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Robert Bloch "Fear Today - Gone Tomorrow" Award Books A811S 1971 1st Ed 1st Print of this short story collection - $10 SOLD to mstrange Nice clean mid-grade copy that can still be read. Reader creases and some tiny sticker residue.

The Best Of Planet Stories Edited by Leigh Brackett. Ballantine 24334 1st Printing, January 1975 $22 SOLD to goldust40 Fantastic cover art by Frank Kelly Freas Stories by Brackett & Bradbury, Frederic Brown et al A great and beautiful anthology. Very Fine minus. Looks unread. Bright and white. Killer spine and super glossy. Has only a touch of edgewear along the spine and light wear on the back. Looks like a new book otherwise.

Who Goes There by John W. Campbell, Jr. Dell Book D150 1st US PB 1955 $40 SOLD per PM to Cushing Fan An increasingly tough pb. Richard Powers cover art. 1st US pb appearance of Campbell's most collected story, that was made into the classic early Sci-Fi movie "The Thing From Another World" Fine Plus - nice un-creased copy with high gloss. Has some spine slant but pages are tight and supple and very bright and white.

Third From The Sun by Richard Matheson Bantam 1294 1st PB 1st Print 1955 $15 SOLD Collection of 13 classic stories with gorgeous Charles Binger cover art In the Fine range. Has some light creasing on front, spine wear and a corner crease on back but square and tight with light wear otherwise.

H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out Of Space, Lancer 73-425 1st Printing 1964 $30 SOLD to mstrange I believe this collection of seven of his best stories is the first US pb collection after the Bart House and Avon collections in the 40's and 50's. One of the better ones I've seen. Fine Plus, some tiny corner bends and light spine wear but a fresh, square, smooth looking copy that is pretty difficult with the pink ink.

Rod Serling, Stories From The Twilight Zone, Bantam A2046 1960 1st Edition as well as the 1st pb. TV tie-in Rod Serling photo cover $35 SOLD to goldust40 Contains 6 stories collected for the first time, including "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" A nice Fine Plus copy, smooth covers, light spine wear, a little color chipping to back spine at the top. Pretty tough looking like this one does.

Welcome to Surfing Alien's October Horror and More! Golden Age paperback sale. Yeah, I know - October - Horror, kind of cliche, but it's fun anyway. I tried to come up with as much Horror, Fantasy, Science-Fiction and the like as I could but will have a nice chunk of other junk, including junky trunks and boobie-liciousness (is that a word?) 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.

Menace, Vol. 1 No. 1, November 1954. Pretty good lineup. The cover's not bad either. Looks a lot like a Saunders girl but very refined. Neither detail saved it from oblivion after two issues but

Great Tom Dunn cleavage cover

I don't know who is behind the buys of rare paperbacks. But I collect rare paperbacks and this is a rare paperback. Most fat pbs are tough in higher grades.

Just dug this out of my post on here from 4 years ago rather than try to dig it out A Signet Triple with triple spine. This from when we first posted about fat paperbacks.

Some Friday Fun on a Friday for once again George Ziel cover on this one A nice copy of one of the Pedigree Hal Ellson JD titles. I've got 4 of them now, I think there's 6 in all and pretty tough in general

Not quite as splashy as the Smith book, but I like this 1975 "House of the Worm" title still in the shrinkwrap, just because it reminds me of how I first discovered Arkham House books, haunting the stacks of the Forbidden Planet mega store on lower Broadway in Greenwich Village when I was a teenager. I did read my original copy and remember enjoying the stories but think I'll keep this one "under wraps" since it has survived 48 years thus...

This sold hundreds of millions of paperbacks to the Greatest Generation in the late 40's -60's, who had painted ladies on their tanks, planes and bombs throught WW2, to remind them what they were fighting for From my somewhat limited experience as a seller now, it's still sells more than any other item variable

The Giants did refer to the thickness. They are very cool books with many DeSoto and Johnson GGA covers. The whole period of the mid 50's where Popular included new paintings on the back covers as well as the front, is very cool. Some of those back covers are even signed while very few front covers were!

Bought this at Titus Oaks Records on Flatbush Avenue the week it hit the radio back in 1979. I may even still have it somewhere although most of my lp's got pretty trashed. Not the first use though, which was the Kane book 3 years earlier, although likely much more well known due to the multi-Platinum sales.

Some more Friday Fun on Saturday... I like the little run of Fate with the painted covers until about 1959. This one with GGA & music, pretty cool. To answer the question... only when I'm trippin'

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Nice copy there I actually read the whole thread for the first time and there were paperbacks earlier in the thread, but not "Dark Crusade" featuring "Dark Kingdom" which broke the record recently or any of the other tough Wagner pbs.

His recent record setter's 1st appearance is on Karl Edward Wagner's "Dark Crusade" The reproduction on the 1976 paperback is quite a bit better than most of the earlier Frazetta paperbacks. All of the Wagner Kane books with Frazetta covers have become pretty pricey in high grade for Bronze Age paperbacks due to Wagner's cult-like following, probable lower print runs on these when they came out in the late 70's and the excellent covers.

That's a tough Beacon for sure (and quite a blurb) Lesbianism titles are probably the hottest (marketwise!) books lately, there's always a ton of competition for them and any I ever list for sale go quickly.

that box keeps looking better!

Cover-filling Good Girls dancing on bars can do that to ya

I couldn't disagree more but everyone see things with their own eyes

Agree - it's a beautiful piece too, great symbolism with that eye background.