Surfing Alien

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.

It's a very Juke Box look Of books I own, I think Beyond This Horizon fits the category, although more subtle and elegant IMHO.

Nice! Here's another off topic kind of Legion...

Thanks! ... it's a stunner in hand... happy to share it with appreciative people... we may not be Legion but we're a Platoon at the least!

A sharp copy of one of the sexier Ace Sci-Fi doubles

Looks like the rest of the Planets were run up as well. I wonder if it was one bidder trying to keep them together. Pretty as they were, i'll have to wait for nice non-pedigree copies of the ones I want.

Thanks for the informative posts. I had some pulps way back when but am totally disconnected from where the market is other than what i've seen on Ebay over the last few months. I've bought a few cheap but pretty nice Planets. They are way cheap & cool compared to comics. But I could never pull the trigger like these bidders did, even though i'd love to own any Yakima pulp, just to have one. @OtherEric, I see dozens and dozens of listings like you described go by with low or no bids, and many really wild pulps priced in the low hundreds that sell sporadically. It sure seems schizophrenic, but I know it wouldn't take much of an uptick in demand to wipe out a couple hundred pulps on Ebay.

So what's the verdict on the Crain auction pulps? From what little i've learned here and there it seems like the usual deal - some exceptional & rare books went really high and some trimmed and lesser condition books went similar to what I see on ebay. The Spicy Mystery Batman that went for 9K plus - is that a record for a Spicy Mystery?

I love the art but it's out of my league so I don't know the market. It looks like almost everything went way over estimates (and I know houses are always conservative on estimates)... So many one of a kind pieces and many covers from iconic books i've had or have. Were these results good, great or spectacular? A few seemed like the latter (The Asimov Gnome Press Foundation cover, for instance, was many multiples of the estimate)

I've previously posted a few nice Scions I kept. Here's another one. Its pretty sharp

This Falcon is one of those rare books books where the back cover is almost as cool as the front... just because it cites "Reform School Girls" ...

Glad I kept some nice stuff like this Falcon... When I sold off my collection I kept a lot of the tough JD stuff because I knew I would never see it again if the word ever got out. I love Girls Out Of Hell for so many reasons...