Was there an "Edgar Church" for pulps? 0

[comicjack]

On 8/22/2021 at 8:44 PM, Robot Man said:

Got this pulp from David T Alexander several years ago. He claimed it was a file copy from the pulp author Art Lawson. He bought it directly from his estate. He had many of them but I was drawn to this one because of it's excellent Halloween cover. Pages are about as white as any pulp I've ever owned. Looks un-read...

That's a beauty  

[Sarg]

In Fantasy illustrated's latest catalog, Dave Smith says there were 900 to 1,000 pulps in the Yakima pedigree. He says the collection starts in 1939, but the OO sought out some back issues of titles he liked. Those are in only average condition.

The collection was 75% sci-fi. 

[detective35]

There were many Yakima pulps sold by family members before Dave bought the large group at a later date.

I was told by people who purchased them that it was kind of a free for all by the family members taking groups of pulps on their own

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[detective35]

Here is a Yakima Shadow pulp (Feb. 15, 1939) that was bought at a bookstore in Palo Alto,California in July, 2001.

 A group of pulps were sold to the bookstore by a family member of the Yakima collection back in 2001.

**You can see where the influence for the cover of All Star Comics #3  came from!!**
 

Edited August 26, 2021 by detective35

[Robot Man]

I heard there were markings on them. If so, can they be identified without Dave’s COA?

[Sarg]

On 8/26/2021 at 10:25 AM, detective35 said:

There were many Yakima pulps sold by family members before Dave bought the large group at a later date.

I was told by people who purchased them that it was kind of a free for all by the family members taking groups of pulps on their own

Dave leaves out that small detail in his article. He makes it sound like he discovered the collection and purchased it en toto.

Edited August 26, 2021 by Sarg
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[detective35]

On 8/26/2021 at 4:37 PM, Sarg said:

Dave leaves out that small detail in his article. He makes it sound like he discovered the collection and purchased it en toto.

Nope!

[Sarg]

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[surfertso]

Would you guys consider the Robinson collection to be a pedigree? The Weird Tales set is absolutely stunning - possibly the best in existence.

 

[Bookery]

On 12/16/2021 at 12:47 PM, surfertso said:

Would you guys consider the Robinson collection to be a pedigree? The Weird Tales set is absolutely stunning - possibly the best in existence.

 

Because of the "rules" for pedigrees, probably not.  His collection wasn't purchased off the stands by an original owner.  But frankly, I never got the fuss about pedigrees.  I'd rather come across a collection of someone with a great eye who spent their life assembling the best of the best over a collection famous for being purchased by some original buyer back in the day.  There may be "pedigrees" in the rare book world... but I'm not aware of it.  Instead, there are collections valued for their provenance or association (Steinbeck's copy of a Faulkner, for instance, might rate a premium because of the association of 2 Nobel Prize winners).  And there are collections valued for their inclusion of rarities as well as their overall condition.  But a nice collection is a nice collection, IMHO.  Robinson's was certainly among the finest pulp collections that are likely ever to surface.  Steranko reportedly has a huge collection, though I'm not sure he pursued high grades in the way that Robinson did.  Others may have definitive high-grade runs of certain titles or subjects.

[surfertso]

I totally agreed. At the end of the day, it's all about the grade. I owned a White Mountain Captain America SA graded CGC 8.0 which I used as a book end for my books.

Give me a VF pulp with bright colors and white pages any day over a Pedigree with a lower grade.