CLOSED - Thanks to all! - Classic and GGA vintage Paperbacks and more! Maybe a few hardbacks and a mag or pulp... hmmm??? 4 4

[goldust40]

On 9/2/2024 at 6:41 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett    Pocket Books 241  1st Printing  October 1943    $35

I believe the first Pocket Books Hammett pb.   Noir thriller with an Art Deco cover by Hoffman. 

Scarce WWII era book in the 1st printing in nice condition. 

One of the best I've seen. Solid spine, tight binding, pages tight and supple. The thick covers are super smooth and only have a light finger bend in the lower right corner. Light page toning, only a trace of edgewear.

 

 

 

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[Surfing Alien]

Conan The Conqueror by Robert E. Howard. Lancer Books 73-572   1st Printing of the 1st Lancer paperback edition.  1967    $35

Incredible Frazetta cover is creepy as hell.   "A Lancer Book 1967" on copyright page.

Glossy, square and tight. Appears unread, has a few light pressure lines on cover, tiny edgewear to back cover and light toning.

[Surfing Alien]

Conan The Usurper by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague De Camp  Lancer Books 73-599  1st Printing of the 1st paperback collection of these stories.   1967   $20

Frazetta Conan vs. Giant Serpent cover.

Structurally very nice, no creases, some edgewear, mostly back bottom.  A fair amount of toning to the inner covers and pages, moreso than the others, still a super square and pretty looking copy.

 

[Surfing Alien]

Web Terror Stories  Vol. 5 No. 1  February 1965    $60

Torture wheel cover. Rare shudder-pulp derived digest series.

Square and tight. Has a small scrape on the cover, spine tear at the back, otherwise in the Fine range with very light creases and edgewear.

 

[Surfing Alien]

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler   Avon No Number #38      1943    $25

Bargain filler copy of the Skull and Poppies cover by pulp great Paul Stahr. One of the most famous Avon covers in the hobby

I believe this is the 2nd printing (HRN to No. 58)

Creases, wear, some marker fill in and a half out page - but that cover

 

[Surfing Alien]

Earthbound by Logan Swanson (Pen name of Richard Matheson)   Playboy 21144 1st Ed. 1st Pr. 1982  $20

Gothic novel by Matheson under pseudonym

Square and tight with light wear.  A nice collectible copy.

 

[Surfing Alien]

Love Me Now by Fan Nichols    Monarch Books  348  2nd numbering of this PBO   1963   $30  SOLD to Goldust40

Rafael De Soto GGA cover art on this minty fresh copy.

Super white and bright copy, hairline reader creasing that doesn't break color is about all to speak of.

 

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[Surfing Alien]

Mrs. Candy and Saturday Night by Robert Tallant  Popular Library 358  1st PB 1951   $15

Nice Earle K. Bergey GGA cover art on this Popular

Slightly misbound but very tight. Light reader crease, surface rubbing, mostly to the back cover.

[goldust40]

On 9/2/2024 at 8:01 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Love Me Now by Fan Nichols    Monarch Books  348  2nd numbering of this PBO   1963   $30

Rafael De Soto GGA cover art on this minty fresh copy.

Super white and bright copy, hairline reader creasing that doesn't break color is about all to speak of.

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[Surfing Alien]

The Divine Passion by Vardis Fisher   Pyramid R419   1959  $35  SOLD to Goldust40

Bob Maguire topless ritual cover. 

Square tight and bright with minimal creasing. Has some edgewear and light staining to the bottom page edge but looks great overall.

Bone white pages.

 

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[Surfing Alien]

Ace D-40 Waltz Into Darkness by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich) and Scylla by Malden Grange Bishop  1954   $20 SOLD to Goldust40

One of Woolrich's wildest fantasies of noir fate. Evocative cover art by Victor Olson on "Waltz" and Lou Marchetti on "Scylla".

Square and tight with good color. Has some light creasing and wear.

 

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[goldust40]

On 9/2/2024 at 8:31 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Ace D-40 Waltz Into Darkness by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich) and Scylla by Malden Grange Bishop  1954   $20

One of Woolrich's wildest fantasies of noir fate. Evocative cover art by Victor Olson on "Waltz" and Lou Marchetti on "Scylla".

Square and tight with good color. Has some light creasing and wear.

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[goldust40]

On 9/2/2024 at 8:18 PM, Surfing Alien said:

The Divine Passion by Vardis Fisher   Pyramid R419   1959  $35

Bob Maguire topless ritual cover. 

Square tight and bright with minimal creasing. Has some edgewear and light staining to the bottom page edge but looks great overall.

Bone white pages.

 

 

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[Surfing Alien]

Stranger In Her Bed by Jay Albert   Beacon B593F   PBO   1963    $25

Nice GGA of a ho with a cigarette. So 60's

Nice copy, square and glossy with minimal small creases and light edgewear.

[Surfing Alien]

A Stretch on the River by Richard Bissell Signet 876      FREE to the first taker  TOOK by Darwination

Nice Harry Schaare cover art

 

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[Darwination]

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[Darwination]

On 9/2/2024 at 2:48 PM, Surfing Alien said:

A Stretch on the River by Richard Bissell Signet 876      FREE to the first taker

Nice Harry Schaare cover art

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[Surfing Alien]

Murder Is An Art by Michael Innes (aka John Innes MacKintosh Stewart)  1st PB 1959   $20

Another pretty late 50's Avon T series kind of abstract GGA cover

It looks like a signature is in the red coloring by her foot but I can't make it out and don't see it called out anywhere on the web

Square and tight little volume with a hairline crease and a small rubber stamp to top page edge. Very nice.

 

[Surfing Alien]

Bargain lot of 2 decent late Avons    $10  SOLD to Goldust40

George Ziel art on 7 Dolls

 

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[goldust40]

On 9/2/2024 at 9:21 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Bargain lot of 2 decent late Avons    $10

George Ziel art on 7 Dolls

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