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It would be a Crime not to post your Detective Pulps
Surfing Alien replied to Robot Man's topic in Pulp Magazines
Ouch! Hypodermic needle cover. August 15, 1937 The Boiled Bride? Look below... Double ouch!! - some of the interiors on these 1930's true crime's are pretty awesome. -
Some Friday fun... After Erich posting those nice Ballantines I happened to pick up this cool one. Cover by John Blanchard in the vein of all the prior pulp covers with famous New York landmarks imperiled by nature and/or aliens. I know Schomburg did a Statute of Liberty one earlier for Amazing. In a related note, a Sturgeon 1st with Powers art And finally, a gorgeous Good Girl by the amazing Jerzy Zielezinski. I love everything about this one, the vaguery of the background makes the figures stand out.
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Here's one I just upgraded to after several years of looking. Definitely one you have to be willing to "settle" for a decent copy (if any) This is a high grade copy, one of the best I've seen. Every collector of Bond wants one and they don't exist in high grade because the cover inks are so poor and the glue on the thin spine so brittle. Usually found separated from the spine and the covers heavily scratched. Only one printing as well because Fleming's agent fired Popular Library for changing the title (and Bond's name to "Jimmy") Top it off with a sweet Raymond Johnson Good Girl cover (for which Bond looks more like Raymond Johnson than James Bond, and his drink neither shaken nor stirred ) and you have a tough, tough book. Fleming's first in the USA.
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Let's travel to the PLANET STORIES Universe
Surfing Alien replied to Hap Hazard's topic in Pulp Magazines
Been a while since I added to my Planet pile but these were steals so they made their way to me right quick Fall 1954 Kelly Freas "bare breast" cover Winter 1954/55 Cover by Algis Budrys. Not a bad cover for a writer! -
The Unnamable Writer: PKD appreciation thread
Surfing Alien replied to OtherEric's topic in Pulp Magazines
High grade first PB, it's relatively new but pretty well sought after because it is PKD and an early DAW, which has collectors of their own -
Alongside the gloss issue, is the lamination issue, many pb's. early 50's Avons, notably, have lamination, which, when fully intact, imbues a new looking gloss that is tough to beat, perception-wise. It is very hit or miss, the periods when different publishers employed it. Most of them only doing it for limited lengths of their runs.
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Nurses' Quarters, Cameo Books No. 332 1953 Cover art by Rudolph Belarski. Can't ever get enough nurse pbs around these parts. The one in the foreground just needs a highball with that cigarette and nylons to be the paragon of virtue
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Sojarr of Titan by Manly Wade Wellman Prize Science Fiction No. 11 1949. Cover art by Herman Vestal. I always considered this a classic Sci Fi cover image Vestal did the cover for the September 1952 Planet Stories but otherwise looks like he did mostly interiors in the pulps.
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$5 Bok cover, what's not to love
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I would agree that would be an old bookman grading grade. I think I come very much out of comic book world where a VG/F is a decent looking book but has creases and a fair amount of edgewear. I just couldn't grade a pretty looking thing like that book with that grade. Which, I guess goes to show, it really is about the pictures provided and disclosure of defects that can't be seen in pics.
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Thanks Jim, I'm always providing at minimum, pics of the back and front and ample description, except for my couple of low price sales threads where I want to move faster and put one pic, but I will still always add notable defects in the description if I only show one pic. I've had pretty good sell through, mostly because I've learned a bit through doing with the Boardies here. At this point, I can dig any book out of my boxes and have a good idea if it's a board sale book. A painting of a nice looking lady usually goes a long way, if she has a gun, all the better