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Magenta Books No. 106 - "Night Women" by Jan Bennett, 1965.

Some surface roughness due to stacking wear.

$10   Adults only

Up next is a small group of adult sleaze from the 1960's. The Magenta Books are remaindered copies and feature either a sawcut through the top of the book or a hole punch on the front cover. For the most part, these are unread and tight copies with minor storage wear.

Magenta Books No. 102 - "Gin Mill Gigolo" by Guy Bennett, 1965.

$15  Adults only   Now $12

On 1/24/2024 at 11:57 PM, goldust40 said:

Take

Thanks, Goldust40!! 

Popular Library No. 241 - "The Fortunes of Captain Blood" by Rafael Sabatini. A classic cover about intrigue on the high seas by Rudolph Belarski.

Near Fine with some surface rubbing to the covers, and slight soiling back cover. Nice colors!

$20    SOLD

Pocket Book No. 855 - "The Case of the Backward Mule" by Earl Stanley Gardner. Brutal and violent cover art by Frank McCarthy. First printing. 

VG spine slant and corner crease LRFC and some soiling on the back cover.

$20     SOLD

Dell No. 36 - "The Hammersmith Murders" by David Frome. Another terrific stark airbrushed cover by Gerald Gregg.

VG+  with spine slant and right corner crease LRFC keeping it from grading higher. 

$25 for a clean early mapback.  SOLD

Dell No. 58 - "Murder For The Asking" by George Harmon Coxe. A really simple and effective cover treatment by the great Gerald Gregg.

VG++ Light creasing to the covers and light rubs lower spine. A really clean mapback.

$25    SOLD

I'm going to post a few leftovers from last night and then try to post some 60's sleaze later tonight.

Avon No. 255 - "Tropical Passions" anthology with passionate headlights cover art.

Fine+ condition - great gloss, minimal cover pullback, although as with most laminated covers, it has shrunk over time resulting in a spine slant and some misaligned signatures on the righthand edge. Clean book with minimal wear. 

$30      SOLD via PM

On 1/24/2024 at 8:48 AM, alecholland said:

Will you have any sci-fi books?

I have a few sharp Burroughs with Frazetta covers, but I don’t think I have much in the way of sci-fi except the occasional straggler. I pulled a few boxes of stuff a while ago for a sale, but I’m only now getting around to it and I don’t remember everything that went into the boxes months ago. While I was digging around, I found a box of movie magazines I had intended to list on eBay; that was probably ten years ago and they’re still sitting (trouble is, now I want to keep most of them!). 

On 1/24/2024 at 5:56 AM, Comical Situations said:

Take please

Thanks!! 

On 1/23/2024 at 11:44 PM, OtherEric said:

as per PM!

Thanks much, Eric!! 

Pocket Books No. 231 - "The Judas Window" by Carter Dickson. A truly atmospheric masterpiece of skeletal proportions by cover artist Leo Manso. And a Pocket First Printing! There were so many classic mysteries put out by Pocket in this era. 

A VG+ copy - tight, flat, clean except with spine fading and a few rubs. Otherwise, better than my keeper. Structurally very sound.

$20    Now $18

Pocket Books No. 164 - "Puzzle For Players" by Patrick Quentin. A fantastic in-your-face skull cover and a First Pocket Printing. 

VG copy with obvious corner crease and spine rubs; otherwise, a nice tight copy of a classic skull cover (I know it's not quite Punch Comics 12!). 

$20    Now $16

On 1/23/2024 at 10:57 PM, OtherEric said:

Thank you!! 

Avon No. 257 - "Aphrodite" by Pierre Louys. Life and love in pagan Greece indeed! GGGA (Good GREEK Girl Art)! 

VG+ with some cover pullback and minor handling wear. A really nice presenter.

SOLD

Avon No. 241 - "What's In It For Me?" by Jerome Weidman. Classic headlights cover by Ray Johnson. 

G+/VG- copy with nicks to lower left corner and upper spine, and some minor tracing indentations when the books is held at an angle, and slight insect damage upper edge back cover. 

SOLD

Popular Library No. 226 - "Sudden Bill Dorn" by Jackson Gregory. A lantern-jawed gunhand and his clementine as painted by Sam Cherry.

VG+ copy with very slight spine slant and some minor creasing and soiling near the spine. Sharp, tight copy really. 

$12       Now $10

Popular Library No. 303 - "Bound Girl" by the Webbers. Terrific GGA cover art by Sam Cherry. You might guess by the title and era of this book that the girl would be helpless but instead our heroine is turning the tide...

Near Fine with very slight spine slant with some slight spine fading but otherwise minor handling wear. 

$20 

Avon No. 102 - "Three Wise Guys" by Damon Runyon. A good-looking "picture frame" Avon. 

Solid VG with some spine fading and minor handling wear.

$12     Now $10

Dell No. 40 - "The Case of Jennie Brice" by Mary Roberts Rinehart, who was one of the biggest selling authors of the earlier part of the century. 

Another fantastic atmospheric cover by Gerald Gregg.

VG copy .Tight with spine rubbing and cover creasing.

$10 for a nice early Dell mapback.

Avon Books No. 273 - "Imperial City" by Elmer Rice. This is right in that Avon sweet spot where almost every book is a home run as far as cover art. 

Near Fine, a clean Avon with nice gloss, minor spine slant and some minimal cover pullback (Avons are notorious for the covers with lamination shrinking over time and revealing that right edge). 

SOLD

Dell No. 26 - "The Raft" by Robert Trumbull. Also attributed to Gerald Gregg. 

VG+ copy - tight with slight spine slant, minor creasing and small chip upper spine.

$12 for a nice early Dell    Now $10

Popular Library No. 1392 - "Jailbait" by William Bernard. Later printing of Popular 392 (hence the practice of adding a "1" before the original number).

A stone cold classic GGA cover by Rudolph Belarski.

Solid VG copy with some cover creasing and slight spine slant. 

SOLD

Pocket Books No. 271 -  “The Bride Wore Black” by Cornell Woolrich. Second Pocket printing. Cover art by Hoffman. Tough book by a highly collectible author. 

VG-/VG copy. Tight binding but a center crease front cover and some soiling and spine rubs. 

SOLD

Avon No. 128 - "Ten Nights of Love" - a collection of ten short stories with a terrific romantic cover. 

VG+ only minor wear on a tight copy. 

SOLD