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The Hangman's Whip Mignon G. Eberhart Popular Library 293 $20 Sold to OuterboroGuy Classic vintage Popular Library mystery novel with a wonderful GGA pulp style cover by Rudolph Belarski Very Good. Binding is solid and tight with slight lean. Light creases and overall wear. A very nicely presenting copy of a tough black cover vintage Popular Library paperback

Tales of Chinatown Sax Rohmer Popular Library 217 $35 SOLD to ArkhamCastle Iconic Rudolph Belarski GGA cover art. One of the most recognized and reprinted covers in the Vintage Paperback hobby. Very Good/Very Good+ Solid tight binding, binding has slight slant, pages tight and supple. Slight factory miscut. Only a hint of creasing and edgewear. Overall a superior copy of a classic cover

Ace D-21 Nightshade by John N. Makris & High Stakes by Lester Dent $25 SOLD to OtherEric Norman Saunders cover Very Good/Very Good Plus Solid straight binding, pages are supple, slightly uneven from factory. Covers glossy and bright with minimal creasing and wear. A superior copy of a classic early Ace Double vintage paperback

Thank you Sir! Great taste!

Another beauty by DeSoto Walk A Wicked Mile Robert Hansen Popular Library 774 $10 Sold to OuterboroGuy Very good. Solid spine, has slight slant. Pages slightly uneven but still tight in the binding and supple. Light readers crease but no other significant creasing. A nicely presenting copy.

I'll start with this beauty. Down I Go Ben Kerr (William Ard) Popular Library 653 1st Ed $20 SOLD to gunsmokin Wonderful, moody GGA cover & back cover by pulp master Rafael DeSoto. From that great period when Popular had separate paintings done for the back cover. Very Good Plus - solid square spine, pages tight and supple. A crease around the spine at middle, otherwise minimal creasing and edgewear. A very lightly read copy with a great cover!

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. Some books just aren't available for various reasons.

About me: I've been collecting comics since I was kid but mostly collect paperbacks and digests along with some magazines these days due to the high cost of comics and the amazing artistic variety and bang for the buck you get from golden age (1940's-1960's) vintage paperbacks. 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.

This is my first sales thread on the boards. I'm going to throw up a cross section of cool vintage paperbacks and digests to start. I'm thinking of featuring some of the great pulp artists who went to the paperbacks when the pulps died in the late 1940's, some Good Girl art (GGA), my favorite collecting area, and maybe some Juvenile Delinquency (JD) books, some mystery and science fiction to round out the mix. 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

Welcome to the show I think you'll find a few Science Fiction pb fans around here

Neither have I, in person. One of the beautiful things about vintage paperbacks is so many great books that you never saw before

Here's a few more special things Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Armed Services Edition #909 Pretty sure this is my rarest ASE, just impossible to find. Minty fresh copy of Asimov's "The Death Dealers", Avon T-287. Femme fatale by Robert Maguire. 69 Barrow Street by Sheldon Lord aka Lawrence Block. Midwood #24 Cover art by Robert Rader. A classic of lesbian fiction. These 40's Bleak House mystery pbs are tough. I love the 3D quality of this stylistic artwork. There's definitely several different cool pictures there.

Such a gorgeous cover👍 That Venus Flytrap-ish plant thing got the girl 😂

Looks great! Any reports? Big book sightings like RSG, LA Bantams etc? (Or know of anyone else's reports?) Would love to know. At least I'm stoked for Windy City 🤘

Diana Dors One of those books I call a "Fridge Magnet" because it's so famous in JD circles that it can be found on fridge magnets and post cards.

A few more random niceties while I'm sorting books out. I'm also putting some things together to maybe try out a small sales thread on the boards since RD seems to have drummed up some decent interest on his. This Dell edition of Vertigo is pretty scarce. One of Maguire's tougher covers. These two Green Dragons are the small paperback sized ones from late in the run. They're all scarce but these little ones are tougher than the digests I finally landed a copy of this Lionel White Signet. They must all be locked up in collections because they just don't show up. It's a great, fast read (and peculiar!) as usual and the Avati cover is excellent. I listed this double of Gardner Fox's classic with the John Floherty bare breasted women cover in my store yesterday. Let's just say that sex sells because it was snapped up by the end of the day. Classic Paul Stahr cover on this vintage Avon Chandler collection. Chandlers get snatched up when I list them. Just a real interesting overhead perspective on this Clark Hulings cover of Donald Westlake's "The Smashers" Westlake also wrote as Richard Stark, as in this Gold Medal with a nice McGinnis bondage cover.

Nice grab. Harry Schaare is another unsung giant of the paperbacks. That cover art is so slick. The classic "clinch" pose that all the commercial artists back then had to know how to do.

100%. I try to cross promote with comics, pulps and mags as much as I can. But there is also a lot of resistance from old time vintage pb collectors to any kind of publicity for pricing. I love my fellow collectors but many old timers are the cheapest sumbiches ever. I'm talking about the ones who cried when Hancer lifted the lowest "Fine" price to $5. Everyone wants to hang on to the 1980's and find killer books for a quarter. That still happens but those days are mostly over (but no one told them)

A real nice copy of Signet 669. Kind of a transition for McCulley away from his Argosy Roots. 1948 so it was before the pulps collapsed. One of the first 10 Signets in the transition from the Penguin line. Everything about this art expresses the move away from Jonas' symbolic beauty to the new realism in pb cover art.

Love the Hussar 👍 i've looked at many copies of The King In Yellow and that is top tier. Impossible with those black cardboard covers.

Looks like some great books there Man, I wish, for this year not happening but I am going to Windy City. I have to try to make this show next year.

Gold Medal 101 & 102. Nice copies of the first two Gold Medal anthology books to launch the line. I never had these back in my first collection, they were odd and unobtainable since GM quickly went to original novels and I just never saw these but they are so cool in hand now.

We're taking our daughter on a trip for spring break this week so I'll post a few more goodies to make up for lost time... Sharing spine shots of these 4 so you can get a better picture of how fresh and square many of these books are Dell 143. The Dell Hitchcocks were always considered classic by vintage pb collectors There are a lot of early Ace singles that look like this When I started collecting back in the 1980's, Zeniths were not really on the radar but I've learned since then. They're Martin Goodman productions like the Lion Books, with his same stable of MAM artists but probably scarcer than Lions overall. I didn't have this PKD edition before. Cover by Freas. It's a tough copy to beat Another impossible Harlequin by a top writer. Cover by Paul Anna Soik.The collection only had six or seven Harlequins but they were all sharp copies of highly collected authors. I remember these "unauthorized" Barton Werper Tarzans were a big thing back when. Cover art by Jack Endeweldt. A sweet copy of one of Maguire's best Ace Double covers There's many doubles of classic covers that I'd always have been happy to find just one! I hope I'm not spoiled now but I know groups like this are far between.

Stacks of unsorted classics. I wish there was a smell recorder so y'all could smell the paper aroma's around here lately