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Virgin Planet by Poul Anderson Warner Paperback Library 75-462 October 1973 SIGNED by Poul Anderson $15 SOLD to mjoeyoung Stated second printing inside but this is actually a new Paperback Library edition with the beautiful Charles Moll cover art. Fine/Very Fine. Glossy and new looking. Unread with a touch of wear here there. Pages creamy and supple with minimal cover toning. A beautiful signed copy.

Nine Princes In Amber by Roger Zelazny Avon V2444 June 1972 $30 Now $24 1st Paperback, 1st Print of the 1st Book in the Amber series. This Avon 1st printing has become very difficult to find in any condition. The Hardcover 1st is notoriously rare and valued at 3K and up so the paperback 1st has become the only obtainable 1st of this beloved fantasy classic for most collectors. It's the one I read when I first got swept away by Zelazny in my teens. The fantastic Jeff Jones cover art doesn't hurt. Very Good/Very Good Plus. Tough to grade this one. It appears lightly read with good color, square spine and page block. Has some staining to the covers, mostly to the back cover Some toning to the interior covers, a store stamp on the first page. Overall a nice square copy with very minimal creasing and wear. A scarce printing in any condition.

The October Country by Ray Bradbury Ballantine F139 April 1956 $40 Sold to IngelsFan First paperback edition of his early stories that appeared originally in Arkham House's Dark Carnival. Very tough in nice condition due to the books thickness and white covers. Beautiful cover and illustrations by Joe Mugnaini. Fine Plus. Glossy and unread. Bright white covers, shows only light wear to the tips, tiny bindery tear to bottom right tip, light finger bend on front cover. Pages and interior covers are creamy and very nice for this book. A very nice looking copy of a scarce book in this condition.

Whom The Gods Would Slay by Ivar Jorgensen (Paul Fairman) Belmont B50-849, December 1968 $15 Now $10 It's a bit unclear on ISFDB but this appears to be the first book edition of any kind after its pulp publication in 1951. Features a great heroic Jeff Jones cover. Fine Plus. Glossy and unread. No creasing and shows only light wear to the tips - has some interior cover toning. Pages are creamy/tan. A very nice looking copy of a scarce book.

The Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace F-234, October 1963 $15 Now $10 The First paperback edition with an action packed Roy Krenkel, Jr. cover. Fine Plus. Glossy and unread. No creasing and shows virtually no wear other than a slight dent at top - has some age darkening that keeps me from calling it higher. Pages and interior cover toning. A very nice looking unworn copy.

The Girl From Hollywood by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace 28911, January 1977 $25 Now $20 The First paperback edition with a sweet Boris Good Girl action cover. Very Fine. Super glossy, appears bright and unread. No creasing and shows virtually no wear. Pages off white. A superior copy in every way.

The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace 60563, July 1974 $20 SOLD to mrlatko The First paperback edition with a gorgeous, moody Frazetta cover. Fine Plus. Super glossy, appears unread. No reader crease but has a few light finger bends. Has mild toning to the interiors but looks pretty much like it did on the rack in 1974. I am still getting used to my new Phone camera, it doesn't capture the colors quite right yet but the clarity is crazy and I'm working the kinks out as I go.

This is my third sales thread on the boards. 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. I plan to add to this throughout the weekend, as time permits, so check back please, I am using the long weekend to sort through my collection and figure what will get sacrificed in the name of raising some needed funds. 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. I've dealt with a few boardies over the years, and my brand new Kudos thread is here for those that don't know me: Please feel free to add to that thread if you like your deal

A nice twin that I managed to pick up both ends of. "Convention Girl" is about 10 years after the True Police, which no doubt provided an inexpensive model and pose for the painter of the Beacon.

There's a credit to Harry Barton on PulpCovers but i'm agnostic on that. Her face is too angled for me to opine if I think it's one of his girls

My Friday Fun... Still re-evaluating the 60's & 70's pbs and boy, this one has become impossible to find in this 1st pb 1st printing. This was the edition I remember reading as a teenager and it hooked me on Roger Zelazny for a while. The Jeff Jones cover is awesome and takes me back 45 years... This is one of Raymond Johnson's early breakout covers for Avon, full of leg-art motion in that cinematic back camera angle that he pretty much pioneered. It's one of his only Digests I didn't manage to acquire during the time I was writing his bio, probably because they get snapped up by hard-boiled James Hadley Chase collectors.

I read "The Steel Noose" this year. A pretty good noir. Not the best ever but I kept turning those pages and well worth it.

A couple of arrivals The Hustler by Walter Tevis Dell D434. Movie tie-in cover. The 1st PB Edition 1st printing. I've had a 2nd print and a 2nd Edition so glad to finally get this one. The Tevis output is small but powerful so I really want nice copies of all of the 1sts. A Swell-Looking Babe by Jim Thompson. Lion Books #212. Classic cover on a key Thompson title. Slowly but surely filling out the Thompson 1sts.

Low cost entre to the Women's market, (or for men to gift their brides) I guess. BTW...nice haul!

Interesting, I don't have those two but D-43 Salome with the beautiful George Geygan wraparound cover, lands between them and has an integrated spine. Since there wasn't much art on those covers they probably used templates from doubles to save money.

One of the Hall Of Fame-type Avon Sci-Fi covers. Very Raymond Johnson-ish but our panel wouldn't put it down 100% to him for the checklist because Robert Crowl's bunch of paintings for Avon were so similar to Johnson's, no doubt by design.

Just got in this minty copy of Lover Boy by Eric Rhodes Hayden. Readers Choice Library No 39. Cover art by Willard Downes. A tough little series. Also a fresh looking Girl-Hungry by William E. Gordon. Carnival No. 908. Cover art by Rudy Nappi. My S9+ was dying so I finally entered 2021 with a new S21 Ultra 😁. The camera quality is so far beyond my old phone. It captures the moire patterns that I used to only get with a scanner. A world better in color and detail and much faster.

I joined the free trial, will check it out. It does look like you can sort by publisher though, maybe an update? That would be essential for my purposes.

Have you tried this program? I've been looking for a cataloging program but am hesitant to pay for one unless it has all the capabilities I'd want

Excuse me while I un-boggle my mind Outstanding that you live with that set

Not sure why I never saw this thread before... I acquired this Raymond Johnson original painting for Eton (Avon) Books #E119 during the time I was writing his biography for Illustration Magazine #77. It's amazing to hold the canvas in your hand with the brush strokes of the craftsman you're studying.

Since the sales threads, I've been continuing to re-assess 60's and 70's books. I never really collected them in the 80's because they were too new. I bought them to read. But here I am, getting on 40 years older and they're 40 years older and trying to source really nice copies of all the great fantasy and S&S books with top artist covers is hard. I lucked into a stack from a local friend and a few from ebay that I'm sorting through and comparing copies so I'll have more for the next sale. This one is great, the 1st PB edition of my favorite Williamson novel with a real nice Jones cover, black edges of course so really tough to find nice.

Speaking of near perfect books, I upgraded to this Harry Whittington killer today. Seller had another similar Phantom that I hesitated for a minute on and it was gone. They didn't last one morning.

Killer copy of a great Samson Pollen cover JD book. Looks unimprovable. Near perfect books like this are so rare, if any kind of real money ever comes into pbs this will seem like a bargain imho.

Correction ... In 1975, they went solely to the Crest/Fawcett small pb size format for reprinting the earlier strips - they continued contemporary yearly reprints in larger trade size paperbacks called Peanuts Parade, which are very cool to collect but getting away from what I consider to be vintage pbs.