Collectibles For Sale
DESIRABLE ITEMS FOR DISCRIMINATING COLLECTORS OF ADVENTURE, MYSTERY AND MELODRAMA. ALL PRICES INCLUDE THE COST OF SHIPPING (USPS) AND HANDLING. VINTAGE ITEMS ARE SOLD AS IS; ALL SALES ARE FINAL! NEW LISTINGS WILL BE ADDED FREQUENTLY, SO COME BACK OFTEN!
AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER, complete set
Launched in 1951 to take advantage of the success of the Avon Fantasy Reader series of digest-sized anthologies, Avon Science Fiction Reader lasted only three issues. The fault certainly did not lay with editor Donald A. Wollheim, who picked fine stories to reprint from SF pulps (and, occasionally, from Weird Tales as well). It was […]
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YESTERDAY’S FACES, Robert Sampson pulp reference books, complete set, As New
All six volumes of this towering achievement by pulp historian Robert Sampson: a wide-ranging survey of series characters from the non-hero pulps. Hardcovers in cloth with dust jackets. First editions. Originally published by Bowling Green University’s Popular Press between 1983 and 1993, these books profiled dozens of series characters from magazines as diverse as Adventure, […]
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ACE-HIGH WESTERN, February 1937
Early issue from the Popular Publications incarnation of this long-running title, started in 1923 by Clayton and briefly published by Dell in the mid ’30s before being sold to Popular in 1936. With yarns by all of Popular’s best Western authors at that time. Cover by the great Tom Lovell. Condition: Very Good Plus to […]
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ADVENTURE, December 30, 1923
Peak-period issue of the “Dean of the Pulps,” edited by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman. Cover by Colcord Heurlin. An excellent all-around number of this endlessly fascinating title during its Golden Age. Condition: Fine. No specific defects, just general signs of handling. Text block is off-white with just a hint of yellowing. SORRY, BUT THIS ITEM IS […]
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BLACK MASK, November 1944
Top-flight wartime issue of this legendary crime pulp. There are only four stories in this issue, all of them long novelettes featuring popular series characters: Brett Halliday’s Michael Shayne, Robert Reeves’ Cellini Smith, Merle Constiner’s Luther McGavock, and Julius Long’s Ben Corbett. Cover by Rafael de Soto. Condition: Near Fine to Fine. Some light handling […]
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THE CLASSIC PHILIP JOSE FARMER, 1952—1964, 1st in DJ
New York: Crown, 1984. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket. First edition (stated). This small reprint volume is packed with Farmer’s best early short stories. Introduction by Isaac Asimov. Condition: Fine in Fine jacket. Just about As New. SORRY, BUT THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE TO DOMESTIC U.S. BUYERS ONLY. COST OF MAILING INCLUDED IN PURCHASE PRICE.
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DETECTIVE TALES, October 1937
In the Popular Publications string, among the many crime pulps, Detective Tales was second only to Dime Detective in longevity and popularity. This issue contains the first installment of a short-lived but excellent Norbert Davis series about Judge Benjamin Martin. Spider chronicler Norvell W. Page is also on hand, and old-school pulpster Ray Cummings contributes […]
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ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, April 1950, “Third Man”
A key issue of this long-running, multi-award-winning crime digest edited by the “Queen” cousins, Fred Dannay and Manny Lee (more by the former than the latter). Its main attraction is the original novella-length version of Graham Greene’s “The Third Man,” which served as the blueprint for the famous movie’s shooting script. It also has Anthony […]
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ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAG, two-issue lot
The July 1951 and January 1952 issues of this long-running crime digest edited by “Queen” themselves (but mostly Fred Dannay) and including both classic and newly written mystery yarns of exceptional caliber, by such authors as Georges Simenon, Cornell Woolrich, Q. Patrick, Lord Dunsany, MacKinlay Kantor, and Ellery themselves. Condition: Very Fine to Newsstand Fresh, […]
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