Randall Dowling

Ace F-343. Cummings, Ray. The Exile of Time. VF+8.5. Exceptional copy with great colors and gloss and just a hint of some edge wear. Cool cover by Alex Schomburg. $20 Sold to goldust40

Croydon 15. Williams, Wright. Fool For Love. GD 3.0. Worn but complete and solid copy. Tough book to find in any condition. Cover art by L.B. Cole. $40 Sold to Robotman

Dell 11. Irish, William. Marihuana. FN/VF 7.0. A very glossy and clean copy with fresh colors. Just a bit of spine wear on an otherwise very nice looking bok. One of the most recognized covers in all paperbacks. This copy looks much better than the scans show. $240 Sold to goldust40

Signet 1335. Switzer, Robert. The Living Idol. VG/FN 5.0. Nice solid copy with a bit of creasing as shown and a slight spine lean. Otherwise colorful and bright. Classic cover illustration by Robert Maguire. $10 Sold to OtherEric

Avon 43. Merritt, A. Burn Witch Burn. VG 4.0. Solid copy with bright colors but usual creases for the grade and slight spine slant. Early printing of this classic title. $10 Sold to OtherEric

United States Army. Pocket Guide to China. 1942. FN 6.0. General wear for the grade but all solid and attached. There's also a 1943 and 1944 reprint out there (which is marked 1943 or 1944 on the last page, this copy says 1942). Interior illustrations throughout by Milt Caniff that are incredibly racist and inappropriate by today's standards. Stuff like “How to spot a Jap”, etc. $60 Sold to TheComicsPreacher

Fantastic August 1955, Vol. 4 No. 4. VG/FN 5.0. Nice clean copy with wear associated with the grade. No major issues, just some minor creasing. Cool cover. $20 Sold to OtherEric

Avon Modern Short Story Monthly 50. O'hara, John. All the Girls He Wanted. VG/FN 5.0. Nice solid copy with bright colors and gloss. Minor wear associated with the given grade. This book is really weird. I can't find any comps or other copies for sale or recently sold. It's a digest from 1949 so I assume it predates the paperback version. It's also one of the last issues in the Modern Short Story Monthly series. $70

It's yours, Eric.

Falcon 42. Walton, Bryce. The Long Night. VG- 3.5. Great colors and gloss, it's all there but some creasing, a minor spine roll and a 1” spine split at the base are the major issues. Still, this is an incredibly tough book in any condition. Classic cover by Howell Dodd. $55

Backwoods Bride. Free to the first person to purchase a digest (cover is loose). Claimed to OtherEric

Falcon 35. Wade, David. Raise the Devil!. FR/G 1.5. It's beat but complete, as they say, pretty much everything to see in the scans. Ridiculously scarce title with a classic cover by Howell Dodd. $50

Exotic Novel. Gordon, Luther. Pay For My Kiss. FN+ 5.5. A stunning copy of this very tough digest. Would grade higher but for a minor amount of rust on staples (very common for these digests). Classic cover art by Fred Rodewald. $75

Off Beat Detective Stories. September 1960. FN 6.0. Pretty copy with just a little bit of edge and corner wear. Otherwise a very bright and clean copy. $75 Sold to Jack Linguini @ 20% off

Just a quick note about digests. Many of these titles are scarce in any condition. They're incredibly hard to find current pricing on because certain books almost never come up for sale. Even really low grade copies are fairly sought after, depending on the title. But mainly, Phantoms, Falcons, Rainbows, Exotics, Ecstasys, and such are pretty tough. I've been collecting them for several years now and there are still many titles that I've never seen for sale.

Hey! Congratulations, Dave!

Okay, looks like 8:00 CST is when I'll start listing again (30 minutes from now).

Yes, I have a handful of pulps and a few digests (non sci-fi) that I'll be listing with the next tranche. I'm getting listings together now and will list more books tonight. Not sure when yet but I'll post a heads up here 30 minutes or so before. Thanks for the interest!

Woah!!

The fear of offending others is strong for many. And they've grown up in an environment of shopping malls where the price is the price (actually not always, most people are shocked at how much you can negotiate and who is willing, but you understand my meaning). So the idea of negotiating something like a declared premium from an auction house doesn't even enter their thought process. Personally, I think the world would be a better and more honest place if more people tried to negotiate, as appropriate, with respect and no emotion.

I think you're correct about traditional pulp collectors. But isn't part of the point of grading to bring in new collectors? My guess is that many of them will turn their nose up at any restoration. Experienced collectors of a given art form will know and understand the reality of work to restore pieces but the new money always seems to be more skittish about such things (understandably).

100% this.

All the booksellers I talk to say that business is way up and the biggest problem can be finding material to sell. From what they tell me, there are a lot of younger people collecting some of these books due to the salacious and, by current standards, completely inappropriate cover art and language. You don't have to search very hard online to find tons of t-shirts, coffee mugs, and poster reproductions of classic paperback covers. I'm obviously biased because I love paperback books. But it feels like the next logical stage for a collector of comics to evolve to books and magazines. It makes me happy to share these cool books I've found with others that appreciate the same stuff. In a lot of ways, that's one of the reasons I enjoyed comics for so long- the camaraderie with other collectors. And I've been blessed to have a number of knowledgeable collectors share the wisdom with me. So, I try to pass on what I've found and pay it forward. I watch a lot of auctions on eBay and the number of bidders is definitely going up all the time. I've sold a lot of comics to fund magazines and books. And I'll probably sell a lot more. As always, my recommendation is to buy what you enjoy. I love looking at my shelves and seeing all the different titles, pulling them down and looking at the covers by master illustrators- truly amazing talents that make comic art seem a little raw by comparison. It's a lot more fun than buying slabs. The thrill of discovery and exploration is real.

You got some Bill Ward and Gene Bilbrew mixed in there as well. I think one of them may be Stanton. Paging @Surfing Alien

Well, I should have looked before I posted. I'm getting old and got my copy of Orgy of the Dead mixed up with my copy of Queen of Blood. It's Queen of Blood that's signed by Bonfils, Neutzel, Ackerman, and I think that's Ed Wood Jr., but I could be wrong. Here's photos.