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[Surfing Alien]

1984 by George Orwell   Signet NO. 798    1st PB edition, 2nd Print  October 1950    $45  SOLD to TheComicsPreacher

Nice looking bargain copy of the classic Alan Harmon "Big Brother" cover art.   Early printing color scheme with the red banner at the top.

Has a nice appearance. Square and tight with higher grade structure, no big creases, just edgewear, mostly to the spine. Colors are bright but darkening at the edges as are the pages so I'm discounting this one.

 

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[Surfing Alien]

Drawn To Evil by Harry Whittington / The Scarlet Spade by Eaton K. Goldthwaite    Ace D-5  PBO   1952        $65  SOLD to Godlust40

The Saunders negligee cover on "Evil" is his best GGA of the early Ace run. Super tough book in any shape, this was my keeper for a long time. I only just upgraded recently.

Square, tight and bright with a scattering of edgewear, mostly along the spine edges, and small creases. The main images look great with no big creases.

 

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[goldust40]

On 4/27/2024 at 7:23 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Drawn To Evil by Harry Whittington / The Scarlet Spade by Eaton K. Goldthwaite    Ace D-5  PBO   1952        $65

The Saunders negligee cover on "Evil" is his best GGA of the early Ace run. Super tough book in any shape, this was my keeper for a long time. I only just upgraded recently.

Square, tight and bright with a scattering of edgewear, mostly along the spine edges, and small creases. The main images look great with no big creases.

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[Surfing Alien]

On 4/27/2024 at 2:24 PM, goldust40 said:

On 4/27/2024 at 2:23 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Drawn To Evil by Harry Whittington / The Scarlet Spade by Eaton K. Goldthwaite    Ace D-5  PBO   1952        $65

The Saunders negligee cover on "Evil" is his best GGA of the early Ace run. Super tough book in any shape, this was my keeper for a long time. I only just upgraded recently.

Square, tight and bright with a scattering of edgewear, mostly along the spine edges, and small creases. The main images look great with no big creases.

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[Surfing Alien]

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson  Popular Library 75-8106    September 1970      $25  SOLD to OuterBoroGuy

If you know, you know. One of the most oddly magical books I've ever read. Other collectors must know because finding any copy of the Popular pb editions with the original Bill Teason cover of Merricat peering through the fence in decent shape is tough.

Tough black cover book. Has spine stress, edgewear, scraping on the back but still a displayable copy that can still be read.

 

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[Surfing Alien]

The Kidnaper by Robert Bloch  Lion Books No. 185    PBO     January 1954     $60

Bargain copy of this rare Bloch PBO with one of the sickest Lion covers. This was my keeper for a long time.

Front cover looks great. Cover reinforced to the spine with archival tape. Some dots of marker touch up to spine lettering.

 

[Surfing Alien]

Run Tough, Run Hard by Carson Bingham   Monarch Books No, 194  PBO    1961   $35  SOLD to mstrange

Awesome Ray Johnson Biker Girl GGA

VF minus. Square tight, bright, unread copy with great gloss. Tiny bindery chip to lower right and small ding on upper back cover.

 

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[mstrange]

On 4/27/2024 at 11:54 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Run Tough, Run Hard by Carson Bingham   Monarch Books No, 194  PBO    1961   $35

Awesome Ray Johnson Biker Girl GGA

VF minus. Square tight, bright, unread copy with great gloss. Tiny bindery chip to lower right and small ding on upper back cover.

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[Surfing Alien]

 The Princess of the Atom by Ray Cummings      Avon Fantasy Novels No. 1   1950  1st PB edition   $30  SOLD to mstrange

Golden Age Avon science fiction with beautiful GGA cover art. First of a two issue special numbering scheme that Avon then folded back into their regular number line.

Higher grade copy. Square, solid spine, tight pages, great color and gloss. Has some bindery chipping to top of the back cover, almost no handling wear.  Pretty!

 

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[mstrange]

On 4/27/2024 at 12:18 PM, Surfing Alien said:

 The Princess of the Atom by Ray Cummings      Avon Fantasy Novels No. 1   1950  1st PB edition   $30

Golden Age Avon science fiction with beautiful GGA cover art. First of a two issue special numbering scheme that Avon then folded back into their regular number line.

Higher grade copy. Square, solid spine, tight pages, great color and gloss. Has some bindery chipping to top of the back cover, almost no handling wear.  Pretty!

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[Surfing Alien]

Into Plutonian Depths by Stanton A. Coblentz   Avon Books No. 281  1st Edition  1950     $40  SOLD to Goldust40 @30% off

Classic Robert Crowl GGA cover art. The third and final Avon with the "Fantasy Novels" logo

Fine Plus.  Solid, tight and glossy with brilliant color. Spine has a few stresses, non color breaking creases on the front, a few on back, tiny color loss.

 

 

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[ThePreacher]

On 4/27/2024 at 11:10 AM, Surfing Alien said:

1984 by George Orwell   Signet NO. 798    1st PB edition, 2nd Print  October 1950    $45

Nice looking bargain copy of the classic Alan Harmon "Big Brother" cover art.   Early printing color scheme with the red banner at the top.

Has a nice appearance. Square and tight with higher grade structure, no big creases, just edgewear, mostly to the spine. Colors are bright but darkening at the edges as are the pages so I'm discounting this one.

 

 

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[Surfing Alien]

Stag Stripper by Gene Harvey     Novels, Inc. No. 9  No Date, probably 1949       $25  SOLD to OuterBoroGuy

Early Good Girl Digest with a nice stripper cover. These digests don't get any easier to find these days. I'm going to put a few up this sale.

Square and tight with great color. Some light creasing and wear. Clean spine. Very collectible copy.

 

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[Surfing Alien]

Strange Mistress by James Clayford    Astro Books No. 18    No date, probably 1949   $30

Gorgeous GGA cover, this is likely by Claude Rodewald

Square and tight with great color. Light creasing and wear. The main image looks great.

[Darwination]

Dammit, distracted this morning with a bit of research and a Flickr post and missed the one I wanted (Run Tough, Run Hard), GOLDIIIIIIIEEEEEE  You know what you are????  

(reference to Tuco's curse of Blondieeeee as he's getting hanged atop a cross in a graveyard in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly).

 

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[Surfing Alien]

 Off Beat Detective Stories     January 1960     Bullet through the ear cover     $40

Cult classic series with insane cover by Carl Pfeuffer. Super hard boiled stories by the usual 1950's crowd..

VG/VG Plus  Solid, tight and bright. Has a bit of slant, creasing, soiling, a host of little things, mostly on the back, but she still looks damn good

[Darwination]

On 4/27/2024 at 12:34 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Six-Gun Western Magazine   December 1950   Rare digest sized    $35

One of Robert Maguire's earliest GGA covers on this last issue of a long running pulp title.

VG. Has creasing, closed tears, wear.  Still a presentable copy of a very tough early Maguire cover before he did paperbacks.

 

 

This is awesome, looks like there were only two digest sized issues.  I'm assuming that's why Fictionmags is noting it as paperback, but it's not really that small. Or is it?

Any Maguire linework inside?

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[Surfing Alien]

On 4/27/2024 at 4:33 PM, Darwination said:

This is awesome, looks like there were only two digest sized issues.  I'm assuming that's why Fictionmags is noting it as paperback, but it's not really that small. Or is it?

Any Maguire linework inside?

It actually just fits into a paperback sized bag. It's a skinny 100 pages as well. Great little mag, historical as well with the early Maguire.

Don't know who did the linework inside, it's unsigned. There's a vignette at the head of each story, one or two look like a different artist maybe.

 

[Surfing Alien]

The Damned Lovely by Jack Webb  Signet No. 1233    First Printing   July 1956  $30  SOLD to Goldust40

A nice copy of this classic Maguire femme fatale cover

Fine Plus. Slight slant, faint reader crease, light wear.  Great color.

 

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[goldust40]

On 4/27/2024 at 9:46 PM, Surfing Alien said:

The Damned Lovely by Jack Webb  Signet No. 1233    First Printing   July 1956  $30

A nice copy of this classic Maguire femme fatale cover

Fine Plus. Slight slant, faint reader crease, light wear.  Great color.

 

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