Darwination

I'm a huge fan of MCS's images, for what it's worth. You could possibly argue that HA does a better job with color (even though color should really just mimic the comic in hand), but the resolution and detail on MCS images is far superior. I praise both companies for making available high resolution images of their books (and in Heritage's case hosting them long after the item has sold).

A pal and I were talking about Patricia Highsmith the other day (in regards to her writing for Real Life Comics, inspiring me to look up her early magazine appearances), and the book The Price of Salt came up (and the 2015 movie adaptation, Claire). I looked around for the original paperback printing and saw some high prices, but this one takes the cake. Someone's been smoking crack, right? https://www.biblio.com/book/price-salt-morgan-claire/d/1536729223 Who's holding? (the book, not crack)

New one to me, cool book!

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This Clues, whoa

Looked that one up and then came across Nympho Librarian, too much, man

The Shock Mystery's a funky throwback to the weird menace style I noticed these in a pic from the other thread. I guess those are the two magazine-sized (saddle-stiched I assume) issues that ended the run.

The EVO cover looks like Crumb to me, I noticed that one, too. Finding the underground papers is tough in the first place, finding them unfolded is a miracle.

That Two-Fisted is fantastic. Great covers that first year.

Love it, a thankless job

Oh, some killer digests there I especially like Country Girl. The George Gross lover boy with the s*** eating grin and hay straw sticking out of his mouth is hilarious. I hadn't seen the Dream Club before. There's a lot going on (art on every inch of the cover), but it's way cool. And that Film Fun!!

Psst, don't tell SA, but you take better pictures

He's gotta a girlie pulp surfing cover in there for you, Bob - Bergey -

This is almost cruel. I see the boxes right there in front of me, and yet I can't flip through them

Woo! Gorgeous books. Can you tell any rhyme or reason with the A/B/C/D markings in the first letter? It looks like he mainly collected detective and hero titles?

Hmm, dunno if it quite works like that. I think a lot of my pbs are 60s and 70s editions bought secondhand as a young man as well as plenty from the 80s and 90s in terms paperback editions of classics picked up in my schooling years. As for the old-time pulpsters I know (boomers), it's fair to say they're probably sitting on a ton of 50s pbs (that I'd guess they bought secondhand as I did). I've tended to buy first editions when they come out in hardcover, but a lot of my trade in used books is paperbacks (not 100% true). Definitely fair to say I've discriminated against the poor paperbacks (up in the hot attic, coffee mug rings on their covers, covered in notes and highlighter)...

Time-machine copies

It's an interesting conversation, and I agree with points all around. Randall's right that there was a realization long ago that comics might be worth something. At the same time there's a of collectors out there, and demand for some books is stoopid high even as the print runs were stoopid high. And that's one of the about comics for me. Personally, I don't want a super common book. First appearance of so and so from the 70s or 80s. If there's half a million copies out there, idgaf. Really, I don't. I covet that GA romance book that maybe there's 50 copies of It's one (of many) reasons I collect girlie pulps. There's dozens of issues I've never seen for sale. Ever. And Issues I've never even seen images for. I suspect there's a handful of bastards out there with amazing collections of the girlies under lock and key, but it's not like they seem to come to market unless somebody dies (excuse the macabre truth there, but for real). Magazines? They can be so, so scarce. There's no recognition of value like comics and no automatic reverence that a "book" gets. They were made to be disposable in the first place. But on the reverence for books, even paperbacks - I think a lot of people (like me) make a lifelong habit of hauling all their books around, many never coming out of boxes. I've reached the point in my life where I'm thinning down my belongings (access to all things digital helps with this) but there's still books that I'll hold on to just because they aren't worth getting rid of. Just to say, I bet there are a TON of vintage paperbacks in attics across America, especially in boomer attics in places where space isn't at a premium (most of America). In great shape after all these years? Probably not. They might look good, though

Yeah, I'd say it's not the optimal presentation. I run into this with just bags and boards sometimes where the pulp sinks down to the bottom of the bag and you can tell that everything is sitting on the overhang. Granted, I'm not worried about it most of the time with my beater pulps, but there are times where I'll make sure I've got the right pressure on the book so that it's kind of suspended up on the board a little bit and not sitting on any delicate bits at the bottom (and I'm sure I'm not the only one that does that with comics as well). Presentation aside, I guess the concern is whether the overhang is getting stressed here. I can see how there might be some give and take between stressing the books edges and making sure it doesn't shift around. Pulps sizes can vary (I think I saw something about four different holders?) so maybe picking the right size holder during encapsulation is important. Totally out of my element here, though, have no idea how much of the process is mechanical, what choices are available, etc. I do know I've run into this with Weird Tales in particular where the author names are right at the very bottom and want to bend over on the overhang (in bags and boards, suspended in a mylar not a problem but it also depends on how long the overhangs been bent under and a tight fit in the mylar can still stress the overhang). Sometimes if I get one in that's been kept like that I'll put a board between the pulp and the cover for a while and maybe with a board and a little weight on top to sort of flatten it out for a while, seems to help. It can get flakey, though, some of these pulps have been resting on that overhang for a long, long time

Charlton pub. https://archive.org/details/hepcats-jive-talk-dictionary-1945.-t.-w.-o.-charles-d-m-ia

I'm seeing dates in the early 40s, some type of book club? Different than than the Book League of America (or likely some sort of continuation)? I'm also seeing some hardcovers. https://www.flickr.com/photos/56781833@N06/albums/72157665470500807/ If it follows the pattern of the two above, the Reader's League edition came first.