CLOSED - THANKS To ALL! - Surfing Alien's July Birthday Release of the Honey Gold hoard of Vintage Paperbacks 2 2

[Surfing Alien]

The Up-Tight Blonde by Carter Brown  Signet P3955    First Edition First Printing.  August 1969    $25  SOLD to crassus

A very classy way to sneak a nude on a pb cover by Robert McGinnis   I don't know what's better, the painting or what's behind the painting?

Very Fine Minus. Super glossy and new looking. Square and tight with excellent page quality. Little bits of wear here and there. A superior copy.

 

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[crassus]

On 7/12/2023 at 8:20 PM, Surfing Alien said:

The Up-Tight Blonde by Carter Brown  Signet P3955    First Edition First Printing.  August 1969    $25

A very classy way to sneak a nude on a pb cover by Robert McGinnis   I don't know what's better, the painting or what's behind the painting?

Very Fine Minus. Super glossy and new looking. Square and tight with excellent page quality. Little bits of wear here and there. A superior copy.

[Surfing Alien]

The Deadly Kitten by Carter Brown  Signet D3345    First Edition First Printing.  December 1967    $25  SOLD to crassus

That is quite the beach babe by McGinnis. A killer for sure.

Fine Plus/Very Fine Minus. Another glossy new looking book. Square and tight, great pages. Has a tiny scrape at the price,  a finger bend, a few tiny indents and bits of wear that I took the grade down a bit for. Despite those little things, a pretty top copy of a crazy good cover book.

 

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[crassus]

On 7/12/2023 at 8:33 PM, Surfing Alien said:

The Deadly Kitten by Carter Brown  Signet D3345    First Edition First Printing.  December 1967    $25

That is quite the beach babe by McGinnis. A killer for sure.

Fine Plus/Very Fine Minus. Another glossy new looking book. Square and tight, great pages. Has a tiny scrape at the price,  a finger bend, a few tiny indents and bits of wear that I took the grade down a bit for. Despite those little things, a pretty top copy of a crazy good cover book.

[Surfing Alien]

The Land Of Hidden Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs  Ace 47013     2nd Frazetta Ace Tall edition.  Not dated, probably 1973 or 1974     $25  SOLD to N e r V

Incredible Frazetta Black Panther cover.  Tension right there.

Very Fine. Glossy and new. Great colors.  Virtually no wear, a hint of a bend to the lower right front cover. Razor sharp, you could cut someone with it.

 

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[N e r V]

On 7/12/2023 at 6:07 PM, Surfing Alien said:

The Land Of Hidden Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs  Ace 47013     2nd Frazetta Ace Tall edition.  Not dated, probably 1973 or 1974     $25

Incredible Frazetta Black Panther cover.  Tension right there.

Very Fine. Glossy and new. Great colors.  Virtually no wear, a hint of a bend to the lower right front cover. Razor sharp, you could cut someone with it.

 

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[Surfing Alien]

On 7/12/2023 at 6:43 PM, PopKulture said:

Just an absolutely stunning cover!  

The atmosphere is incredible. You can almost smell the sleaze

[Surfing Alien]

The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs  Ace  60563,  July 1974    $35  SOLD to N e r V

The First paperback edition and first/only Frazetta paperback edition. There were 2 later printings of this edition but this is the 1st.

The lighting doesn't do justice to this cover, it's much moodier and smoother in hand than my phone shows.

Very Fine/Near Mint. I keep looking for a defect on this and can't find it. Super square and glossy with no creases. Razor sharp corners. Even the bound-in advertising card is mint. Off white pages. A stunner. You won't be upgrading this.

 

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[N e r V]

On 7/12/2023 at 6:31 PM, Surfing Alien said:

The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs  Ace  60563,  July 1974    $35

The First paperback edition and first/only Frazetta paperback edition. There were 2 later printings of this edition but this is the 1st.

The lighting doesn't do justice to this cover, it's much moodier and smoother in hand than my phone shows.

Very Fine/Near Mint. I keep looking for a defect on this and can't find it. Super square and glossy with no creases. Razor sharp corners. Even the bound-in advertising card is mint. Off white pages. A stunner. You won't be upgrading this.

 

 

 

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[Surfing Alien]

Tarzan and the City Of Gold by Edgar Rice Burroughs  Ace F-205  1st print of the 1st US PB and the only Ace/Frazetta edition.    June 1963   $35  SOLD to mstrange

Literally a killer Frank Frazetta Tarzan cover.

Very Fine Minus/Very Fine - Stunner.  Super glossy, bright and new looking. No creasing. A color flake to the lower right corner, tiny thumb bend on the back and a slight curl to the book from storage are about all there is to mention. Light toning to the pages. A very fresh feeling copy.

 

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[mstrange]

On 7/12/2023 at 6:41 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Tarzan and the City Of Gold by Edgar Rice Burroughs  Ace F-205  1st print of the 1st US PB and the only Ace/Frazetta edition.    June 1963   $35

Literally a killer Frank Frazetta Tarzan cover.

Very Fine Minus/Very Fine - Stunner.  Super glossy, bright and new looking. No creasing. A color flake to the lower right corner, tiny thumb bend on the back and a slight curl to the book from storage are about all there is to mention. Light toning to the pages. A very fresh feeling copy.

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[Surfing Alien]

Last one for tonight. I think I need to re-cap the few still up in the back pages... I'll figure that out tomorrow.

At The Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs  Ace  03324    1973     $35  SOLD to N e r V

2nd or 3rd print of the 1st Frazetta pb edition.  Incredible Good Girl babe and monster by Frazetta cover with great detail.

Very Fine. Super glossy, appears unread. Scarce to me as i don't think I offered one before   Nearly perfect but has a tiny piece of extra cardboard to the cover at back bottom that has a little tear. If that ain't nit-pickin', I don't know what is

 

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[N e r V]

On 7/12/2023 at 7:23 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Last one for tonight. I think I need to re-cap the few still up in the back pages... I'll figure that out tomorrow.

At The Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs  Ace  03324    1973     $35

2nd or 3rd print of the 1st Frazetta pb edition.  Incredible Good Girl babe and monster by Frazetta cover with great detail.

Very Fine. Super glossy, appears unread. Scarce to me as i don't think I offered one before   Nearly perfect but has a tiny piece of extra cardboard to the cover at back bottom that has a little tear. If that ain't nit-pickin', I don't know what is

 

 

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[Surfing Alien]

I have to work pretty full time tomorrow in the day, but I have a nice little stack of Avons pulled to list and some other pretty odds and ends, including a few higher end pieces I may see if there's an appetite for

[Norrin's lawyer]

On 7/11/2023 at 1:13 PM, Surfing Alien said:

The Long Wait by Mickey Spillane   Signet 932    1st PB, 1st Printing   May 1952    $20

Tough gangster fiction with a great Lu Kimmell GGA bondage cover.  I have several nice Spillane Signets to list this week.

Fine Plus. Super glossy and new looking. Appears unread, other than a bit of rubbing on the spine edges and finger bend on back, only has some factory defects. A bit of the page edge dye on the cover and spine and a bindery tear at the top and bottom spine.  Pages and inner covers are really nice for a Signet.

 

 

[jimjum12]

On 7/12/2023 at 8:09 PM, Surfing Alien said:

The Million Dollar Babe by Carter Brown  Signet S1909    First Edition First Printing. February 1961    $20

Another early Carter Brown with gorgeous chest-lights cover by Barye Phillips .  I'd bet on that.

Fine/Fine Plus. Bright and glossy. Spine is solid and tight, has slight slant. Tiny chips to the spine tips and hairline reader crease. Nice page quality.   She's still a million bucks to me.

GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Surfing Alien]

Well, I promised some Avons so here we go. Lot's of great covers here. As i've said a million times, I'm an Avon guy at heart.

[N e r V]

On 7/13/2023 at 4:43 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Well, I promised some Avons so here we go. Lot's of great covers here. As i've said a million times, I'm an Avon guy at heart.

Hector Garrido Covers?

[Surfing Alien]

Virtuous Girl by Maxwell Bodenheim   Avon 168     1948         $30  SOLD to mstrange

Cover art by Raymond Johnson. One of my all time favorite Good Girl covers. A breakthrough cover for Johnson and Avon. I loved his work so much I wrote an entire biography on Johnson for Illustration magazine

For those who haven't read the article, here's a condensed version of what I said about this one:

With Maxwell Bodenheim’s “Virtuous Girl” (Avon #168), released in June 1948, Johnson’s paperback cover painting style emerged virtually full blown. The Troeger-Phillips agency received the assignment, for which Johnson executed an iconic image that in many ways was unlike anything Avon, or any other publisher had released before.

 

“Virtuous Girl” is extraordinarily large. She takes up more than 75% of the cover territory. She is clearly not a virtuous girl, virginal white dress notwithstanding. Her face, makeup and hair are bold and striking, her strap falling off her shoulder and breast and nipples painted peeking through the diaphanous dress fabric. Her legs are crossed but garters showing and toes pointed up playfully, all with the signature Johnson shading that he was using in his magazine work. The cover is powerful in scale and execution and comes across as much more three dimensional than any previous Avon cover. 

 

(Yes that's a plug for y'all to go buy up the remaining copies from Dan at Illustration! He is sadly closing down the magazine after 20 some odd years of amazing work )

 

Fine/Fine Plus. Solid tight spine has some slant but the pages are tight. Covers are smooth with minimal creasing and edgewear, some dimpling and foxing on the back. Incredibly difficult to find this not creased up. I know because Ruben, Bruce Brenner & I scoured the interwebs for a year for copies of Johnson's books with covers decent enough to not touch up. This one was a bear!

 

 

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[mstrange]

On 7/13/2023 at 5:05 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Virtuous Girl by Maxwell Bodenheim   Avon 168     1948         $30

Cover art by Raymond Johnson. One of my all time favorite Good Girl covers. A breakthrough cover for Johnson and Avon. I loved his work so much I wrote an entire biography on Johnson for Illustration magazine

For those who haven't read the article, here's a condensed version of what I said about this one:

With Maxwell Bodenheim’s “Virtuous Girl” (Avon #168), released in June 1948, Johnson’s paperback cover painting style emerged virtually full blown. The Troeger-Phillips agency received the assignment, for which Johnson executed an iconic image that in many ways was unlike anything Avon, or any other publisher had released before.

 

“Virtuous Girl” is extraordinarily large. She takes up more than 75% of the cover territory. She is clearly not a virtuous girl, virginal white dress notwithstanding. Her face, makeup and hair are bold and striking, her strap falling off her shoulder and breast and nipples painted peeking through the diaphanous dress fabric. Her legs are crossed but garters showing and toes pointed up playfully, all with the signature Johnson shading that he was using in his magazine work. The cover is powerful in scale and execution and comes across as much more three dimensional than any previous Avon cover. 

 

(Yes that's a plug for y'all to go buy up the remaining copies from Dan at Illustration! He is sadly closing down the magazine after 20 some odd years of amazing work )

 

Fine/Fine Plus. Solid tight spine has some slant but the pages are tight. Covers are smooth with minimal creasing and edgewear, some dimpling and foxing on the back. Incredibly difficult to find this not creased up. I know because Ruben, Bruce Brenner & I scoured the interwebs for a year for copies of Johnson's books with covers decent enough to not touch up. This one was a bear!

 

 

 

 

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