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Three Short Biers by Jimmy Starr 1945 Bart House #15 Cool Surrealistic Coffin cover. Some light creasing and corner wear but a sound copy. $10.

South of Cancer by John Hersey 1947 Dell 10 cent Book #25 Hard to find these anymore. They just don't turn up. A very nice one with just minor wear Was $20. Now $15.

SOLD! Sin Street by Doreen Manners 1951 Pyramid Books #21 Classic Street Walker cover Numerous small upper right cover creases. Tight, well bound solid copy with great color. Was $15. Now $10.

It seems, like Paperbacks have been gaining some ground lately. There have been several successful threads here on the boards. I have a large box of interesting ones in varying conditions. All are priced pretty cheap. A bargain in these days of extremely high comic and pulp prices. Something for probably everyone. Thought I'd offer these here before I take them out to the flea market for the young hipsters... This sale will probably run a couple days. Have fun! Rules: No problem children or HOS members. Postage starts at Ground Advantage but might bump up to Priority Flat Rate Box depending on how many you buy. Since these would qualify, I can also offer Media Mail for the budget minded. Just state how you would like me to ship. I prefer to sell only to US addresses but might make an exception if I know you. An "I'LL TAKE IT" icon takes it first. So, keep that in mind if you want something. I will take PayPal, Checks or Money Orders as payment. Returns: No hassle returns within two weeks from when tracking says it was delivered. Return postage is on you unless I make a gross error and in that case I will "man-up" and pay return postage. I don't expect any returns though as I've only had a couple 4 in 40 years. This stuff all comes from a smoke filled, varmit infested, mouldy junk house. (Just kidding!) Here we go... SOLD! Charlie Chan Carries On 1951 Earl Derr Biggers Avon #350 Nice copy with full, glossy lamination. Small corner in upper left back cover just starting to peel. Cover has just started to detach from book on inside. Hey, this glue is 73 years old! Pretty book! $20.

I noticed a while ago that My Comic Shop seems to have a pretty extensive list. Not sure if complete. What are the impossible Croydons?

Indeed! I don’t even think CGC can slab those monsters.

I don’t know about comic prices but Pulp prices are exploding…

Awsome. Just make sure to cut the lawn and clip the bushes to keep the little woman happy…

In addition to a collection of about any genre of GA comic, I have many shorter complete runs. I would just get bored collecting full runs of Superman, Batman or Spiderman. I just go for the ones I really want. I do have a complete collection of EC new trends and many of the pre trend ones. At this stage I am just upgrading.

Yeah, in the LA area, vinyl is very hot. Classic rock and Punk rock rule the roost. Jazz and Blues stuff is also very hot. Every garage or estate sale I go to with records are packed with hunters. There is also a local flea market that has a very large record section packed with buyers and sellers. Lots of audiofiles as well as young hipsters who pay up for it. As Hepcat stated, there is a warm feel as well as a long bandwith of sound offered by analog recordings that is missing in modern digital recording. A lot of the young folks also like the experience in spinning vinyl. I play mine all the time. But I have also recorded much digitally in Wave files to reproduce the original sound. I bought a 160 gig IPod to store them on and can take it everywhere. Kind of marrying the past with the present. I also have a couple of ‘50’s/‘60’s tube amps I play my guitars through. You just can’t get that sound through a modern solid state amp. And, I won’t get started on carburetors…

Paging @Ryan.

Nice! My favorite in the run and in my top 10 Baker favorites. Ironically, I had a solid copy for sale at what I thought was a reasonable price that just sat for quite a while. Seems like the Baker folks just wanted the romance ones. Obviously, not anymore…

Wow, that Strange Stories 3 blows me away. A couple days before Covid shutdown in 2020, I picked up a decent copy for $150. At a local show. Was happy to find it but it wasn’t a super key at the time I don’t think. Somebody else put it back and I snatched it. The Saucys don’t suprise me because I never see them for sale around here. Same show I got this Stage and Screen for around the same price. I knew at the time it was probably a steal. Here was my haul that day from the same guy. I paid about $800. for the group. My, how things have changed…

I’m pretty sure I sold it to someone here on the boards who asked me about it.

Any idea on the final hammer on this one? I can’t seem to bring up the results.

I had some luck in the flea markets in Paris. Mostly French and British stuff.

The only reason I have copies of both is because I discovered them before the Gerber books. But, as iconic as they both are, high prices seem to keep drawing them out into the market. I really wouldn’t call either “rare” just very desirable.

Not surprising to me. That is a super rarity. The kind of book that I chase with futility. I have only seen just a few of those for sale ever. The extreme scarcity of available copies of this and many other similar books keep prices strong on this as well as many other GA books.

WOW! That is a LOAD! A lot of work not to mention a lot of money. Makes a lot of sense though. Mailing them would have been even more expensive and risky. I only submitted 4 pulps. My first submission even though I only have maybe one box of slabs in my collection. I am a reader and collector and don’t see much use in something I can’t read or handle carefully. It certainly wasn’t cheap and I just don’t have the space to store many slabs anyway. Since I am not selling, I have always felt I’d rather spend my money on more books than slabs I don’t have space for. But that’s just me. Nice load by the way. Some great pulps in those piles! I hope the “grading Gods” smile down upon us both.

Here is a map of the floor of the show. The “Gold/Silver Pavillion” (comic book dealing area) is shown in the lower right corner in yellow. It shows 5 short isles with probably 5 dealers on each side. There are a few spillovers in the back and maybe a couple fill overs to the left around the large CGC booth. A fraction of what it used to be. Now, a lot of folks are mostly “wall gazers”. If so, one could probably get through in an hour or less. But, if you are a real digger, you have to hit the boxes. I only hit the GA ones mostly. This is where the deals usually are. Between that and asking for stuff maybe out of sight, it took me a little over 3 hours. I would say, there were quite a few dealers I rarely buy from. Either they don’t have what I want, have crazy prices or just don’t care for. I usually hit the folks I like or the smaller ones or ones I have never seen before first. Then another trip through just to see if I missed anything. The rest of the time is spent socializing or submitting books to CGC. I covered it easily in one day. To me a con is a wonderful way to spend a day. A day, you forget all the messes of just every day life.