Surfing Alien

The only difference between Farm Girl and Reform School Girl are one made it off the ranch to the streets...

Ouch!

Holy Bajeezus... This bidding is astonishing to me... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-BRITISH-SF-Digest-THE-G-BOMB-by-VARGO-STATTON-1951-Scion-Book-EXCOND-/223480375642?_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l10137&nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true

Some great blurbs on this JD/Dope classic...

I'm seeing a bit more bidding on vintage paperback auctions on the bay lately. I still pick stuff up when I think they're reasonable and often used to get decent stuff with tracking type bids but not so much any more. Of course they're such a relative pittance, "manning up" still doesn't cost much. There's still lots of bargains to be had, including BIN's, but the auctions seem to be getting better bids than many BIN's.

The cover blurbs are half the fun

Your copy of Overboard is great. That book is tough to find without a lot of wear/creasing

+1... Some Belarski JD goodness

Avon's are what first got me hooked - I found a few at a garage sale while looking for comics and music gear back in the '80's and got the bug for old paperbacks with such exotic covers

There are many runs of GGA, Headlights, Dope & JD Digests as well as classic mystery & Sci Fi that I think would have the widest appeal for slabs, especially due to the larger format visuals and the fact that they should fit right in an existing holder.

For sure! Slab worthy!

Nice colors on this copy

It's none of that stuff to me. It's all about the fun things like comparing copies, or having a nice uniform display medium - I look at some of my copies and think there can't be a better one out there or maybe there is, and grading gets people to put their copies up for comparison, look for different qualities like reflectivity and wrap and the whole host of other things that get revealed by grading books, like relative scarcity to value etc. - not to mention the "find" stories and sharing experiences/likes/dislikes. Many people slab their not-so-expensive comics just for the nice display. You could say that people can scan their copies raw and compare them and talk about them here or on some other such board but there's been no place and no incentive for that to happen quite like the curiosity of sending your books in, getting them back, and then the discussion on these boards that I've ever encountered.

Here's an all time classic cover both in composition and execution... i'd love to have this in a nice holder with all the issue info. It's in crazy condition...

This is quite amazing... pure genius.l It has a woodcut feel to it... Love CL Moore

For sure, I would think the Digest Sized paperbacks as well - they should fit right in the TV Guide size holders and have been extensively catalogued already.

There's a whole thread on pulps other than this one. This is not a sale thread either.... just a place to show your beauties... like this Bad Girl...Love me some Bad Girls....

The Thing that Made Love

BOOM! Lot's of killer titles here!

A. Merritt

She was a century ahead of her sex... slightly suggestive cover

This is why people don't talk...

One of his better looking Molls...

Nothing could be finer than neon-belted babes in test-tubes?!?!

First Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - was pleasantly surprised to pick this up for a song recently - they rarely go under the radar in decent shape.