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Nice... I think they reissued the single in the 500's IIRC

Putting away the Day Keene Ace so took a quick group shot of some faves...

@OtherEric, no offense taken Growing up on the streets of the inner city my experience was the same as RD's. No one asked to bum a cigarette. It was "got a stogie?" Other smokables had various nicknames but "don't bogie that stogie" was a specific social admonition for those who tarried too long during the ritual of sharing Ah youth!

Thanks... The reds are slightly faded but the structure is crazy... I don't think it has ever been opened... I did very carefully Campus Doll is super-campy fun and scarce too but I think "Hungry Men" is my favorite. Aside from Schaare's moody, stogie smoking chick and leering dude... it's like Marvel #1 for gritty pb's (The Red Circle's are great but Lion is the Golden Age for Goodman in paperbacks) and sets the mood for all the shabby PBO realism that followed by Thompson, Goodis, Matheson, Bloch etc. etc. in the Lion imprint.

It's been a while.... some fun.... The 1st Lion Book (#8) with a great early Harry Schaare cover. Martin Goodman was on a "Marvelous" track from the get go... A very sharp early Ace with those sweet Norman Saunders covers and one of Donald Westlake's scarce early efforts... gotta pay the bills ya know 😁

I like how Pocket handled fat books, they split them into two volumes. The Hunchback is 657 pages combined.

Here's an old post with the Rand books - I dug them out and The Fountainhead is 715 pages, Atlas Shrugged is 1084 - all of the Signet "Triple's" are pretty fat, I recall James Jones' "From Here to Eternity" being one of them. OtherEric is right about the Ace 1st pb of Dune - I think it's about 500 pages. I don't have a copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich but I remember seeing it and it may be the fattest standard commercial paperback title. I'm only counting standard commercial pb's because of course there are super fat trade paperbacks like the English literature anthologies used for college lit classes that are five inches thick and probably 2000 pages, but we're talking vintage pb's here.

Pretty copies I need to re-read "Grapes" myself, when I don't have a semester end deadline to enjoy it more I think my fattest is either Dune or one of the Signet Ayn Rand books, i'll have to check them. Love Norton's yarns, they're great adventures. Robert Silverberg, is a whole other level in my mind. His early books are fun reads but starting with "Thorns" in 1967, through "The Stochastic Man" in 1976, he wrote a body of work that is mind boggling in variety, originality and character depth. They're very psychological and soul-baring, not swashbuckling adventures, so not everyones cup of tea but I love them. "A Time of Changes", "The Book of Skulls" and "Dying Inside" are my favorites.

Just one today but she's a doozy, near the top of the drug/jd heap ...

Some snail mail arrivals A scarce Diversey diversion Dames with stogies Joy by Gross Sinners and a nice copy of the Barton/Marchetti Ace that Pat previously posted

Killer! I knew i'd seen this classic swipe but couldn't locate which pulp. Looking at the online archives, there's quite a few G-Men Belarski covers re-used on Popular Library's

Nice book. Globe end papers mean 1st printing every time, off the top of my head I'm not sure at which "no number" they ended the globe endpapers. The no numbers go up to number 40 I think and I'm pretty sure the later ones did not have globe end papers. For those you can only tell 1st print by being roughly near the number of the book in hand. They released a couple at a time so it will only be the exact number for certain ones.

Cool find. Lets just say that Avon was very thrifty with their artwork. I assume the artists got nothing extra for the multiple usages

As Motley Crue might sing... Girls, Girls, Girls...

Sharp little addition to the Lion pile today

Sweet Very much in the Cole style and fits the line well

A hell of a great cover as well!

Here's the only half decent uncreased scan i've seen available on the whole interwebs (possibly my old copy ) It's Canadian actually - Studio Pocket #4 from 1952. It originally was published in Hardcover as "Heed the Thunder" in 1946 and It's not even the 1st paperback edition - that would be the (also Canadian) Newstand Library edition of "Heed the Thunder" from 1949. Both the hardcover and the Newstand Library edition show up in nice shape far more often than the Studio Pocket edition.

Nice, I have a copy of this one on the way Not an upgrade, I just didn't have one

Postman rang twice for me today. A killer upgrade of an early Ace Keene original with a Harry Barton cover Victor Olson painted the "maybe even better" flip side cover This one has everything - a tough Lionel White movie tie-in Signet with a wild Maguire bondage cover that is unfaded and pretty sharp.

Sweet bunch of books Damonwad! I have some of the Thompson Lions but not that one. They're tough to put together these days with what they go for in nice shape. A big regret was selling a very nice copy of Killer Inside Me and a pristine copy of Sins of the Fathers, which is probably the rarest of all Thompson books, even though it's not a 1st Ed. I'll likely never get them in that condition again unless a fortuitous circumstance comes around because I just have a mental block paying many hundreds of dollars for books that used to go for $50 - $100 I know... I need to get over the past (and my inner cheapskate ) I've posted my copy of Farm Girl, she's a honey

Nice books btw + I love this cover, not your usual Schomburg, has a little Dali going on there

I'll take a muscle-bound man and put his face in the sand - "I'm Bad" LL Cool J

"There Will Come Soft Rains" is the first one I remember reading and it's still haunting to this day. I love this 1st appearance of Fahrenheit 451

Always quietly working on those Ace's. Opened up this pretty decent pair today... Nice early one with a Harry Barton cover Backed with a stormy woman with a gun A great uncredited hillbilly cover Backed with a Whittington pbo