Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values? 25 25

[Pat Calhoun]

[Surfing Alien]

[Surfing Alien]

For some reason... I think of this as the "Hello Pal" of vintage paperbacks

[pmpknface]

12 hours ago, Surfing Alien said:

For some reason... I think of this as the "Hello Pal" of vintage paperbacks

Most odd book of any kind I've seen in quite some time.  You win!  

[Surfing Alien]

Soooooo... back to the cover art... Berkley was a pretty mainstream publisher.

[Pat Calhoun]

[frozentundraguy]

13 hours ago, Pat Calhoun said:

 

Some nice art on that cover!   It appears the postman would have only had to ring once to gain the ladies attention.

[Pat Calhoun]

'Clocking in' at 96 pages - this (1957) is my shortest USA PB.

 

 

Edited December 22, 2017 by Pat Calhoun

[frozentundraguy]

7 hours ago, Pat Calhoun said:

'Clocking in' at 96 pages - this (1957) is my shortest USA PB.

 

 

It might be the shortest, but what a great classic sci-fi story!

[frozentundraguy]

Had to go back and catch up on some of the recent activity in this thread. PopKulture - amazing array of JD and sleaze!

Ive been busy reading quite a few of the PB's I acquired, but noticed I  have not posted this book yet. If you enjoy the sword and sorcery genre I recommend this book for the lead story by Robert Howard. It's only 24 pages long but is the classic origin story for Conan the Barbarian. The story was originally published in 1934 in Weird Tales Magazine.

 

Edited December 23, 2017 by frozentundraguy

[Surfing Alien]

I've been looking for 30 years and haven't found a sharper copy. A couple tiny issues but it's a fat book... It doesn't get much better than this if you love fantasy

[moonpool]

A super tight copy.

[Surfing Alien]

Time to rev this Bad Girl up for the New Year...

 

 

[Surfing Alien]

Decent copy of a classic Signet...

[vaillant]

A pair of more recent (1960s) italian editions of famous science fiction novels, in our mainstream leading title, "Urania", from my collection.
Digest sized, cover illustrations from "our" most awesome Karel Thole.

Algis Budry's "Man of Earth" (second italian edition, 1962):

Van Vogt's "The voyage of the Space Beagle" (second italian edition, 1963):

(click on the pictures to enlarge)

[vaillant]

First italian edition of Philip K. 's "Solar Lottery" (1958).
Cover illustration by Carlo Iacono.

[PopKulture]

56 minutes ago, vaillant said:

A pair of more recent (1960s) italian editions of famous science fiction novels, in our mainstream leading title, "Urania", from my collection.
Digest sized, cover illustrations from "our" most awesome Karel Thole.

Algis Budry's "Man of Earth" (second italian edition, 1962):

Van Vogt's "The voyage of the Space Beagle" (second italian edition, 1963):

(click on the pictures to enlarge)

Wow, these are quite the departure from the pulpish looking covers on the American editions that persisted even into the early 60's. Even the more avant garde Powers covers don't look this modern.

[Pat Calhoun]

Cool stuff - here from Heritage catalog is the Val version

[vaillant]

5 minutes ago, PopKulture said:

Wow, these are quite the departure from the pulpish looking covers on the American editions that persisted even into the early 60's. Even the more avant garde Powers covers don't look this modern.

Thole (which was a native of Amsterdam, italian by adoption) was quite the "quintessence of modernity" as a concept.
I have collected some of the second and third editions of the same novel just to see which "take" he would give to the following one, and each time he manages to surprise!

As an example, first edition of Heinlein's "Universe" in Urania:

Reprint, in a following title from the same publisher of Urania:


As you see, in the first instance he choose to highlight the weirdness of the two-headed mutant (Joe-Jim was called, or something like that) and in the second instance he chose to represent the "generational spaceship", highlighting it as the true protagonist of the novel (as, in some way, it is). These are poor quality pictures, but covers like the one for the Budrys novel that I posted and this one for "Universe" are among my favorites.

[vaillant]

3 minutes ago, Pat Calhoun said:

Cool stuff - here from Heritage catalog is the Val version

So Jacono basically redid the english UK one?
Which is the original US cover? (both hardback – if present – and paperback)? – I love some of the late 's "mystical" novels covers.