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To be fair, he went from 10 to 5 pretty quickly. And the interior is pretty torn. But yeah, I probably would have agreed at 10 if he hadn't dropped it so quickly

If I hadn't bought a nicer copy at my local store earlier today for $4.99 I would have been annoyed Goldust beat me to this one...

Found at the local store today. $5 each and they look unread. Beautiful copies.

Discussion at local store today. "Look at what I got last week." "Can you remove it from the mylar so I can see how bad it is?" "Sure." "The pages are literally falling apart." "$25" (I don't say anything) "$20" "It's literally falling apart." "$10" (Again, I say nothing) "$5" "I can't say no at that price. At least the cover looks cool." "You should leave it in the bag, though. The cover's falling apart too."

A local store turned this up and gave me first crack at it. Signed by Ellison on the title page, although it's not the S&N edition. It is the actual 1st edtion rather than the much more common BCE, though.

A small lot today, which in one fell swoop gets me the three trickiest D-Series Western doubles, as far as I know... is anybody aware of any others that are particularly pricey? For those who don't know, Jim Mayo is a pseudonym of Louis L'Amour, so these are first editions of three early books by him:

So, how do we want to continue from here? For at least a few weeks, I can take over the Sunday initial post for the week if people want me to do that.

I'm particularly fond of this one, where the previous owner wrote "249" inside the CCA stamp. It's issue 248.

I believe it's Bob Powell's only pulp cover.

It depends on the issue. The 15 issues by Bruce Elliot are generally quite poorly regarded by Shadow fans, from the few I've read they can be pretty fun as pulp fiction but not necessarily great as Shadow stories specifically. I mostly look for them for the John D. MacDonald backup stories... which can be longer than the Shadow story in some cases. I may have posted these in this thread before, not sure. Might as well throw them out here again:

In today, courtesy of @Number 6's recent sales thread. Not something I was necessarily looking for entirely for its own sake, but super happy to get a nice example of a Fantasy Press book for the collection:

That does seem to be the most popular explanation of Fall Out, but people have been arguing the point for well over 50 years now.

I look forward to seeing your cleaned up version, because as I've said before I absolutely love this cover. It's for an incredible story, too.

I do like the reprint Hard Case did of "Fright" several years ago, but in general I love Hard Case's retro look:

I have this one as well. Great cover!

Today's book:

In today. The Berlin is interesting in that it has a wraparound image to the spine but not to the back cover at all. Also, this puts me at 303 of 603 Ace DSG books. Over half way! I'm not quite to half the D Series doubles, but if I counted right I should be over once the handful I have on order arrive.

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Oh, I did create a topic in the personal announcements forum asking if anybody had contact info for @Axe Elf, as well.