Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values? 26 26

[Surfing Alien]

Some more nice books that were in the lot with that Ace.

1st Bantam, cover by Hoffman

Bantam 7, which was previously posted by Damonwad and led to speculation about what the fattest pb's ever were (I believe OtherEric was correct in it being the Crest edition of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich)

The Hustler by Walter Tevis, movie tie in cover by Clark Hulings. One of the best writers I've read

This Dell S series cover, by famous movie poster artist Reynold Brown is breathtaking

Finally, a real nice copy of one of the tougher silver spine Pocket SciFi pbs about nothing other than an Asiatic virus that destroys the Earth's food supply chain. Cover by Tom Dunn.

[Bookery]

On 4/27/2022 at 7:18 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Finally, a real nice copy of one of the tougher silver spine Pocket SciFi pbs about nothing other than an Asiatic virus that destroys the Earth's food supply chain. Cover by Tom Dunn.

This novel was made into an interesting if somewhat obscure film in 1970 directed by Cornel Wilde.  I don't know how closely it follows the book, but the movie, at any rate, seemed to owe a bit of its inspiration to Panic in Year Zero made 8 years earlier.

[Pat Calhoun]

second printing 1956: this copy was a gift from my father to my brother John C on his 42nd birthday, September 7, 1958

[Surfing Alien]

I think I posted this like 4 years ago but just came across this scan and had to post. Rodewald had an amazing take on the female torso!

[OtherEric]

Got into my storage unit today.  Better scans in a few days, but here are some group shots:

[OtherEric]

And a couple scans that weren't in that group shot:

[frozentundraguy]

On 4/30/2022 at 4:21 PM, OtherEric said:

And a couple scans that weren't in that group shot:

Hmm, I wonder if PKD was riffing on Dickson's work.

[Book Guy]

Something that turned up while cleaning. This is a reprint of an earlier Sci-Fi Novel with an 'Atomic' theme published late in 1945 to cash in on the August dropping of the 2 A Bombs on Japan and the following public fascination for all things Atomic. Note the Nov, 1945 date penciled on the cover. First Atomic Bomb illustration on a Book Cover / Paperback cover? It seems in the running. The publisher BONDED is listed as Bonded Charteris on the title page. The inside rear cover has adverts for a bunch of SAINT Novels so I guess the Charteris makes sense in the respect that Leslie Charteris was the Author of the 'Saint' Novels.

I assume it is New York City being destroyed!

[Book Guy]

This is not a paperback, but is a pamphlet advertising Atomic Bomb-proof storage for business records etc! Apparently the company acquired an abandoned Railroad Tunnel Near Santa Cruz California and installed a vault. The pamphlet seemed mostly aimed at businesses who wanted their business records to survive an Atomic War! In the vault in the tunnel they would!

Not a rack paperback, but I like this sort of illustrated wacky paper ephemera and it was in the same bag as ATOMIC!

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/3/2022 at 10:51 PM, Book Guy said:

Something that turned up while cleaning. This is a reprint of an earlier Sci-Fi Novel with an 'Atomic' theme published late in 1945 to cash in on the August dropping of the 2 A Bombs on Japan and the following public fascination for all things Atomic. Note the Nov, 1945 date penciled on the cover. First Atomic Bomb illustration on a Book Cover / Paperback cover? It seems in the running. The publisher BONDED is listed as Bonded Charteris on the title page. The inside rear cover has adverts for a bunch of SAINT Novels so I guess the Charteris makes sense in the respect that Leslie Charteris was the Author of the 'Saint' Novels.

I assume it is New York City being destroyed!

The Bonded/Chartered digests were always pretty scarce and considered desirable. Paul Cain's Seven Slayers had its 1st Edition in those numbers. They are quite frail and tough to find in nice shape. Your copy is nicer than most I've seen.

[Surfing Alien]

Been looking for a nice example of this for my article and just got one in. When Monarch Books launched their paperback line in 1958, they chose Ray Johnson to paint their first cover. Likely because Monarch was founded by Charles Hecklemann, former Editor-in-Chief at Popular Library, where Johnson had just enjoyed a long run as their most prolific cover artist of the 1950's. Interesting how they termed a criminal sexual act against a woman as "unbidden love" - but such were the times. Mainstream books that used the word rape on their cover had previously been pulled and/or altered by their publishers. It's a pretty striking cover. He went on to paint about 40 of them for Monarch until they folded in the mid-60's.

[frozentundraguy]

A couple of books this week.

A nod to Pat C. for pointing out this book. I enjoyed "The World of Null-A" so I might as well tackle "The Pawns of Null-A".

 

 

Also a belated  pickup of "The Saint Goes West", which with a 1948 publish date is one of the earlier PB's in my collection.

 

Edited May 8, 2022 by frozentundraguy

[Surfing Alien]

Got back from Chicago and my bargain wins from Hawaii had arrived. I think the Stranger In A Strange Land 1st print is nicer than my previous keeper. Not a bad bunch for $5 shipped!

I only picked up a few pbs at Windy City. Really didn't go to buy pbs. The temptation was enormous because there were a lot of high quality and bargain bin stuff but I only had a little space in my travel bag to carry them home. 

[OtherEric]

On 5/9/2022 at 8:01 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Got back from Chicago and my bargain wins from Hawaii had arrived. I think the Stranger In A Strange Land 1st print is nicer than my previous keeper. Not a bad bunch for $5 shipped!

 

Nice.  I’m afraid my knowledge of Heinlein paperbacks is terribly poor and they’re poorly represented in my collection.

Pulps and hardcovers are a separate story.  Lots of them are BCE’s, but none of these are:

[Surfing Alien]

Here's my couple of focused pickups from Windy City. In retrospect I wish I bought more because I could've had my buddy mail me what couldn't fit in my bag. There was a ton of cool books there and it was very refreshing and nostalgic to dig through piles of loose vintage paperbacks rather than endlessly scrolling the interwebs 

3 late period Johnson covers from Popular. The late Pops are much tougher to find than the earlier ones due to smaller print runs. They're nice because they had original art on the back covers as well. Surely one of the reasons Johnson & others switched over from Avon was that they got paid more for multiple paintings for each book.

 

A super minty copy of Shanty Girl, with a nice Bonfils cover. When I told the dealer I buy any vintage pb titled "Blank Girl", he thought I meant it literally and he laughed when I told him I meant "_______ Girl" as in any book where "Girl" was the last word, like "Marijuana Girl" or "Shanty Girl"

[Surfing Alien]

Finally got all of these. Not exactly paperback related - but these Snoopy Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1st Edition 1st Print hardbacks from the mid-1960's are in the continuity of their 1st Edition paperback line so I am going to cover them as well as the paperbacks when I get to writing out all the 1st Edition points someday.

They are really tough to find in nice shape in the 1st print. The dj's are stiff, almost cardboard-ish so they tear easily, and the large size Charlie Brown book is a bear with all that dj area for kids to tear, soil and otherwise mutilate. It's interesting in that there were a couple of anthology Rinehart Peanuts hardbacks before these but Snoopy broke out into his own hardback books before Charlie did. Rats! Foiled again!

 

[Book Guy]

I assume all the Holts State First Printing or something like that. Not true? Not meaning to open up a can of worms!

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/18/2022 at 11:35 PM, Book Guy said:

I assume all the Holts State First Printing or something like that. Not true? Not meaning to open up a can of worms!

Truly      It varies, which is why I think a checklist is needed. The HRW hardcovers like these state first edition inside with no printing state information and the dust jacket has to have a printing date code stamped at the bottom of the front dj flap.

The paperbacks started at Rinehart before the merger, and the marks are different there than at Holt, Rinehart, Winston post-merger, and the hardcovers have these several points to verify (they had later printings and Book Club Editions, which are plentiful). It is amazing to me that no one has codified this information on such a popular series but there it is. The misinformation is rampant as I've seen all kinds of wrong listings on ebay and ABE. I have figured most of it out from references from very reputable booksellers, general first edition point articles I've read and looking at, probably, thousands of Rinehart and HRW Peanuts books over the last 5 years. I have tried to *politely* correct some egregiously wrong sellers in the past and had some *interesting* responses. Most people have been politely accepting of knowledge but I guess others would rather be wrong than right if they can hook an unsuspecting buyer, which I was at one time.

My love for my daughter's love of these books led me to try to collect a complete set of 1st edition, 1st prints to bequeath her, which set me in search of the truth of the matters, which trumps the sale dollar in my book.

[Surfing Alien]

Just a couple of pickups this week

One of the fattest Popular Giants. So fat and square it can stand on its side. The spines on these are super coloful. Cover art by George Mayers, who signed the back cover painting, which is pretty cool and unusual.

 

This WWII era Avon cover is by Paul Stahr, definitely the best of the early Avon artists. This would probably be worth a lot of money if it was a comic book.

[Book Guy]

SEE WHAT I MEAN seems like a tough book. I've never seen it, but sometimes things like that are simply due to randomness.

Seems they could've used Hitler as the speaker...