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

[tth2]

On 9/30/2023 at 1:16 PM, Surfing Alien said:

An incredible collection he had and I'm not surprised at all with the results. I also agree about a general jump in interest for vintage books. I'm certainly seeing it in the inability to place or replace desirable vintage paperbacks, especially 40's & 50's books.

Here's a link to the results:

https://www.christies.com/auction/auction-21924-cks/browse-lots?page=3&sortby=lotnumber

and my take on the sale is that this is a spectacular collection - a case of the stars aligning perfectly. A very famous and beloved provenance with impeccable taste and the pockets to obtain the very best of what he collected. Who knew???

 

There certainly haven’t been any bargains in Heritage’s book auctions.

[Darwination]

On 9/29/2023 at 11:16 PM, Surfing Alien said:

An incredible collection he had and I'm not surprised at all with the results. I also agree about a general jump in interest for vintage books. I'm certainly seeing it in the inability to place or replace desirable vintage paperbacks, especially 40's & 50's books.

Here's a link to the results:

https://www.christies.com/auction/auction-21924-cks/browse-lots?page=3&sortby=lotnumber

and my take on the sale is that this is a spectacular collection - a case of the stars aligning perfectly. A very famous and beloved provenance with impeccable taste and the pockets to obtain the very best of what he collected. Who knew???

 

Some truly amazing stuff in there.  The Chandler, the Fitzgerald, the Black Mask, wow.

[Surfing Alien]

Was busy on a Friday again so here's the Friday Fun on Saturday again.

Second Ending by Evan Hunter, Corgi Books GN489, 1960 printing, cover art by Oliver Brabbins. One of Brabbins' best covers that I've seen and for a Dope book collector   I try not to get sucked into the further black hole of UK pbs but some things cannot be denied...

 

I've had the US edition, titled "Quartet In H" for some time, it has a much more sedate, although still quite artful, Tom Dunn cover, so I really wanted to grab the Corgi edition when I first saw that more lurid cover. Here's the cover of "Quartet" I do love how they used the needle as the crossbar for the "H"

 

[Darwination]

I much prefer the bottom painting and design but the Corgi definitely has that gutter appeal

[themagicrobot]

I'm currently reading this 1978 paperback which is a nice pastiche of pulps and the people who wrote them. Originally published in 1949, Fredric Brown produced a large number of shorter stories in a number of genres.

 

 

Edited September 30, 2023 by themagicrobot

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/30/2023 at 1:12 PM, themagicrobot said:

I'm currently reading this 1978 paperback which is a nice pastiche of pulps and the people who wrote them. Originally published in 1949, Fredric Brown produced a large number of shorter stories in a number of genres.

 

 

 

There's Fredric Brown fans in these parts. "What Mad Universe" has been a bear to find in Fine or better condition in my experience, maybe because it's one that has a central GGA babe? (painted by Herman Bischoff)

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 9/30/2023 at 12:15 PM, Darwination said:

gutter appeal

I was born in the gutters of Flatbush, Brooklyn so yeah, the appeal is there for me

[Darwination]

 

[Darwination]

I've never really been much into it in the past, but I've been doing a little bit of book care or cleaning before presentation.  I think I got into it by watching videos of yahoos cracking slabs, cleaning books, pressing books (with all that humidity? really?? though I will definitely be experimenting with some of that with newspapers/tabloids if the fold is going to kill a scan) in the attempt to capture that next .5 of grading. These people are straight up nuts. Cracking and resubmitting books multiple times?  I wonder who makes money from this nonsense     BTW, if I ever talk about "pressing" a magazine, I'm talking about just putting it between the appropriate heavy objects or squeezed between books in a bookshelf, not some humidity bath and heat thing - But I digress lol.

The paperbacks seem to have such a wide variety of cover stocks that likely require different tactics.

With a glossier stock just use a tiny bit of water and a cloth?  Maybe a little tiny bit of vinegar?

I used some Absorbene on this one this morning before setting it up for display or shelving, neat stuff.  Probably still want to be careful with it around soft textures or spines and whatnot.

Any ID on this one?  How about do we know what publisher did the Reader's Choice Library?  I think once I can pair the paperback lines in my head with the magazine/pulp lines it'll be easier for me to connect the dots on paperback identifications (and maybe vice versa).

These aren't mine but a couple nice covers in the line via Flickr peoples:

Saunders might be a guess on Outlaw since he did others in the series (another Gruber even), but I don't know that I'm feeling it.

The best one I've noticed in the line so far:

 

[Pat Calhoun]

Readers Choice Library was published by St John. This one's dated 1950.

[Robot Man]

[comicjack]

On 10/2/2023 at 11:17 AM, Robot Man said:

Makes me want to replay the movie love that one 

[Robot Man]

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/2/2023 at 5:07 PM, Robot Man said:

[Pat Calhoun]

[frozentundraguy]

[comicjack]

National Robot Day 

[comicjack]

On 10/2/2023 at 6:27 PM, Pat Calhoun said:

Corny movie but i liked it 

[Surfing Alien]

On 10/2/2023 at 8:09 PM, comicjack said:

National Robot Day 

[Darwination]

On 10/2/2023 at 7:11 PM, Surfing Alien said:

"Famous Writer About the Mystery of the Universe" ... FREAKS AGAINST SUPERMEN  lmao, love this.