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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks those new black labels are ugly.

Yeah, those are great Cole covers for sure. Did you find yourself needing to downsize at certain points in your life, or did you sell things along the way to make way for new things? I've sold a few things along the way at flea markets or shows, but often regretted letting go of those things later (like a Hopalong Cassidy board game I still have never replaced). I'm lucky to have kept all my comics, pulps and paperbacks, except for the occasional double.

Yesterday I picked up three nice paperbacks that had previously eluded me (meaning that I haven't chanced upon them before: I wasn't actively looking or anything, mind you). Pretty good finds at an antique mall and sensibly priced. They had a Campus Town too, but you could see someone traced over the cover leaving all sorts of indentations. In any case, I'm pleased to add these to the pile:

For a buck, I'll take it.

This brings back memories for me. It's one of maybe my first twenty or so vintage paperbacks that I picked up across the street from me as a kid from an older lady's garage sale. The Chinese Parrot (Avon 344) and Double for Death (Dell 9) were also among that early batch. An influential day in my young collecting life to be sure, all these many bankers' boxes of books later.

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Please add to my stack - thanks!

This would definitely be one of my favorites, too, if I was savvy enough to pick it up back in the day. Great choices, Robot Man!

Take this and the My Love 6

Wow, Captain Battle coming on strong! All three books are getting some love, so it's an appropriate enough and well-chosen trio.

Nice offerings as usual! Good luck with the sale!

I'm not sure what it was, but it certainly manifested itself in our fiction quickly - from the whole perils-of-Pauline needing rescue to Hostel Part 7. I feel in my heart that it must have owed to multiple factors - who were these readers? Were many of them returning servicemen who saw horrors in Europe during our brief but influential stint in World War I? Did some part owe to the depression that raged? I can't lay all that at the feet of progressive winds, but neither will I refute that a change in our collective mindset was definitely in play.

Add Dobie 5 to my pile as well please

Also Take Dobie Gillis 6

Take Dobie 15

Take Dobie Gillis 1

Truly outstanding stuff, Dwight! Kudos!! On an unrelated and more somber note, what the heck was going on with supposedly puritanical America at the time that this niche sadism flourished so mightily?? This cover almost offends me in its sadism and misogyny, and that's hard to do: I am not among the easily irked or offended. Sure, there was a worldwide depression, but if you didn't have money to eat, I doubt you were buying pulps monthly. And why would one blame women instead of bureaucrats or international bankers or any of the usual suspects? Really a strange phenomenon, truly.

Young Allies for me, thanks.

Yeah, they're outstanding. The only pulps I see with any frequency these days are Railroad Stories. I don't even see Ranch Romances anymore. I found a really nice Spider a few years ago, asked how much, and the guy told me $50. Thing is, it was in nice enough shape I still bought it. It would've been a nicer pill to swallow at five bucks, of course.

Which just so happens to be marked "property of Hannes Bok!!!" Super cool!

The books that have been posted here of late are phenomenal! Keep 'em coming!!

Powerful example. I've had this book for years and am always likewise moved by it. A really poignant cover. So many great Ajax books...

Finding books like this is at a fin is a major score, even back then as has been suggested. Some really classic pulps here. An old collector explained to me once, something to this effect: a storeowner who buys a suit for $20 and sells it for a $100 when the next guy through the door might've paid $120 is a sorry lot indeed if he focuses on the $20 he thinks he lost rather than the $80 he just made.