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

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/2/2023 at 5:47 PM, OtherEric said:

An odd question:  Is anybody aware of a good bookshelf for displaying paperbacks?  I'm starting to think I may be better off just getting some boards and building one myself than trying to find one, or I'm totally incompetent trying to figure out search terms. 

Funny, we're going to Ikea this weekend to pick out a bookcase/shelving system for my Comic Room renovation (the main reason much of my stuff is largely not accessibe at the moment). They have lots of different combinations, many with glass doors and lighting devices. I hope to get a full wall of shelves for displaying

Definitely look at Ikea shelving solutions. Their delivery fees aren't bad if you don't have one near you.

[OtherEric]

On 5/2/2023 at 2:53 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Funny, we're going to Ikea this weekend to pick out a bookcase/shelving system for my Comic Room renovation (the main reason much of my stuff is largely not accessibe at the moment). They have lots of different combinations, many with glass doors and lighting devices. I hope to get a full wall of shelves for displaying

Definitely look at Ikea shelving solutions. Their delivery fees aren't bad if you don't have one near you.

Let me know if you spot something good.  Most bookshelves are just way too deep to be optimal for paperbacks, and since I'm in an apartment I don't want to build permanent shelves.

[Surfing Alien]

I was too busy with the sale to get to posting a couple of fun arrivals over the weekend.

 

Been looking for my chance to get a copy of this one for a while and it arrived. I'm not the biggest Bonfils cover art lover but there's some titles you just have to have.

 

Any chance I get to obtain a Midwood with a Rader or Maguire cover, I take it. Great title on this one.

 

I really don't consider myself a sleaze collector but I have so many of my regular series wants that I do pick up the wackier titles for fun, like this one about infiltrating Korean Communist agents featuring a machine gun wielding female agent. Some of them are very scarce due to the low print runs.

 

The copy of "Nightmare Alley" I offered at my first sale didn't sell here but it sold on Ebay right after. I am always on the hunt for this book and managed to unearth this copy. Has some lamination peels but overall Very Good-ish.

I have seen 7 copies for sale on the interwebs over the last 3 or 4 years and bought 5 of them. There were none I could find at Windy City. It has everything you could want in a Signet, great story, 2 excellent movies, great Avati cover, so I'll keep buying 'em if I can find 'em

[moonpool]

On 5/2/2023 at 4:39 PM, OtherEric said:

So, @Surfing Alien had a copy of this in his recent sales thread, but I hesitated too long and somebody beat me to it.  This copy isn't nearly as nice... but it will do for now.

Sales thread?  Sales thread?

[OtherEric]

On 5/2/2023 at 3:42 PM, moonpool said:

Sales thread?  Sales thread?

 

[OtherEric]

Today's book.  I think this is the only Heinlein story in the D-S-G series.  It was also an Ace PKD book I was missing.  And it's a minor milestone: I now have the complete run of the Ace S-Series SF titles... all four of them.

[damonwad]

On 5/2/2023 at 2:47 PM, OtherEric said:

An odd question:  Is anybody aware of a good bookshelf for displaying paperbacks?  I'm starting to think I may be better off just getting some boards and building one myself than trying to find one, or I'm totally incompetent trying to figure out search terms. 

I picked one up at Ikea a year or so ago that I'm happy with. I think it's called a "Billy" and it's a little over 6'-0 high with glass doors. I just took a couple pics of it with the right door open (because of glare). A couple shelves are set in place but I bought 2 (I think) extra shelves and was able to space them out to be able to get 8 rows of pb's. I counted one row and it has 66 in it. The shelves are about 10 1/4" deep.

 

[OtherEric]

If nothing else, I can probably use the "buy extra shelves" idea once I find an otherwise suitable bookcase.

[PopKulture]

On 5/3/2023 at 11:34 PM, damonwad said:

 

 

I see I’m not the only Boardie with Victorian-era magazines.

Amazing, focused collection, by the way.  

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/4/2023 at 12:34 AM, damonwad said:

I picked one up at Ikea a year or so ago that I'm happy with. I think it's called a "Billy" and it's a little over 6'-0 high with glass doors. I just took a couple pics of it with the right door open (because of glare). A couple shelves are set in place but I bought 2 (I think) extra shelves and was able to space them out to be able to get 8 rows of pb's. I counted one row and it has 66 in it. The shelves are about 10 1/4" deep.

 

Outstanding display! And your collection has grown quite a bit from your first shelf pic way back when

This is basically where I'm going. I have a set of Billy cases with mixed solid and glass doors in our living room and I keep my Peanuts PB collections and my meager Arkham and other Specialty press collections in there, but it's mostly for art objects from our travels and curios like my father's stripes from WWII.

For the comic room I am going with a deeper Ikea shelf system that will allow the double layers of pb's (those are double layers right?) but also deep enough to house my LP record collection on the bottom shelves behind solid doors. On the uppers with the glass doors I plan to layer them like you have here but they are deep enough that I'll be able to turn some around front for display through the glass. The design is all in my imagination still right now but it should happen in the next month or so.

[Surfing Alien]

On 5/4/2023 at 12:37 AM, OtherEric said:

If nothing else, I can probably use the "buy extra shelves" idea once I find an otherwise suitable bookcase.

If you're looking for shallow bookshelves, look for "Media Storage" products rather than book shelves, as there are many products out there for CD's and other media with that  kind of label that are only 7 or 8 inches deep if you want a space saver that could hold a single layer of pbs.

[damonwad]

On 5/4/2023 at 7:25 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Outstanding display! And your collection has grown quite a bit from your first shelf pic way back when

This is basically where I'm going. I have a set of Billy cases with mixed solid and glass doors in our living room and I keep my Peanuts PB collections and my meager Arkham and other Specialty press collections in there, but it's mostly for art objects from our travels and curios like my father's stripes from WWII.

For the comic room I am going with a deeper Ikea shelf system that will allow the double layers of pb's (those are double layers right?) but also deep enough to house my LP record collection on the bottom shelves behind solid doors. On the uppers with the glass doors I plan to layer them like you have here but they are deep enough that I'll be able to turn some around front for display through the glass. The design is all in my imagination still right now but it should happen in the next month or so.

Thanks. These are only single layer. I have another 50 or so books to add when I get the time but still have plenty of space on these shelves with my small collection . You, and most of the others that post here, obviously need much more shelf space. Looking forward to seeing what you end up with.

[Sarg]

On 5/3/2023 at 11:34 PM, damonwad said:

I picked one up at Ikea a year or so ago that I'm happy with. I think it's called a "Billy" and it's a little over 6'-0 high with glass doors. I just took a couple pics of it with the right door open (because of glare). A couple shelves are set in place but I bought 2 (I think) extra shelves and was able to space them out to be able to get 8 rows of pb's. I counted one row and it has 66 in it. The shelves are about 10 1/4" deep.

 

Man that looks great!

[Sarg]

I dislike Ikea because it's so generic, but who can afford to pay $2,000+ for a well-made bookcase with glass doors? Not me. 

I saw somebody on YouTube who bought a house with a long row of glass bookcases built into the wall. The person selling the house apologized to the buyer, saying that they could redo the wall if the buyer wanted, since the seller could not imagine a new buyer wanting the bookcases. The buyer acted real resigned and said something like, leave them in, we might be able to use them for something. Acted disappointed. Inside, the buyer was absolutely elated, since his wife was a bibliophile with tons of books. 

[Randall Dowling]

On 5/4/2023 at 8:27 AM, PopKulture said:

I see I’m not the only Boardie with Victorian-era magazines.

Amazing, focused collection, by the way.  

Right?  There's a kind of discipline there that I absolutely don't have.  @damonwad is a precision collector whereas I'm like a dog in a meadow, running back and forth to the next thing.  It's impressive to see. 

[moonpool]

Very nice setup

[damonwad]

On 5/4/2023 at 2:51 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Right?  There's a kind of discipline there that I absolutely don't have.  @damonwad is a precision collector whereas I'm like a dog in a meadow, running back and forth to the next thing.  It's impressive to see. 

Luckily, I have 5 or 6 other collecting interests to keep me busy, or I'd definitely have the "dog in the meadow" approach. There are just so many cool pb's out there.

I also didn't mind my snails pace since I originally planned to read a copy of every book I bought, but that plan's been shot to hell. Was introduced to some great authors though.

[OtherEric]

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.

 

[OtherEric]

Next, I figured out how to get myself in to real trouble:  I found a seller on AbeBooks (Books from the Crypt) that had scans of even their cheap books, and a low per book additional shipping charge.  Which means that I spent less than $6 a book on average here, tax and shipping included.  That still adds up when you order 28 books.  A couple of these are clearly placeholders, but overall I feel like I made out like a bandit.  It's amazing how buying comics and pulps skews your sense of cost.  We'll start with the Aces:

 

[OtherEric]

Fire and Morning is actually the first G-Series Ace, I believe: