Surfing Alien

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

Just got back from the mailbox - another Allen Anderson full length space babe - (and Poul Anderson & FB Long stories to boot) Not in newstand condition but right in the price/condition wheelhouse for me

Beautiful. I need to get one. Another "Imagine what it would be worth if that cover was on a comic"

That's "Evil" of the kind Howlin' Wolf would sing! Nice copy. I don't think i've seen one in person.

Switching gears somewhat... still Ace but not sci-fi. Lester was not only about Doc Savage... Uncommon in square and tight condition

Another Fugitive from Utopia.... Robert Silverberg completely blew my mind with The Book of Skulls, A Time of Changes and Dying Inside... just wow... the most honest writer ever IMHO. This early ACE is tough to find with completely black spines and edges....

Oops, I did it again... Just in. I could see this becoming a bad habit if I keep finding them at the right condition/price ratio Anderson Redhead Space Babe riding Jar Jar Binks. If she's the beautiful and fey Berild, she's about to be blasted into eternal dust.

Congrats @OtherEric for finishing that run. I dug out my Dr. Futurity, it's pretty sharp, just some tiny nicks. I actually saved a few more Aces than I remembered.

It's pretty cool so far. I like this era of Planet Stories with the Anderson full length space babe covers. These are some of the best. I just got the first one in the mailbox, i'll post it in the pulp thread. The Black Amazon cover is iconic, i'm going to try to find a nice copy for a keeper on that one.

I've have that one too and yours is better than mine. I think Leiber gets read... and well read

I started reading "The Enchantress of Venus" in the Planet Stories pulp I recently picked up. Although it's a stretch on the science (actually, it doesn't really address the science of breathing and surviving on Venus, the characters just do it) it's a brisk adventure read so far, very pulpy. and fun.

Prices are definitely up, I suspect they will be for very high grade books as they dissapear into collections. I have a few more that i'm pretty sure are unread but i'll have to do some box diving that I haven't done in a while to show them to ya my friends...

I have a couple of the early mysteries... they're very tough in any kind of grade...This is my worst one.. it's real clean but has the crease and the spine is twisted but it is still beaustiful IMO

Here's my Cosmic Puppets. Both of these PKD books are survivors from my original collection that I sold in the 90's. I sold 95% of what I had, about 7 long comic boxes of very high grade books that I had amassed over 15 years of searching. But there were a bunch I kept for various reasons, mostly authors and/or covers I loved in exceptional condition. Glad I kept these.

That's very cool. I know there are a few Avon pulps with comics, Out of This World Adventures for one. Are there many others?

I had a couple dozen Aces that looked like this in my original collection, only have a few now but this isn't a bad one to have

Yeah, I recently posted the nice D-13 I found after a long search, it's not perfect on both sides but as close as I'm gonna get. The Conan is always beat up. I used to have a real nice one in my first collection I posted my Man Who Japes on here a ways back, i'll see if I can find it, it's really sharp.

To get back on your question... I don't think any of the Sci-Fi Doubles are "hard" Sci-Fi collectors go way back and things this recent were always hallowed and well kept by aficionados They might get "expensive" because certain authors, especially PKD and Harlan Ellison, are so loved that there is always lots of demand but I can't think of any Ace Sci Fi Doubles that can't be found if someone is willing to pony up the cash. The mysterys seem scarcer generally. Now, "condition", that adds to the equation and if you're looking for copies with no reading crease and sharp corners, that gets much more complicated as all vintage thick PB's got reader creases as soon as the covers got opened. Unread looking Ace's are amazing and not so common.

I've been bingeing on "The Man in the High Castle" on Amazon this week and it's almost like they pulled the cinematography atmosphere right off the cover of "The World Jones Made"