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Alabam by Donald Henderson Clarke. Avon No. 232 1st PB 1948 $8 SOLD to OtherEric @40% off Beautiful "Round Circle" Golden Age Avon with GGA VG+/Fine Pretty nice looking overall with general wear

Charlie Sent Me! by Carter Brown Signet G2394 1st Edition 1st Print November 1963 $10 SOLD to crassus Dark, moody McGinnis GGA cover. 1st one I've sold. Fine. Square tight and bright. Has various small creases and edgewear.

A Ticket To Hell by Harry Whittington and Ill Wind by W.L. Heath Black Lizard Covers by Kirwan $15 for the pair SOLD to Darwination@40% off Another pair of Minty fresh classic noirs from Black Lizard's 1980's noir revival. If you haven't read these you should! Like new. Light edgewear.

The Old Goat by Tiffany Thayer Avon 234 1st PB 1950 $12 SOLD to OtherEric Classic vintage "round circle" Avon Paperback with a GGA cover of an Old Goat ogling the girls. JD Saga of a Teen Age Generation Going Wild Fine plus. Solid square binding. Carefully read - minimal creasing and some general wear. Nice copy.

Red House on Green Street by Wanda Lane Newsstand Library 514 PBO 1960 $20 Sweet Pulp Sleaze. Robert Bonfils prostitute cover. Nice copy. Fine plus/VF minus Bold colors, glossy cover. Light corner crease. Spine has slight slant but strong and tight. Pages are off white and supple. Someone read it carefully once because a bunch of pages had the corners folded back at one time but it appears lightly read.

Spider-Man 2 with Thor, Havok and The Man-Thing Marvel Illustrated Books 02858 1st Edition 1982 $18 SOLD to dover Bob Larkin cover, John Byrne/Bob Wiacek interiors. Very Fine minus. Square, glossy and bright. Appears unread. Has a couple small stresses and a thumb bend at the top edge. Tiny neat stamp on page edge.

The Joker's Joke Book Tor Books 1st Edition 1st Print 1988 $10 SOLD to OtherEric Cool cover. Illustrated by Joe Cavalieri Looks unread VF. Glossy and bright. Has slight wave.

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She Had To Be Loved by Edward Culver Newsstand Lib #U117 PBO 1959 $25 SOLD to crassus More Vintage Pulp Sleaze with gorgeous GGA Very High Grade. A glossy unread copy. Square and tight. Colors are bright and glossy. Only light aging and edgewear. A gorgeous copy.

The Gorgeous Devil George H.Smith, Newstand Library 503 PBO 1959 $20 SOLD to NerV Beautiful Pulp Sleaze with Robert Bonfils GGA Fresh looking copy. Bold colors, glossy cover. Very light wear, virtually no cover creasing at all. Pages are off white and supple. Someone read it carefully once because a couple of pages had the corners folded back at one time but it appears very lightly read.

A Kiss Before Loving by Mack Reynolds Monarch Books No. 214 PBO 1961 $20 Gorgeous GGA with Paris backdrop by Ray Johnson. Everything that's cool about Monarch Books. Fine Plus. Tight and glossy with great color. Slight slant and a couple tiny stresses. Bookseller stamp on first page.

Tough Town by Jack Karney Pyramid Books No. 31 2nd print 1952 $25 SOLD to microbia Gorgeous JD/Drug book with evocative Frederick Meyer Manhattan cover. Pretty copy. I shouldn't sell this. VF Square solid and glossy with wet colors. Very minor wear. I'm probably undergrading. It's very pretty.

Counterfeit Wife by Brett Halliday Dell D358 1st New Edition Print 1960 $8 SOLD to goldust40 Redhead Alert! Nice McGinnis GGA cover. Fine Square and tight, has light reader crease, corner crease on back and light wear.

Dateline Debbie Hank Janson Compact Books (UK) F223 1963 $20 The best later Hard Boiled Janson series after the Heade covers in the '50's imho. Leggy Michel GGA Square and tight, has some light creasing, staining and aging. A very presentable and collectible copy.

Marked For Murder by Brett Halliday Dell D291 New Dell Edition 1959 $8 SOLD to goldust40 Sweet Blonde McGinnis Girl Fine. Square and solid. Has a fair amount of wear on back cover and light stain to bottom corner. Still nice looking.

The DumDum Murder by Carter Brown Signet S2196 First Edition First Printing October 1962 $12 Some booty call hanging out there Fine. Couple of spine stresses, faint pen on spine, some light residue on covers.

I'm going to take a break to do a few things. I should be back to finish up in about an hour

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson and The Black Mass of Brother Springer by Charles Willeford $15 for the pair SOLD to goldust40 Minty reader's of two of the craziest noir novels ever conceived by the warped minds of men Not Golden Age, but crazy that these are listed as "vintage" by sellers now, having been published in the 1980's in the Black Lizard/Quill noir revival. I remember them new on the rack in bookstores Unread with minimal edgewear

Tickets For Death by Brett Halliday Dell No. 8884 New Dell Edition 1965 $8 Elegant McGinnis GGA Fine/Fine plus? Would be VF minus, has a tiny corner chip, discounted accordingly. Still attractive

The Road To San Jacinto by L.L. Foreman Pocket Books No. 824 1st Print 1951 $25 SOLD to goldust40 Classic "hooded vigilantes" lynch mob cover art by Carl Mueller VF minus/VF Square, tight and glossy. Some light edgewear and page tanning. Great copy, it's usually beat.

Across Time / Invaders from Earth David Grinnell, Robert Silverberg Ace Books D-286 1st Ed. 1958 $12 SOLD to goldust40 Nice Ed Emshwiller , Ed Valigursky covers Fine plus/VF minus Square, tight and bright, other than small corner creasing on "Invaders" and page tanning, this is a structurally new looking book

Angel by Carter Brown Signet S2094 First print. March 1962 $20 SOLD to goldust40 Gorgeous nude Good Girl "back shot" cover art by Robert McGinnis. Just a killer image, one of my favorites Fine plus. Square tight and bright. Has a code number on spine and some light overall wear

Taffy by Philip B. Kaye Avon 377 1st Print 1951 $25 SOLD to jimjum12 A "fridge magnet" book. Juvenile Delinquents in Harlem Raymond Johnson Headlights GGA art Glossy and never read. Has some laminate peeling on the spine, neat name stamp on inside cover and page edge. Interiors toning as usual but virtually no creasing or edgewear.

To quote Jimbo himself "she's got the kind of buttocks that make a man go straight home from work"

Girl In A Shroud by Carter Brown Signet G2344 1st Print 1963 $15 SOLD to jimjum12 Sweet McGinnis Good Girl back shot Fine/Fine plus. Square, tight and bright. Has small pen date on first page, some rubbing and some color transfer on back. Still overall nice looking.