Surfing Alien

Great books. My favorite genre I have 5 of the 7 but have never seen "The Hollow Needle". Just shows you that no matter how many vintage pb's you look at, there's always something new

Further mirroring our pal catrick339, I'll offer anything left on the recap page at $7 per listing until 6PM EST this evening and then close this puppy up. If you were on the fence on something, go for it, some crazy bargains left at that price

Steel Town could almost be Ray Johnson, look at Ann Sheridan and look at Johnson's Wonderful Bra ad from the late 1940's Of course, Johnson could have just used an Ann Sheridan photo or magazine tear sheet for his model like artists so often did but it's funny how certain images will hit you like "Hey, I've seen that before..."

This one fits multiple objectives in my collecting universe

Ok, this is the 15th and final one off the stack for the $10 sale and a classic it is Rampart Street by Everett and Olga Weber Pocket Books No. 681 9th Print 1954 $10 SOLD Classic Barye Phillips bondage cover, one of the most risque Pocket Books covers for sure. Fine. Has a light cover crease front and back or would grade higher, a very square and tight copy with bold colors and little wear.

Nobody Lives Forever W. R. Burnett Bantam No. 888 1951 Classic Noir $10 SOLD Fine Plus Solid square spine, pages tight. A few light cover creases. Nice copy.

Love In The Latin Quarter by Henri Murger Avon 163 1948 $10 SOLD Fine Plus, very white for a 75 year old book.

The Crimson Frame Alwyn Lee Martin Gold Medal 253 Canadian edition 1952 Sweet Barye Phillips Good Girl cover. Fine. Square tight spine and pages. Light spine wear.

Agreement To Love Joseph Herron Newsstand Library U126 1960 Robert Bonfils GGA cover $10 SOLD Fine. Bold colors, glossy cover. Light corner crease on back. Book has a slight wave.

Johnson did at least one movie poster that I know of, and came from a film animation background so was familiar with the techniques, also, Popular Library did quite a few of this type of multiple vignette covers in the late 50's - it was an art director thing I'm pretty sure.

Run While You Can William Woolfolk Popular 790 1956 Hard boiled noir. Ray Johnson Good Girl cover Fine, looks VF has small tear/wear to back cover $10 SOLD

Killer To Come Sam Merwin Jr. Galaxy Novel Digest No. 22 1954 1st PB Ed Emsh cover art with Good Girl. Fine with reading crease $10

The Humanoids Jack Williamson Galaxy Novel Digest No. 21 1954 $10 SOLD 1st PB of a Williamson classic. Ed Emsh robot cover Near fine, has a light code on cover and some surface soiling. Bindery chip on back. Glossy. $10

Two Sinners Lee Jackquin Stork Original Novels No. 8 1950 $10 SOLD Last issue. Very rare L.B. Cole cover digest. You'll likely never see another for ten bucks. Browning and brittle at the tips, Cover splitting but still holding on.

A Woman's Heart by Guy De Maupassant Avon 175 1948 $10 SOLD Early Avon GGA cover. Fine - some creasing on back cover only. Front is gorgeous.

The Kiss-Off Douglas Heyes Signet 949 1952 Hard boiled noir with a great Carl Bobertz cover. From the Hi Grade Collection. Glossy Very Fine minus. $10 SOLD

The Quick Red Fox John D. MacDonald Gold Medal k1464 PBO 4th Travis McGee GGA cover by Ron Lesser Fine Plus - appears lightly read - slight spine crease and has some surface/storage wear $10

The Imperial City Elmer Rice Avon 273 1950 Headlights/GGA cover $10 SOLD VG/F solid tight binding, has some page edge unevenness. Long crease on back cover. Lamination is all there. Pretty nice copy.

Ace D-453 1960. The Games of Neith by Margaret St. Clair 1st Edition/The Earth Gods Are Coming by Kenneth Bulmer. GGA cover art by Ed Emshwiller. $10 Fine Plus. Bright square and glossy. Has a few light surface creases from handling but appears unread or lightly read.

Gonna start this puppy up again, have a nice stack of various stuff so hopefully there'll be something for everyone. Ace D-497 1961 Wandl The Invader by Ray Cummings 1st Edition Cover by Ed Valigursky. I Speak For Earth by Keith Woodcott. Cover by Ed Emshwiller. $10 SOLD Fine Plus. Solid square and glossy. Light spine wear. Appears unread or very lightly read. A pretty copy overall. Showing both so you can see how nice it is.

There's a fair likelihood that this was a re-use by the editors. Goodman was as cheap if not cheaper than most publishers and it was common practice. Although many of the pre-Atlas digests have what are obviously original compositions by Cardwell Higgins and the like, this one is kind of unique in having only one subject. The signature right next to the head would be unusual in a cutout unless this was cut out of a larger painting that just happened to have the head in a corner somewhere with the signature next to the head. Time may tell if enough folks have an eye out for it.

Most of my surfing time yesterday got took up with my $10 sale thread but I was delighted to find that the postman dropped this in the box. I've been looking for a high grade copy of this pre-Atlas digest since finding (and posting here) a good copy a couple of years ago. A rare book. It speaks (screams? chokes?) for itself but I think it's one of Saunders sickest covers. Color strike & gloss is... er.. killer

Ok, we'll call that a wrap for today. I have a stack of about 15 more bargain books that I think will be appreciated around here so I'll put them up tomorrow when I have a chance. There's some honey-do to do so I'm not sure what time that's gonna be. Thanks for the takes and likes as always

A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Bantam F2212 $10 SOLD 1st PB edition 1st Print of the 1961 Hugo Award winner. One of the best post holocaust novels, still highly studied today and belongs in any serious science fiction collection. Tough to find decent copies of this 1st VG/F Solid and square, has surface wear and creasing but glossy and all together

Well the Rays are getting hurt by the Orioles so there's no fun in watching that But seriously I'm winding it down, I have enough of a stack pulled out for a small session tomorrow so am probably leaving it alone after the next one. You did miss taking the big dog though