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

[BitterOldMan]

Original Bonfils cover sold for $11.875k on Heritage last year.

 

 

[kccoig14]

Just picked up this copy of Adventure vol. 114 #3 (Jan 1946) for a dollar out at the swap meet.

[Surfing Alien]

A nice trip to the mailbox today 

Don't think i'll be able to upgrade these

A Woolrich original with Barye cover

Douglas Ring is Richard S. Prather, not sure who on the cover art

And a fat Ray Johnson cover Pop that is newsstand white and fresh.

 

[kccoig14]

I thought I'd share some of my favorite pulps/paperbacks in my collection. Here's a couple really cool ones to start out with. These two have got to be my favorite paperbacks from my collection.

3 Girls and a Killer by H. Donald Spatz,1943. This book was published by Red Circle Magazines which was owned by Martin Goodman. Also features a "killer" cover by Peter Driben.

Battling the Wolves of Society: The Narcotic Evil, 1929. I just really like this because its an early look into the history of America's "war on drugs".

[Randall Dowling]

I've never seen either one of those.  Thanks for sharing!  

[Randall Dowling]

On 1/30/2021 at 3:09 PM, Surfing Alien said:

And a fat Ray Johnson cover Pop that is newsstand white and fresh.

 

What an amazing copy!!  I love those Popular Giants!  

[Surfing Alien]

51 minutes ago, kccoig14 said:

I thought I'd share some of my favorite pulps/paperbacks in my collection. Here's a couple really cool ones to start out with. These two have got to be my favorite paperbacks from my collection.

3 Girls and a Killer by H. Donald Spatz,1943. This book was published by Red Circle Magazines which was owned by Martin Goodman. Also features a "killer" cover by Peter Driben.

Battling the Wolves of Society: The Narcotic Evil, 1929. I just really like this because its an early look into the history of America's "war on drugs".

 

 

 

Hmmmm. that Saunders cover looks familiar...

[kccoig14]

17 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

Hmmmm. that Saunders cover looks familiar...

Ha! That's awesome!

[kccoig14]

Heres a few more of my favorite covers from my collection.

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.... the inspiration for the John Carpenter movie The Thing

Peeping Tom by Jack Woodford

Tavern Tarts by Patrice Caval

[OtherEric]

This is what I get for buying a cheap book without a picture.  Still, a stated 1st pocket printing that will do nicely as a reader/ filler copy:

[frozentundraguy]

7 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

This is what I get for buying a cheap book without a picture.  Still, a stated 1st pocket printing that will do nicely as a reader/ filler copy:

That's a pretty nice filler book. There's quite a few of these early Pocket Books that have iconic covers, and this is one of them.

[Surfing Alien]

Nice books all. Here's some treats for those of you interested in some Avon publishing history. These are from Bruce Brenner's collection and he gave me permission to share them here.

Bruce has a set of papers dealing with Avon's publishing of "Bedroom Eyes" as Novel Library #18. They give a lot of insight into the printing process.

First up a letter on Avon letterhead from Avon VP Maurice Diamond to a Remainder Book Co. attaching a printers affidavit. Cool logo!

 

Second up is the affidavit itself. Note the address of W.F. Hall if you want a clue to why Avon chose "Diversey" as a subsidiary publishing line. We don't need to guess how many were printed on this one, although I don't know if Bruce has a paper indicating how many were remaindered. I'll have to ask next time we talk.

Finally DeKobra's signature on the last page of a contract with Macaulay. It's interesting that he signed as DeKobra, which was his pen-name. His real name was Ernest-Maurice Tessier. I mentioned in a previous post about "Madonna of the Sleeping Cars" that he was one of the best selling authors of the early 20th century and considered somewhat scandalous, though little known today. I had no idea when I made that post that I'd soon be looking at the guys siggy on a contract! Likely a pretty rare signature and just ultra cool to an Avon geek - although I have to say, I am no Avon geek compared to Bruce. He has probably forgotten more than most of us know about Avon! Just look at the Bookscans Avon section, they're practically all Bruce's scans lol. (Heck look at these letters!)

 

[frozentundraguy]

An interesting bit of history there S.A., not too mention some insight on how the publishing world of 70 some years ago functioned. I imagine the $300 advance for publishing a book was a fair amount of money back then. Finally the gold Avon logo in the first letter is quite impressive.

[Surfing Alien]

1 minute ago, frozentundraguy said:

Finally the gold Avon logo in the first letter is quite impressive.

Thanks - it looks like it's embossed on there. There was such pride in printers work back then, even though it was mass market! And yes, $300 was a nice chunk of change back then!

[PopKulture]

7 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

There was such pride in printers work back then -

Yep, I spend endless hours marveling at how beautiful things were once upon a time.

Edit: I tried posting some links to some random ephemera, but the images will not appear. It just shows a link to my photo-hosting site, ipernity. Is BBCode no longer supported here? Or might it be on the hosting side? Both services have undergone changes recently, so I can easily imagine either case.  

Edited February 4, 2021 by PopKulture
photo links

[Surfing Alien]

17 hours ago, PopKulture said:

Yep, I spend endless hours marveling at how beautiful things were once upon a time.

Edit: I tried posting some links to some random ephemera, but the images will not appear. It just shows a link to my photo-hosting site, ipernity. Is BBCode no longer supported here? Or might it be on the hosting side? Both services have undergone changes recently, so I can easily imagine either case.  

We know you have some beautiful printed matter PopKulture!  I found that the photo-hosting sites almost always ended up letting me down long term so I just rely on my phone lately. 

[Hap Hazard]

On 1/31/2021 at 7:04 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Hmmmm. that Saunders cover looks familiar...

You beat me to it, early pulp/digest.

[Surfing Alien]

3 hours ago, Hap Hazard said:

You beat me to it, early pulp/digest.

 

Nice copy! It's an incredible and mostly unknown Norman Saunders cover. Always rare, always beat up. If it was a comic book $$$   The Crime Novel Selection series are all cool

[Surfing Alien]

3 hours ago, Hap Hazard said:

 

Never seen a copy of this up close. Amazingly cool Crime Novel Selection!

[PopKulture]

7 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

We know you have some beautiful printed matter PopKulture!  I found that the photo-hosting sites almost always ended up letting me down long term so I just rely on my phone lately. 

Thanks for the kind words.  

You're right about the photo-hosting sites letting you down: flickr got me once, ipernity has me on the ropes now, and photobucket has wreaked havoc enough here on the Boards. So, yes, it seems it's just a matter of time...

Many of my books are regrettably inaccessible at a moment's whim, but luckily I have scans of a few hundred random offerings. I love pouring over the Bookscans database and checking out pictures of books I don't have, but there's something fulfilling about knowing it's your own copy (at least to a greedy little hoarder like myself).

If anyone cares to have a look, here's a link. There are a lot of digests mixed in and a few oddballs that fly mostly under-the-radar. 

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/305029/album/431155

Happy collecting!!