RedFury

On 1/15/2022 at 12:47 AM, waaaghboss said:

Just got in a jungle book, I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure half the book is missing...

Yes, it certainly looks like it! 

Cool.  I didn't know there were different length versions of the story.  Looks like your chapbook is the first publication of the longer version, which means the abridged version is what's in the Arkham House book Genius Loci and Other Tales.

In related news, the original Finlay artwork for that story sold recently on Heritage.  I bid but lost. 

On 1/1/2022 at 1:04 PM, Joshua33 said:

Is it just me, or is the grader for CC drunk when it comes to pulps. The Weird Tales Dec. '32, Conan book... let's use that for reference, since it should do well over $10k. Listed by them as Fine Plus. It has 3 GIANT color breaking, dirt filled creases that run from the middle of the top of the cover, to the near middle of the reader edge. It has about 1/4 inch worth of paper missing on the spine, and a taco sauce stain on the back cover... I mean does anybody take these guys seriously anymore?

Yeah, I looked at the auction yesterday after I saw Eric's post. I saw that book and just laughed.  It's nowhere near F+.  VG+ maybe.

I don't have any hard data on the All-Story, Oct 1912, but my sense is it's pretty scarce.  My only hesitation from flat out declaring it "scarce" or "rare" is my suspicion that quite a few are locked up in Burroughs collections.

On 12/23/2021 at 7:34 PM, Blorgon scum said:

I believe that this is the last Arkham House collection of Clark Ashton Smith's stories published in 1988.  It collects stories from Averoigne, Atlantis, Hyperborea, Lost Worlds, and Zothique.

Yep, it's kind of a greatest hits collection.  All of the stories appeared in earlier AH CAS collections.  There is a 2nd printing from 2003 with a different cover.

Two things come to mind: humidity and rough handling.  

On 9/21/2021 at 10:57 PM, htp said:

Here's something I've never seen before. The first publication of The Music of Erich Zann in The National Amateur:

 

That first page article 'Rainbow' Called Best First Issue is a review of Sonia Greene's (HPL's future wife) amateur magazine.  I believe it lasted only two issues.

On 10/13/2021 at 2:21 PM, OtherEric said:

I would even say some titles are experiencing run-wide jumps with non-key issues.  Weird Tales and Planet Stories, for instance.  And even at the low end you're less likely to find underpriced books like you used to.  But a generic western issue won't have moved much, for instance.

Yes, good point on Weird Tales and Planet. 

On 10/13/2021 at 5:27 AM, waaaghboss said:

Can I ask if you guys with more experience have noticed an increase in the price of pulps over the last couple of years?

Yes, there have been large increases in high-grade, keys, first appearances, classic covers, and important stories or authors (like HPL).  But not much change in your average low grade pulp.

Detective Action, Aug-Sep 1937

Classic skull cover, Death Eyes story

VG $400

Two bound volumes of Scientific Detective / Amazing Detective Tales, the Gernsback bedsheet from 1930.

Contains The Bishop Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine, a Philo Vance mystery.

$1000 for the pair.

I've got a pulp sales thread going right now.  Come take a look. 

RedFury's pulp sale

Weird Tales
Dec 1924

Very rare early issue.  These pulp sized issues right after the bedsheets are very difficult to find.

Former bound copy.  Spine has been reinforced, but rest of book is beautiful.

$1500

On 9/18/2021 at 5:02 PM, Joshua33 said:

Yours!  Thank you!

On 9/18/2021 at 4:15 PM, Joshua33 said:

Post your return policy in the rules section. I'd hate to see this thread taken down, there are some beautiful books that are really making me salivate here 

Thank you, I forgot about that. It's been a while since I've done a sales thread.  Updated!