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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!
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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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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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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THE TREASURE OF ATLANTIS, J. Allan Dunn, Centaur HC
New York: Centaur Press, 1971. Hardcover in cloth, with dust jacket. First edition thus. One of the great pulp adventure stories, originally published in the December 1916 issue of Street & Smith’s All-Around Magazine. One of Centaur’s “Time-Lost” series of reprints from the pulps, most of which were printed in paperback. This hardcover is fairly scarce […]
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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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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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