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[N e r V]

3 hours ago, sacentaur said:

This is a big one, for me at least. According to Bookery, this classic cover (look closely) book is tied for the most valuable in the entire run. Untrimmed, with ow-w pages.

Contains the noted story The Mole Men Want Your Eyes by Frederick C. Davis.

This horror pulp has it all! 

I love that book.

Made me look at red Kool Aid in a whole new light...

 

 

[Robot Man]

1 hour ago, sacentaur said:

First book that I pulled out of the boxes(!) Bob, before you got there - couldn’t believe it when I saw it.

Amazing that a book like that was in a box instead of the wall. But, there were some pretty amazing books in those boxes...

[pmpknface]

10 hours ago, detective35 said:

Might be selling or trading this group of books.

 

 

[detective35]

10 hours ago, Robot Man said:

Amazing that a book like that was in a box instead of the wall. But, there were some pretty amazing books in those boxes...

It is a great book, but there are a umber of collectors that are not interested in Terror Tales, Horror Stories, and The Spider unless they are Howitt covers. 
Maybe that is why he had it in the boxes.  I would have had it on the wall.

Edited March 10, 2020 by detective35DF

[Robot Man]

3 minutes ago, detective35 said:

It is a great book, but there are a umber of collectors that are not interested in Terror Tales, Horror Stories, and The Spider unless they are Howitt covers. 
Maybe that is why he had it in the boxes.  I would have had it on the wall.

If it were mine, it would have been home safely tucked away. I missed that one but scored a nice copy of this one. Also very high on my horror list. There are so many. And many I know I’ve never even seen.

[detective35]

Switching gears: 

Here are the two ultra rare double-sided cardboard trolly signs with the Shadow image on them from 1941.  

Both signs are from 1941 - 28” x 6 “  (Double sided high gloss hard cardboard Shadow radio trolley sign).  Just got the bottom one framed with museum glass.

I acquired a total of 12 blue coal trolly signs from 1941 (one each month), but only two of them had the shadow image or any mention of the radio show on them.

The signs were found in the attic of a Coal headquarters building in 2008.  The coal company used to be owned by blue coal (upstate NY).

They are the only known examples of these signs in existence!

 

[Yorick]

On 3/9/2020 at 9:31 PM, detective35 said:

A fun little book I just picked up, not a big deal, but a cover I’ve always liked.  
I’ve had it before in high grade, but once again got rid of it, so I decided to pick another one up.
 

 

There are a few Adventures on my list.  What is the year and month of this one?

[OtherEric]

Thought this was worth showing here as an Arkham House- adjacent book.  It wasn't actually published by Arkham House, they licensed the Mycroft & Moran imprint for this and a couple other books.  I only wish that attention to detail had extended to the trim size and cover design, so it would fit better next to the other Solar Pons volumes. 

[RedFury]

2 hours ago, Yorick said:

There are a few Adventures on my list.  What is the year and month of this one?

If you like that one you'll probably want all three. 

Adventure, Mar 1, Aug 15, and Oct 1 1935

The Oct 1 one is harder to find in my experience, probably because it has a L. Ron Hubbard story in it.

Covers by Walter Baumhofer

Edited March 11, 2020 by RedFury

[sacentaur]

1 hour ago, RedFury said:

The Oct 1 one is harder to find in my experience, probably because it has a L. Ron Hubbard story in it.

Is Hubbard really actively collected? Personally I have zero interest in anything he did.

[RedFury]

Just now, sacentaur said:

Is Hubbard really actively collected? Personally I have zero interest in anything he did.

Yes.  I've never read anything by him, but I've heard he's pretty good.  And there is definitely demand for his pulps, but I'm not sure how much is due to the merits of his writing or his notoriety as a cult leader.

[detective35]

24 minutes ago, sacentaur said:

Is Hubbard really actively collected? Personally I have zero interest in anything he did.

Steve,

There are plenty of Hubbard collectors and if they really want something they will pay insane prices for the items.

[OtherEric]

21 minutes ago, RedFury said:

Yes.  I've never read anything by him, but I've heard he's pretty good.  And there is definitely demand for his pulps, but I'm not sure how much is due to the merits of his writing or his notoriety as a cult leader.

Hubbard was a decent hack as a pulp writer.  Nothing spectacular, but decently readable, even now.  But a lot of the demand is from his followers, as near as I can tell, rather than regular pulp collectors. The issue of ASTOUNDING that introduced Dianetics is listed in the new Bookery guide as the most expensive digest issue of the title by far, more than double any of the other digests.  Was very happy when I found a cheap reader copy of that one, because I sure as heck didn't want to pay for or care about the main article.  But somewhere on my goal list is a complete run of the Campbell Astoundings, so I definitely wanted to plug that hole.

[Robot Man]

37 minutes ago, sacentaur said:

Is Hubbard really actively collected? Personally I have zero interest in anything he did.

Me too but when ever I find his pulps cheap “out in the wild” I grab them. They all sell well. I’ve gotton some stupid money on the bay by putting his name in the title. I may not care much about him one way or another, but I do like money!

[Pat Calhoun]

this one IS spectacular - a fun little fantasy masterpiece...

[Surfing Alien]

1 hour ago, Pat Calhoun said:

this one IS spectacular - a fun little fantasy masterpiece...

I love that cover! Been looking for the right condition/price ratio for a while but haven't found it yet. I may have to Mannup to get a nice one. He was a pretty good and well  followed  pulp writer before Dianetics. That had a lot to do with why he got followed when he got his religion on.

[OtherEric]

I do think his work for UNKNOWN is some of the best stuff by him I've seen, and it seems to be some of the best regarded.  Typewriter is probably his most famous and best regarded story:

[Pat Calhoun]

Congrats to our boardies for their pulp raid at the LA PB show. Steve C's Apr-May 1938 Horror Stories made him note that Frederick C Davis' 'The Mole Men Want Your Eyes' was a 'noted' weird menace yarn. Got me thinking. Found a version online that I downloaded- I'd post a link but better to go with the copy I read where I cleaned up many of the OCR hiccups. It's an exciting over-the-top occasionally  queasifying story. By coincidence I had posted a Davis cover that morning in the 'Gold Connections' thread...

(here's text - word.doc was 34 pages) http://sonic.net/~pcalhoun/molemen.htm

plus a page of Charles Burns' 'Curse of the MoleMen'.

Edited March 12, 2020 by Pat Calhoun

[OtherEric]

Minor pickup at a local bookstore today:

[sacentaur]

4 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

Minor pickup at a local bookstore today:

I like that cover Eric, what year is that?