Surfing Alien

The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace 49291 2nd print of the 1st US Mass PB October 1969 $12 SOLD to Norrin'sLawyer Frank Frazetta Lost World art. This is from the bunch with heavier toning but has no writing. I'll call this one Fine. Glossy. Has reader creasing but in the white it doesn't break color. A color scrape on back edge. Whites are pretty good but have aging to the edges and the back cover has some foxing/toning. Pages and interior cover have heavier toning. Still a nice collectible copy.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace F-204 1st print of the 1st US PB May 1963 $15 SOLD to goldust40 Frank Frazetta art with beautiful color scheme. This is from a bunch I have that have heavier toning and varying degrees of mostly unobtrusive writing (or in this case indenting) on the cover but are still quite attractive. The previous owner obviously loved noting the year the story first came out. I'll call this one Near Fine. Very glossy. Hairline Reader crease. A few color flakes around the edges. Light finger bend at upper right. Indent of "1918" on cover above the girls hair that is very faint, hard to see, there is almost no ink in the indent. Tiny check mark on back cover and under "1918" on copyright page. Pages and interior cover have heavier toning. It's actually a bit darker than the photo appears. I'm not going to take photos of every interior but this is an example of these. Still a nice copy of a 60 year old vintage pb 1st. Now that they are properly stored, these should last another 60 years easy.

Beyond The Farthest Star by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace 05651 Second Print of the First PB October 1969 $18 SOLD to Tupenny Conan Gorgeous Frank Frazetta alien world cover. Very Fine. Super glossy and new looking. Bright colors and white whites. Pages and interior cover lightly toning. A beautiful book

I was originally going to list more on this thread next weekend but I forgot we are taking a short vacation then. In the meantime I have a ton of stuff kicking around the library from sorting and rather than put them away and pull them out again, I figure I'll just start listing again this week. It'll be in fits and starts as I gotta work during the day but there's going to be plenty of Frazettas in various grades and Good Girl cover stuff. I'm also going to run a few more low price sections with just one picture to save time as I think that's the best way to go for some good bargains. I'll get the remaining June 4th books into the recap and start fresh after that.

Weep For Me is so tough... Congrats... an amazing looking copy.

Love Romance Series Digests #1, 2 & 3. It took years but I finally assembled a set I never thought I'd complete. I had two of them stored away but they're free now in the library

That's fabtastic as well as the original post. John Wayne bootleg + "I Was An Experienced Gold-Digger" What a combo

Read the Black Lizard reprint of Robert Edmond Alter's "Swamp Sister" (Gold Medal s1095, cover by Mitch Hooks) on my flights to and from NYC this weekend. Great descriptive narrative getting the feel for the swamps. He only wrote a few but this was a boiler and understand the reputation now. Having lived about the swamps for 17 years now I tell you I would not be doing what this kid Shad was doing for 80k × 10

Take Humbug Digest VG/F $10 Incredible Hulk #1 NM- $25 Captain America #1 VF/NM $20

George Gross

Johnny C. and George Hagenauer, along with Brian Emrich, have or have had, many of the best surviving vintage paperback covers extant. Their galleries are amazing to browse.

When I first started collecting vintage pbs in the 1980's I was always attracted to Avon Books. I'd buy any Avon, they were so colorful with their comic-book like primary color schemes and so many great Good Girl covers. I could walk into any bookstore and spot an Avon spine on a shelf from across the store. To this day I am, and will probably always be, an Avon guy

This was mine for a moment in time

The crown jewel of pbs and so much more visually appealing, imho, than the comic book, which crudely cut out the image and pasted it on that yellow blank background. If your copy has the letters, it's a rare bird indeed, along with my copy, I've seen two others in the last 5 years - one rag of a copy was sold here on the boards a few years ago and there's currently a copy up on the 'bay, listed at 2K. A price it should fetch, but I doubt will. I posted the letters pages from my copy previously but will re-post here for reference - they're pretty creepy and I don't blame the model, Marty Collins' father for suing Avon, even though Marty was not portraying the girl writing the letters.

Very hard boiled with tons of American slang, although not quite as accurate as the American writers dished out. He was censored and brought to court numerous times in England for lewdness and violence, much like Hank Janson of the Reg Heade cover fame.

Started bringing my boxes back to the comic room (er, now "The Library" ) and got busy sorting some of the Ace's.

That's pretty nice, it has the usual fade of the blue to gray but the cover looks smooth They pop up but usually faded and creased. There aren't a ton of what I'd call the equivalent of WW2 comic book covers but this is one of the more striking ones, along with the Dell "I Was A Nazi Flyer"

Thanks! Excellent takes, the 1940's hard boiled books are classic and great period reading.

Thanks James, the kindest kind of comment

So, as I mentioned over in my sales thread, this happened this weekend in my old Comic Room After I figure out my shelf configurations, I'm going through my whole collection and installing them in the cabinets. They're 15" deep so I can double shelf even the Digests and still have room to display at the front of the shelf. I put some PKD's on a shelf to get a gist of how it's gonna look. Pardon the glare.

Okay, I need to wrap this sale up today. Take 20% off anything I listed yesterday and 10% off the already discounted prices on the re-cap page and I will update invoices today. Some great books still left there and I'm always open to reasonable offers if you want to haggle. I'll be sorting through my entire collection as I load books into the shelving unit I finished assembling this weekend. I'll post some pics in the Vintage Paperbacks thread over in the Pulp Section. This means I'll be getting to a lot of boxes that are stacked away and comparing best copies etc. so there will be some great stuff unboxed for my next sale

Last book for tonight... Thanks for the looks, takes and comments Tarzan at the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace 79852 March 1973 $15 SOLD to mrlatko Action packed Frank Frazetta cover art. Later "Tall" Ace printing with the larger cover art space. Very Fine minus/Very Fine. Super glossy. Spine is square and uncreased, no rubbing. Light corner crease on upper left back cover but otherwise has near perfect edges and corners all around. Pages fairly toned but supple with light toning to interior covers. A very pretty copy.

Carson of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace F-247 December 1963 $25 SOLD to mrlatko Moody signed Frazetta cover. First Ace edition ("Small" edition) and first American paperback edition. Tough to find these 1st/1sts in this shape any more. Very Fine minus. Glossy, appears unread. No reader crease, has light rub mark to lower front spine edge and a minute little dent to side cover. Some very light pressure marks on back cover. Toning is light. A great looking copy that looks better at 60 than I do

Lost on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace 49502 March 1973 $15 SOLD to NerV Frank Frazetta animal fight cover. Later print of the tall Ace edition with more cover art space than the first. Very Fine Minus/Very Fine. Super glossy and new looking. Some tiny color flakes on upper right edges. Pages and interior cover lightly toning. A beautiful specimen of a 50 year old vintage pb.