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You gotta "Mannup" to win high grade Rainbows up in here

When you get tired of your Mountain Woman, you go get you a River Woman Uni-love

Red Head Alert Rainbows are desirable as it is but this waaaay red Howell Dodd wench makes it extra inviting...

Here's a cool Uni-corn. Mountain sleaze digest with a pretty Saul Levine cover. It's even got a "Tennessee mapback" She fled Greenwich Village for this dude's shack

Please sir, I'd like another That's gotta be a Driben

You in the club I think as Shirley Jackson has risen in the canon of literature, all of her 50's - 70's paperbacks have very quietly, become widely collected, and deservedly so. To me she's similar to Walter Tevis, a fairly low output but almost universally exceptional and lasting.

M2041 in nice shape has gotten pretty tough. It took me about a year to find a really nice one at a decent price. For some reason, similar to Lancer books, the cover paper gets brittle if not stored well and the corners get stiff bends or chipped off.

"Classic Hungry Devil Cover" One Million Dollars!

Haven't bought many lately due to all the fake pricing but I still kick the tires enough to come up with a few that I like. First Ted Sturgeon story Great Heinlein cover.

Love these. I only have the two Maguires but I wouldn't kick the others off the shelf All tough to find.

I sold my later print of this last sale since I finally found a nice copy of the first print. All I can say is that it's the Dickens trying to find the first print of this unforgettable fantasy in nice shape. Bill Teason's cover art on this captures such a strange creature with eerie detail. It fits the story so well - is she or isn't she a witch? Shapeshifter? You'll have to read it for yourself, sometimes she seems like a very ordinary wise azz child-teen. I had long discussions with several dealers at the L.A. Vintage paperback about how compelling a little book it is (and how no one at that show had a copy - it was one I was looking for there.)

Great digests Does this mean it's Atlas Time ?

Did someone say Headquarters Detective? August 1941 is red hot

I tried searchimg this thread for this book but find it impossible on the phone to narrow down a search to this thread. It's a pretty crazy Flessel cover as it's later than his Adventure stuff and the victim is obviously Tojo himself, one of the most racist mass murderers of all time. I don't understand why it's not labeled a Tojo cover? It was in my Overstreets???

It has taken a couple of years but, over time, I've managed to make a full shelf of Arkhams

Beautiful Skull cover from 1943. $10 in high grade. Might even be racist A cultural artifact for sure.

The comic didn't have to be named such to be worth a lot, it's just the sad fate of the paperbacks to be worth less (not worthless!)

I shared this on Have a Cigar but figured I'd link it here. I still have some comics. To fit in the context of this thread, I'll just say that if this was a paperback it would probably only be worth fifty bucks

Long story on this one. I submitted it to CGC back in 2015 with a large bunch of other Golden Age when I was selling a fair bit of what I had left of Golden Age comics. They put the wrong label on it (for the Charlton U.S. Marines) and I never got around to sending it back in for correction until this month. And my wife says I'm a procrastinator Anyway I'm gad I didn't since this book is so wicked and I probably would have sold it back then. It's kinda big so they put it in a magazine holder.

I recognize her She's a toughie! There were a bunch of those Postcard books back in the 90's. I have "Love Was Cheap and Life Was High" buried somewhere, one of my sisters gave it to me for Christmas back then

I really like how Bischoff's stylized approach works for Fantasy & Sci-Fi. This was a landmark collection for Bantam.

When I got back into collecting vintage paperbacks 7 years ago, a distant, yet seemingly unreasonable goal was getting back the 3 rarities I most regretted selling back in the 90's 😪 Well, with the recent addition of the Studio Pocket Edition of Jim Thompson's "Sins of the Fathers", the trio is back in the fold. All three of my original copies were pulled out of the ceiling-high stacked boxes in the "store" of Mike, the Greenwich Village beatnik who sold his collection out of his basement apartment, many to me, in the early 1980's when I roamed West 4th Street in search of paper treasure. These 3 are the "Top Of The Bill" as far as I'm concerned in the vintage paperback world as far as the combo of rarity and desirability. YMMV

Happy Mother's Day Sins of The Fathers (Heed the Thunder) by Jim Thompson. Studio Pocket Edition No. 4. 1952. A truly rare Jim Thompson pb with spectacular cover art 💞 One of the most sought after vintage pb's. The artist on this Canadian Studio Pocket is still uncredited after all these years but did such beautiful lines, suggestive yet undefined and artful eye candy. An old friend just come home. I had a gorgeous copy of this in my first collection that I sold 30 years ago and have been looking for a nice copy since I started collecting again 7 years ago. This turns back the clock for me to my college daze since I bought my first copy from Mike, the basement book seller on West 4th Street during my Greenwich Village wanderings when I attended NYU in the early '80's.

Probably not as common to find as with comics since the extra cover wasn't stapled to the book like with a comic book. These extra covers probably fell away and were discarded.

He did a lot of small work in the 1940's that would probably be tough to put all together but you might as well get as many as you can if you find them for the right price