Surfing Alien

A full set of Himes 1st pbs is an essential in any serious collection imho.

The 1st Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Jones yarn. Cover art by Mitch Hooks. Maybe his highest end cover.

On 5/5/2024 at 4:11 AM, Darwination said:

Home is the Sailor - Day Keene (1952.Gold Medal 225) cover PBO

Barye Phillips?

It's a pretty cover. Someone on the interwebs said the dude looks like Robert Mitchum and I can't say I disagree. I don't think it's by Phillips though, much more detail painted in compared to the other stuff he was doing at the time.

On 5/4/2024 at 11:27 PM, Darwination said:

Unboxing, cleaning, and scanning a bunch of new ones tonight, and I ran into this for the first time.  There's no worries or anything, as it is a 4 dollar beater, but what's with thus black glue? Original? Black? o.O

I am a stranger in a strange land -

Original. Common aging effect on the glue

On 5/4/2024 at 7:33 PM, johnenock said:

Nice new Mapback:

 

One thing for sure about 1950's stories... she really needed to get smacked around a bit to fall for the dude. Not sure how that would play today although a pretty standard noir element.

This is actually the latest Heritage Sale, and a much more comparable copy. The Ebay one actually has less creases and marring but a bit more missing. Still the point is that this is the Marvel Comics #1 of Marvel pulps and a fairly presentable copy can't pull $300. That says to me that all the comics guys aren't going running to buy pulps. Even if this is considered somewhat common, it would only take a fraction of a fraction of GA collectors to wipe out the supply.

On 5/3/2024 at 11:14 PM, Darwination said:

Probably shouldn't have listed it under comics and graphics novels? Still - most hunting that issue might just have a search for Marvel Science Stories even if some would have the more specific Marvel Science Stories August 1938.

I see the "Marvel" books as very popular in the last couple of years (and pretty much always so), but I've also been surprised at the number of copies I'm seeing.  Maybe it's just cuz the tree has been shaken so hard with all of the high prices

Breaking out my Bookery's here which I haven't done in a long time since I feel pretty darn comfortable with these things ---  he sez: "somewhat common" 

There were dozens of watchers so it wasn't un-noticed

Incredible that the 1st book in the Marvel Universe passed, even in low grade, at $300. Pulps are dead if ya ask me. I see copies for sale for north of 10k. Normal market volatility?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/256491972389?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=deHrmBTwQ82&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=XwvppebcTg6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

On 4/24/2024 at 11:51 PM, OtherEric said:

In today, courtesy of @Number 6's recent sales thread.  Not something I was necessarily looking for entirely for its own sake, but super happy to get a nice example of a Fantasy Press book for the collection:

Just the Fantasy Press colophon is worth the price of entry for me. Robots printing books   it doesn't get much more Sci-Fi for me  Every book printed in the series is a beautiful example of book making and a ton of good reading and great art.

On 5/3/2024 at 8:52 PM, moonpool said:

I would want to slip my hand in to extricate Double for Death.

Nice catch. 

On 5/3/2024 at 8:42 PM, Darwination said:

I'm always curious what the etiquette on this is.  I feel kind of funny doing it.  At the same time I feel funny looking up values in-store.  And then there's the fact that I'll check comics against the scanner's wantlist, too.

I tend to just take a very quick picture and looking up later even though I don't think any of it does any harm.  Same thing with records since sometimes it's nice to listen to an album I'm curious about before buying.  I'll usually walk out of a good used record store with a stack of four or five but 10 or 20 pictures of albums to check out.

Y'all think waaaaaaay too much. You see nice books for 5 and 10 in a store,  then you take your panties off, put on your man-jeans and buy them all 

On 5/3/2024 at 8:39 PM, waaaghboss said:

Just lucky with a bookstore, owner said he picked these up a while ago and is losing money since no one is buying them.

 

If you dont mind me asking, are any of these worth grabbing?  Was planning to check ebay once I get in front of a desktop but figure you guys are more knowledgeable. 

 

Buy them all

On 5/3/2024 at 8:00 PM, OtherEric said:

I can't read the price on any of the Barts.  The Gentlemen Prefer Blondes would be a no-brainer for me at $12, though.

If those are the today prices rather than being on there for 10 years, I'd scoop every book the seller had.

On 5/3/2024 at 7:54 PM, waaaghboss said:

I came across a copy of Dunwich today 😆   Cool looking book, almost grabbed it but I'm unfamiliar with what a fair price should be.

(I take photos of books I'm interested in so I can look them up when I get home)

 

 

Are pb's being lain at your doorstep

I wish I got such service 

Those Lovecraft Bart's look pretty good. Any fresh copy that has a good spine and colors and the main cover image uncreased is worth $50 retail, going up in inverse square to the lack of creases and wear. 

On 4/24/2024 at 6:01 PM, Darwination said:

On 4/24/2024 at 9:17 AM, johnenock said:

I don't either, but there are quite a few cool ones you posted!

Yeah, there's a few huntlist candidates here for me (getting a lot of Belarskis on there).  The Mesh is the one I keep looking at trying to figure out just what kind of book it is...

I was interested too so I just finished reading my copy of "The Mesh" and it was interesting (to me at least) enough that I kept turning the pages.

It is touted as a lesbian novel but is only somewhat so and it is not anything like the lesbian sleaze novels that are so collected these days. It is much more a "French" novel - of the psychological kind. Not that much action really happens, it is told from the perspective of the daughter of a strong woman who loves her son more than the protagonist daughter, and is mostly observations and descriptions of all the little (and big) hurts they visit upon each other in their home where they live with a few other characters who take sides against each other in the struggle for the mother's love.   There's a very memorable dog, a woman with a bad reputation and various cousins who are woven into the mix as levers of power to be pushed by the three as they battle for psychological supremacy over each other. To say any more would give away spoilers but I liked it.