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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!
ADVENTURE, October 18, 1918
From early in this legendary magazine’s peak period, a great example of Adventure headlined by “The Mighty Manslayer,” one of Harold Lamb’s early yarns featuring Khlit the Cossack. Other Adventure top-notchers in this issue include Gordon Young, Jackson Gregory, Charles Beadle, Hugh Pendexter, and the Pinkertons. Cover by Will Crawford. Note: 1918 issues of Adventure—of […]
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ADVENTURE, June 1934
The second issue of this venerable pulp published by Popular Publications, but the first to bear the unique Popular look, down to a cover by the great Walter Baumhofer. A truly memorable number whose outstanding tales include a short Hashknife Hartley novel by W. C. Tuttle and the memorable “Judge Lynch,” a much-anthologized yarn about […]
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BATTLE BIRDS, March 1934
Later issue of this Popular Publications air-war pulp, which would shortly change its title to Dusty Ayres and His Battle Birds. Highlighted by one of Robert J. Hogan’s vivid novelettes about cowboy aviator Smoke Wade, who would soon move to Dare-devil Aces magazine. Cover by Frederick Blakeslee. Condition: Slightly faded spine nicked at heel, otherwise […]
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BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE, Fall 1944, Black Bat
Average wartime issue starring the Black Bat. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Condition: Very Good Plus. No major or specific defect, just some general handling wear including a few edge nicks and short closed tears. Spine is complete and brightly colored. Back cover has light discoloration on top edge, otherwise pretty clean. Text block is clean […]
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CHALLENGE TO THE READER, Ellery Queen anthology
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1940. Hardcover in cloth, no jacket. 1st edition thus. The first reprint of the first crime-fiction anthology edited by Ellery Queen (cousins Manny Lee and Fred Dannay), originally published in 1938 by Stokes. Includes 25 classic detective stories featuring great sleuths whose real names are changed—and revealed only at story’s […]
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DIME DETECTIVE, December 1935
Excellent peak-period issue of this outstanding crime pulp, arguably the most influential of its type after Black Mask. A great assortment of fiction that includes Cornell Woolrich’s “Dead on Her Feet” and Fred MacIsaac’s “Murder on the Mississippi,” the latter being one of his “Rambler” yarns and one of several Dime Detective stories made into […]
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LOOK YOUR LAST, John Stephen Strange, 1st in jacket
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Crime Club, 1943. Hardcover (cloth) in dust jacket. 1st edition. Excellent wartime mystery in which newspaper photographer Barney Gantt investigates the murder of a man found in a rooming house near Central Park West. Great Big Apple atmosphere and a well-crafted story featuring the author’s best-known series character. Condition: About Fine […]
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MR. CLUNK’S TEXT, H. C. Bailey, 1st in dust jacket
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Crime Club, 1939. Best known for his cherubic detective Reggie Fortune, English writer Bailey also struck pay dirt with his next best-loved series character: eccentric, candy-munching lawyer Joshua Clunk. This is one of Clunk’s most memorable exploits, involving multiple murders and some very odd clues. A Crime Club Selection, meaning the […]
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STRANGE STORIES, June 1940, Belarski cover
An issue of the relatively short-lived (13 issues) “Thrilling Group” pulp that competed with Weird Tales and some of the horror pulps. While never a great magazine, Strange Stories remains collectable because it featured yarns by such genre heavyweights as Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Seabury Quinn, August Derleth, C. L. Moore, Hugh B. Cave, and […]
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