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Surfing Alien

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  1. I know that it will never have Pedigree status but this is Frank Brunner's copy of Brundage's 1st WT cover. I have several others of his pulps. Mostly upper mid-grade like this, but priceless. His Bran Mak Morn portfolio should have been Weird Tales illos
  2. Depends on if you're going to read them or not. Abridgement is all over the place on pbs, it's usually notated somewhere on the cover or inside whether it's abridged or "NOT ONE WORD CUT!"
  3. First, paperbacks with dust-jackets, now paperbacks that are hardcovers! What will they think of next Seriously, those little Perma hardcovers are pretty cool. Most of the first 101 of the Perma "P" series are hardcovers and mostly non-fiction, but those went away and Doubleday eventually sold the line to Pocket, who changed it to the more successful "M" series which had some very collectible pb's, including the 3 James Bond titles and the Ed McBain (Evan Hunter) books.
  4. I don't see it. It looks like Walter Popp to me or the unidentified artist who did the Steve Harragan digest covers
  5. That's a cool piece. I believe the congressional hearing transcripts are on Google books or somewhere, I remember reading the transcripts when I was researching Raymond Johnson and it was pretty funny reading the interplay between the publishers, who were like nothing to see here, move along.... and the hard liners who were positive that every kid who read "The Amboy Dukes" was going to drop out of school, smoke reefers and murder somebody
  6. The 1st pb edition in English is the Armed Services Edition (although the original 1895 Heineman edition was released in boards and wraps, I don't consider that a mass market type paperback) in 1945. Penguin released a paperback edition in 1946 but it is the usual boring Penguin all-type cover (that I have never collected, although there are plenty of enthusiasts, I was never one, I MUST have a pictorial cover, even if it's a picture of the hardcover ) The Pan 1953 edition was the first commercially available mass market pb edition with a pictorial cover. I only have the 1954 second print of that one
  7. Another humble pickup. Genius Loci is like an old friend to me as I believe it was the first Arkham House book I bought back in the '80's when I first started collecting so it's nice to have one again. The Wakefield dj image always creeped me out
  8. I love that you did this in your Little Carousel of Comics
  9. I think you mean, a great image, but not a great scan because that is a great looking image to me
  10. Did the Docs tell you collecting Vintage Paperbacks was like quicksand 🤔🤪
  11. I like my sleaze by Bonfils to be dusky, busty, unadorned, and written by famous Beatnik Richard E. Geis under an African American female sounding pseudonym
  12. This one is straight up your alley Beau (Not my copy, it's buried and too many pics on my phone to dig through ) About the "Girls" taking to selling Magazines, and a little more I read it about a year ago and recall it actually has a lot of background about the magazine selling business and a good page turner. Hitt wasn't quite at the "Gold Medal" writer level but his best could have been for sure. I saw a credit for Frank Uppwall as the cover artist on the webs but looks like Dodd (or Nappi) to me. Almost every Beacon from this time was reprinted from an earlier Universal related mag or digest but I don't know this one without digging into it.
  13. Some more Sci Fi for the Friday Fun... The Ace series were the Heinlein Juvenile editions my sister gave me when I was about 11 that hooked me on Heinlein and Science Fiction as a whole. They are also, for the most part, the first pb editions of his "juveniles". Those copies were read to death and have gone to the great pb graveyard in the sky but these here beauties are going in the cabinet to stay "Rocket Ship Galileo" was the first one she gave me and it was perfect because I was a wise-alecky punk kid and it's about a bunch of wise-alecky punk teens who help build a rocket, go to the moon This blazing copy let's the Steel Savage artwork shine. His paintings were like good friends to a whole generation of geeky teen age boys. First published in 1947, First PB published in 1970 As the back cover blurb suggests, Lummox, "The Star Beast" was "just about the most appealing and lovable creature of the kind ever delineated". Steel Savage again with the unforgettable artwork on this blazer. Who could resist Lummox? First published in 1954, First PB published in 1970
  14. I've read about a dozen Orrie Hitt novels (and have more in the stacks), they are definitely a cut above most of the sleaze titles. His characters are almost always regular people struggling to get one step ahead of the bills and end up doing questionable things to get there. Like almost all sleaze titles from the higher class publishers (Beacon/Monarch etc.) there is far less graphic groping than the covers suggest (and nothing like modern mainstream books like "Shades of Grey"). In order not to hijack Jim's excellent thread, if you go hang out here: Maybe I'll post a few Plus it's just a fun place to hang
  15. I like the colorful spines on Avons, reminds me of candy. Eye candy
  16. A real nice DeSoto cover goes a long way. I've only read one Flora novel, "Park Avenue Tramp" which was a somewhat depressingly fatalistic noir about a rich control freak's alcoholic wife and the shot at actual love she discovers on one of her benders. It's noir so of course, there's no polyanna ending, even though Flora makes you hope for it. I'd read another.
  17. I don't have it but have flipped through and Lovisi's guide is listed by subject matter with many color photos, which is great but not a true reference catalog. It's actually kind of like how modern collectors might collect, rather than old school run collectors. Warren's guide is listed by publisher, then series then number and is meant to be a complete reference. It lists 40,000 paperbacks with far fewer pictures. It has a fantastic author index in the back which is great for author collectors. The cover artists credits (not indexed) aren't perfect but still the best pre-internet collection of credits. Having both isn't a bad thing
  18. No, it's my brain needs a revision I'm pretty sure there was only one print but I could be wrong
  19. Bantam, Penguin and Pocket most notably. They go for far more than their unjacketed counterparts, except the Penguins with non pictorial covers, which are kinda cool if you run into them dirt cheap but very un-thrilling compared to the "lurid covers over banal covers" that the cool ones have.
  20. To say I'm jealous is an understatement! That's high grade for that unicorn