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Looks like it was extracted from a bound volume. I had a copy like that. This one has tape on the spine but looks good. And here's the 10th of the month. An excellent time in the run, great covers and stories. Fantastic package.

An image i found online.

Always nice to complete a run. H. Rider Haggard's Ayesha in the Popular Magazine, Jan-Aug 1905. This series boosted the circulation enough that Street and Smith started taking pulps seriously.

I don't have any high end books but if I wanted one, I'd probably go to my local machine shop and ask if they could laser cut me this out of wood/metal. Etsy has the design file for this up for sale. There are others you might like. Dunno how expensive it would be.

As others say, it could be a Canadian edition. If so, the fine print at the bottom of the table of contents will mention Toronto or some other place in Canada. And the ads, if there are any will be Canadian companies. The Canadian edition price in 1945 was 15c while the US edition was 10c. So this is likely Canadian.

Often, an author who appeared in only one issue turns out to be a pseudonym of one of the other authors in the same issue. Finding a person who wrote only one story can be very tough. Searching the Internet turns up a Rev. C. R. Gaylord in 1936, but he is hardly likely to be the author of this. Best of luck. What made you curious about the author? Best Sai

I was agreeing with Dwight, and you on rare vs. valuable :-) I ended up reading that issue of Blue Book and reviewing it on my blog. https://pulpflakes.com/blog/issue-review-blue-book-1907-may/ Comments welcome.

Agree, rare and scarce != valuable. This is a rare issue, Blue Book 1907 May. First issue under this title, which would live for nearly 50 calendar years appearing monthly. Never saw an issue in the wild for 12 years before I found it. Very happy to get it but sure it's not as valuable as even a quarter of the stuff that gets posted here regularly. Earlier issues are even rarer. No one has a complete collection, not even people who've been collecting for 5-6 decades now.

Doug already identified the artist. The painting is the cover of the Jan 1951 issue of Fantastic Adventures.

Nice. Mundy is more literate than most pulpsters, I think you'll enjoy it. Adventure and other titles from Ridgway were cut on both sides (no signatures). The spine side was glued to a piece of cloth that looks like a strip from an old school white bandage and the cover was glued on to the cloth. Advantage: No rusty staples. Disadvantage: Like vintage paperbacks, suspectible to spine cracks if handled roughly. IIRC, the title switched to staple-bound when it was taken over by Popular Publications. I could be wrong about this, but definitely early 30s issues were bound in the way i just described.

Everybody's became a pulp only in December 1926. I think most bound pulps come from either first generation collectors who wanted them on bookshelves; publishers and staff copies. Libraries subscribed to pulps but never bound them as far as i know. Disposed of each month with the newspaper more likely. Never saw a bound volume with a library stamp.Bookplates, yes.

Probably Tom Lovell.

I've been checking the pulp related threads on the forums for the past few years and enjoyed them. But this thread was the motivation to sign up and post :-) Enjoyed the photo of your Adventure collection. Look to be mostly 20s and 30s, a great period. Here's one i dug out recently from my collection. From the nineteen teens, in great shape, and as a bonus it contains Harold Lamb's first story of Khlit the Cossack. Photographed in its Mylar cover, I don't take it out often as I'm sure I'll end up damaging it. This is where REH got the swords in swords and sorcery.