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

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On 5/5/2024 at 4:11 AM, Darwination said:

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Home is the Sailor - Day Keene (1952.Gold Medal 225) cover PBO

Barye Phillips?

It's a pretty cover. Someone on the interwebs said the dude looks like Robert Mitchum and I can't say I disagree. I don't think it's by Phillips though, much more detail painted in compared to the other stuff he was doing at the time.

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He's not really one of my guys but he did a bunch of Gold Medals during this year.  I agree about the detail work, but he does have some works in this year that are more detailed than others.

Avati was a guess, too, but it doesn't quite look like him, and he only has a couple of Gold Medals in this stretch.

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On 5/5/2024 at 2:45 PM, Surfing Alien said:

It's a pretty cover. Someone on the interwebs said the dude looks like Robert Mitchum and I can't say I disagree. I don't think it's by Phillips though, much more detail painted in compared to the other stuff he was doing at the time.

I thought the exact same thing.  I saw this and thought of Macao, where he's not a sailor but because of the fight scene at the end on a boat.  And then of course... Jane Russell...  :cloud9:

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I did not even know William Faulkner had a brother who was also an author O.o I guess he changed his name, too (the u is added)

A younger version of me having a moment with Will down in Oxford town on a pilgrimage to Rowan Oak.

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Love Oxford, btw. Neither of my kids would consider it as a school (even though I think there's some sort of in-state tuition exchange program with TN).  It *is* kind of a backwards place but very charming.  The Oxford American, which has since relocated, was a killer mag that had all sorts of good stuff on some of the authors we talk about here.  Not gonna go hunting my stack which has been relegated to the attic for a pic of the one I'm thinking about even though this is a horrible image from the mag's official site :facepalm::

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The music issues/cds were probably the best part of the mag (it may be still around but was a shadow of its former self when I stopped reading it).  Fat Possum Records is also out of Oxford that had some modern stuff on their new label (Black Keys, El-P) but is (imo) most notable for helping preserve/continue the Mississippi Hill Country tradition in the blues (Fred McDowell, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, etc.).

I'll try a John Faulkner.  I still will read a William Faulkner book once in a while.  I daresay some of his books fall into the crime/noir/pulp whatever categorization we talk about here.  Sanctuary's one I'm thinking of.

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This looks to share a lot of the same plot fodder as They Shoot Horses...

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I Should Have Stayed Home - Horace McCoy (1951.Signet 884) cover Ray Pease

I actually think this is a very neat pb cover, totally unlike most.  A scene of contemplation and boredom. An iron probably sitting idle and too hot from being ignored, a cigarette that needs ashing. It sounds like a melodrama (from the reviews not the back cover blurb LOL) which is surprising, but I think it will be good no matter what because of McCoy's prose.

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On 5/6/2024 at 4:49 PM, johnenock said:

 

Really liked this cover:

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We have some similar tastes, John.  This one's going on the huntlist.  Lots and lots of Chiriacka on the huntlist :luhv:  Might be one I get picky over, too, with the white cover.

Really like the freebie, as well.  Not always a fan of the many "porch" covers I see on the trashy "hotel" and southern life covers, but this is laid out a little different.

 

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A couple first pbs from bc's seller from a couple of my fave authors.

I don't think I'm gonna read this again but recall it as an interesting portrait of black life in WW2 Los Angeles.  I remember the use of the word "peckerwood" as a slang for whitey which was a word I've heard used since in a racial context but it was more of just a goofy word in whitebread Kansas.  An early novel but a good one, maybe some very loose/obtuse similarities to Richard Wright's Native Son.  I've still got some of Himes other stuff I haven't read, so there's no need for a re-run, but I'm happy to have the pb (and a deal at that)

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Another cheap first. Not a bad copy all in all, the cover definitely conveys a sense of mounting anxiety and dread - of the Westian variety, not the Lovecraftian :banana:

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On 5/6/2024 at 6:22 PM, Darwination said:

We have some similar tastes, John.  This one's going on the huntlist.  Lots and lots of Chiriacka on the huntlist :luhv:  Might be one I get picky over, too, with the white cover.

Really like the freebie, as well.  Not always a fan of the many "porch" covers I see on the trashy "hotel" and southern life covers, but this is laid out a little different.

 

I'll take that as a compliment. Yeah, I really like Chiriaka. He's different (looser?) than the early Avons I am usually drawn to.

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On 5/6/2024 at 7:34 PM, Surfing Alien said:

A full set of Himes 1st pbs is an essential in any serious collection imho.

The 1st Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Jones yarn. Cover art by Mitch Hooks. Maybe his highest end cover.

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Another added to the growing wishlist.

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A minor addition today.  Except...

Find scans of this one online.  I'll wait. 

Neither Bookscans or the Ace Double Library have it, and the only ones I found were very tiny and in separate locations.  Although the Ace 42925 reprint, which uses the same art even to the green banners at the top, is on both sites and common elsewhere.  I've mailed scans to Bookscans already.

 

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