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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!
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, December 1940
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 other […]
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WOMAN OF ROME, Alberto Moravia, 1st PB edition, Avati cover
Signet Giant #S-844, 1951. First edition thus. Highly regarded mainstream novel about a gorgeous Italian woman who is forced to sell her body but retains her dignity. Cover sports an early painting by the great realist James Avati, whose PB covers not only made him one of the most in-demand artists in the business but […]
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AMAZING STORIES, September 1940
Typical Ray Palmer-edited issue with an author lineup of his most worthy regulars. Cover by Robert Fuqua. Condition: Fine to Fine Plus. Extremely clean and glossy copy with a few tiny nicks to cover edges. Text block is lightly yellowed but extremely supple. A top-notch example of Amazing in the immediately pre-WWII period. SORRY, BUT […]
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AMAZING STORIES, May 1943
Jumbo-sized (244 pages) wartime issue, distinguished by one of Nelson Bond’s whimsical Lancelot Biggs stories. Nifty Good Girl cover by pin-up artist H. W. McCauley. Condition: Fine. Minor edge wear to covers. Text block is lightly yellowed but quite supple. SORRY, BUT THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE TO DOMESTIC U. S. BUYERS ONLY. COST OF MAILING […]
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EDGE OF DOOM, Leo Brady, 1st PB edition, movie tie-in
New York: Popular Library #260, 1949. Mass-market 1st edition in wraps. Cover by the great pulp artist Rudolph Belarski. Mentally unbalanced young man kills a priest. Cover text mentions movie of same title with Farley Granger and Dana Andrews. Condition: Very Good Plus to Near Fine. Minor rubbing to front cover’s bottom edge (see scan), […]
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FREE GRASS, Ernest Haycox, 1st PB edition
New York: Popular Library #143, 148. Mass-market 1st edition in wraps. The first novel by this renowned author of Western fiction, written in 1929 and serialized in the pulp magazine West prior to hardcover publication. Condition: Very Good. Clearly read but collectable copy. Some fading to green edge stain, small diagonal crease on front cover’s […]
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HIRA SINGH, Talbot Mundy, 1st edition
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1918. Cloth, no jacket. First edition. One of Mundy’s earliest novels of India, originally published in the pulp magazine Adventure; a rousing yarn. Condition: Very Good Plus to Near Fine. Previous owner’s signature in ink on both front pastedown and front free endpaper. Diagonal crease on rear free endpaper. Overall a nice […]
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HOODLUM, Charley Robertson, 1st PB edition
New York: Popular Library #347, 1951. Mass-market 1st edition in wraps. Plot concerns bootleggers in the Kentucky hills; hardcover edition titled Shadow of a Cloud. Condition: A solid Very Good Plus. Off-white paper, vivid edge color, minor speckling on front cover. A tight, clean copy. SORRY, BUT THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE TO DOMESTIC U.S. BUYERS […]
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