Surfing Alien

Thanks, your trimming tutorial in the other thread helped me make the call on this one

So here's the offender. Great book, great color, but that overhang at the top looks possibly trimmed. I'm not sure... maybe... it's very even all the way around the wrap. And the bottom overhang is very large... much more than on my others so I think the whole cover may be pasted on lower than my others Why I really think its not trimmed is that the spine edge top is level with the rest of the spine edge, I'm not sure how you could even trim the spine top without digging into the page folios underneath, the paper there looks undisturbed??? I'm going to try to carefully unbend that fold on the bottom edge, hope it doesn't flake away. It looks like it's been folded a loooong time and not much paper left on the fold.

Sweet - those early Pops are tough to find that nice + I need to get more Berkley's, I never concentrated on them at all so only have a few - but they have some great art in that series

Thanks - you're right about addiction I already have another on the way lol. I am trying to get a few "types" to start, and to fulfill that there'll definitely be a few more Brundage covers involved. They're very elegant figures, softer and more refined than many of the other pulp artists. I'm less picky about pulp condition than I am about my paperbacks, some are an order of magnitude more expensive and I have to keep my collecting budget to what I can raise by selling other stuff in order to stay married lol. Still looking for nicely presenting copies though, and my pet peeves will be the same - I don't like prominent corner creases. For each thing I look at it's a price/grade weigh-in. This one has some fading on the spine, it's orange not red, but no paper loss anywhere really and the cover & pages are fairly bright so I'm happy. This one is definitely not trimmed, but the next one might be. I'll post it for comments - it was pretty nice otherwise and could just be mis-wrapped, i'll know better when it's in hand. The top edge is very sharp and lower than the pages but the bottom overhangs a lot more than this one and waaay more than the 1932 one I previously picked up (which it's closer in age to). It's a continuing education I gather.

Picked up a pretty sharp copy of a Brundage cover Weird Tales... my first Brundage Love the artwork. I've loved Henry Kuttner since I first read "Mutant" + a CAS 1st Mag appearance and an HPL 1st Mainstream Mag print of The Other Gods. The colors are nice and no bad chipping or creasing. Right in my wheelhouse. Still trying to figure out how to deal with unwinding/bending up the overhang and getting a pulp into a proper bag without damage. Am i wrong in thinking many long time pulp holders aren't as anal as comic guys are about how little corner folds and dings sit in the bags?

It's hard for me to process that my well worn copy of this is the first printing from August 1971. It was not old when I first acquired it. The cover art is very modernist but I think captures the blurred lines Silverberg was drawing in his golden period. His writing at this time was so personal it almost hurt and I don't blame him for shutting the operation down for a decade after such a prolific reveal in the late 60's, early 70's, that gained him artistic Knighthood from his peers but not full on support from his publishers. When you wrote a novel in 1971 in the first person about the illegality of the self, you got something going on!

Probably only because the 40's and 50's used classic Pulp Art types, which were much derived out of "Classical" art. The 60's on saw much experimentation (also in music & other arts) that were considered "modern art" junk by purists at the time but have come to be appreciated more over time. I personally prefer the Pulpy stuff but still appreciate a lot of the modern art.

Super happy opening the mail to ogle these... 2 Ray Bradbury Planets with Allen Anderson full length Space Babe covers. The covers were vibrant, not chipped away, just a moderate collection of small edge tears and a little spine paper separation on the Spring 1950. The inside paper was nice and creamy on the 1950 and off white on the Spring 1949 It was shot in the dark that turned out great

Another early Asimov classic double

An Asimov masterpiece in the single format

Found some more Ace's in another box while sorting - I knew I had a copy of this previously referenced goodie somewhere...

Nice copy! I've been collecting PB's for over 30 years and this is one i've just never sold when I found one. I still have my original copy from the 80's that I pulled out when I sold 95% of my vintage paperback collection to Jon Warren in the '90's. I have 3 but i'd be a hoarder for more. It's 2nd place to Reform School Girl in iconic vintage paperback covers in my book. Marijuana Girl in the original Uni-Book edition is #3 (IMHO)

Just goes to show the monumental career of William F. Jenkins. He not only survived, but thrived, from the earliest space opera genre stories through the entire John Campbell thinking man's story demands. A Giant who never gave in or faded away from new storytelling ideas!

The incomparable Earle K. Bergey... I can't help think this is the Suspense 3 of paperbacks.

Thanks for the veteran advice. It is much appreciated. I believe it when you say you think the prices probably were warranted. Especially considering the unavailability of pedigrees and how comic top pedigrees are bid up. My comment about being out of my comfort zone, was just that, I'm a relative novice and am just seeing what I can accomplish on a modest budget right now. I'm a paperback collector so you know I must be cheap lol! That said, it probably means my collection will remain small I'm just not ready to jump in on $500 auctions.... yet

I'd put that question over in the "I'll Pound You To A Pulp" thread as the heavier pulp hitters frequent there. I've been studying up on pulps again and would hazard a guess that a) trimming is a concern b) not too hard to detect if you know what a regular copy looks like and c) most of the Yakimas are probably not trimmed. No reason to as the overhangs look great on all the ones i've seen. That said, I thought about it but the prices at the recent auctions were way out of my comfort zone. I'll take decent copies of later Planet Stories for $25-$75. There's lots of them out there for now.

Current state of my ManCave.. i've pulled all my boxes of vintage PB's out to sort through them. I really need to get rid of some doubles and extraneous stuff and focus more on the core of what I aimed to collect, JD & Sci-Fi. My aim always seems to go awry when I see a bargain and I end up with nice stuff that I didn't intend to collect LOL!

Love the On The Beach movie tie-in! Post Apocalypse stories abounded from the 40's-70's

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.