Surfing Alien

Great covers and stories there. I must be losing my mind

Truth!

Going to do some two-fers here and there too just to move em out... Who? Algis Budrys Pyramid G339 1958 PBO Cover by Robert Engel & Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Hunt Collins (Ed McBain/Evan Hunter) Pyramid G214 1956 Cover by Bob Lavin Nice looking copies, G214 has water warping to front half. $10 SOLD to OtherEric

The Deep Blue Goodbye John D. MacDonald. Gold Medal k1405 1964 Travis McGee PBO Cover art by Ronnie Lesser Fine-ish. Has VF structure qualities, some bends, chip and a corner ding $10 SOLD to goldust40

The Bloody Bokhara William Campbell Gault Dell 746 1953 Hard boiled noir. Griffith Foxley GGA cover art. Nice fine-ish copy, has some moisture staining to pages but square and tight $10

Thanks. Nice take. Cool book!

Babes and Sucklings Philip Wylie Avon 375 1951 Cover art (Looks like Bill Randall to me) re-used on cover of comic book Intimate Confessions #8 Nice copy, cover a bit curled but Fine-ish looking $10 SOLD to OtherEric

Waiting For Willy Jack Houston Avon 492 1952 George Erickson GGA cover art. Nice solid Fine copy $10 SOLD to OtherEric

The Creeping Shadow Hard boiled noir by Sci Fi and Mystery writer and editor Sam Merwin Jr. Gold Medal 227 1953 PBO Carl Bobertz cover art. Beautiful copy - Fine/VF-ish $10

ReCap P 1 The Creeping Shadow Sam Merwin Jr. Gold Medal 227 The Bloody Bokhara William Campbell Gault Dell 746 Gretta Erskine Caldwell Signet 1342 Avati P 2 Johnny Havoc Meets Zelda John Jakes Belmont 90-261 1962 PBO Rendezvous in Black Cornell Woolrich Pocket 570 1949 1st Print Space Platform Murray Leinster Pocket No. 920 1st Print 1953 Classic cover by Earle Bergey A Mad Look at Pictures - Illustrated by Jack Davis & Mort Drucker Signet D2955 1st Edition 1st Print November 1966 P 3 Planet of the Dreamers John D. MacDonald Pocket 943 1st Print 1953 Rod Dunham cover art Stairway to Death Bruno Fischer Pyramid G270 1957 1st PB Gorgeous Harry Schaare cover art P 4 Killer In The Rain Raymond Chandler Pocket 75138 1965. 1st PB The After House Mary Roberts Rinehart Popular Library 21. 1944 Scarce Bob Son Of Battle Alfred Ollivant Pocket Books No. 61 1st Print 1940 Review copy with review card inside. P 5 The Wrath and the Wind Alexander Key Popular 1608 1955 2nd print Rafael DeSoto slave girl GGA cover Murder In Space David V. Reed Galaxy Novel Digest No. 23 1954 1st PB Edition Great Ed Emsh cover Tanar of Pellucidar & The Moon Maid Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace G-735 & G-745 Roy Krenkel Jr. Cover art. The Legion Of Space by Jack Williamson Galaxy Novel Digest No. 2 1950 Cover art by Paul Calle. The first pb P 6 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Bantam 717 1st Printing 1949 1st PB Ace D-453 1960. The Games of Neith by Margaret St. Clair 1st Edition/The Earth Gods Are Coming by Kenneth Bulmer. The Quick Red Fox John D. MacDonald Gold Medal k1464 PBO 4th Travis McGee P 7 The Crimson Frame Alwyn Lee Martin Gold Medal 253 Canadian edition 1952

In the spirit of our pal @catrick339, I am going to clear the decks with a thread of $10 paperbacks. My previous threads have been more on the higher end but there's a whole world of cool stuff for lesser money and I have boxes of books in my way that I might as well chug through, minimum wage be damned! There's not gonna be any Reform School Girl in here but I guarantee plenty of great cover art, 1st editions, books that I'd list out in my main thread but in a lesser condition and who knows what else. I'm going to abbreviate my format and just show one pic to save time although I'll probably not be able to help myself and give a lot of description. That's a prescription for not making much/hr but I seriously have way too many paperbacks and figure it's a way to give back to everyone who's taken in the past and maybe entice some new readers. I've been buying selling and trading Vintage pb's since the Hancer Price Guide came out back in the 80's. Been on Ebay since 1998 with 100% positive feedback. I tend to grade paperbacks in the manner of current pulp grading: Poor/Fair/Good/Very Good/Fine/Very Fine I'm a high grade collector so my books are almost all Very Good and better if they're available in those grades. Many pre-1960 books just aren't available in high grade often so I try to find solid Good-Very Good ones if I can. The rules for this thread are: -No HoS or Probation list buyers -I will ship to Canada but will have to quote shipping options. -Payment via Venmo or Paypal preferred. I also can do Zelle although it is a bit more of a pain to do. -Shipping via USPS Media Mail for $4 or Priority Small Box for $11 for the continental United States. More than one book I will ship at the least extra cost practicable. Shipping for Canada will be quoted. -First in the thread wins and prevails over pm offers -Returns accepted for 14 days after delivery but please let me know asap if you are unhappy for any reason and I will make it right. I do miss things occasionally. Feel free to pm with offers or questions. I'm always open to reasonable package offers although at these prices, I'm going to sit pretty firm.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programing... It wouldn't be Friday without some Friday Fun. This came in today, I really like the early Other Worlds with the original banner logo and especially the Harold McCauley covers (ok, the Bok covers as well ) There's something about the thick, square digest format that is very appealing to me. Nekkid wimmen in floating spheres are appealing as well Also got in an upgrade of Rex Stout's "Door To Death" Dell dimer. Always looking for nice dimers since the flimsy little things are so tough without creases.

Well, since we're flooding the thread with True Crime, I'll post this recent pickup. I have a real soft spot for the 1930's & 40's mags with soft palette paint techniques of guys like Stockton Mulford, who painted this half nekkid gun toting moll for the cover of the November 1939 Startling Detective Adventures.

Great to see

Thanks. I believe it's available at Magzter, preview here: https://www.magzter.com/stories/art/Illustration/THE-ART-OF-RAYMOND-JOHNSON and you can flip through the pics, but not be able to read the text at issuu https://issuu.com/illomag/docs/illustration77small

I took a look at your Flickr and blog and have to say, very nice, I appreciate what you do. It's pretty apparent that you love old smelly paper (or moreso, turning old smelly paper into digital copies for posterity ) I'd never have the patience myself, it's an excellent quality volume of painstaking work and looks like you're into a very broad range of stuff I wrote a biography and co-authored a checklist of paperback/MAM GGA artist Raymond Johnson for Illustration #77, the seeds of which actually arose out of conversations between and among the members of this very vintage paperback thread. Here's a link: http://www.theillustratedpress.com/77.html I just checked and am proud but a bit disappointed to see it has sold out because I'm almost out of copies

So you touch up scans of mags to have perfect scans for posting online? Or in publications? I'm interested because I did a lot of that for an article I wrote for Illustration.

That's Dodd

I'll have to bust Steve's chops on that one lol. He got lazy on this one. As you noted, more polished, far more polished. Dodd never painted slick details like that. Dodd, like Barye Phillips only painted enough to make the sale, great artist for sure but very spare. Popp painted lots of fine detail like this, plus I knew instantly because it's the same red headed woman/face with very thin eyebrows and fine features that he painted dozens of times, likely his wife. Like most artists, Popp rarely painted a cover with the model in side view, so it''s unusual. Can't find another side view cover but look at two of the side view women on this page (and the women's faces, hair and eyebrows in general in all his commercial work) and it's pretty obvious painted who this. https://www.americanartarchives.com/popp.htm Look at the face of the middle woman in the shower in "For Men Only, "The American Prisoner In Russia's Female Convict Colony" (1960) Popp - 012" and the woman on the far left toasting with the flagon in "Stag, "Last 10 Days In the Führer Private Underground Bunker" (1960) Popp - 017" It's the same woman in the same side face pose with the mouth open. He literally paints her multiple times in the same paintings all the time, with different hairdos. (I'm not complaining, he probably got paid $100 a "pop" who could afford multiple models!)

Beautiful, but that one is Walter Popp.

Very nice mags. We try not to talk about the True Crime mags around here because we don't want anyone else to be looking for them but sometimes we can't help ourselves

Mick is a proper Brit and has just about every digest ever printed, mind boggling. I'm sure he won't mind if I clip one of the pics of his honey hole since he posted it publicly. This ain't all of it

I was originally checking in here to thank @Pat Calhoun for posting his copy of "My Flesh Is Sweet" by Day Keene from time to time. Although I acquired a real nice copy long ago, I finally got a decent reader copy and have to confess I could not put it down. Read it in one day yesterday, including being induced to playing hooky from my real work to finish it Just a great noir with almost comical elements - the protagonist is a pulp writer, trying to sell a higher end novel to the slicks when he meets the proverbial sweet flesh who sweeps him away on improbable adventures - but brilliantly paced, with a touch of philosophical wistfulness. I've read about 10 of Keene's books now and this may be the best so far. The awesome Willard Downes nipple cover is a nice touch as well. Just a great little volume that everyone needs to own.

We never get tired of George Gross around here (Or Earle Bergey for that matter ) so post away!

Yes, the publishers owned the art, well into the 1960's/70's era. They used it over again until they couldn't find a use for it anymore and then, usually threw it away Welcome to the thread You probably know my buddies, micksidge (can't write his full name without being censored on this board ) and Steve Wallace on Flickr. Great guys with amazing collections. I don't post much there as it is so hap hazard but enjoy browsing around when I'm surfing about the web for info.