Surfing Alien

Some would say Avati and not Avati back then But I always loved the slightly cartoonish renderings of the pulp influenced artists rather than the "gritty realists"

Another Ray Johnson confection.

Raymond Johnson's cover run at Avon in the early 1950's was astonishing. Belarski at Popular was the only comparable dynasty, and I love his run, but Johnson broke everything out of the confines of the cover space with huge figures in off-set layouts with bright colors and that smooth shading

That's like the Avon Hall of Fame right there

Finally landed a nice copy of this Lion Books No. 224 classic David Goodis noir 1st edition, "Black Friday". This is what "Real Men" collect

Fridge Magnet

Glad to see you got what you wanted Jimbo

On the list for sure but not a great cover. I'll take Lost Horizon, Wuthering Heights, Topper, Bambi and Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Not necessarily in that order but definitely Lost Horizon first The other five books beside these I'd take but mostly if they fell in my lap.

My oldest paperback is from August 1939. The first print of Pocket Books No. 11, The Good Earth (which is listed inside as the "second printing" however the "first printing" was the uber rare promotional nn in 1938. There was no "first printing" of No. 11) I've had one or two first printings of the rare first 10 Pockets but they were such beaters, I sold them. I foolishly passed on a nice copy of Pocket No. 1 First Printing back when I started collecting again, around 2017, because I was not used to spending 3 figures on a pb yet

Pretty copy

I respect your game Douglas, because you, Sir, are not afraid to "Mannup"

A recent pickup. I can still find a nice Jungle with GGA here and there for less than 4 figures

"Crime on the Waterfront" is the other comic I got from John with an Avon swipe cover. The display is not as impressive because my Avon 122 is a true beater, I thought I have a better copy somewhere but it must be buried. At least it's not rare like MMM #49 so I can easily find a decent one if needed. The Avon itself is a swipe from a Private Detective pulp before it. The other two side panels on the comic cover look a lot like Raymond Johnson paperback paintings but I can't place where I've seen them, they are not on any of his Avon covers that I can recall. Maybe Avon dragged out some unused art from the RayJo discard pile

Well, the last two years were excellent for PB buying at Windy City so I am still trying to finagle the opportunity to go again. Although having just gone to the LA show put a crimp in my sales pitch to the wif (and wallet), she still hasn't said "no way honey" if I can find the right flights . I have a buddy's place to stay at downtown so the TCO will be low if I can swing it, even if just for saturday. I'll know within the next 48. It's a wonderful show. If prices are too high on things I just walk by them, who cares? There's a lot of tables.

I don't really have an opinion on a separate pulp sales thread as I only buy a few and have hardly ever sold one so it's ok by me. As far as pb's, I sell a lot of comic-book related pb's and GGA that the G/S/B boardies have testified to me, almost to a man, that they were thrilled they discovered on my sales threads because they now love them but never even knew many of them existed before. So as long as the 40-s-70's pbs can still be sold on G/S/B I'm fine with it.

Roll your own

That "Crime" is conspicuously cool

Yes, Walter Popp painted the cover. Saber/Ozaki is very good, @Pat Calhoun has been posting his work since day one on here. Ozaki wrote what I'd call light-hearted noir, as he injected a sense of humor into most of what I've read rather than go full darkness.

I don't dabble much in comics these days but when I saw Mr. Nock's Saint No. 11 comic for sale, we worked out a deal. The cover is a swipe of the last (and rarest) Avon Murder Mystery Monthly, No. 49 "Lady, The Guy Is Dead" by Edward Ronns (Aarons). Forgive the glare.

Walter Popp

I don't usually go that low but they're not too expensive to begin with so I'd rather give them away cheaply to the good gentlemen here than re-list them elsewhere. It's a win-win

Loved Swamp Sister!

Cleaned up the thread and updated the recap on Page 6 this morning. There's some pretty and cheap stragglers still available. I'll leave them up for today, then they're off to the 'bay

Okay. That's the end of that box. I have lots more lower value books but think I'm going to hold it up here because I might be having an awesome opportunity for a surprise paperbacking trip I'm going to do something I've never done before in order to clear out books and give back to y'all. 40% off everything left until close at noon EST tomorrow

Four Outstanding McGinnis Carter Browns Signet 1961-1965 $25 for all four. SOLD to crassus Walk Softly Witch is a 3rd print, the rest are 1st Prints. Great bargain group of covers with wear, small color losses, rubbing.