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

[OtherEric]

[OtherEric]

[Surfing Alien]

On 7/29/2023 at 4:05 PM, OtherEric said:

And the books from @Surfing Alien's sales thread finally showed up.  The delay was purely the post office.  Other than the Avon, this first batch was all a gift to go with the purchase. Which is incredibly generous, particularly in the case of the Helen of Troy, which is inarguably one of the 100 most famous paperback covers, and probably has a strong case for the top 10.

Glad you appreciate them. I am never going to hold on to or sell every book I have and glad to get the wheels in motion to share stuff. In my interactions with you guys on the couple of sales threads, I've really come to appreciate everyone's different tastes and likes.

The process of sorting out my books and letting things go, and also trying to find some want list type asks I've had in PM's has given me new resolve to try to focus on some ares of my own collecting I need to button up

[Surfing Alien]

One of the areas I need to button up is finishing up my vintage Heinlein pb's. I was pleasantly surprised to see the Heinlein pb's  and other Science Fiction pb's get took amid the bevy of Frazetta and GGA I put up. 

So I did a fair amount of buying this week to see if I can upgrade what I have and fill the holes in that area of the shelf.

I actually did not currently have a 1st pb copy of The Door Into Summer which may be the most beautiful Heinlein Signet cover. Although I love all of them, this one by Paul Lehr isn't constrained by the blank borders and fonts.

[OtherEric]

On 7/29/2023 at 1:41 PM, Surfing Alien said:

One of the areas I need to button up is finishing up my vintage Heinlein pb's. I was pleasantly surprised to see the Heinlein pb's  and other Science Fiction pb's get took amid the bevy of Frazetta and GGA I put up. 

So I did a fair amount of buying this week to see if I can upgrade what I have and fill the holes in that area of the shelf.

I actually did not currently have a 1st pb copy of The Door Into Summer which may be the most beautiful Heinlein Signet cover. Although I love all of them, this one by Paul Lehr isn't constrained by the blank borders and fonts.

Nice.  I've never really worked on getting the Heinlein paperbacks in any sort of organized sense, although I've obviously got some.  My focuses with Heinlein have always been getting everything in some form of Hardcover, which I think I've done at this point even if it's heavy on Book Club editions, and getting all of the prewar pulps with his work, which I've done bar a fanzine and a couple of book reviews.

[Surfing Alien]

On 7/29/2023 at 4:59 PM, OtherEric said:

I've never really worked on getting the Heinlein paperbacks in any sort of organized sense

I did when I first collected back in the 80's & 90's and my Heinleins were some of the few I kept when I sold that first collection around 98 or 99. They had such great covers and content.

But I only ever found about 15 of them in the wild because you got what you ran into back then. I'm re-ignited now to go after the ones I'm missing just from talking to folks 

[Surfing Alien]

Here's a few more, mostly the early Signets, which were my favorites.

[OtherEric]

On 7/29/2023 at 3:42 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Here's a few more, mostly the early Signets, which were my favorites.

The pulp covers matching the books you have. 

Starship Troopers... I've got the Starship Soldiers serialization somewhere, but not scanned.

Orphans of the Sky was originally two stories, Universe and Common Sense.  I don't think Common Sense made the cover.

Methuselah's Children was a three part serial, which was extensively revised for the book version.

I don't have the magazine version of Podkayne of Mars.  I'm actually not positive there was one.

If This Goes On was also extensively revised for the Revolt in 2100 collection.  Coventry and Misfit didn't make the covers.

None of the stories in "Assignment in Eternity" made the cover, although I've got all of them in the original magazines.

Beyond this Horizon was a two part story.

Double Star actually made the cover twice, which is very unusual. 

 

[Surfing Alien]

On 7/29/2023 at 6:57 PM, OtherEric said:

The pulp covers matching the books you have. 

Starship Troopers... I've got the Starship Soldiers serialization somewhere, but not scanned.

Orphans of the Sky was originally two stories, Universe and Common Sense.  I don't think Common Sense made the cover.

Methuselah's Children was a three part serial, which was extensively revised for the book version.

I don't have the magazine version of Podkayne of Mars.  I'm actually not positive there was one.

If This Goes On was also extensively revised for the Revolt in 2100 collection.  Coventry and Misfit didn't make the covers.

None of the stories in "Assignment in Eternity" made the cover, although I've got all of them in the original magazines.

Beyond this Horizon was a two part story.

Double Star actually made the cover twice, which is very unusual. 

 

 

Great stuff. I have a fair stack of his pulps and digests, just glad I grabbed a decent copy of his 1st appearance while it was still doable. I believe this is also Virgil Finlay's only cover for Astounding.

 

 

[OtherEric]

On 7/29/2023 at 6:23 PM, Surfing Alien said:

 

Great stuff. I have a fair stack of his pulps and digests, just glad I grabbed a decent copy of his 1st appearance while it was still doable. I believe this is also Virgil Finlay's only cover for Astounding.

 

 

My copy was $10, I believe, from Bud Plant.  Wish I had upgraded when it was still more easily doable, but I've got it!

Yes, it's Finlay's only Astounding cover.  I believe it was cropped without permission and Finlay wouldn't work for Campbell again.

[Surfing Alien]

Fresh out of the box today, some more concentrating on some spaces I've neglected...  I finally found a nice copy of the 1st PB of "The Queen's Gambit" by Walter Tevis. It's not usual for me to gush about finding a 1980's book but this one is really tough to find at all, let alone in decent condition. I'm sure that was abetted by the success of the Netflix mini-series and the surge of interest in all things Tevis. It's a victim of the Giant Font craze that killed paperback illustration but I'll pass on that criticism because the chess graphic scheme is pretty cool and the book itself is so good.

 

That rounds out the "big four" of his six novels imo. I thought "Mockingbird" was tough to find, and it is, but Gambit was much tougher to find than the others.

 

[Warlord]

On 7/29/2023 at 6:57 PM, OtherEric said:

The pulp covers matching the books you have. 

Starship Troopers... I've got the Starship Soldiers serialization somewhere, but not scanned.

Orphans of the Sky was originally two stories, Universe and Common Sense.  I don't think Common Sense made the cover.

 

 

 

 

 

I recognize this cover from the Dell 10 cent novel, looks like the Dell book came later and was based on this earlier Astounding SF cover.  I can't readily locate my copy, but here's a pic I snagged.

 

[The-Collector]

Tough to find in grade. If only I could find a Digit copy. 

[Surfing Alien]

On 8/3/2023 at 10:09 AM, The-Collector said:

Tough to find in grade. If only I could find a Digit copy. 

THAT is a proud copy! Bravo

[OtherEric]

On 8/3/2023 at 7:09 AM, The-Collector said:

Tough to find in grade. If only I could find a Digit copy. 

That is a stunning copy.

How many of us on this forum have the book?  My copy is quite beat up but I still never tire of showing it off...

[Surfing Alien]

On 8/3/2023 at 12:33 PM, OtherEric said:

That is a stunning copy.

How many of us on this forum have the book?  My copy is quite beat up but I still never tire of showing it off...

 

I'm in with this copy for now. It's not as nice as nice as The-Collector's, or my old copy but a pretty nice upper mid-grade that I'm happy with for now. I'd love to grab a high grade some day if the situation is right but there's many other books I need before upgrading this one. Junkie is always available, it's just a matter of how much moolah you are willing to part with.

[Surfing Alien]

Some Friday fun. @Pat Calhoun is always subtly reminding me with his posts that I need to keep plugging away at those 1940's Atlas Digests.

Here's three for today, including two with the elusive Atlas logo on the front cover. There's not too many with it on the front to make them really resemble the comic books.

 

 

 

The Atlas books really pack a punch when displayed together - super colorful and Golden-age looking

[Pat Calhoun]

very cool. is 'Rendezvous' a 'shortie'? I like those little ones and have all of them from the first series: if answer is 'yes' will put that one on my want list. also posting the 3 shorties recently acquired that filled out my group shot and a pic to highlight the size difference.

 

[Sarg]

On 8/4/2023 at 1:47 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Some Friday fun. @Pat Calhoun is always subtly reminding me with his posts that I need to keep plugging away at those 1940's Atlas Digests.

Here's three for today, including two with the elusive Atlas logo on the front cover. There's not too many with it on the front to make them really resemble the comic books.

 

 

 

The Atlas books really pack a punch when displayed together - super colorful and Golden-age looking

 

Great to see the near-mythical Atlas logo.

[OtherEric]

Found at half price books today: