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"Campus Town" by Hart Stillwell Popular Library #331 1951 $125 SOLD to mstrange Bondage/Whipping/Headlights GGA cover by Earle Bergey. One of the rarest, most sought after and reproduced cover images in all of Vintage Paperbacking. Fine Plus. Solid, square and glossy. No major creases, light general wear, finger bend, some minor color flecking to the cover, very slight waviness to the pages. A cornerstone book of any serious collector.

"I'll Get Mine" by Thurston Scott Popular Library #452 1952 $100 SOLD to Susanville One of the most classic "pop culture" drug vintage paperbacks that appears on fridge magnets, coffee mugs, posters and t-shirts. Great A. Leslie Ross GGA cover of a drug ho leaning on a street corner lamppost. This has become a very difficult book, especially in the first printing. Another one I probably should keep, it's pretty much equal to my keeper. Fine Plus. Solid, square and glossy. No major creases, only light general wear, a couple light stain marks on back cover that don't photograph.. A haunting book.

The Moon Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Ace 53755-3 September 1978 $22 SOLD to Comical Situations Later edition of this incredibly striking Frazetta cover that gets rid of the giant font and white space at the top and lets the image take the whole cover. I love these editions and this is a sweet copy. Very Fine minus. Beautiful glossy copy with a smooth cover. Colors are deep. Off white pages, minimal toning to interiors. Hint of a hair of a crease at the spine and tiny fold at lower right cover. Tiny color fleck at spine. A beauty.

1984 by George Orwell Signet Giant S798 1st Paperback Edition with the famous Alan Harmon GGA cover art. 11th Printing with the gold border and labeled a Signet "Giant" (It's fatter than the earlier versions but the same page length (so maybe thicker paper?)) $40 SOLD to dover As with the last copy I offered, not much to say except it's one of the most famous paperback covers in vintage Science Fiction and one of the most significant anti-totalitarian writings of the 20th century. This is a great looking bargain copy. Very Good/Very Good plus. Square and tight. Covers glossy. A bit of spine edge wear to the front edge along with back cover corner creasing. First page is loose, some unevenness to the pages, which are fairly heavily toned but mostly solid in the binding, which is notorious for splitting and falling apart (See page edge pic, looks much better than described)

The Spider #4 Death and the Spider by Grant Stockbridge Pocket Books 77953 1975 $22 SOLD to N e r V Even more great Robert Maguire GGA cover art. Another toughie in high grade. Very Fine. Glossy copy with deep colors. Spine is square and tight. Virtually no creasing or edgewear. Great page and inside cover quality. A killer.

The Spider #3 The City Destroyer by Grant Stockbridge Pocket Books 77943 1975 $22 SOLD to N e r V More great Robert Maguire GGA cover art. Tough in high grade. Very Fine. Glossy copy with deep colors. Spine is square and tight. Virtually no creasing or edgewear. Great page and inside cover quality. A stellar copy.

The Spider #1 Death Reign of the Vampire King by Grant Stockbridge Pocket Books 77952 1975 $22 SOLD to N e r V Great Robert Maguire GGA cover art. Unusual for a GGA artist to do a Pulp PB series like this. Not tough in lower grades but not common in very high grades like these. Very Fine. Glossy unread copy with deep colors, bright and white. Spine is square and tight. Virtually no creasing or edgewear. Great page and inside cover quality. An excellent copy.

Good eye as usual my friend. That's one to pack away and look at in 10 years

Conan The Usurper by Robert E. Howard. Edited by L. Sprague De Camp Lancer Books 73-599 Volume 4 of the Complete Conan. 1st Printing of the 1st paperback collection of these stories. 1967 $18 SOLD @30% off to mstrange Classic Frazetta cover. Contains The Treasures of Tranicos, Wolves Beyond The Border, The Phoenix On The Sword, The Scarlet Citadel. 1st Print with "A Lancer Book 1967" on copyright page. Fine. Glossy and tight. Has spine slant, hairline reader crease, nick to the top edge, light edgewear. Usual amount of toning to the covers and pages (bright copies of Lancers are quite scarce and at a premium).

The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace 53704 Undated, probably 1974 or 1975 $12 SOLD to goldust40 One of Frazetta's most classic images. The full page back cover is incredible. Fine. Glossy and tight with finger bend, spine edgewear and spine stresses. Light edgewear and surface wear. Still an attractive copy.

Tales From The Crypt Ballantine U2106 1st Print August 1965 $60 SOLD to goldust40 Very high grade copy of a tough Ballantine EC. Classic cover with "Frank Frazetta" chiseled on the grave stone Very Fine minus/Very Fine. Super glossy and square copy with no bends or creases. Great colors. Almost no wear at all on an extremely tough black cover book. I really shouldn't sell this.

The Vault Of Horror Ballantine U2107 1st Print August 1965 A classic Ballantine EC collection. $40 SOLD to OtherEric High grade copy of a tough Ballantine EC. Fine Plus/Very Fine minus. Glossy copy with no bends or creases on the covers. Great colors. Light edgewear, mostly to the corners and page toning.

Having some issues transferring my phone photos here so it may be slow going but I'm gonna hang in there and keep trying!

The Best Of Creepy, Tempo Books 448-05368 1971 $35 SOLD to goldust40 Classic Frazetta Werewolf vs. Dracula Cover & Creepy mag stories Fine/Fine Plus - hairline reader crease and some edgewear/nicks. Tough Black cover

Re-Cap September 5th: 30% of all P 1 Conan The Usurper by Robert E. Howard. Edited by L. Sprague De Camp Lancer Books 73-599 Volume 4 of the Complete Conan. 1st Printing of the 1st paperback collection of these stories. 1967 $18 SOLD P 2 Mad In Orbit Signet S2157 1st Print August 1962 $30 The Indigestible Mad Signet P3477 1st Print March 1968 $30 P 3 The Organization Mad Signet S1795 $35 Three Ring Mad Signet S2439 1st edition 1st Print March 1964 $30 The Icepick in Ollie Birk by Eunice Sudak Lancer Books 73-467 1st Printing 1966 $25 SOLD G.I. Girls by John Jakes Monarch Books 339 April 1963 $30 SOLD Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace F-204 1st print of the 1st US PB May 1963 $10 SOLD P 4 Tarzan at The Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace F-180 1st print of the 1st US PB. January 1963 $10 P 7 The Green Hills of Earth by Robert Heinlein Signet #943 First Printing July 1952 $25 The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein Signet S1639 First Printing March 1959 $25 Glory Road by Robert Heinlein Avon V2202 7th printing of the 1st Paperback edition September 1967 $12 The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov Fawcett Crest 24110 1st PB, 4th Printing, 1979 $12 P 11 Macamba by Lilla Van Saher Popular Library 233 1950 $20 The Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald Keyhoe, Gold Medal 107 1950 $45 P 12 Dormitory Women by R. V. Cassill Signet #1646 First Printing March 1959 $30 P 13 The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pyramid Books G514 Second printing - Movie Tie In Edition June 1960 $25 P 14 The Shadow, The Red Menace #7 in the series by Maxwell Grant Pyramid N3875 August 1975 $12

Ok, Ok, I don't dive around in a ginormous bin of vintage paperbacks but, come to think of it, my warped mind thinks that might be fun As I promised some of y'all in PMs, I've been busy buying, sorting, comparing and A/B' ing books since the last sale and have a ton of under-copies, equal-copies and "I can't make up my mind" copies to show, as well as some "I can't collect every vintage paperback" copies Anyway, I have a LOT of vintage paperbacks! As I noted last time, turning 60 brings on some realizations that I can't keep 'em all so having a lot of fun releasing cool books both old and newer. Lots of high grade and near high grade genre 60's-70's books with the best cover art and plenty of my favorite stuff, the classic publishers from the 1940's-60's Golden Age of vintage paperbacks. There's gonna be plenty for everybody, including quite a few of the most classic covers 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 offer or questions. I'm always open to reasonable package offers.

Let's just say that Robert Maguire's daughter (and from what I understand, the estates of quite a few other vintage paperback authors) lacks love for the Connor Brother's unauthorized use of the art. I completely understand considering the lack of originality they have and the fortune they've made copying others works. http://www.ramaguirecoverart.com/

Bober is great. I have a couple of those Alfred Hitchcock Dells. The feverish hunger and search for this single painting credit reminds me in no small part of my search for Raymond Johnson, inspired by our very own boards, although Johnson was this situation in reverse; an artist with a huge known oeuvre of work who no one knew anything about - and whose own family ultimately, and sadly, had nothing to contribute to his story, except indirectly

Incredible Robert Crowl GGA cover. He followed Raymond Johnson at Avon and painted pretty wimmen real good

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I'm stoked . .. always looking for pb action - I think I'm starting my promised September super sale this weekend so I need to preload for my post-sale regret/depression period

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Man you got busy on the bargains while I was tied up prepping for a hurricane that ended up missing us and I missed the pb section! Nice takes - those Avons are both Peter Driben covers

Never know where to post True Crime pickups but I guess pulp is as good as anywhere. Love the colors (& headlights, natch!) on this one. May 1938 issue.

Some Friday fun in the mail today: I've never seen a copy of this Woolrich title without the color worn off the spine so was super happy to grab this beauty. Cover by William Wirts. I've gotten all the Lancer Conan's now but have been looking for upgrades and/or nice copies and first printings for my next sale because I was asked a lot about them. The covers Frazetta produced for this series are truly iconic I had not gone after the Mad paperbacks in the past, in part because they seemed common and too hard to tell the printings. I think I finally have it figured out and the true first printings of all the 1950's and 60's Mad pbs are quite hard to locate, although Mad paperbacks in general appear common because there were so many printings of almost all of them. Cover by Norman Mingo. Don't Crowd Me is a tough Evan Hunter title to find in any kind of decent shape. This is the best I've found so far. Cover art by Walter Popp.