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Vintage and Pulp Paperbacks

Known for their sexy and outlandish cover art, pulp magazines and paperback books have quite the storied reputation and history. Originally named for the type of paper used in printing, pulp fiction has a large cult following that grew exponentially in the 1940's and 1950's. Pulp and other vintage fiction centered largely on sexualized, over the top exploits and crazy plot twists. There were a few highly popular genres featured in pulp literature, including horror, hard broiled detective mysteries, tales of deranged and misogynistic sadists, and even science fiction and fantasy. Pulp magazines featured ongoing, serialized stories, and pulp paperbacks were often serialized as well. Because of the cheap quality of the paper, pulp magazines and books were very inexpensive to purchase, often priced at 10 or 15 cents. With the rise of men's magazines in the 1950's, pulp literature began to wane, but with its zany and often offensive content, pulp certainly had a deep and interesting effect on American culture.

Black Wings Has My Angel

Black Wings Has My Angel

by Chaze

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  • fair
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  • first
Condition
Used - Fair
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Paperback
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Hang Fire Books
Brooklyn, New York
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1953. First Edition. Paperback. Fair/No Dust jacket. Text unmarked . Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. (Gold Medal 296) First Edition, First printing. Extremely hard-to-find paperback original of one of the most praised titles from the Gold Medal line. Stated First Printing. Story copy reads: "Smart guy, that's me, who dreamed the heist for a year--the armored car, the dead guard, the cool green bills...the getaway. Then Virginia, who came for one paid hour--and stayed for all eternity." / Numerous small chips and scratches. 1/2" material loss to foot of spine. Water spot to back cover. Binding repaired with bookbinder's adhesive. Pages lightly edge-tanned but supple. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 8 ounces. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::Mystery; Inventory No: 021556. BZDB373 Vintage Paperbacks::Mystery; Elliot Chaze Black Wings Has My Angel
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Faithfully Yours

Faithfully Yours

by BREWSTER, Eliot

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  • good
Condition
Used - Good
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Gloucester City, New Jersey
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New York: Palace Promotions by Arrangement with Phoenix Press, 1943. Softcover. Good. First edition by this publisher, "condensed slight from the original." Digest size paperback. 128pp. Dampstain in the right-hand margin of the pages throughout, just touching a small percentage of the text, small chips and tears on the wrappers, thus good only in illustrated wrappers, but presentable and attractive with excellent cover art of a rather come-hither maid by L.B. Cole, noted for his Golden Age comic book covers. No. 2 in the publisher's Love Romance Series, *OCLC* locates a single copy of this racy pulp romance (at Bowling Green), although other books published for the Phoenix Press by Brewster are held, no copy of the original of this title is, and perhaps it was re-titled when condensed and issued by this publisher.
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Winged Death in Weird Tales March 1934
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Winged Death in Weird Tales March 1934

by Lovecraft, H. P.; Heald, Hazel

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Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
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Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
Schenectady, New York
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Indianapolis: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1934. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Pages are toned, tiny chip to spine heel, a couple of minor closed tears and creases to front cover. A nice, very good+ copy. Collects stories by Hugh B. Cave, Edmond Hamilton, Clark Ashton Smith, Paul Ernst, and others. Cover art by Margaret Brundage. ; Octavo.
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Winged Death in Weird Tales March 1934
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Winged Death in Weird Tales March 1934

by Lovecraft, H. P.; Heald, Hazel

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Used
Edition
First Edition
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Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
Schenectady, New York
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Indianapolis: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1934. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Pages are toned, small abrasion to fore edge, light wear to edges. A bright, near fine copy. Collects stories by Hugh B. Cave, Edmond Hamilton, Clark Ashton Smith, Paul Ernst, and others. Cover art by Margaret Brundage. ; Quarto.
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Lips of Death (Includes Betrayed by Ghosts; Bobby-Sox Murder; Bomb for a Bride; Crime in Gaol;...
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Lips of Death (Includes Betrayed by Ghosts; Bobby-Sox Murder; Bomb for a Bride; Crime in Gaol; Escape from the Terror; Gang Guns Flame; Lips of Death; Murder is So Simple; Twice Scorned Lover.)

by True Crime Cases

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  • Paperback
Condition
Used
Binding
Paperback
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Toronto: Superior Publishers [circa 1940s]. (Trade paperback) 127pp. Good to very good. Contains 9 true stories. The covers are quite presentable with only very small chips and tears along the edges and a small crack across the spine. Scarce. Includes Betrayed by Ghosts, The Bobby-Sox Murder, Bomb for a Bride, Crime in Gaol, Escape from the Terror, Gang Guns Flame, Lips of Death, Murder is So Simple & The Twice Scorned Lover. (True Crime, True Crime).
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The Juvies
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The Juvies

by Ellison, Harlan

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  • Paperback
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Condition
Used - A fine bright copy
Edition
First
Binding
Paperback
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stephensbookstore
scranton, Pennsylvania
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Ace D-513 (35¢), 1961. First. Softbound. A fine bright copy. a paperback original.
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A Mad Look at Old Movies

A Mad Look at Old Movies: Lights! Camera! Nausea!

by DeBartolo, Dick

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  • Paperback
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition; First Printing stated
Binding
Paperback
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BookRanger
Maysville, Georgia
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Softcover. 192 pp. Signet/New American Library, New York (1966). First Edition. First Printing. "First Printing, November, 1966" stated on CP. D2955 in the Signet series. 50-cent OP on cover. Bright, clean, unmarked copy in Fine condition. Light creases on front card. Collectible quality. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a box, in bubble wrap, with a tracking number.
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Three Ring Mad

Three Ring Mad

by Feldstein, Albert B. (Editor)

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  • Paperback
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Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition; First Printing stated
Binding
Paperback
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BookRanger
Maysville, Georgia
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Softcover. 192 pp. Signet Books/ New American Library. (1964). First Edition. First Printing stated on CP. Bright, clean, and unmarked, with the exception of black marker over price on front card. D2439 in the Signet series. Near Fine. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a bubble wrap media mailer, with a tracking number.
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Junkie / Narcotic Agent
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Junkie / Narcotic Agent

by Lee, William (William S, Burroughs) / Hellbrandt, Maurice

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Condition
Used - Very Good+
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Paperback
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Shop-books.ca
Brossard, Quebec
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Ace, New York, 1953. First edition. Condition: Very good plus; book has slight edge wear and creasing along spine, slight darkening on interior pages. Ace Double Books D-15.Burroughs' classic "confessions of an unredeemed drug addict". His first published book. A very nice copy of this famous example of "write what you know".
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A Guide to English Literature: Volumes 1-6 Pelican

A Guide to English Literature: Volumes 1-6 Pelican: The Age of Chaucer, Shakespeare, From Donne to Marvell, From Dryden to Johnson, From Blake to Byron, From Dickens to Hardy

by Ford, Boris ed.

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  • very good
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Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First
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Paperback
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Brief Street Books
Lambeth, London
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A set of first edition Penguins, 1954-1958 the first six of A Guide to English Literature, including A290, A291, A325, A 379, A402, A413. Overall in very good condition, issues as noted: Vol I, first edition, slight spotting to cover, Vol 2 first edition, very light marks to cover, Vol 3 first edition small intact tear to cover, Vol 4 light marks to cover, light smudge on title page, Vol 5 small pen mark to cover, cover loose from spine at lower section. All show some toning, sunfading and light wear to spine.
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Television News, Jan. - Feb. 1932, Volume 1, Number 6

Television News, Jan. - Feb. 1932, Volume 1, Number 6

by Hugo Gernsback, Editor

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  • near fine
  • Paperback
  • first
Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
First Printing
Binding
Paperback
Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
Bloomington, Indiana
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Mount Morris, Illinois/ New York: Popular Book Corporation, 1932. Near Fine, small corner crease bottom corner rear wrapper, very light rubbing. SCARCE in collectible condition. . First Printing. Magazine. Near Fine. Tall 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.
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You Only Live Twice
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You Only Live Twice: With Rare Movie Tie-In Wrap

by Fleming, Ian

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  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Paperback
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Lavercombes Bookstore
Woolloongabba, Queensland
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The first edition PAN X434 was published in the UK in 1965 with a cover by Raymond Hawkey and "Not for sale in the in the UK", 250,000 copies were printed in July 1965.
The second edition of PAN X434 were printed in 1966 and shipped with a movie tie-in cover replacing the Hawkey scorpion and pearl cover. PAN Books had remaining stock of the first printing of 1965 with the Hawkey cover and applied a wrap of the movie tie-in edition to the remaining 1965 copies.
There is no record as to how many of these variants were shipped by PAN, the majority of the authentic variants discovered over the years have been found in Australia.
This a good unread copy, has tanned pages and foxing. The foxing is on the inside of the cover and first page, first page has a vertical tanning section where the wrap faces, this tanning supports the authenticity of this being the actual book shipped with the wrapper and not swapped out for another copy, there is a remains clipping to the front cover. The back cover has foxing… Read More
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The Red Car
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The Red Car

by Stanford, Don

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  • very good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition thus
Binding
Paperback
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Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Madison, Indiana
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962. Tempo Books Edition, T10. First Printing. Softcover. Sextodecimo. 7 x 4.25 inches. 254 pp. Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market paperback in pictorial wrappers with cover art by Jo Polseno. Edges dyed red. Text block square and tight. Minor rubbing and edgewear to wrappers. Slight browning to pages. School library stamp to top and bottom edges and versos of front and back wrappers, else free of markings. Extremely scarce early softcover issue.
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An Illustrated Catalogue of Trade Publications; Season 1911-1912
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An Illustrated Catalogue of Trade Publications; Season 1911-1912

by [Rand McNally Press]

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Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
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Rare Illustrated Books
Sydney, New South Wales
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Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1911. First Edition. First edition of this surprisingly scarce Rand McNally publisher's catalogue with a focus on illustrated children's books and classic literature. With colour plates by Lucy Fitch Perkins for 'The Enchanted Peacock' by Julia Brown, Grace Chandler Horn for 'Hiawatha' by Henry W. Longfellow, Hope Dunlap for 'The Rose Fairies' by Olivia McCabe, Magniel Wright Enright for 'The Garden of Hearts Delight' by Ida Huntingdon, Katherine Merrill for 'Edda and the Oak' by Elia Peattie, Fanny E. Cory for 'Jackieboy in Rainbowland' by William M. Hill, and Ruth Hallock for 'Other Rhymes for Little Readers' by Wilhelmina Seegmilla. No copies in Worldcat. Octavo, bound in printed paper wrappers, 85 pages [+3], 7 full page colour plates, numerous black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings throughout, a couple of minor closed tears at fore-edges, mild bumping to corners, with original promotional slip laid in, a very good copy indeed.
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Slimer
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Slimer

by Harry Adam Knight

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  • very good
  • Paperback
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9780352313669
ISBN 10
0352313668
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Oddments & Antiquities
Bothell, Washington
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First printing. VG. Edgewear, mild discoloration at top of front cover (look closely at the IMER in title). There is a faint crease across lower right rear cover that did not photograph well. Top left rear corner bumped. Spine is flat. Please inspect photos.
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