Surfing Alien

Loving the Sci-Fi, Pat Calhoun!!! ... The only thing better than one hi grade Perelandra is two hi grade Perelandra!!! One of my all time favorite Avon Sci Fi covers... or any sci-fi covers at that!!!

Heinlein at his height of powers... and one of Don Sibley's masterwork covers...

Babe Ruth had a lifetime record of 94-46 and an ERA of 2.2770. His ERA is 16th best among all major league pitchers. He allowed only ten homers in 1,221 innings. Ruth was the AL ERA champion in 1916 for the Red Sox with a 1.75 ERA. He pitched 29 scoreless innings in the World Series, a World Series record that would stand for 42 years. His World Series record was 3-0 with a 0.87 ERA. Ruth posted 67 career wins by 1917, his last season as a full-time starter, at the age of 22. He posted 23 wins in 1916 and 24 wins in 1917. He would win 27 more games as a part-time pitcher. Babe Ruth is 11th all time in winning percentage with a .671 winning percentage. 14th all time in hits allowed per nine innings with 7.17 hits allowed per nine innings. 13th all time in fewest homers allowed per nine innings with a 0.0737 mark. Then he went and hit 714 home runs as a position player

Incredible Graphic!

Wayward youth in Brooklyn... I think I can identify with that...

I'm guessing this is the right place for "Project Nightmare" ...

Speaking of Robert Heinlein... Podkayne in "If" is scarce as all get-out in nice shape...

So many provacative covers Popkulture... Hey Moonpool... what's with snuggling up to the giant frog???

Great cover! I need me one of those!

Love the early Galaxy's... If you were raised on Heinlein you know there's no such thing as a free lunch

Here's my "Universe" - it's not the prettiest but i've had it forever and it ain't going nowhere! What a classic!

Some really nice abstract art covers there. I have quite a few of those that I really like, mostly sci-fi, but the fine art still moves me more in this context...

I'll trade you my Tarzan B &W #5 in VF for your Poor Superman #1... You're getting the better condition on equal comics in the deal...

Decent copy of a classic Signet...

Time to rev this Bad Girl up for the New Year...

I've been looking for 30 years and haven't found a sharper copy. A couple tiny issues but it's a fat book... It doesn't get much better than this if you love fantasy

Soooooo... back to the cover art... Berkley was a pretty mainstream publisher.

For some reason... I think of this as the "Hello Pal" of vintage paperbacks

- I've read the classics at least! I thought everyone read "Catcher in the Rye" at some point. My daughter just did in 8th Grade so they're still teaching them in some places! But in that vein - they did manage to attach provocative covers to some classics and more mainstream authors

They ran that double imprint at least until 671, perhaps THE great cautionary tale against the evils of socialism and correctness...

Great example...

Avati was a master painter... Signet published so much "real literature" with provocative covers... not sure many people know that Penguin ran its numbering into Signet ... The early Penguin art covers...as opposed to years of "Title Only" covers, were mostly very simple, but great nonetheless - especially historically important writers like Richard Wright....

Holden Caulfield with his amazing red cap... how bout that!!!???

Avon Books #305... Move Along... Nothing to See Here... Look closely at it... Mainstream publisher paperback on the newsstand next to the Chiclets in 1950...