Darwination

I mean, I get it with a lot of pulps. They're fragile but gorgeous. If you have a weird menace pulp starting to fall apart, putting it in a safe box seems like a good idea. But common lower grade books, especially from the later years are great for reading. You can still grab a stack of 2 dollar pulp westerns and find hours of enjoyment. (or wander over to the Internet Archive and search about any title and do the same minus the pulp flakes and aroma). I love the smell - my wife, not so much

Pretty please.

I am a pervert, Jim

Sadly, not my copy, Fred Rodewald art.

I've read hundreds.

New one. Ten dollar pulp! Split spine/separated cover, but all there and a scarce girlie. Perfect for scanning (which I'm just about to do while I watch last weekend's fights). The cover is going to be a bear to work with between the soiled oranges and skin tones, damage to the logo, tape and tears and creases, but we shall see...Ideally, you pair a beater copy for the cover to cover scan with a high grade copy for the cover restore but that's rarely an option in the girlie pulps when finding one copy in any condition is hard enough in the first place

Agree that sanity will be restored, sooner than later. Hopefully sooner https://www.ebay.com/itm/145708115779 Totally happy to see new people interested in pulps. Happy to see the value of pulps increase (my pulps, not the pulps I want to buy or the pulps that need to get scanned ) Unhappy to see newcomers exploring the pulps getting burned. Speculators on the other hand, I have no sympathy for. Some of the dealers I see listing these books at drastically marked up prices know better and absolutely seem to be looking for suckers. I've seen fair prices on the graded pulps, too, so it's not like everybody is going for the throat on it...

wraparound

two new ones in today Four dollar copy of this one John posted recently, horribly twisted spine but still good cover appeal and I plan to read it, so... and a freebie Lowell threw in from a recent sale, perfect since I was looking to read one of the Carter Browns, kind of a funny title, Barye Philips, pages are actually totally white inside: On a sadder note, I found exactly zero vintage paperbacks in a fair number of thrift store and antique malls walked through in LA this weekend (LOWER ALABAMA) in the twin metropolises of Auburn and Opelika. There was lots of vinyl, 99.9% drek comics, and horribly mistreated magazines mostly of far too modern vintage to hold my interest but NO paperbacks.

The Little People gets featured very quickly in Grady Hendrix' Paperbacks from Hell: https://www.amazon.com/Paperbacks-Hell-Twisted-History-Fiction/dp/1594749817

Apparently not a victim of wartime paper rationing Nice copy!

Lol, this Terror Tales is ridiculous It's one of a few that I think would sell for more than what you paid for the whole lot. Some nice girlie pulps in there, too I'm not exactly crazy about the Strange, but it seems like I've seen it do well at least a few times recently. A dripping bloody woman's head carried off by a bat is kind of hard to ignore. I think maybe there's some wait and see in the pulps happening right now, from many different angles.

That spine is incredible. Wraparound? Thematically cohesive without a doubt. I'm gonna have to see a high rez scan or have it in hand (which I absolutely intend to do) before I weigh in with any decisiveness, though. I Forget where, but I posted at least a few Salome covers around here recently (Bolles, Carnahan, and one from a Cartoons magazine).

Ima have to get to a big screen before I can can concur it's the same copy. I'll say this if it is - I'd be curious to see more before and afters of books that get encapsulated. Also, what's with the glee I feel when a quick flip flops? I know I don't like it when my own occasional quick one comes up short So hard to tell what's up with prices. Defo was a pre-CGC buzz last year, craziest early in the year. Add to that fact that the high pandemic prices shook so much fruit from the tree that all sorts of books have been showing up not seen very often. There's the trend in comics of cooling prices which surely applies to pulps too at least a little bit. I can't really make heads or tails of it yet. And the trends in these bigger books (for pulps) may be very different than the trends in higher grade more common books that we've commented about a little on some of these threads Personally, I was bored by this auction compared to the last couple pulp auctions with more obscure (albeit less in demand) pulps, but that's probably just me.

Bob, Asking here because I don't remember where the subject came up, but you mentioned doing brisk business in vinyl lately. Instead of heading to Windy City this weekend, I ended up in the twin metropolises of Auburn and Opelika, Alabama. A sorority mother-daughter weekend precipitated the visit, and, even though I have no idea how I ended up with a sorority girl daughter, it has been a beauty weekend. Anyways with the girls at ladies only events, I had time to scour any locales for pulps, comics, magazines, books and records. The comic shop I hit this morning had some surprising rarities but it was a "none of this is priced, pick out what you're interested in and I'll quote you prices." Needless to say the item I was unable to conceal my excitement about was quoted at about 400 percent of value (a magazine I'm pretty sure he hadn't the vaguest idea on). I did end up picking up a romance comic just cuz dude was nice enough to break a couple Terror Tales out of the vault to show off. Anyways, I ramble as usual. The cool little hipster record store I went into in Opelika had great repressing and selection of new material. Whatever, though, I'm not buying a new pressing of even the coolest jazz album for 60 bucks. 30 years ago I balked at 25 or 30. I asked the nice owner who is ponying up 60 for a fresh pressing - "the kids" But that's not gets me. It was the prices for low grade used records (jazz and rock are what I looked at). Records I'd expect to pay 4 to 8 were marked at 20 to 40. These are Alabama prices, mind you, I have no idea how that even translates in your neck of the woods. I did manage to find some nice high grade (though mass market) stuff in a flea market/antique mall I was happy to pay an average of 10 per for, but some sellers had what seemed like inordinate prices there, too, for low and midgrade mass market used records. Is vinyl really this hot?

I didn't watch today (am away from the batcave). Are people seeing a CGC bump as far as books in the box fetching more? I believe it's the first auction that's featured a decent number of graded books.

This cover California is doomed! (a very noir influenced band)

This edition is on my huntlist (and an epub next up in my digital reading queue). I saw the movie (most excellent) recently and ended up talking with a couple friends who mentioned differences with the novel. The flick was even better imo than some higher regarded later Hitchcocks. Raymond Chandler has a writing credit, apparently undeserved (and unwanted). Read the wiki for a good laugh on clashing personality types

The Vols played well (one of my teams after KU, my boy goes to Knox) but could not overcome the big man match up. At least something good came out of the game Nice copy!

Great get (you b*stard), worked with this one at Flickr, from the placard: According to Doug Ellis' Uncensored: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulp, this issue was banned in New England and the circulation director of the magazine was sentenced to 6 months in jail (commuted to a $1000 fine). Why the poor circulation director should take the fall is beyond me but a common story in obscenity cases wherein lower figures on the magazine totem pole were persecuted in the stead of the actual publishers. Meanwhile, a nude Eve is selling copies like Hotcakes.

Jimbo, I didn’t even start to ascribe any racist sentiment here The book sparked (and more likely was just engaging in) a whole trend in the 20s of "seeing how the other half lives" in jazz age New York. Sure, a lot of that is through a lens of superiority, but there's also a genuine reaching out to and celebration of blackness. I appreciate discovering the book. Collecting "Black Americana" has always been dicey. I've seen all sorts of wild comic collections here on the boards, and we see all manner of items collected at eBay. Do I think some racists collect it? Sure. Do I think all collectors of Black Americana are racist? Not at all. I had a friend of the family growing up that would buy any black jockey type of lawn art he could find. Some he would repaint in a traditional style but he also did all sorts of re-imaginings of what they might be painted like, a real deconstruction and reinterpretation of the form. As a scanner of periodicals and books, I've scanned all sorts of objectionable or what might be deemed objectionable material. I recall scanning an incredibly rendered version of Sambo. I've scanned many Spirit Sections with "jigaboo" poses of Ebony on the cover. As well as exploitative tabloids and magazines from the 70s like It's Happening or Bronze Thrills. Or more authentic pubs like Hep!, Tan Confessions, and the like. These are the sort of publications that lend to some excellent explorations and conversations about race in America. I try to scan without filter and have even scanned more blatantly racist pubs from KKK affiliated publishers in the 20s even when I have qualms about doing so. I've also scanned Black Panther pubs that some might say go the other direction, too. As for that particular cover, I think it's excellent. Stereotype or celebration? I see more of the latter. Just like the cover for Taffy I recently saw in a sale or one of these threads. A lot of these paperbacks sell curiosity or scandal regarding race which sold books no doubt but also propel thought. Fears of miscegenation but also representation of real mixed relationships. Sh*t's complex, but out here on the pulp fringes is where we actually look at subjects that weren't being acknowledged in Leave It to Beaver