Surfing Alien

Thanks fellas, I'm going to have to call it a night, need to wake up early tomorrow to deal with car problems But I should be back with more around the same time.

Tales of the Incredible Ballantine U2140 1st Print March 1965 $35 SOLD to N e r V Another nice EC comic collection. A little better than the Vault of Horror, especially the spine. Fine/Fine Plus. Strong color and gloss. Has a hairline reader crease, some light spine and edgewear and surface dimpling and light creasing.

The Vault Of Horror Ballantine U2107 1st Print August 1965 $30 SOLD to N e r V Nice copy of this EC comic collection. Fine/Fine Plus. Strong color and gloss. Has some spine and edgewear, mostly to the lower spine. Couple of very light creases and surface wear.

N e r V by a nose

King Kull by Robert E. Howard and Lin Carter Lancer Books 74-561 2nd US Print September 1969 $15 SOLD to N e r V Krenkel cover. Second US print of the first pb that collects all the Kull stories. Square, glossy high grade copy with only hairline reader creasing and minimal wear.

Conan The Freebooter by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague DeCamp Lancer 447 75119-095 2nd US Print 1970 $15 SOLD to N e r V Cool John Duillo Gorilla cover. 2nd US print of this Lancer Conan collection with new logo. Another super square, glossy, unread VF-ish copy with only light surface wear and light fading.

Conan The Wanderer by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague DeCamp and Lin Carter Lancer Books 74-976 1st Print 1968 $30 SOLD to N e r V Cover art by John Duillo 1st print of the 1st pb of this collection in the Lancer Conan series Very Fine. Super square, glossy, unread copy with only light surface wear and light fading. A great looking copy.

Bloodstone by Karl Edward Wagner Warner Books 88-285 Second Print 1978 $40 SOLD to N e r V Another inspiring and super tough Frazetta Kane cover. Not the first book in the series but the first with a Frazetta cover. I still don't even own one first print. Fine Plus, some light spine and edgewear, very small creases, tiny marker.

That was a close battle but looks like Andy by a hair

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Bantam 886 1st Printing May 1951 $25 SOLD to goldust40 Early Bradbury classic. Great cover art is un-credited Fine/Fine Plus - solid and square, minimal wear and smooth front. Has a long light crease on back cover. Non-author pencil inscription on title page

Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury Bantam 10882-4 April 1978 $35 SOLD to mstrange 1st PB Edition of this collection of 22 stories. Wild Ian Miller wrap around cover Near perfect unread copy. VF/NM with light surface/storage wear

Animal Farm by George Orwell Signet 1289 1st Printing March 1956 $30 SOLD to mstrange The greatest horror of all - man's inhumanity to man (or four legs to two legs???) Cover art certainly depicting Comrade Napoleon Fine plus Square and glossy, has a reader crease but otherwise a smooth copy with only some light wear and finger bends.

Forbidden Planet by W.J. Stuart Bantam A1443 1st Print March 1956 $25 SOLD to N e r V Movie tie-in. Classic Robby Robot cover Fine - Light creasing, spine stressing, spine edge wear and pages are toned. All told still a nice looking copy.

The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart Dell Books 652 1953 $18 SOLD to goldust40 Cool cover has raised/lowered texture to simulate bat skin and tree leaves. Cover art by Walter Brooks. The original publication in 1926 was supposedly an inspiration for The Batman. VG/Fine, has some slant and some corner creases but a great piece that is much better than usual.

The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson, Gold Medal D1203 March 1962 $30 SOLD to goldust40 Second printing of the First Edition with alternate cover. Sharp, glossy copy is unread with VF appearance. Has some spine slant and page toning from storage.

The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt Avon 315 1951 $65 SOLD to N e r V Superior copy of a classic Golden Age Avon Merritt fantasy with an amazing Raymond Johnson nude GGA cover. The only one I know of to which the original art survives. Very Fine minus/Very Fine. Super glossy, square and tight. Killer spine, great colors and complete lamination. Very light wear overall, a couple of small color flecks on right edge

If Hate Could Kill by Jack Bradley Ace D-433 PBO 1960 b/w The Smasher by Talmage Powell $22 SOLD to mstrange A killer un-credited Ace GGA cover Fine/Fine plus. Square, bright and glossy, has a small spine split at top with some wear but a pretty front cover

One Night With Nora by Brett Halliday Dell D387 1st Printing November 1960 $18 SOLD to goldust40 Nice McGinnis headlights cover. Fine Plus, looks very lightly read with a slight slant, light soiling, light crease on back only.

A Taste For Violence by Brett Halliday Dell D463 1st Printing March 1962 $15 SOLD to goldust40 McGinnis GGA cover art, Beautiful color scheme Fine Plus/VF Minus looks very lightly read with a few light marks and no major creasing

Not rare at all in general, in fact, the all-font covered later printings are pretty common as to be expected from a best seller, but the 1st printing with the full sized Avati painted cover very much so. It took me a couple of years to find this one and it is far from perfect. I gave up trying to upgrade it. I think fat books, especially densely worded ones like this, took quite a few sittings to get through and suffered from more cover wear than a skinny volume that got devoured in one or two sittings.

I have a few things to attend to here so am going to pause until tomorrow. I'll clean up the thread for sure too, since I forgot to today

Even Carter Brown gets into the Vampire scene Killer copy, literally. So What Killed The Vampire by Carter Brown. Signet D2859 1st Printing March 1966. $30 SOLD to crassus Gorgeous McGinnis GGA cover. Super glossy VF or better copy. Square with almost no wear at all.

The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories Selected by Herbert van Thal Pan Books x261 Appears to be the 1963 First print per ISFDB $15 SOLD to mstrange Great cover art signed W. Francis Phillips Fine Plus - nice fresh copy with a few light creases 19 Stories including Bradbury, Bloch, Brennan and others

Darkness Weaves by Karl Edward Wagner Pocket Books 89-598 First Printing January 1978 $45 SOLD to goldust40 Incredible Frazetta wrap around cover. The first Wagner Frazetta Kane cover I've been able to offer. Wagner's cult-like following seemingly never let these go so I've had a hard time upgrading mine. Very Fine minus. Glossy and tight with very light spine edgewear.

Turn of the Table by Jonathan Stagge Popular Library No. 267 August 1950 $35 Great Belarski GGA cover art on a famous Golden Age Vampire murder tale. Scarce. Fine/Fine Plus. Square, tight and bright with some minor creasing. A nice looking copy.