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Great group shot. I've had all of those except Nightmare at one time or another over the years. Not sure which ones I still have other than the Dancing Detective I just posted.

Very cool, Maguire was much more cinematic than the pulpy Popular library style ... also, note the switch on the hair/dress color combo from the Irish cover to the Carr!

I looked up the David Starr series, it looks like is a "juvenile" series in the sense that Heinlein's juveniles are. In other words, a fun read read for young and old alike

Just pulled out of my mail.... This is hot no matter how you measure.... This is the best looking copy i've seen in many years. No big corner creases at all....So glad I finally got a Hi Grade copy

When I lived in New York there were curb finds galore. But Florida is just a different environment. Most people who live here are younger transplants, so you might get a PS2 in the garbage The temps will slowly cook vintage paper left in the garage by Gramps so that path is pretty closed as well. As has been said... Thank God for the internet... You just have to surf the channel's that might get missed to find the bargains

While we're waiting for porcupine's hypnotizing 3d avatar to pop up again, I'm just going to drop this vintage paperback advertising I shared on another group ... My wife is kind for letting this be part of our house decor!

That's great. I need that pulp and a T-Shirt! It is a great cover. So are the Heinlein's even with the somewhat clunky frames. I really need to get the 40's Heinlein pulps. I have a lot of the 50's - there was a spot in this thread a few years ago where most of them got posted.

It's a very Juke Box look Of books I own, I think Beyond This Horizon fits the category, although more subtle and elegant IMHO.

Nice! Here's another off topic kind of Legion...

Thanks! ... it's a stunner in hand... happy to share it with appreciative people... we may not be Legion but we're a Platoon at the least!

A sharp copy of one of the sexier Ace Sci-Fi doubles

Looks like the rest of the Planets were run up as well. I wonder if it was one bidder trying to keep them together. Pretty as they were, i'll have to wait for nice non-pedigree copies of the ones I want.

Thanks for the informative posts. I had some pulps way back when but am totally disconnected from where the market is other than what i've seen on Ebay over the last few months. I've bought a few cheap but pretty nice Planets. They are way cheap & cool compared to comics. But I could never pull the trigger like these bidders did, even though i'd love to own any Yakima pulp, just to have one. @OtherEric, I see dozens and dozens of listings like you described go by with low or no bids, and many really wild pulps priced in the low hundreds that sell sporadically. It sure seems schizophrenic, but I know it wouldn't take much of an uptick in demand to wipe out a couple hundred pulps on Ebay.

So what's the verdict on the Crain auction pulps? From what little i've learned here and there it seems like the usual deal - some exceptional & rare books went really high and some trimmed and lesser condition books went similar to what I see on ebay. The Spicy Mystery Batman that went for 9K plus - is that a record for a Spicy Mystery?

I love the art but it's out of my league so I don't know the market. It looks like almost everything went way over estimates (and I know houses are always conservative on estimates)... So many one of a kind pieces and many covers from iconic books i've had or have. Were these results good, great or spectacular? A few seemed like the latter (The Asimov Gnome Press Foundation cover, for instance, was many multiples of the estimate)

I've previously posted a few nice Scions I kept. Here's another one. Its pretty sharp

This Falcon is one of those rare books books where the back cover is almost as cool as the front... just because it cites "Reform School Girls" ...

Glad I kept some nice stuff like this Falcon... When I sold off my collection I kept a lot of the tough JD stuff because I knew I would never see it again if the word ever got out. I love Girls Out Of Hell for so many reasons...

I went mildly after a couple books I wanted tonight and was crushed... Auction results have been strong of late on classic PB's. Lesson... don't go mildly if you actually want to win. Go Strong! LOL

A 1958 Ace cold war relic

I don't think anyone would complain if you think they're of interest. I think there's already been quite a few 60's books posted here

Nice. Falcon digests are great!

Just arrived. Since I dipped my toe in the pulpwater, i've done some looking around on what it would take to land a nice red logo Weird Tales. This one came up in the wheelhouse. I love Otis Adelbert Kline and there is a 1st CAS story in here as well. What's funny is that, in hand , this is crazier than what it looked like at first. When I opened the front leaf, it made the sound I've heard on a thousand 70's books that were liberated from dealer bundles... the sound of the ink separating from page to page from being sticky off the press and held together with the pressure of the bundle. I stopped leafing through it so that sound can be spread across the next generation

Some actually pretty scarce JD arrivals. NIce copies that look unread. I love The Tenement Kid blurb "the whore is their emblem of womanhood" GIrls and Gangs has a nice Rafael deSoto cover ad the Wayward Ones must be a scarce Signet. I've never seen one before. Ebay always amazes me. 2 out of 3 of these came with no bag, tossed in a mailer and the edges, corners noticeably more crunched and creased than the original scans.... They're so relatively cheap & I guess people think it's just a book, not something someone is trying to preserve. Makes me wonder.... how many early Actions & Detetcives were thrown in a mailer and sent across country back in the 60's mail order days when they were a couple bucks. Imagine your Action #7 scrunched up in the mailbox like it was no big deal.

I agree. Maybe a swipe?