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The Shuttered Room H.P. Lovecraft Ballantine 03229 2nd Printing 1973 $15 SOLD to goldust40 Sick cover art by John Holmes. Tough black cover series. Fine plus. Thin reader crease and spine wear, light edge and surface wear

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson Panther 5860268272 1972 $15 SOLD @30% off to davet75 2nd Pan edition with the spectacular wrap around cover art by Ian Miller Fine plus. Square and tight, has some spine wear and one straight crease on the front. Has a newish feel due to the white pages.

Solar Lottery by Philip K. MR. Ace D-340 1st stand alone pb edition and 2nd pb overall $20 SOLD to goldust40 Another excellent Ed Valigursky cover Fine plus. Square tight and glossy. Small corner crease, minimal wear otherwise. Has some spotting to page edges and a bit of a messy name scrawled on first page.

The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov Signet 1082 1st PB, 1st Printing December 1953 $12 SOLD to BuscemasAvengers Great Stanley Meltzoff cover art. Fine minus. Square and glossy. Spine is tight with some wear to the edges. Covers are bright and glossy. Front is nice with a few light bends, has more creases on back.

Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham Ballantine No. 50 1953 1st US Edition $12 SOLD to goldust40 Richard Powers cover. Fine Square tight and glossy. Light spine wear and edgewear. Inner covers white, which is pretty rare for these.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Pyramid Books R290 1957 $35 SOLD to goldust40 The 2nd mass paperback edition and very tough in grade due to the black cover Fine Plus/VF minus Square tight and glossy, no reader crease, just light edge and surface wear and a name in pen on inside cover. Tanning to inner covers and pages.

Dracula, a Russ Jones book with art by Al McWilliams Ballantine U2271 $35 SOLD to goldust40 Awesome cover and interiors. A very tough comic/mag interior vintage pb. Scarce in any condition. About Fine. Spine has a bit of lean and some stresses but covers are otherwise pretty nice without hard creases.

Eye in the Sky Ace D-211 True 1st Edition with a great Ed Valigursky cover $40 SOLD to goldust40 Fine plus. Solid straight spine - light reader crease and a thumb bend near edge, otherwise glossy with light wear

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury Bantam 991 1st PB edition 1st Print March 1952 $25 SOLD to goldust40 Classic Charles Binger cover art VG+/Fine Tight copy with light spine and edgewear, some spotting to the interior covers and dust soiling to covers, light stain on back upper corner. Still presents pretty nicely.

Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle Signet D2547 1st PB edition 1st Print November 1964 $25 Sold to goldust40 A nice copy of the start of the classic worldwide franchise, a bit tough to find the 1st print nice. Fine Plus - Square glossy and tight, light reader crease, pretty unoffensive on the white background, light wear otherwise.

ReCap p. 2 The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson Panther 5860268272 1972 $15 p. 3 COUNTRY CLUB CONFIDENTIAL Lee Brill Beacon Books #B594F 1963 PBO $22 p. 5 Duke by Hal Ellson Popular Library 219 5th print 1950 Classic JD pb $25 PLUGGED IN Jay Martin Berkley Medallion Z2246 1st Print 1972 McGinnis $45 p. 6 For I Have Sinned by Ruth Sachs Pyramid Books No. 147 PBO 1955 $30 False Night by Algis Budrys Lion Books No. 230 1954 $12 p. 8 The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett Ace F-135 1st PB 1962 $10 P. 9 The Universe Maker / The World of Null-A A. E. van Vogt Ace Books D-31 1st PB of each 1953 $15 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward H. P. Lovecraft Beagle Boxer (The Arkham Edition of H. P. Lovecraft #9) 95123 1973 $15 The Lurker at the Threshold August Derleth, H. P. Lovecraft Beagle Books / Ballantine (The Arkham Edition of H. P. Lovecraft #4) 95058 2nd Print June 1973 $10 P. 13 The Dunwich Horror H. P. Lovecraft Lancer Books 75427 1971 $12 The Tower of Zanid by L. Sprague de Camp Airmont Books (Airmont Science Fiction #2) SF2 1963 $5 P. 15 The Fox Woman and other Stories by Abraham Merritt Avon 214 (no number - Canadian edition) 1949 True 1st Edition of this collection $35 The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle Signet #S1673 First Printing June 1959 $12 The Shadow, The Red Menace #7 in the series by Maxwell Grant Pyramid N3875 1st Print August 1975 $10 The Shadow, Hands In The Dark #4 in the series by Maxwell Grant Pyramid N3557 1st Print January 1975 $10 The Doom That Came To Sarnath H.P. Lovecraft Ballantine 02146 1st Printing 1971 $20 P. 17 The Vault Of Horror Ballantine U2107 1st Print August 1965 $40 P. 18 The Dame by Carter Brown Signet 1738 1st Print November 1959 $20 A Murderer Among Us by Carter Brown Signet S2228 1st print. December 1962 $15 At The Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft Ballantine 24301 6th Printing 1975 $20 The Brotherhood of Satan by L.Q. Jones Award Books A842S 1971 $60 P. 19 You Asked for It (Casino Royale) by Ian Fleming Popular Library 660 Only printing of this great rarity April 1955 $275 Native Girl by Harry Whittington Berkley G250 1956 $75 A Woman of Paris by Andre Tellier Pyramid Books No. 71 1953 $20 P. 20 Playground of Violence by Mike Skinner Novel Books 5035 1st Print 1961 $40 Two Of A Kind by Orrie Hitt Midwood No. 45 PBO 1st Edition 1960 $50 P. 21 The Terror Of The Leopard Men by Juba Kennerley Avon 339 1951 $25 P. 23 The Moon Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace Books F-159 1st PB edition 1st Print October 1962 $15 P. 24 Avon Fantasy Reader No. 17 1951 $10 Avon Fantasy Reader No. 18 1951 $18 Avon Fantasy Reader No. 8 1948 $18

I'm going all out here to extend the most amount of what my pals around here call "Stone Cold Classics" - those books that have iconic covers, contents or both. I'll be heading out to the Los Angeles Paperback show in March for the first time so making room and raising some buying money at the same time. There will also be lots of lower dollar books that are fun in one way or other, including plenty of science fiction so keep checking back, I plant to keep this going for about a week if I can 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 $5 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.

Friday fun... the "regular" Avon edition of "Double Indemnity" Avon #60, 1945 cover by Paul Stahr. Although both editions are cool, I think this cover is cooler.

The Sack of Lombard: Slab collectors descend on the Windy City Pulp Convention

Very nice, Surf has some Friday fun for this thread as well Nice H.J. Ward bondage cover on this one. I have quite a few Private Detective's including #1, since they were, relatively reasonable for Ward cover pulps when I got into them 5 or so years ago. Not so much anymore but I still look around for them.

I'm sure you all can imagine I'd be scouring the interwebs for a decent copy of "A Handful of Darkness" since @OtherEric posted his find and today is the day it arrived. Grateful for you pointing it out pal, one of the few holes in my PKD pb shelf. It's pretty nice but just scruffy enough that I don't fear reading the tales within

Tim, I just wanted to be another voice of thanks. Your guide formed a large part of my education on titles, authors, artists and all the other things that Pulps are besides price. The unfortunately disparaging tone of the post you responded to seems to disregard the tireless effort such a guide is. It seems to be a theme in many responses to old posts that were dredged out. Your persecution as an interloper back in the day was surely undeserved however my own sense of the reaction of "old time pulp collectors" in other forums than these to CGC grading confirms there's a bias to keeping the club door closed. The disgust and down-nose gazing I've seen at the prospect of the invasion of the club by vulgar cover art collectors in some groups is a bit disappointing but not unexpected. I gather the same commenters will be happy to sell their wares at the higher prices that an expanded market of collectors will bring when they decide to cash out, as all humans must do eventually (or die with their booty in the hands of heirs)

Just finished reading "War With The Newts" or rather re-reading because as I read, it started to come back to me that I knew this story, pretty sure I read it back in college days when I was voraciously consuming the classics. A tale well worth reading and/or re-reading. Very Continental in its satire on politics and human nature and quite humorous in a sad (and savage) way. Not full of dated space/time physics either so none of the suspension of disbelief required Other than remarking that a Pat recommendation usually can't go wrong, I'll leave it at that so there's no spoilers This copy had some old water soiling to the back pages so I happily read it in the vintage pb edition. I can't do e-readers, I need smelly old paper

This is a symptom of something

This conversation is really giving me the itch to pick some up again

You're off to a great start. They are beautiful books, well selected and well made with many great dust jackets. They just have an artful quality about them. When I sold my first collection I kept most of the ones I had. Here's a partial shelfie: And the front of one of my favorite Dust Jackets - by Hannes Bok

I've never collected westerns per se, but I always run across some that just hit me and I put them on my keep pile and love looking at, especially if they are early Ace or Popular Library

Everybody wants some

That is quite a few places noted. With about 500 mapbacks it's a tough thing to know! Most only have one location but then there's First Men In The Moon which has the entire moon map

There's nothing quite like a minty fresh 1950's Avon, except perhaps a minty fresh 1950's Popular Library