Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values? 25 25

[OtherEric]

Journey to the Center of the Earth possibly shows just how crazy I am working on the D-S-G Ace run; I have the D-155 version as well and other than the number on the cover and spine they're indistinguishable.

[OtherEric]

Bad Man of the West is the last of the G-series that's part of the D-S-G run, after this they have their own numbering.  And the "it's under $5" rule on the nurse books is still in effect.

[OtherEric]

Now for the Avons:

[OtherEric]

And the last of the inexpensive lot for the day:

[OtherEric]

And now we close with a book from a different seller.  Some days, you look at a listing and go "Why are they asking under $18 with shipping for this book with no photos?", and decide it's worth spending the $20 to find out.  Because now and then, the answer is "they apparently made a mistake".  Super super happy with this one, even with some obvious minor flaws this is a beautifully presenting copy of one of the key D-Series doubles:

Edited May 5, 2023 by OtherEric

[OtherEric]

Why I’m asking about bookshelves:  these deserve better than being stacked three deep!

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/5/2023 at 5:15 PM, OtherEric said:

And now we close with a book from a different seller.  Some days, you look at a listing and go "Why are they asking under $18 with shipping for this book with no photos?", and decide it's worth spending the $20 to find out.  Because now and then, the answer is "they apparently made a mistake".  Super super happy with this one, even with some obvious minor flaws this is a beautifully presenting copy of one of the key D-Series doubles:

Great pickups Eric! This is such a great Victor Olsen cover on "Waltz" and a quite bizarre and compelling novel. 

You did really well overall. Abe can be a crapshoot, even more so than Ebay sometimes because of the lack of, or tiny, pictures but just like the 'bay there's bargains to be had if you do the work. Particularly good at $6 average are the Avon Metal Monster and the high grade "Confidential", two excellent Raymond Johnson covers that should go for 5x that, and a couple of those Ace's like "Windward Passage" are pretty high grade as well.

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/5/2023 at 6:30 PM, OtherEric said:

Why I’m asking about bookshelves:  these deserve better than being stacked three deep!

Those rows look great but yeah, you do need more shelves because we know this is just the tip of the tip of the spear for your collection!

[damonwad]

On 5/5/2023 at 2:00 PM, OtherEric said:

Everybody sitting comfortably?  Because I've got a fair number of books in today.

We'll start with one of the two big ones... We Can Build You by PKD.  As near as I can tell, this is the last book I needed for the full set of PKD first edition first printing paperback originals.  So a pretty major milestone for me; if anybody wants me to try and do a group shot let me know.

 

Cograts and I'd definitely like to see the group shot.

[OtherEric]

On 5/5/2023 at 7:21 PM, damonwad said:

Cograts and I'd definitely like to see the group shot.

 

I really do need to upgrade The Man Who Japed, at a minimum...

Edited May 6, 2023 by OtherEric

[OtherEric]

On 5/5/2023 at 9:01 PM, OtherEric said:

 

I really do need to upgrade The Man Who Japed, at a minimum...

And one oops on my part, I showed the wrong cover on one of the books.  Sargasso of Space is the wrong side, it should be The Cosmic Puppets.

[OtherEric]

Today's book.  I've got a beat up copy somewhere in the black hole I call my storage unit, but I decided I needed a nice copy of this one.  I've got the Bradburys, so now I just need to find Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror.

[Pat Calhoun]

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/6/2023 at 12:01 AM, OtherEric said:

 

I really do need to upgrade The Man Who Japed, at a minimum...

Very nice. I think I'm missing 4 or 5 of those.

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/6/2023 at 3:13 PM, OtherEric said:

Today's book.  I've got a beat up copy somewhere in the black hole I call my storage unit, but I decided I needed a nice copy of this one.  I've got the Bradburys, so now I just need to find Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror.

These EC's & Bradbury's are ones you want to get in high grade while you still can relatively affordably. They just look so nice with unmarred covers.

[Surfing Alien]

A few pickups to re-fill my sale-depleted boxes 

A couple of scarce JD digests...

Cover art by George Geygan

 

Another one of the "Girls"  Cover art by Bernard Safran

 

And a sick, sick upgrade copy of one of Heade's best covers. The colors are ablaze on this one and corners you can shave with 

 

[TupennyConan]

I think these are all the LANCERS I own. If I find more, I'll share pics.

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/7/2023 at 12:03 PM, TupennyConan said:

I think these are all the LANCERS I own. If I find more, I'll share pics.

Nice horde! They're a little confusing to figure first prints and such but isfdb is a great friend in that regard.

Everybody I know who knows, knows that Lancers were produced cheaply, especially the glue and cover paper quality, and featured authors everyone read with great covers so they got 2 strikes against them as far as finding real nice ones 

[Surfing Alien]

Went to Ikea yesterday to pick shelving to complete my comic room/library renovation. Hopefully will be able to display some of this fun stuff I've accumulated properly.

[frozentundraguy]

This is a bit off the normal thread, as it's a HB. However it's from my Father in-law and is now by far my oldest hard cover book. Per a small note near the front of the book it was originally published by Miller, Orton, and Mulligan in 1855. This book was published in 1871 by Lee and Shepard Publishers. Without further ado here is "Wild Scenes of a Hunters Life", with 300 illustrations. The drawing of the ocelot really stood out as possibly being the best illustration in the book.