Surfing Alien

Untamed Darling by Jack Woodford   Avon No. 403   1952      $75  SOLD to Microbia

A staggering NM/M copy of this classic Peter Driben cover of Eve offering the apple.

I don't grade anything NM/M but here it is. Near perfect everything, including the ultra-glossy lamination. Small pencil arrival date code on top of first page. WHITE inside covers and off-white pages.  Just an incredible copy that can't be beat.

"GOD BLESS YOU PLEASE MRS. ROBINSON..."

The Graduate by Charles Webb Signet P3167   Sixth printing form 1967 with the Movie Tie-In  $30  SOLD to Goldust40

High grade copy of the Movie Tie-In edition.

VF   Square, tight and bright with tiny bindery chips and slight edgewear

Dark Crusade by Karl Edward Wagner   Warner Books 88-154    1st Edition, 1st Printing  $40  SOLD to Goldust40

1st appearance of Frazetta's "Dark Kingdom"  Kane, the most expensive Frazetta painting ever sold. Just got in a trade so offering it here.

Fine Plus. Solid, square and glossy, has some light spine wear and tiny edge and surface wear. Back cover has some slight discoloration or rubbing to it that is hard to photograph

On 4/25/2024 at 7:25 PM, piper said:

On 4/22/2024 at 8:32 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice   Ballantine Books 28126    4th Printing December 1979    $45

Rare later printing with the amazing Gothic cover by Tom Hall. The only printing out of dozens to feature cover art rather than graphics.

Square and tight with a reader crease, edgewear and crackling of the gloss finish.

 

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Great eye John - my favorite book in this whole sale

Payoff For The Banker  by Frances and Richard Lockridge  Pocket Books No. 501 1st Printing  March 1948   $15  SOLD to Goldust40

Pretty risque GGA for a Pocket Book. Art by Donald Beck

Amazing condition for a 75 year old book. VF  Unread. Square tight and super glossy with minimal edgewear.

Wild Fruit by Joan Sherman (Pseudonym of Peggy Gaddis)   Beacon B367   PBO    1960    $35

Elegant Good Girl art, likely by Milo or Darcy (Ernest Chiriaka)  

VF  Unread glossy square and tight with minimal edgewear. A gorgeous copy.

Four Carter Brown Signets   $20  SOLD to crassus

Some great McGinnis covers. They have various issues that keep them out of the higher grades but still present well and can be read if wanted

On 4/25/2024 at 7:11 PM, Inaflash said:

I’ll take it.

She's a beauty. Thanks!

Batman vs. The Penguin Paperback  Signet D2970  1966      $20  SOLD to mstrange

An affordable copy of probably the toughest of the Batman Signets to find in decent shape. Usually beat to death

Has light creases that don't break color, and soiling, mostly to the back cover. Still bright, square and collectible

The 31st Of February by Julian Symons   Bantam 1059   1953    $10  SOLD to OuterBoroGuy

Beautiful uncredited cover art on this mystery

Super glossy, unread copy with a few light bends, tiny edgewear

Scandalous by Ralph Carter    Century Book No. 91   1947    $20

Headlights GGA art by Malcolm Smith. These little paperback sized Century Books with the Smith art are tough to find in nice shape due to the paper covers

Fine plus. Bold colors. Square and tight with very light creases to the edges.

The Silken Nightmare by Carter Brown Signet G2400   First Printing 1963   $15

Nice peek-a-boo McGinnis Good Girl

Fine Plus.  Square and solid, looks VF.  Surface gloss is slightly disturbed.  Light code number on spine  Inside covers are snow white

The Captive Witch by Dale Van Every    Bantam A1090   1st Printing   Feb. 1953   $8  SOLD to Goldust40

Gorgeous Harry Schaare cover on this Bantam Giant, including a nice spanking panel on the back

Very nice copy with only spine wear to mention

Fistful of Death by Henry Kane   Avon T-276   PBO  1958    $25  SOLD to mstrange

Raymond Johnson redhead in a nice back shot.   A tough hard boiled original

Glossy and tight. Slight slant. Mild reader crease and a light crease on back.

Hill Girl by Charles Williams  Gold Medal s1138  9th Printing  1961    $5  SOLD to Darwination

A perfect reader with a nice alternate GGA cover. For anyone who hasn't read Williams, he is one of the best noir writers out of Gold Medal. Buy this to try him out.

Tight and complete with a fair amount of wear but still presentable.

Fools Die on Friday by Erle Stanley Gardner writing as A.A. Fair   Dell 2670    New Dell Edition   Dec. 1961  $20

Sweet Robert McGinnis GGA cover on this edition

VF minus  Pretty copy, Square tight and bright with a light bend and minimal wear. A touch of foxing.  Back is clean. 

The Fire Goddess by Sax Rohmer   Gold Medal 283.      PBO  First Print December 1952      $20  SOLD to Darwination

The second Sumuru novel.  Glorious Good Girl art remains uncredited however it is certainly in the style of, if not by, Barye Phillips.

Fine plus. Solid, square with glossy bold covers. Edgewear to the spine, no bad creases.

Yankee Pasha    Edison Marshall     Dell 353   Mapback  1949    $20  SOLD to Microbia

Bob Stanley topless GGA cover - one of the more daring Dells. The best copy I've listed, my former keeper.

VF minus  Glossy and bright, near perfect spine, light corner crease. Tough to find Dells this nice

Diary Of A Geisha Girl  by  Kimiko Omura as told to William Vaneer  Avon T-313  PBO    1959    $18  SOLD to Goldust40

A  scarce Avon classic cover GGA book. Cover art uncredited but in the style of Darcy (Ernest Chiriaka)

Glossy and tight. Slight slant, page uneveness, mild reader crease. Back is clean

French Alley by Matthew Clay  Zenith Books ZB-38   1960    $18  SOLD to Inaflash

Pretty prostitute cover art is uncredited

Glossy and tight. Slight slant, no creasing to speak of. Nice copy.

I'm going to try to get through more books today than I did yesterday, so I'm going to take the tack I do on cheapie threads and just do 1 pic on anything $20 and under (except a Double cover)  and try to keep the descriptions down. I'll note any glaring defects on the back and of course will provide more pics if anyone asks.

On 4/25/2024 at 11:19 AM, TheComicsPreacher said:

That book has settled near 1k a few times recently but I don't know if I'm ready to sell one. If anyone PM's me I won't ignore it but don't know If I would post in a thread. Decisions, decisions...

On 4/25/2024 at 10:30 AM, OuterboroGuy said:

Just of interest:  HA just completed an auction of some original pulp illustration art.  I missed it (but probably wouldn't have pulled the trigger anyway).  These are the two I really wanted.

 

Thanks for the "takes" I followed the auction closely because there was so much top notch material for the market to absorb, I hoped there might be a bargain or two among the lowly paperback cover art. There wasn't. Reefer Girl didn't surprise me, that is the most I've ever seen for a sleaze paperback cover OA. The study for it sold for 20K years ago so this was in the range where I expected it to be.  Quite a few of the pb covers went far beyond estimates, the Raders and a couple of lesbian themed doing particularly well.

Maybe it's time to sell my undercopy of "Reefer Girl"

On 4/19/2024 at 2:59 PM, Number 6 said:

DYING INSIDE by Robert Silverberg

"A-10.72 (V)" stated on copyright page as called for a true 1st edition, dust jacket correctly priced at $6.95, red paper covered boards with black titles to spine.

Book:  Fine, a bit of pushing to the head of the spine.  Binding is tight and firm, feels like an unread copy.

Dust Jacket:  Near Fine, unclipped.  A bit of wear to the top corners of the front panel and slight wear with an associated crease to the bottom corner of the front panel.  Now in a removable protective dust jacket cover.

$35.00 shipped in the U.S.  sold to Surfing Alien

 

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Number 6  is Number 1 in my book.

Gorgeous book arrived today, everything pretty. Thanks so much. I started reading it again, of course, and am hooked. 

Well, I can't top that one tonight and I have some things to get ready for tomorrow so I need to clip that jay here and will resume tomorrow after work. Thanks