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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...

A period atomic war story by Hamilton and Bergey cover. Lots to love. This is 164 pages and 1/2 inch taller in 1950.

It looks like they were only 116 pages from Summer 1944 through Spring 1948. This one is pretty small too, almost like a GA comic book annual. It's been quite a while since I played with these so it's interesting seeing all the variations over the years.

Those .38's sure blinded me lol. This issue is smaller and skinnier than most, and only 15 cents. Canadian?

Love all these unread copies

I have a copy of this but this one blows it away....

A whole bunch of stuff coming in this week so i'll be posting a bunch more - This is my new favorite Hillbilly cover...I've never seen a copy before and this one is sweet hi grade... UniBooks truly had some of the most tawdry tales (tails?)

There's nothing quite like the colorful look of a stack of minty Avon spines... Feels like a Time Machine to a long gone newsstand.