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Rampart Street is crazy for a Pocket Book

I'm with Pat on this - I started with SF and authors I liked - although I do like plenty of lurid genre art. I couldn't see myself leaving my daughter a box of the sweat mags when I croak but she can appreciate the paperbacks, pulps & comics - even the JD and GGA stuff. But there's something for everyone in the collectors eye - those sweats always get bids when I see them auctioned on the bay -same thing for a lot of 60's/70's soft core "adult reading" paperbacks. I like the fact that this stuff is still relatively inexpensive. I don't have the budget to buy high end comics but I've been known to hoard lurid covers to "high literature" books

Giant insects are always fun

Sharing mine.. cool mood to the cover art

I think I still need "Vulcan's Hammer" but picked off one of the singles this week

Best for last, picked up my first "bedsheet", a Clark Ashton Smith story cover on the June 1932 Wonder Stories. This barely fit on my scanner - they have a different feel in hand and it seems like the paper quality is better, less fragile than a lot of others.

Got this low grade British Weird Tales with a very eerie Virgil FInlay cover as an "add in" to these other buys. I read the cover story by Margaret St. Clair - it was odd, and entertaining.

I don't have any Chandler to add ...yet But picked off another Private Detective - this one with a choking/pistol whipping cover by Lewis Trege - who, from the lack of info on the internet, was another unsung artist working in the pulp "trenches" in the late 40's. The cover teases that the title story was by "George Harmon", presumably indicating George Harmon Coxe, who usually wrote for higher class pulps but in the interior it is by "William Dectaur", a Trojan Pubs house name according to www.philsp.com

Love the date stamp!

Nice Headlight Cover from Avon... back cover Is interesting too. Like I said on another post Avon reused their front covers on back covers and this is a nice tie in with house of fury by Felice swados who wrote the original story for reform school girl..

A colorful spine shot of some recent arrivals. Love the look of minty vintage pb stacks...

sigh... another one on the want list

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Wish I kept my Jim Thompson's when I sold my collection I'm gonna try to replace them at some point but everyone knows about them now so they're never cheap. I posted these bad girls a while back but they're worth a review considering the topic

This board can be trouble! Those two are on my want list now I'd love to know the history, whether the companies were related and re-used art or if the artist was smart/fotunate enough to keep the art and shop it around?

... plus Blood in Their Veins by Robert Paul Smith. Another minty fresh Avon I picked up. This one has a cool cover but the back cover is where it gets interesting. It's the very little known 2nd paperback appearance of Marty Collins with the infamous cigarette dangling from her lips. The shoes are the same and the negligee looks like it could be the same (different angle makes it hard to tell) but the skirt looks stiff and solid black, almost as though it was airbrushed over the stockings she wore in her debut. This is surely a pose from the same session she did that was used on Reform School Girl. I don't imagine she did another one after the controversy over her 1st appearance. Avon recycled previous cover images onto their back covers during this period and probably used whatever they had laying around to fill the page. This is 1952, 4 years after the Reform School Girl digest was published. For reference, the comic book was published in 1951 so maybe when they pulled the files out they saw an opportunity to get some value added. This book doesn't turn up too often itself.

I havent seen too many bondage covers on Amazing so I picked up a nice high grade 9/48 when it came up cheap. Dont think you can go wrong with 70 year old high grade pulps for a couple of sawbucks. I never read Richard Shaver but looks like he was an interesting character

I see that. It's at an odd angle, but then everything on her is at angles...

Some John D. MacDonald scifi, Eric Frank Russell, and a gravity defying Bergey female form. I like it!

These early westerns are pretty tough, especially in nice shape. I don't collect westerns per se but i'll always grab a nice "type set" type like this one just to represent if the deal is right That Ace site lists Wild Horse Range as by Saunders

Nice site - I don't think i'd come across that one before. I just got some Aces in so i'll share... Found a decent looking copy of D-36 for the right price - it has moisture wrinkling on the Brackett flip side but is very square and minimal creasing. Been looking for one since I sold my collection in the 90's. Saunders didn't quite capture my thought of what Conan would look like but hey, neither did Brundage and I still like 'em both I think the Schultz cover on Sword of Rhiannon is a better composition

Gotta love a girl with a stogie dangling from her lips

Pat, you've got great collections No matter what someone posts you always seem to have a thing or two in the wheelhouse

Very nice - it looks like these later works were softer & more refined than the Avon -although that could be a publisher thing because many Avons of that time period had that more defined brushwork.

I posted "Bad Girl" by Vina Delmar before as a "JD" type book because she was a bad ... girl... - so here ya go. Not JD at all but still classic Avon Romance and condition scarce like this...