Pulpflakes

On 4/2/2022 at 4:36 PM, Scrooge said:

100 years ago - next issue - March 30th, 1922

I missed starting posting these on their 100th anniversary from the start of the year (I might pull the Jan and Feb issues to post them regardless). Yes, we are in the part of the run with 3 issues a month. That started in October 1921 (to last until March 1926).

This copy comes in a special homemade binding edition. What's weirder is that it is sown twice, some pages first then the rest which makes it tough to handle and read comfortably. A stinker if you wish 

 

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.

On 2/21/2022 at 6:57 AM, Number 6 said:

This is probably a bit off-topic but wanted to ask here since this is probably were I’d be most likely to get an answer:

 

For those of you who collect first edition hardcover books, have you ever had a custom clamshell display box made for one of your books?

I’ve found a studio here on the west coast and I’ve had one recommended on the east coast by a book dealer.

 

Have any of you done this and what type of box did you commission?

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.

On 2/16/2022 at 7:12 PM, John R said:

I bought a comic collection and found this book in the collection.  I'm not familiar with pulp magazines and was wondering if anyone can provide some info on this book. Is it a variant of sort as the photos I found online don't have the bottom part that states "Now 10c Per Copy Everywhere"

Here's my copy

 

Thanks

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

On 2/1/2022 at 1:26 AM, Robot Man said:

Rare and scarce does not always = valuable. You are missing demand and desire ability. Not every thing simply rare and scarce translates to big money.

I’m not very familiar with early Blue Books. The early Burroughs ones and a few others yes. What would make this issue interesting to me Is the age. I realize there are probably not a whole lot of them and would grab it for the right price if I ran into it in the wild.

The biggest majority of buyers are looking for covers and writers. The market for this would probably be a LOT smaller. Would be very easy for me to part with if I were to get lucky enough to score one in my travels.

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.

On 12/31/2021 at 4:10 AM, waaaghboss said:

 

My first Mundy story, The Adventures of El-Kerak.  I think I might just read it online, as this book feels pretty fragile.  Were staples not used in this series in the early 20s?  Book is firmly held to the binding, but I cant find the staples to save my life.

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.

On 9/3/2021 at 6:14 AM, Sarg said:

A dealer on eBay is selling a bound volume of Everybody's Magazine from 1923 that says "Lincoln City Library" on the spine. 

It hadn't occurred to me that libraries would subscribe to pulps and then go to the trouble of binding them (I do remember bound volumes of Time and Life from libraries when I was young). Everybody's was a respectable, mainstream pulp. I suspect Weird Tales would not have gotten this treatment.

Are library discards the source of most pulp bound volumes? I tend to think not, since they would usually say "discard" on them.

 

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.

On 7/6/2021 at 7:27 AM, Sarg said:

Nice to see Robert be given the cover illustration for a change. Who is the artist?

Probably Tom Lovell.