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

[moonpool]

nice

Edited May 8, 2023 by moonpool

[moonpool]

On 5/7/2023 at 8:19 PM, Surfing Alien said:

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.

I can feel the heat from here!

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/7/2023 at 8:27 PM, frozentundraguy said:

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.

 

I was fascinated by Ocelots as a youth reading biology texts. That's a great image. Books were such high quality then!

[OtherEric]

So, was glancing over at my bookshelf (it's near my desk) and notice something I had missed when I first got the book a few days ago.  D-194, Moscow, has a true wraparound cover, even extending to the spine.  Not something you see often on vintage paperback, is anybody aware of any other classic era Aces that have one?

[OtherEric]

Today's books, with one exception they're all from @Surfing Alien.  We'll start with the more random selections.  I love the "A. A. Fair" books that don't even mention Erle Stanley Gardner, and who doesn't like mapbacks?  The NatLamp book was thrown in as a bonus; it's a nice crossover item from the era where I collect NatLamps and my more general paperback habit:

[OtherEric]

Onto the Doubles.  The first and third are from @Surfing Alien again, the D-149 is the one that isn't:

[OtherEric]

And finally, the highlight:  The White Mountain copy of Ace D-533.  Other than the slight corner crease it looks like it was printed yesterday.  The first White Mountain book I've ever owned; it somehow fits my style that's it's a comic-adjacent book rather than a regular comic:

[Sarg]

On 5/7/2023 at 7:19 PM, Surfing Alien said:

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.

The Hobbit is a bit out of place in this lurid GGA pulp extravaganza. Tolkein definitely would not approve!

[GACollectibles]

I’m sending a theme here…

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/8/2023 at 6:46 PM, Sarg said:

The Hobbit is a bit out of place in this lurid GGA pulp extravaganza. Tolkein definitely would not approve!

Lol, Since it's the Ballantine library/file copy, it was in the same "grab if there's a fire" tub as many of these others so it made its way in, just as a valuable  vintage pb. At least I didn't put one of my Peanuts collection books in there!

Speaking of which, just picked up nice copies of the first editions/first prints of the 3 of the last softcover Holt, Rinehart, Winston digest sized softcovers. I actually didn't have a copy of "Ha Ha Herman", one of the only HRW books I didn't have a first/first of. It was printed in 1972, all three of these are harder to find than the late 60's digest books because Schulz was already being reprinted in the smaller Crest/Fawcett pb sized reprints which were cheaper to buy for readers so I don't think they sold as many of the digests at the end of the run.

In 1975, they went solely to the Crest/Fawcett small pb size format, which are much commoner than the first 35 Rinehart/HRW books. 32 are conveniently listed inside the cover of "Herman". 6 of the later ones listed are hardcovers with dust jackets which are exceedingly hard to find even close to Fine in D/J.

I keep procrastinating but one of these days I'll get around to publishing the 1st Edition points on these.

 

 

[Surfing Alien]

Correction ... In 1975, they went solely to the Crest/Fawcett small pb size format for reprinting the earlier strips - they continued contemporary yearly reprints in larger trade size paperbacks called Peanuts Parade, which are very cool to collect but getting away from what I consider to be vintage pbs.

[frozentundraguy]

PB's have been a little slow for me recently, but I did just pick up "New Tales of Space and Time" (1953) from Abe Books. The book must have sold briskly as the first printing was in December of 52 followed by this one in February of 53.  New Tales of Space and Time goes well with another by Healy book that I already own, titled "More Adventures in Time and Space" (1955). While I'm at it I have another similar compilation of sci-fi short stories, edited by Donald Wollheim, titled "Adventures on Other Planets" (1961) with a Valigursy cover.

 

 

Edited May 10, 2023 by frozentundraguy

[OtherEric]

On 5/9/2023 at 8:45 PM, frozentundraguy said:

PB's have been a little slow for me recently, but I did just pick up "New Tales of Space and Time" (1953) from Abe Books. The book must have sold briskly as the first printing was in December of 52 followed by this one in February of 53.  New Tales of Space and Time goes well with another by Healy book that I already own, titled "More Adventures in Time and Space" (1955). While I'm at it I have another similar compilation of sci-fi short stories, edited by Fonald Wollheim, titled "Adventures on Other Planets" (1961) with a Valigursy cover.

 

I wonder why a previous owner felt the name to change the number on the satellite?

[Pat Calhoun]

Circling back to GAC's 'Halo' theme above, here's the first pb of 'Blood', and a later first pb of the fourth Paul Pine (1988 Dennis McMillan) written in the mid-1950s. They are classic detective novels.

[Westy Steve]

Cross posted in the Are prices easing up a bit? thread. 
 

This sold in about 1 day on EBay. Kind of surprised me. 
 

 

 

Edited May 10, 2023 by Westy Steve

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/10/2023 at 9:31 AM, Westy Steve said:

Cross posted in the Are prices easing up a bit? thread. 
 

This sold in about 1 day on EBay. Kind of surprised me. 
 

 

 

Killer copy of a great Samson Pollen cover JD book. Looks unimprovable. Near perfect books like this are so rare, if any kind of real money ever comes into pbs this will seem like a bargain imho.

[Surfing Alien]

Speaking of near perfect books, I upgraded to this Harry Whittington killer today.

Seller had another similar Phantom that I hesitated for a minute on and it was gone. They didn't last one morning.

[Surfing Alien]

Since the sales threads, I've been continuing to re-assess 60's and 70's books. I never really collected them in the 80's because they were too new. I bought them to read. But here I am, getting on 40 years older and they're 40 years older and trying to source really nice copies of all the great fantasy and S&S books with top artist covers is hard. 

I lucked into a stack from a local friend and a few from ebay that I'm sorting through and comparing copies so I'll have more for the next sale. 

This one is great, the 1st PB edition of my favorite Williamson novel with a real nice Jones cover, black edges of course so really tough to find nice.

 

[lbcolefan]

These are all my original copies purchased from my local bookstore. Somehow I missed Sowers of the Thunder but I think that’s the only one I’m missing.

[OtherEric]

I swear I just grab these in cheap lots... but I had to make an exception to get the bookend for the Ace D-S-G series.  And thus did the legendary Ace D-series end: