't as dramatic on my copy. With that said, not all pulps have overhang. As far as I know, most if not all bedsheet and digest size pulps are factory trimmed. Street & Smith dropped the overhang around 1936; I'm not sure if they changed all the titles the same month but Astounding lost the overhang in February 1936. Weird Tales started trimming the edge sometime in the early 30's, although the kept the top and bottom untrimmed.
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    That puts you ahead of me on Shock Suspenstories issue left to go, I believe… you only need two issues still, right? I need three still, and that won’t change until later this week.
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    Summer 1948 Arkham Sampler. Three pieces by Lovecraft in this one: A letter he wrote to E. Hoffman Price, part 3 of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", and "The Loved Dead", a revision for C. M. Eddy, Jr.
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    Thank you. It really does take a little of the sting out when another boardie gets the win you missed... although 99% of the time I'm the one seeing the other boardie win the book I was looking for, not the other way around!
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    I have some Argosies from the 30's I would describe as high grade (not super high grade, but better than decent) with Burroughs stories. But nothing with a Burroughs cover.
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    Spring 1948 Arkham Sampler, which has the cover-mentioned group of letters by Lovecraft, along with part 2 of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.
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    Honestly, I like the first 3 as oddball books. And the Hoojibs are at least better than Porgs.
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    A dollar bin find today of a Marvel "Mostly if not entirely Whitman" variant.
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    Found at my local store today. I love the Avon covers from this era:
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    How did we let this thread drop to page 6? A dollar bin find today, a bit different than Hughes usual style:
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    Picked up at a local store today. Volume IV, for anybody who doesn't instantly recognize the volume from the cover color. Goodness knows I wouldn't, but they're identical other than that
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    The Weird Tales anniversary issue from March 1948. The Lovecraft entry is a poem, "The House", which had previously only appeared in an amateur magazine in 1920. Weird Tales did a genuinely impressive job at getting creators for their 25th anniversary, and I find it touching that they gave Lovecraft a place of honor on the cover despite having the only reprint in the issue, when Hamilton, Derleth, and Sturgeon didn't make the cover despite having new stories. Although I could see some of them (Derleth in particular) wanting to give their slot on the cover to Lovecraft.
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    There are very few 12c books I won't buy for a dollar, full stop. Generally only if a) I already have the book, or b) there are too many choices. Always fun when b) happens.
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    It's scanned and available here: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=12165 With that said, there's a joy to reading actual vintage books as well.
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    Depends on the store. I know at least one that likes to occasionally seed the dollar bins with good items. Best I got was probably a Fantastic Four #66 around 4.0 for a dollar, a few years ago. They're open very limited hours and space because Covid right now, so nothing from them in a while. But yes, I have no trouble imagining 12 cent marvel books for a dollar still. Probably not as nicely presenting as that Superman 211, though.
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    Now, where was I before the interruption... Oh, yes. Arkham Sampler #1, from Winter 1948. Two Lovecraft pieces in here, in addition to the cover-mentioned "Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" there's the "History and Chronology of the Necronomicon", which is really just the History of the Necronomicon with Derleth sprinkling in some unnecessary additions. This issue (and all the issues with Lovecraft material) had a print run of 1200 copies. On a personal note, my run of the Arkham Sampler remains one of my all-time lucky eBay wins. The whole run turned up for auction in nice shape as a set, I placed a bid of $100 or so that I knew had no chance at all to win, but I would kick myself if it somehow went for less that. Then the final price was only $51, to this day I have no idea why only one other person bid.
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    A couple digest finds in the wild today. The Amazing Stories was already on my list for the Heinlein article; the PKD Galaxy was a "It's 3 bucks, why not?". It's nice to be getting out to stores more again, I hadn't been there in a year and a half at least.
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    I’ll post today’s book once I get home.
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    The Lurking Fear, from 1947. It's interesting, Lovecraft actually got four popularly priced editions during the 40's, plus a Armed Services Edition. But as far as I'm aware there were no popularly priced editions in the US during the 50's.