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Here's a few more singles from my boxes with artists ... George Gross Raymond Johnson Rudy Nappi James Avati Raymond Johnson Lou Marchetti

Girls, Girls, Girls Been a bit busy lately but was cleaning up a little and managed to get a few of the girls together for group shots. I have lots more "Girl" books but they get around so it's tough to round them up sometimes

The attack of the GIANT FONTS in lieu of cover painting space was going on since the 1960's but I agree with you the '70's was worse In defense of the '70's, the Ballantine covers on the right, from the Adult Fantasy series are, indeed, brilliant, so it wasn't all bad at all

Ok...I lied... I bought more than one In today. This one has so much movement. I really like how this design flows... It is pretty amazing what an artist can do with a crayon... I think anyone with a boat would love this, matted and framed...

Treated myself to a nice little Original Pulp art B/W interior by Blue Book veteran Leland Gustavson for a mystery story by Stuart Palmer. About 1960, not sure which mag it was published in. His style was very spare but he achieved a lot with simple black crayon strokes. I like the atmosphere.

Been awhile since I added any Vampi's to the pile but got a decent price on this quartet so here they are

Some better Beacons in. Many of these late Beacons have great GGA by some of the same artists that did the Monarchs, unfortunately most of them are unsigned or uncredited. Love the unusual sideways layout on this one This one by Darcy (Ernest Chiriaka) No tittering about this suggestive title

Thanks @damonwad We've been a little short of sharp razors for our chins around here lately!

Not that big a difference between the three. Return is definitely tougher, especially in high grade but average copies go for $30-75 and high grade twice that. YMMV

I consider this set to be a bell-weather in vintage paperbacks. For popularity and frequency of sales it's a decent sales pointer for the market. This price shows it is still strong. I bid but only would have bumped this up a notch if my set wasn't equally nice. It is very difficult to assemble a stack of paper that high so straight and clean! Still ridiculously cheap compared to garbage non key comic books

Another irresistable Private Detective Stories, November 1937

The first printing of the Ballantines are tough to pick out, partially because sellers rarely explain or show the printing data and there were so many dozens of printings with the Remington covers. I've semi-given-up looking for them but would still like to get them some day just because they were the edition I read in middle school. Tolkien hated her art even more on the first Hobbit for the infamous Lion that was airbrushed out after the 5th printing.

Here's my post verbatim from when I posted this a few years ago: The 1st issue of Private Detective Stories was one of the first pulps I ever had many years ago. I sold my copy because I didn't have proper storage conditions for it and it was browning badly. Saw a chance to get a copy again so I took it. Great Ward Hatchet Murderer cover...

Thanks - In that same other post this theory was shot down for the same reason! It's a pretty amazing likeness though - but should never jump to conclusions without checking dates first!

A friend in another on-line forum just pointed out the obvious... the model here is obviously Ann Margaret... likely modeled from a magazine photo... no wonder she looks so sexy!!!

No doubt. This blurb is like a prototype for the Men's Adventure Magazines to come in the 1960's

A few recent arrivals This a serious upgrade to my copy of this Lionel White classic with one of James Meese's most memorable covers. Best copy I've ever seen and I've been looking hard I tell ya'! One of pulp great Walter Baumhofer's few paperback covers Benn Kerr was a pseudonym for mystery/thriller writer William Ard, this late Popular Library sports a terrific Ray Johnson good girl cover A sweet Barye Phillips cover on this hard boiled early Signet. The "King of Paperbacks" really did paint for just about every imprint at one time or another. and a couple of Avati Signets, including one for my ___ Girls collection and who can resist a title like "Stone Cold Blonde"?

Had and read these as a young college student with dreams still in my eyes and mind. Great escapes!

Take a large 4 mil mylar, like for a magazine, and cut off the edges except leave one long side sealed. You'll be left with a stiff mylar book sleeve that you can lay the spine of a pulp or digest into and the mylar should be bigger than the cover so you can leaf through the pages without sweating on, or rubbing the spine👍

Those overhangs look fine to me FTG! Much better than usual. Killer tiger on that cover by Paul Stahr. When the pulps were dying out he did some of the only truly great covers in the early Avon run, including the classic, nn#38

Love those 1930's Argosy issues. Here's my favorite from 1932 - previously posted in the pound you to a pulp thread but I don't get tired of showing it. This was Frank Brunner's personal copy I bought from him on ebay 3 years ago. Barebreasted Woman/Giant Octopus cover as well as one of Merritt's most famous stories

Here are the two in the Vintage Paperback realm that are considered classics. Both from 1950. Not my copies, I have the Popular Library but not the Gold Medal. Cover art by Earl Bergey Cover art by Frank Tinsley

Very nice! Faithfully Yours is exceptionally tough! It looks like you have all of the mainstream titles except for the two Stork Novels. Is the credit in the bird book for the cover? That's an impressive realistic painting if so. As for the soft core. I'd be very hesitant to attribute them to Cole unless it was known that he painted for those lines or signed some of them. Is there any documentary evidence you know of?

If you have 15, you can't be missing many. I think he only did the Croydon mysteries and romances, the 2 Stork Novels, the 2 Love Romances, and the couple of little Crime pamphlets? Of course they are all rare but let us know if we're missing any

Thanks - too late though, I posted it in the GA Cole thread