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CLOSED - Thanks to all! ReCap P. 7 - Surfing Alien's Everything <$20 Black Parade of the broken, the beaten and the damned Golden Age paperbacks sale
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Tawny  Donald Henderson Clarke   Avon 237   1950   Pretty Golden Age Avon girl, looks like one of the True Crime Mag artists girls.   VG+   Spine slant, slight stain and wave, front cover smooth, crease on the back. A nice looking copy.   $8 SOLD to goldust40

 

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Tawny  Donald Henderson Clarke   Avon 237   1950   Pretty Golden Age Avon girl, looks like one of the True Crime Mag artists girls.   VG+   Spine slant, slight stain and wave, front cover smooth, crease on the back. A nice looking copy.   $8

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Flesh and the Sea  John Dobbin   Avon T-100    1955   Nice uncredited Good Girl with a cigarette.  VG+  Nice looking copy, has chips and tears at spine ends, slight uneveness, but no big creases. $8

 

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The Key  Popular Library 232  1950  Nice VG has slight crunch/paper loss to lower left but nice overall. Back is clean  $8

Murder By Latitude  Popular Library 246    Belarski GGA cover  Good -   Pages uneven and coming loose, still looks ok  $4

Fate Magazine   November 1956   Cool digest.  Chipped, paper loss at top spine, water damage to bottom  $5

Fate Magazine   May 1950   Cool digest. Shaver Mystery & UFO stories    Complete but water damaged  $4

 

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Pocket Books 123 8th Printing  1947  Spencer Tracy Movie tie-in cover   VG/F  Light creasing, general wear  $12

Sins of New York edited by Milton Crane   Bantam 786  1950    C.C. Beall Bad Girl cover  $8

 

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Dr. Priestly Investigates   John Rhode  Avon NN(#5)  2nd print with HRN of 16 books on the back  1942  Classic very early Avon mystery $15

 

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Tarzan and the Silver Globe  Barton Werper      Gold Star IL7-42   1964   Unauthorized series that was cancelled after 5 books.  Jack Endeweldt Bondage cover.   Near Fine - has a light crease and surface wear    $10

Tarzan and the Cave City  Barton Werper      Gold Star IL7-49   1964   2nd book in the series   Jack Endeweldt cover.   VF minus - unread, has light storage/surface wear   $15

Sporting Lady Gene Gauntier   Pyramid Books 113  1954   Nice uncredited GGA from a tough publisher.   Fine Plus. Clean copy with very light wear $12

The Shame of Mary Quinn  Clifton Cuthbert   Pyramid Books 28  4th Printing 1951   Classic Hunter Barker nude GGA cover.  Near Fine. Slight cover pull back, clean otherwise. Pages toning.  $15

 

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Out of the Silent Planet C.S. Lewis  Avon 195  1949  Bargain copy of a classic Avon science fiction/fantasy  title.   Chipped corners, wear    $8

Death of a Tall Man  Frances and Richard Lockridge   Dell 322 Mapback   1949   Mr. & Mrs. North mystery with cool cat and coffin cover.  VG+ Light creasing, general wear, back is pretty clean  $7

Night Has 1000 Eyes  George Hopley (William Irish)  Dell 679   1953    Classic noir novel, great cover with Good Girl on the Bridge.   Looks VG+ but missing title page. Small chew on bottom and at spine ends.  Perfect, good looking reader.  $6

 

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McKee of Centre Street  Helen Reilly   Popular Library  No. 33 1944   Golden age mystery with a great Hoffman Art Deco cover.    Fine plus, Square tight and bright, slight wave, light stain on back. True early goodness  $15

 

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Avon Fantasy Reader No. 17    1951   Lovecraft, Bradbury stories among other Weird Tales authors. Harry Barton cover art.  VG minus  creases, chipping to page edges.  Nice reader that still looks pretty good     $10

Conan the Avenger Robert E. Howard   Lancer  75149-095   1968    Frazetta cover.   Later print with alternate cover design   Very Fine, glossy and sharp. Has small, neat store price sticker on back cover      $6

 

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Andrews Harvest  John Evans   Berkley  No. 314    Scarce Berkley with nice cover art, probably Rudy Nappi.   Fine minus, front cover nice, back has creasing, slight cover pull back  $8

Lady Ann    Donald Henderson Clarke   Avon 105  Later print with HRN 153    Early Raymond Johnson cover   G/VG, Front cover pretty nice, back cover has big dent, creasing  $6

 

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles  Agatha Christie   Avon 75   1945  Cover by A. Gonzales   Scarce book.   VG, Great color and structure, looks Fine Plus but has some old moisture staining and a couple of super light ring traces on cover that are hard to see.  $8

 

Two western digests  The Black Rider by Burt Arthur, Star Books No. 12  1950  George Gross cover & Raw Passion by Charles Martin  Uni Books No. 16  1951  GGA cover. Both have significant storage wear and tear, browning and chipping (barn storage wear lol). Front cover art looks great   $8 for both

 

4  beat but complete 1940's Popular Library's   3 Mystery/suspense 1 Western   Hoffman, A>Leslie Ross, Owen Kampen covers   $10

 

The Passionate Pagan   Carter Brown  Signet S 2259   1st Print 1963  McGinnis GGA cover        VF minus, printing is offset/blurred (factory issue)     $6

 

The Regatta Mystery  Agatha Christie   Avon No. 85 1945    First PB Edition, cool dagger murder cover    Fine minus - Looks Fine Plus/VF minus but has very light creasing front and back that doesn't break color    $12

 

Who Killed Sweet Sue   Henry Kane    Avon 733    1956    PBO   Victor Kalin cover art      Good looking copy. VG+  Tight and bright, reader crease, spine wear, small tears at spine base, edge      $10

 

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Back of Town    Herbert Pruett  Beacon B161  1958  PBO        Beacon backwoods sleaze with GGA cover art       VG   cover creases, slight cover pull back, light grease pencil   $5

 

The Dark Urge  Robert W. Taylor    Pyramid Books G72  1953   Julian Paul GGA cover   Scarce Pyramid title.     Fine, light corner creases, pages toned.  $12

 

The Embezzler by James M. Cain   Avon 99   1946        Nice copy of an early picture frame Avon by the hard boiled master.  Fine/Fine Plus. Great colors and page quality, Spine and covers are smooth with minor wear and creasing   $15

 

The Gorgeous Ghoul Murder Case  Dwight V. Babcock   Avon NN (#30)   1943    Scarce 1st print with HRN of 31  Cool early GGA with mummy mask cover art.    VG/F Square and tight, great color. Light creasing, small split at back spine  $15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Out of the Silent Planet C.S. Lewis  Avon 195  1949  Bargain copy of a classic Avon science fiction/fantasy  title.   Chipped corners, wear    $8

Night Has 1000 Eyes  George Hopley (William Irish)  Dell 679   1953    Classic noir novel, great cover with Good Girl on the Bridge.   Looks VG+ but missing title page. Small chew on bottom and at spine ends.  Perfect, good looking reader.  $6

I'm not grabbing either of these because I already have copies... but it pains me that nobody else has yet.  Two absolute classics.

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Mistress Murder  Peter Cheyney    Avon 349  1949    Beautiful Raymond Johnson cover art, has that Renaissance "glow"   Sharp copy, no creases, a bit of fading to the page edge stain.    $18  SOLD to goldust40

 

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Mistress Murder  Peter Cheyney    Avon 349  1949    Beautiful Raymond Johnson cover art, has that Renaissance "glow"   Sharp copy, no creases, a bit of fading to the page edge stain.    $18

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The Brat  Gil Brewer Gold Medal S1258  Stated third printing of this Paperback original by one of the best of the "Florida Writers"  Great back cover blurb!  Good girl art cover by Barye Phillips. Nice Fine, light reader crease, light wear.   $8   SOLD to goldust40

 

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The Brat  Gil Brewer Gold Medal S1258  Stated third printing of this Paperback original by one of the best of the "Florida Writers"  Great back cover blurb!  Good girl art cover by Barye Phillips. Nice Fine, light reader crease, light wear.   $8

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