Surfing Alien

So Dead My Love by Harry Whittington b/w I The Executioner by Stephen Ransome Ace D-7 1952 $15 Rafael DeSoto bondage cover. Affordable copy of a scarce early Ace and a Whittington original to boot VG, page uneverness, creases

Never Forget, Never Forgive Clayton Fox b/w The Flying Eye Bob McKnight Ace F-102 1st Ed 1961 $20 SOLD to OtherEric First F series mystery double. Sweet bondage cover VF minus/VF nice copy

Dark Threat by Patricia Wentworth Popular Library 382 1st pb 1951 $8 Rudolph Belarski bad girl cover VG/VG+ Spine has slant, creases

I The Jury by Mickey Spillane Signet 699 $12 SOLD to goldust40 25th Printing October 1952 - this has the second cover painting for this Signet #, by Lu Kimmel VF minus/VF has a tiny stain, some rubbing on the back. Pretty copy

The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein Ace F-375 1st PB 1st Printing 1966 $8 SOLD to dover 1st of this collection. Jack Gaughan cover art Fine/Fine plus - has light crease that doesn't break color, name in pen on first page.

Rocket Ship Galileo Ace 73330 1970 1st PB 1st Printing $20 The first Heinelin "Juvenile" Steel Savage cover art VF minus/VF Unread - looks NM has a light stain to page edge coloring

I'm working from home so I can list a few during the day but it will be hit or miss until this evening I'll get started with some cool Heinlein 1st paperback editions that are still quite reasonable if you know how to identify them The Rolling Stones Ace 73440 1970 1st PB 1st Printing $15 SOLD to dover @40% off Steel Savage cover art Fine Plus/VF minus very light creasing

Welcome to Surfing Alien's $25 (or 6 to 4) cheap paperbacks sale. Everything <$25 (See I even used the proper "less than" sign. You can teach an old dawg new tricks ) Giving my age away, yes I grew up humming Terry Kath's incredible guitar solo to Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" in my head. I hope it's stuck in yours now As in my November Black Parade of the Broken, Beaten and the Damned sale, this is going to be a hodge podge of lower priced books that are either: 1. Classic books that are broken, beaten or otherwise damned and 2. Books that are in nice shape but just not top tier, expensive (in relative, paperbacking terms) books 3. Books that fall in between those categories for some reason or other. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on descriptions and pics but promise lots of cool stuff anyway. I'm upping the limit to $25 from $20 so I can include some mo' better books so let the fun begin... I've been buying selling and trading Vintage pb's since the Hancer Price Guide came out back in the 80's. Been on Ebay since 1998 with 100% positive feedback. I tend to grade paperbacks in the manner of current pulp grading: Poor/Fair/Good/Very Good/Fine/Very Fine I'm a high grade collector so my books are almost all Very Good and better if they're available in those grades. Many pre-1960 books just aren't available in high grade often so I try to find solid Good-Very Good ones if I can. The rules for this thread are: -No HoS or Probation list buyers -I will ship to Canada but will have to quote shipping options. -Payment via Venmo or Paypal preferred. I also can do Zelle although it is a bit more of a pain to do. -Shipping via USPS Media Mail for $4 or Priority Small Box for $11 for the continental United States. More than one book I will ship at the least extra cost practicable. Shipping for Canada will be quoted. -First in the thread wins and prevails over pm offers -Returns accepted for 14 days after delivery but please let me know asap if you are unhappy for any reason and I will make it right. I do miss things occasionally. Feel free to pm with offer or questions. I'm always open to reasonable package offers.

I know that it will never have Pedigree status but this is Frank Brunner's copy of Brundage's 1st WT cover. I have several others of his pulps. Mostly upper mid-grade like this, but priceless. His Bran Mak Morn portfolio should have been Weird Tales illos

Depends on if you're going to read them or not. Abridgement is all over the place on pbs, it's usually notated somewhere on the cover or inside whether it's abridged or "NOT ONE WORD CUT!"

First, paperbacks with dust-jackets, now paperbacks that are hardcovers! What will they think of next Seriously, those little Perma hardcovers are pretty cool. Most of the first 101 of the Perma "P" series are hardcovers and mostly non-fiction, but those went away and Doubleday eventually sold the line to Pocket, who changed it to the more successful "M" series which had some very collectible pb's, including the 3 James Bond titles and the Ed McBain (Evan Hunter) books.

I don't see it. It looks like Walter Popp to me or the unidentified artist who did the Steve Harragan digest covers

That's a cool piece. I believe the congressional hearing transcripts are on Google books or somewhere, I remember reading the transcripts when I was researching Raymond Johnson and it was pretty funny reading the interplay between the publishers, who were like nothing to see here, move along.... and the hard liners who were positive that every kid who read "The Amboy Dukes" was going to drop out of school, smoke reefers and murder somebody

The 1st pb edition in English is the Armed Services Edition (although the original 1895 Heineman edition was released in boards and wraps, I don't consider that a mass market type paperback) in 1945. Penguin released a paperback edition in 1946 but it is the usual boring Penguin all-type cover (that I have never collected, although there are plenty of enthusiasts, I was never one, I MUST have a pictorial cover, even if it's a picture of the hardcover ) The Pan 1953 edition was the first commercially available mass market pb edition with a pictorial cover. I only have the 1954 second print of that one

Another humble pickup. Genius Loci is like an old friend to me as I believe it was the first Arkham House book I bought back in the '80's when I first started collecting so it's nice to have one again. The Wakefield dj image always creeped me out

Are those all digest sized?

I love that you did this in your Little Carousel of Comics

I think you mean, a great image, but not a great scan because that is a great looking image to me

Did the Docs tell you collecting Vintage Paperbacks was like quicksand 🤔🤪

I like my sleaze by Bonfils to be dusky, busty, unadorned, and written by famous Beatnik Richard E. Geis under an African American female sounding pseudonym

This one is straight up your alley Beau (Not my copy, it's buried and too many pics on my phone to dig through ) About the "Girls" taking to selling Magazines, and a little more I read it about a year ago and recall it actually has a lot of background about the magazine selling business and a good page turner. Hitt wasn't quite at the "Gold Medal" writer level but his best could have been for sure. I saw a credit for Frank Uppwall as the cover artist on the webs but looks like Dodd (or Nappi) to me. Almost every Beacon from this time was reprinted from an earlier Universal related mag or digest but I don't know this one without digging into it.

Congrats Jim, that is a jaw- dropper!

Some more Sci Fi for the Friday Fun... The Ace series were the Heinlein Juvenile editions my sister gave me when I was about 11 that hooked me on Heinlein and Science Fiction as a whole. They are also, for the most part, the first pb editions of his "juveniles". Those copies were read to death and have gone to the great pb graveyard in the sky but these here beauties are going in the cabinet to stay "Rocket Ship Galileo" was the first one she gave me and it was perfect because I was a wise-alecky punk kid and it's about a bunch of wise-alecky punk teens who help build a rocket, go to the moon This blazing copy let's the Steel Savage artwork shine. His paintings were like good friends to a whole generation of geeky teen age boys. First published in 1947, First PB published in 1970 As the back cover blurb suggests, Lummox, "The Star Beast" was "just about the most appealing and lovable creature of the kind ever delineated". Steel Savage again with the unforgettable artwork on this blazer. Who could resist Lummox? First published in 1954, First PB published in 1970

I've read about a dozen Orrie Hitt novels (and have more in the stacks), they are definitely a cut above most of the sleaze titles. His characters are almost always regular people struggling to get one step ahead of the bills and end up doing questionable things to get there. Like almost all sleaze titles from the higher class publishers (Beacon/Monarch etc.) there is far less graphic groping than the covers suggest (and nothing like modern mainstream books like "Shades of Grey"). In order not to hijack Jim's excellent thread, if you go hang out here: Maybe I'll post a few Plus it's just a fun place to hang

You gotta neaten up those stacks pal