Rare Schomburg find (Novel not Comic)

[Paratrooper]

Ok, so I was meeting up with TheDude yesterday for lunch at his LCS when all of a sudden my Trooper sense was tingling. I pulled out a book in a hard slipcase with a Schomburg Trooper cover. It was only $30 and it was something I've never seen before. I bought it without ever really taking note of the interior content, until I got home. Tell me what you think...and btw the signatures are real.

 

Front cover

Back cover

Interior cover flaps:

Info page:

Interior page that knocked my socks off:

Came with an ashcan:

 

[Paratrooper]

I know I put my comic collecting on hold for a few months, but damn.... $30 I could pass on this.

[G.A.tor]

outstanding!

[VintageComics]

That is a score!

 

R.

 

 

[thedude]

Vaughn, man what a sweet book !! Love that Ashcan cover and those signatures are unreal ! I can't believe something this cool was in my LCS, it was funny how you managed to pull out this book amoung the huge wall of TPBs and other hardbacks,. I can't think of a better guy to get it.

 

Nazis, Paratroopers, damsel in distress, and Alex Schomburg !?!?!?

 

it's got everything. nice pickup.

[rob_allan]

I can't believe you scored that for $30. Congrats on a nice find!

[october]

Not sure what it's worth, but I would have paid $30 for it in a heartbeat. NICE pickup.

[Robert Beerbohm]

My friend Lupoff wrote an excellent story as well - i got one from him, well, almost 20 years ago, personalized to me - The Gangsters At War which comes with it is a hoot - he had a lot of fun putting this together.

 

His son Ken used to work for me in my Telegraph Ave Berkeley comic book store -

[shiverbones]

Cool find!

[MrBedrock]

Great pick-up Vaughn. Give that book a read, it is actually a pretty good story.

Did you get the slip case with it? I think that whole set sold for more than $30 when it was new in the '80s.

[Paratrooper]

Hey guys, thanks! And it did come with the slipcase. I'm going to start reading it over the holidays, and I'll let you know how I find the story.

[nearmint]

I've got one, too. Great stuff! (thumbs u

[MrBedrock]

I've got one, too. Great stuff! (thumbs u

We might be able to account for most of the 500 limited copies right here on the boards!

[nwpassage]

I had the paperback until the garage sale this summer. I remember getting half way through it, pretty typical of a fiction novel for me.

[ArAich]

I love cool stuff like this...good score trooper... (thumbs u

[Moondog]

I've got one, too. Great stuff! (thumbs u

We might be able to account for most of the 500 limited copies right here on the boards!

 

I've got the s/n and the paperback!

[Theagenes]

"These Gams for Goering!" What a great find for $30! The cover looks like it could be a swipe from Fight 42.

 

Jeff

[Paratrooper]

"These Gams for Goering!" What a great find for $30! The cover looks like it could be a swipe from Fight 42.

 

Jeff

 

Give me a couple weeks, I'll show you a sweet Fight 42..... signed by a little old lady named Lily Renee

[kidcolt]

I have to agree with everyone else, very cool find, CONGRATS!!

[tilleycs]

Wow, congratulations! Great find.