Surfing Alien

I went mildly after a couple books I wanted tonight and was crushed... Auction results have been strong of late on classic PB's. Lesson... don't go mildly if you actually want to win. Go Strong! LOL

A 1958 Ace cold war relic

I don't think anyone would complain if you think they're of interest. I think there's already been quite a few 60's books posted here

Nice. Falcon digests are great!

Just arrived. Since I dipped my toe in the pulpwater, i've done some looking around on what it would take to land a nice red logo Weird Tales. This one came up in the wheelhouse. I love Otis Adelbert Kline and there is a 1st CAS story in here as well. What's funny is that, in hand , this is crazier than what it looked like at first. When I opened the front leaf, it made the sound I've heard on a thousand 70's books that were liberated from dealer bundles... the sound of the ink separating from page to page from being sticky off the press and held together with the pressure of the bundle. I stopped leafing through it so that sound can be spread across the next generation

Some actually pretty scarce JD arrivals. NIce copies that look unread. I love The Tenement Kid blurb "the whore is their emblem of womanhood" GIrls and Gangs has a nice Rafael deSoto cover ad the Wayward Ones must be a scarce Signet. I've never seen one before. Ebay always amazes me. 2 out of 3 of these came with no bag, tossed in a mailer and the edges, corners noticeably more crunched and creased than the original scans.... They're so relatively cheap & I guess people think it's just a book, not something someone is trying to preserve. Makes me wonder.... how many early Actions & Detetcives were thrown in a mailer and sent across country back in the 60's mail order days when they were a couple bucks. Imagine your Action #7 scrunched up in the mailbox like it was no big deal.

I agree. Maybe a swipe?

"Bulging with Action"... Here's a decent copy of another early Ace i've had a long time. Richard Sale goodness. I'd like to fill a box up of mint Richard Sale books...

Sweet copy. I think I have a reader copy somewhere but i've never been in the right time/price situation to get a nice one.

He also did book jackets. Some completely original, some amalgams of interior illos like the legendary Arkham House Outsider and Others by H.P. Lovecraft. Not my copy - kicking myself for years for not getting a copy when they were less than 1K.

Beautiful copies! This Fantastic Novels is more like his interiors than the Weird Tales (which are beautiful in their own right)

Back to Ace, here's my copy of The World Jones Made. It's from the same bookstore I bought my other PKD books that survived from my original collection from the 80's. It was from a book & tape trading store in Florida. I was on vacation and I walked in and was hit in the face with a wall of brilliant blue and red spines like I had never seen before. They had two shelves of a bookcase filled with these unopened, unread, square glossy Ace doubles and a few singles priced at $3 each IIRC. I bought both shelves. Man I'd love to have enough scratch to bid on the original cover art in the Crain auction on Heritage. I love the atmosphere of that art. It looks like the cinematographers for The Man In The High Castle on Amazon Prime used it as a model.

Great design elements on those 2!

This is one of the first vintage paperbacks I ever acquired out in the wild. I kept it all these years with my other Aces even though it wasn't quite at the condition standards of the others I kept. We all get a little worn around the edges with time, except for Salome herself! She captured my young heart like she did so many others.

I'd like to read that... in the meantime... Wow... what great cover art

I agree & I'll take reading Lieber over Hubbard any day. Unfortunately market forces are swayed by what's happening now and Hubbard's following is huge and wealthy and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are not in the spotlight in any big way

Nice, you got your western Here's a single that's impossible in this condition. My scanner doesn't do it (or any book) justice. The gloss is blazing. I'm not into Scientology in any way shape or form but Hubbard goes well and it's a classic cover. I've had this one for 35 years and it ain't going nowhere.

RCM Heade covers on many of these Hank Janson UK books... The Archer & Leisure Library titles look similar. Although there was apparently a warehouse find, many were damaged and they seem to have dried up since the 1980's when everyone's jaw first dropped on them here in the states... here's my copy of the White Slave Racket by Roland Vane (how "Hardboiled" of a name could you get!!!) ...

A Big Johnson? By the author of Marijuana Girl... a bit of a toughie that should be in every JD collection. What did he have that every woman wanted?

I can never find old books in the wild anymore... It sucks because old paperbacks in New York in the 1970's & 80's was like grass underfoot. The flip-side is, the internet brings things to your door that you never would have seen....

Dug out another high grade Ace from my original collection. An iconic cover to one of the "foundational" books of the genre

Super tight and square but for that scrape near the "D" it's almost impossible to find a perfect Bart House book

All hail "Saucy Movie Tales" Those are magnificent.

I've been looking for a better copy of this Bart House H.P. Lovecraft edition of The Dunwich Horror for 30 years but haven't found one. The spine is perfect, which is impossible with this book, but the corner creases still bug me... I'd love to see a better one.

Jaw dropping