The auction is closed!
The closing date was Saturday May 13, 2000.

Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror Books and more!

986 ADVENTURE COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Assignment Lili Lamaris" Edward Aarons (Gold Medal);"Assignment The Girl in the Gondola" Edward Aarons (Gold Medal 1st); "The Hot Sun of Africa" Alan Caillou (Signet 1st); "No Way to Treat a Lady" Harry Longbaugh (Gold Medal 1st); "The Name is Chambers" Henry Kane (Pyramid); "Carla" Joseph Marshall (Gold Medal 1st); "The Destroyer: Mafia Fix" Richard Sapir, Warren Murphy (Pinnacle 1st); Knockover (Fawcett Gold Medal 1st). All 8 GD to FN $ 24 - 36

1024 AXELROD, GEORGE - "BEGGAR'S CHOICE" (Bantam #403, 1st prt, Sep 48) VG paperback. Classic GGA cover! $ 25 - 50

406 BARKER, CLIVE  "BOOKS OF BLOOD" (Oct 85 Scream Press 1st prt) Hbk, FVF DJ in protective wrap, VF bk/pgs. Short story collection includes "The Book of Blood", "The Midnight Meat Train", "The Yattering and the Jack", "New Murders in the Rue Morgue", 8 more plus an intro by Ramsey Campbell. $ 40 - 60

1027 BLOCH, ROBERT - "ATOMS AND EVIL" (Gold Medal s1231, 1st prt, Aug 62) Sharp FN, paperback. 13 great tales! $ 15 - 30

1012 BLOCH, ROBERT - "MORE NIGHTMARES" (Belmont #L92-530, 1st, Feb 62) Sharp FN-, paperback. More stories by the author of "Psycho"! $ 20 - 40

1011 BLOCH, ROBERT - "NIGHTMARES" (Belmont #233, 1st, 1961) Sharp FN-, paperback. "Horror... as ruddy cheeked as a fresh-gorged vampire". Stories by the author of "Psycho"! $ 20 - 40

1020 BOWER, B.M. - "THE FLYING U STRIKES" (Popular Lib #157, 1st, 1948) VGF, paperback. A Chip Bennett western with a neat painted cover! $ 20 - 40

1009 BRADBURY, RAY - "A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY" (Bantam A2069, 1st, Apr 60) FN, paperback. 22 great Ray Bradbury short stories! $ 15 - 30

1006 BRADBURY, RAY - "THE ILLUSTRATED MAN" (Bantam #1282, 3rd prt new edition, Oct 54) Sharp FN+, paperback. $ 10 - 20

981 BROWN, CARTER - MYSTERY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: All Signet. The Blonde (1st); The Blonde (new 3rd ed); Blonde on a Broomstick (1st); Blonde on the Rocks (1st); The Body; The Bump and Grind Murders (1st); Catch Me a Phoenix (1st); The Corpse; A Corpse for Christmas (1st); The Dame (1st); The Ever-Loving Blues; The Girl From Outer Space (1st) two copies; The Girl Who Was Possessed (1st). All 1950s-1960s, Fourteen books, all GD to FN, VG ave. $ 42 - 63

982 BROWN, CARTER - MYSTERY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: All Signet. The Lady is Transparent (1st); Lover, Don't Come Back! (1st); Murder is a Package Deal (1st); The Myopic Mermaid (1st); The Never-Was Girl (1st); No Blonde Is an Island (1st); Nymph to the Slaughter (1st); The Scarlet Flush (1st); The Silken Nightmare (1st); Tomorrow is Murder (1st); True, Son of the Beast! (1st); Until Temptation Do Us Part (1st); The Victim; The Wanton (1st). 1950s-60s. 14 books, all GD to FN $ 42 - 63

984 CALDWELL, ERSKINE - COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: Claudelle Inglish (MacFadden 1st); Gretta (Signet); The Last Night of Summer (Signet 1st); Trouble in July (Signet); When You Think of Me (MacFadden 1st). Five books, GD to FN+, nice VG ave. $ 15 - 30

1014 CARPENTER, MARGARET - "EXPERIMENT PERILOUS" (Pocket Book #278, 1st prt, Dec 44) Sharp VGF. Paperback, excellent thrilling, grisly tale of psychological suspense! Great cover art! $ 30 - 60

1308 CARTER, JIMMY AND AMY "The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer" (Times Books 1995 1st edition) NM Hbk in VF DJ. Charming children's book by the ex-president with art by is daughter Amy! $ 10 - 20

987 COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "A Journey With Love" Denys Val Baker (Crest 1st); "The View From Pompey's Head" Hamilton Basso (Cardinal 1st); "Again This Rapture" Barbara Cartland (Pyramid 1st); Jugger Sterling Quinlan (Permabook 1st); "Where the Sin Is" A. L. Roget (Domino 1st); "The Catcher in the Rye" J. D. Salinger (Signet); "The Serpent and the Staff" Frank Yerby (Cardinal). Seven books from 1950s to 1970s, all GD to FN, nice VG ave. $ 21 - 35

742 COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK ASSORTMENT: "A House is not a Home" Polly Adler (Popular); "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" Edward Slbee (Pocket) Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton photo cover!; "I Leap Over the Wall" Monica Baldwin (Signet); "Someone Like You" Roald Dahl (Dell 1st); "Tales to be Told in the Dark" edited by Basil Davenport (Ballantine 1st); "Breakaway" Wally Depew (Perma Books 1st); "Slim " William Haines (Bantam 1st). All 7 GD to FN, nice VG ave. $ 35 - 55

743 COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK ASSORTMENT: "Profiles in Courage" John F. Kennedy (Cardinal); "South by Java Head" Alistair MacLean (Perma Book 1st); "The Farmers Hotel" John O'Hara (Bantam); "Down and Out in Paris and London" George Orwell (Avon 1st); "War on the Cimarron" Luke Short (Bantam) PR; Rally Round the Flag, Boys! Max Shulman (Bantam); "Dracula" Bram Stoker (Perma Books 1st); "Add a Dash of Pity" Peter Ustinov (Signet 1st); & two more. Ten, except noted, GD-FN, VG ave $ 40 - 60

1017 DEWEY, THOMAS B. - "THE GIRL WITH THE SWEET PLUMP KNEES" (Dell #2917, 1st prt, Apr 63) VF-, paperback. A Peter Schofield sizzler! Great cover art $ 15 - 30

1025 DICK, PHILIP K. - "THE VARIABLE MAN AND OTHER STORIES" (Ace Double Size #D-261, 1st prt, 1957) FN, paperback. Classic science fiction tales from a master! $ 20 - 40

1019 DIETRICH, ROBERT - "MISTRESS TO MURDER" (Dell #B162, 1st prt, Jul 60), Sharp VF paperback. A Steve Bentley thriller... "He was mixing in high society with a girl who was downright deadly" Great cover art! $ 15 - 30

1277 DOUBLE DIAMOND BRAND by Archie Joscelyn (1940 Phoenix Press 1st) VG hbk in FaGD DJ, tape on DJ. Cowboy adventure $ 15 - 20

1008 ELLISON, HARLAN - "ELLISON WONDERLAND" (Paperback Lib 52-149, 1st prt, Jun 62) Nice VGF. "Grimly humorous adventures into the somewhere world of science-fantasy, reported by Harlan Ellison, who has there"!! $ 15 - 30

719 FLEMING, IAN - TWO COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Diamonds are Forever" Signet 1st; "Goldfinger" Signet. Both nice VG/btr. $ 20 - 25

717 GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY - PERRY MASON MYSTERIES: All Pocket Book pbk editions. The Case of the Perjured Parrot; ...Negligent Nymph; ...Dangerous Dowager. Plus, writing under A.A. Fair, "Some Slips Don't Show" (1st) and "Try Anything Once" (1st). All from GD to FN-. $ 20 - 30

985 HALLIDAY, BRETT - MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: All Dell. Blood on Biscayne Bay (1st); The Body Came Back (1st); Caught Dead (1st); Date with a Dead Man (1st); Michael Shayne's 50th Case (1st); Murder and the Married Virgin (1st) two copies; Murder by Proxy (1st); Murder in Haste (1st); Tickets for Death (1st); Too Friendly, Too Dead (1st); Mink is for a Minx (1st). 12 books, from the 1950s-70s, all GD to FVF, nice VGF ave. $ 48 - 72

720 HALLIDAY, BRETT - SIX MIKE SHAYNE COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Long Chance" Dell 1st; "What Really Happened" New Dell edition 1st; "Die Like a Dog" Dell 1st; "Too Friendly, Too Dead" Dell 1st; The Uncomplaining Corpses New Dell edition 1st; "A Taste for Violence" New Dell edition 1st. All GD to FN+, nice VG ave. $ 30 - 60

1013 HEINLEIN, ROBERT A. - "ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY" (Signet #1161, 1st prt, Nov 54) Sharp VGF, paper- back. Four stories by a master! $ 30 - 60

989 HISTORICAL ADVENTURE COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "The Devil's Cross" Walter O'Meara (Permabook 1st); Lord Vanity Samuel Shellabarger (Bantam 1st); "The Mapmaker" Frank G. Slaughter (Permabook); The Warrior Frank G. Slaughter (Popular Lib 1st); "The Deadly Lady of Madagascar" C. V. Terry (Permabook 1st); "Yankee Stranger" Elswyth Thane (Cardinal 1st); "The Golden Wildcat" Margaret Widdemer (Popular 1st): "Sir Rogue" Leslie White (Cardinal 1st). All 8 FA - VG+, GVG ave $ 24 - 40

988 HISTORICAL ADVENTURE COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "The Earth is the Lord's" Taylor Caldwell (Bantam Fifty 1st); "The Questing Sword" Jefferwon Cooper (Permabook 1st); "The Cotton Road" Frank Feuille (Permabooks 1st); "Sign of the Pagan" Roger Fuller (Cardinal 1st); "Peace Across the River" Leslie Gladson (Belmont 1st); "Bugles in the Afternoon" Ernest Haycox (Bantam); "Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men" Harold Lamb (Bantam). Seven books, all GD- to FN, VG- ave $ 21 - 35

737 HISTORICAL ADVENTURE COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "The Prince of Poisoners" Arthur Adlon (Chariot 1st); The Golden Princess Alexander Baron (Bantam 1st); "Diamond Head" Houston Branch (Dell 1st); Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte (Pocket May 41); "Captain Adam" Donald Chidsey (Avon 1st); Captain Whitecap John Clagett (Popular 1st); "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens (Dell); Drinkers of Darkness Gerald Hanley (Royal Pyramid 1st). All 8 GD to FN, VG ave $ 40 - 60

738 HISTORICAL ADVENTURE COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "The Prisoner of Zenda" Anthony Hope (Pyramid 1st); Gentleman Rogue Christopher Humble (PermaBooks 1st); "Trumpet to Arms" Bruce Lancaster(Popular); Suzanne: Savage Vixen Jonreed Lauritzen (Avon 1st); "The Last Princess" Charles Locke "Popular 1st); "Emma: My Lord Admiral's Mistress" F.W. Kenyon (Avon 1st); "The Gladiators" Arthur Koestler (Graphic). All 7 GD to FN, VG ave. $ 35 - 48

739 HISTORICAL ADVENTURE COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Captain Judas" F. Van Wyck Mason (Pocket); Lysander F. Van Wyck Mason (Pocket 1st); "Tory Mistress" Kevin Matthews (Popular 1st); "Cintra's Challenge" Jane McIlvaine (Pyramid Willow 1st); "Christopher Columbus, Mariner" Samuel Eliot Morison (Mentor); "Making of a Mistress" Susan Morley (Signet 1st); "The Fair and the Bold" Donn O'Hara (Graphic 1st); "Tyrant of Bagdad" Glenn Pierce (Bantam 1st). All GD to FN, VG ave $ 40 - 60

740 HISTORICAL ADVENTURE COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Jean Christophe" Romain Rolland (Dell 1st); Lincoln's Commando Roske & Van Doren (Pyramid 1st); "Katherine" Anya Seton (Cardinal 1st); "Guns to the Far East" V.A. Stuart (Pinnacle 1st); "Darien Venture" C.V. Terry (Perma Books 1st); "The Scarlet Guidon" Ray Toepfer (Popular 1st); "Carolina Corsair" Don Tracy (Pocket Cardinal 1st); The Adventurer Mike Waltari (Pocket Cardinal PR. All 8 GD to FN, VG ave unless noted. $ 35 - 50

741 HISTORICAL ADVENTURE COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "The Winged Sword" Leslie Turner White (Pocket Cardinal 1st); "Bright Feather" Robert Wilder (Bantam new ed 1st); "The Savage Soldiers" Wisberg and Waters (Avon 1st); "The Swiss Family Robinson" Johann David Wyss (Scholastic). All four GD to FN, VG ave. $ 20 - 30

724 HITCHCOCK, ALFRED - FOUR COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: These are books introduced or selected by him. A Crime for Mothers and Others Henry Slesar (Avon 1st); "A Bouquet of Clean Crimes and Neat Murders" Henry Slesar (Avon 1st); "More of My Favorites in Suspense" (Dell 1st); "This Weeks Stories of Mystery and Suspense" (Berkley Medallion 1st). All VG to VF. $ 20 - 40

990 HORROR COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "Honeymoon in Hell" Fredric Brown (Bantam 1st); "Nights Black Agents" Fritz Lieber Jr (Ballantine 1st); "The Enchanter" Robert Newman (Paperback Lib 1st); The Macabre Reader ed by Donald A. Wolheim (Ace 1st). All VG- to FN+, VGF ave $ 20 - 32

728 HORROR MYSTERY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Mostly by Moonlight" Dorothy Daniels (Lancer 1st); "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" Shirley Jackson (Popular 1st); "Flower of Evil" Delphine Lyons (Pyramid 1st); "The Magician" W. Somerset Maugham (Cardinal 1st); "Complete Poetry and Selected Criticism" Edgar Allan Poe (Signet 1st); "Mill Reef Hall" Ariadne Pritchett (Gold Medal 1st); The Evil Children Willo Davis Roberts (Lancer 1st). All 7 FA to FN, VG- ave. $ 21 - 35

722 MacDONALD, JOHN D - SEVEN COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "The Empty Trap" (Popular 1st); "A Man of Affairs" (Gold Medal 1st); "One Fearful Yellow Eye" (Gold Medal 1st); "The Brass Cupcake" (Gold Medal); "The Last One Left" (Crest 1st); "The End of the Night" (Crest 1st); "The Executioners" (Gold Medal). All GD to FN+, nice VG ave. $ 21 - 42

1026 MacDONALD, JOHN D. - "THE NEON JUNGLE" (Fawcett Gold Medal #d1699, 1st prt, 1953) Nice FN paperback. "The smell of stale bedrooms and warm gin hovered over that whole section of town. The women, even the young girls, walked a certain way, looked at men a certain way." The classic novel of the rough city! $ 15 - 30

983 MacDONALD, JOHN D. - MYSTERY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: Clemmie (Gold Medal 1st); Cry Hard Cry Fast (Popular Giant 1st); Deadly Welcome (Dell 1st); Death Trap (Fawcett Gold Medal 1st); The Deceivers (Fawcett Gold Medal 1st); Murder for the Bride (Gold Medal); Soft Touch (Dell 1st); Soft Touch (Dell new edition 1st). Eight books, all GD to FN, VG ave $ 24 - 36

1018 MARGUILES, LEO and OSCAR FRIEND (editors) - "MY BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORY" (Pocket #1007, 1st prt, May 54) Nice VGF, paperback. Includes stories by Asimov, Binder, Bloch, Edmond Hamilton, Kuttner, Leinster, Jack Williamson, more! $ 15 - 30

1022 MARSHALL, EDISON - "AMERICAN CAPTAIN" (Cardinal C-194, 1st prt, Sep 55) nice VGF paperback. "The blazing adventures of an American sailor from Maine to the slave pens of Tripoli, from the sheepskin bed of a Tuareg princess to the gaming rooms of London $ 15 - 30"

1010 MATHESON, RICHARD - "THIRD FROM THE SUN" (Bantam #1294, 1st prt, Jan 55) Nice FN, paperback. Great collection of stories. $ 10 - 20

1262 MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS ALL THE WORDS, THE COMPLETE VOL I & II by Cleese et al (1989 Pantheon 2nd, 6th) Pbk, 320 pgs+ each, 6"x9", both FVF/btr. Here's the collected words of "wisdom" from the Circus! $ 25 - 30

993 MYSTERY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "Case of the Nervous Nude" Jonathan Craig (Gold Medal 1st); Case of the Petticoat Murder Jonathan Craig (Gold Medal 1st); "Death of a Pusher" Richard Deming (Pocket Cardinal 1st); "Only on Tuesdays" Thomas Dewey (Dell 1st); "Invitation to Murder" Leslie Ford (Popular Lib 1st); "Bier for a Chaser" Richard Foster(Gold Medal 1st); "Perry Mason: The Case of the Careless Kitten" Erle Stanley Gardner (Cardinal 1st). All 7 VG to FN+, VGF ave. $ 35 - 60

996 MYSTERY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "Case of the Vanishing Beauty" Richard Prather (Gold Medal); The Box Peter Rabe (Gold Medal 1st); "The Out is Death" Peter Rabe (Gold Medal 1st); "People in Glass Houses" Jason Ridgway (Permabook 1st); "Say it with Murder" Edward Ronns (Berkley Diamond 1st); "The Bad Blonde" Jack Webb (Signet); "Tales for a Rainy night" edited by David Alexander (Crest, two copies, one 1st). From the 1950s and early 60s! All 8 FaGD to FN, VG- ave. $ 40 - 60

995 MYSTERY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "Killers are my Meat" Stephen Marlowe(Gold Medal 1st); "Trouble is my Name" Stephen Marlowe (Gold Medal); "Gideon's Fire" J. J. Marric (Berkley Medallion 1st); Death of a Fool Ngaio Marsh(Berkley Medallion 1st); "Death of a Nurse" Ed McBain(Permabook 1st); The April Robin Murders Ed McBain (Dell 1st); "The Last Night" John McPartland (Gold Medal 1st); Virgin Luck Laurence Meynell (Avon 1st). All 8 GD to FN, VG ave. 1950s-early 60s. $ 40 - 60

992 MYSTERY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "The Art Studio Murders" Edward Aarons (MacFadden 1st); "Mean- while Back at the Morgue" Mike Avallone(Gold Medal 1st); "The Crazy Mixed-Up Corpse" Mike Avallone (Gold Medal 1st); "The Murderers" Fredric Brown (Bantam 1st); "Pick-up on Noon Street" Raymond Chandler (Pocket); "The Simple Art of Murder" Raymond Chandler (Pocket); "Lost Lady" Octavus Roy Cohen (Gold Medal 1st). From the 1950s-early 60s. 7 books, all VG to FN+, nice VGF ave $ 35 - 60

994 MYSTERY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "The Menacers" Donald Hamilton (Fawcett Gold Medal 1st); Snatch an Eye Henry Kane (Permabook 1st); "Sleep with the Devil" Day Keene (Berkley 1st); "Dead in Bed" Day Keene (Pyramid 1st); "Kiss me Quick" Karl Kramer (Monarch 1st); "Marked for Murder" John Ross MacDonald (Pocket); "The Underground Man" Ross MacDonald (Bantam 1st); "The Death Ride" Neil MacNeil (Gold Medal 1st). All 8 GD to FN-, VG- ave. From the 1950s to early 70s. $ 32 - 48

681 MYSTERY PAPERBACKS - FIVE EARLY COLLECTIBLE EDITIONS: "The Creeps" Anthony Abbot (Dell #88 1st); See You at the Morgue Lawrence G. Blochman (Dell #7 1st); "The Unicorn Murders" Carter Dickson (Dell #16 1st); "The Whistling Hangman" Baynard Kendrick (Dell #113 1st); "The Album" Mary Roberts Rinehart (Pocket 1st). All FA to GD. The Dells are mapbacks! $ 40 - 80

732 MYSTERY, CRIME COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Say it with Murder" Edwards Aarons (MacFadden 1st); Epitaph for a Spy Eric Ambler (Bantam 1st); "Bedroom Bolero" Michael Avallone (Belmont 1st); Mostly Murder Fredric Brown (Pennant 1st); "13 for Luck" Agatha Christie (Dell 1st); "The Merchant of Murder" Spencer Dean (Pocket 1st); "The Nine Wrong Answers" John Dickson Carr (Bantam 1st); "The Long Night" Ovid Demaris (Avon 1st). All 8 GD to FN+, VG ave $ 48 - 72

733 MYSTERY, CRIME COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "End of a Stripper" Robert Dietrich (Dell 1st); "The Fool Killer" Helen Eustis (Popular 1st); "Call Me Duke" Harry Grey (Graphic); "The Devil's Agent" Hans Habe (Avon 1st); "77 Sunset Strip" Roy Huggins (Dell); "The Affairs of Paula" Hank Janson (Gold Star 1st); "Hearse Class Male" Frank Kane (Dell 1st); "Murder of the Park Ave Playgirl" Henry Kane (Avon 1st); "Death on the Double" Henry Kane (Signet 1st). All GD-VF, VG ave $ 50 - 75

734 MYSTERY, CRIME COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Death of a Flack" Henry Kane (Signet 1st); "Martinis and Murder" Henry Kane (Avon 1st); "The Big Kiss-Off" Day Keene (Berkley 1st); "Wake up to Murder" Day Keene (Berkley 1st); "Some Like it Cool" Robert Kyle (Dell 1st); "The Way Some People Die" Ross MacDonald (Pocket); "Homicide is my Game" Stephen Marlowe (Gold Medal 1st); "Gideon's Fire" J.J. Marric (Signet 1st); "The Spiked Heel" Richard Marsten (Crest). All 9 FA to VF, VG ave. $ 45 - 70

735 MYSTERY, CRIME COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Suddenly a Corpse" Hal Masur (Dell 1st);"Margin of Terror" William McGivern (Pocket) PR, pgs missing; "Shot in the Dark" Judith Merril (Bantam 1st); "Guilty Bystander" Wade Miller (Signet); "Abra-Cadaver" Christopher Monig (Dell 1st); "Dead Man's Walk" Shell Scott (Pocket 1st); "Everybody had a Gun" Richard Prather (Gold Medal); "The Sweet Ride" Richard Prather(Pocket 1st);"The Name is Malone"Craig Rice(Pyramid 1st).All GD-FN, VG ave $45 - 65

736 MYSTERY, CRIME COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "The Mourner" Richard Stark (Permabook 1st); "The Babe with the Twistable Arm" Hampton Stone (Popular 1st); "My Brother, Cain" Val Thiessen (Monarch 1st); Flight into Terror Lionel White (Tower 1st); "Fair Game" Jerry Weil (Dell 1st); "Desire in the Dust" Henry Whittington (Gold Medal). All 6 VG to FN+. $ 30 - 45

1007 ORWELL, GEORGE - "1984" (Signet #798, 1st prt, Jul 50), Solid glossy GD+, spine broken so pages lose, looks better! Paperback. Classic novel, 1st paperback edition! Great cover art. $ 20 - 40

1309 OUR GANG, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE LITTLE RASCALS by Leonard Maltin and Richard Bann (1977 Crown Publishers 1st ed) Ex-library copy Hbk is nice FN with VG DJ. $ 20 - 30

991 PARANORMAL AND MISC COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "Flying Saucers - Serious Business" Frank Edwards (Bantam 1st); "Winning Converts" Rev John A. O'Brien (Notre Dame 1957); "Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations" Robert Silverberg (Bantam); "Sunken History" Robert Silverberg (Bantam 1st); Popular's Crossword Treasury #1 Carol Klapper (Popular Lib 1st). All five from FA to FN, GD+ ave. $ 15 - 25

729 PASSION, LOVE, DRAMA COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Love for Lydia" H.E. Bates (Popular 1st); "The Image and the Search" Walter Baxter (Popular 1st); "The Four Winds" David Beaty (Popular 1st); "Satan was a Man" Edward Bierstadt (Popular 1st); "The Delicate Prey" Paul Bowles (Signet); "A Love Affair" Dino Buzzati (Dell 1st); "Certain Women" Erskine Caldwell (Signet 1st); "A Lamp for Nightfall" Erskine Caldwell (MacFadden 1st). All 8 GD to FN, VG ave $ 40 - 60

730 PASSION, LOVE, DRAMA COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Traded Wives" Alex Carter (Signal 1st); "Live Down the Dhame" Bruce Cassiday (Pyramid 1st); "The Kiss and the Duel" Anton Chekov (Avon 1st); "The Savage State" Georges Conchon (Dell 1st); "Stay Away Joe" Dan Cushman (Popular 1st); "The Silver Stallion" Iris Danbury (Harlequin 1st); "Night Story" Babs Deal (Paperback Lib); "Naked Lens" Paul Gregory (Softcover Lib). All 8 GD to FN, VG ave. $ 40 - 60

731 PASSION, LOVE, DRAMA COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Bus Riley's Back in Town" Al Hine (Popular 1st) Ann-Margret photo cover!; "Look Not Upon Me" Denys jones (Signet 1st); "Honey from a Dark Hive" Benice Kavinoky (Popular 1st); "The Jungle of Love" Robin Maugham (Avon 1st); "The Painted Veil" W. Somerset Maugham (Cardinal 1st); "The Sex Kitten Grows Up" Anthony Naylor (Softcover Lib 1st); Woman from the Country D'Arcy Niland (Popular 1st). All 7 GD to FN, VG ave. $ 35 - 55

718 QUEEN, ELLERY - FOUR COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "To Read Before Midnight" Popular Library 1st; "The Woman in the Case" Bantam 1st; "The Scarlet Letters" Pocket Books; "The Queen's Awards" 5th series edited by Ellery Queen, Ace 1st. All nice VG $ 16 - 24

522 SABATINI, RAFAEL - "THE SEA HAWK" (Aug 61, Popular Library, 1st prt) This VG paperback edition contains the original text of this classic pirate adventure tale. $ 5 - 8

725 SCIENCE FICTION FIVE COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Beyond Infinity" Robert Spencer Carr (Dell 1st); Methuselah's Children Robert A. Heinlein (Signet); "The Puppet Masters" Robert A. Heinlein (Signet 1st); "Pilgrimage to Earth" Robert Sheckley (Bantam 1st); "The Hobbit" J.R.R. Tolkien (Ballantine). All VG to VF. $ 20 - 40

1002 SCIENCE-FICTION ANTHOLOGY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Adventures in Tine and Space" (Pennant 1st); Adventures on Other Planets (Ace 1st); "The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 13th Series" (Ace 1st); "Beyond Human Ken" (Pennant 1st); "Big Book of Science Fiction" (Berkley 1st); "The 4th Galaxy Reader" (Permabook 1st); "Frontiers in Space" (Bantam 1st); "Off the Beaten Orbit" (Pyramid 1st). Mostly 1950s, all 8 GD to FN+, nice VG+ ave. Tons of classic authors! $ 40 - 80

1003 SCIENCE-FICTION ANTHOLOGY COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Rare Science Fiction" (Belmont 1st); "6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction" (Dell 1st); "Star Science Fiction Stories" (Ballantine 1st); Strange Ports of Call (Berkley 1st); "A Treasury of Science Fiction" (Berkley 1st); "Way Out Science Fiction" (Belmont 1st); "The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy 4th Annual" (Del 1st). All 7 VG to FVF, nice VGF ave. Tons of classic authors! $ 40 - 80

1005 SCIENCE-FICTION COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Shards of Space" Robert Sheckley (Bantam 1st); "Island of Fear" William Sambrot (Permabook 1st); "All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories" Clifford D. Simak (MacFadden 1st); "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" December 1965. All VG- to FN+, nice VG+ ave. $ 20 - 35

1004 SCIENCE-FICTION COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "The Machineries of Joy" Ray Bradbury (Bantam 1st); "The October Country" Ray Bradbury (Ballantine); "The Puppet Masters" Robert Heinlein (Signet); "The Marching Morons" C.M. Kornbluth (Ballantine 1st); "Ahead of Time" Henry Kuttner (Ballantine 1st); Tiger by the Tail Alan Nourse (MacFadden 1st); "Deep Space" Eric Frank Russell (Bantam 1st). All 7 Vg to FN+, nice VGF ave. From the 1950s and 1960s! $ 35 - 70

723 SPILLANE, MICKEY - THREE COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Day of the Guns" (Signet 1st); "Bloody Sunrise" (Signet 1st); "The Snake" (Signet 1st). All nice VG $ 15 - 30

726 STEINBECK, JOHN - TWO COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Cannery Row" (Bantam 1st); "The Pastures of Heaven" (Bantam). Both nice VG/btr. $ 20 - 30

721 WAR FICTION COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "Look Down in Mercy" Walter Baxter (Popular Lib 1st); "The Bridge Over the River Kwai" Pierre Boulle (Bantam); "The Strange Land" Ned Calmer (Signet); "The Stainless Steel Kimono" Elliott Chaze (MacFadden1st); "Wheels of Terror" Sven Hassel (Gold Medal 1st); "House of Dolls" Ka-Tzetnik (Lion); "Guns of Navarone" Alistair MacLean (Perma Book); "Counterfeit Courier" James Sheers (Dell 1st); "Five Soldiers" Paul Vialar(Pyramid Royal 1st) $ 27 - 54

1016 WELLS, ORSON (editor) - "INVASION FROM MARS" (Dell #305, 1st, 1949) FN-, nice! A Dell mapback paperback! Includes stories by Heinlein, Bradbury, Boucher, Leinster, Asimov, Sturgeon, Bradbury, more! $ 40 - 80

1000 WESTERN COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "Catlow" Louis L'Amour (Bantam); "A Drifting Man" Giles Lutz (Manor 1st); "Gold Under Skull Peak" Frank O'Rourke (Signet); "High Vengeance" Frank O'Rourke (Signet); "A Hanging in Sweetwater" Stephen Overholser (Pinnacle 1st); "Amos Flagg Rides Out" Clay Randall (Belmont Tower 1st); "Mavericks" Jack Schaefer (Dell 1st); "The Border Terror" Bradford Scott (Pyramid 1st). All 8 VG to VF, FN+ ave. From the 1960s-70s. $ 24 - 40

999 WESTERN COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "Edge: Sioux Uprising" George Gilman (Pinnacle 1st); "Broken Lance" Frank Gruber (Signet 1st); "Man in the Saddle" Ernest Haycox (Signet 1st); "The Gringo Bandit" William Hopson (Manor 1st); "Cowboy" Clair Huffaker (Pocket 1st); "Gambler's Gun" John Hunter(Ballantine 1st); "This Violent Land" William Jacobs(Monarch 1st); "Gunsmoke Mesa" Dan James (Pyramid 1st); "The Vengeance Seeker #3" Will Knott (Ace 1st). All 9 VG - VF, FN- ave. $ 27 - 45

997 WESTERN COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "Nevada" Burt Arthur (Avon); "Ride for Hell" A.A. Baker (Major 1st); "Night of the Flaming Guns" P.A. Bechko (Manor 1st); "Fargo: The Black Bulls" John Benteen (Belmont Tower 1st); "Single Jack" Max Brand (Pocket 1st); "Sam Chance" Benjamin Capps (Ace 1st); The Big Gun James Cavanaugh (Pyramid); "Edge of the Desert" Giff Chesire(Berkley Medallion 1st); The Last Gun Marion Christie (Belmont Tower 1st). 1950s-70s. All 9 GD- to VF, VGF ave. $ 27 - 45

1001 WESTERN COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "The Feud at Single Shot" Luke Short (Bantam new ed 1st); "The Some-Day Country" Luke Short (Bantam 1st); "Lassiter: The Man from Papago Wells" Jack Slade (Belmont Tower 1st); "The Loner" James Woodruff Smith(Pyramid); "A Trap for Sam Dodge" and "Valley of Savage Men" Harry Whittington (Ace Double 1st); "Big Country, Big Men" Brian Wynne (Ace). All six GD to FN, nice VG ave. $ 18 - 30

998 WESTERN COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK LOT: "Winter Range" Al Cody (Manor 1st); "Smoke of the Gun" John S. Daniels (Signet); "Arizona Skyline" Allan Vaughn Elston (Berkley Medallion); "The Hi Lo Country" Max Evans (Dell 1st); "First Command" Wade Everett (Ballantine); "Return of the Tall Man" Clay Fisher (Pocket 1st); "Black Gunsmoke" Lee Floren (Paperback Lib 1st); "Gun Luck" Lee Floren (Manor 1st); "The Mustang Trail" L.L. Foreman (Ace 1st). All 9 GVG to VF, nice VGF ave. $ 27 - 45

727 WESTERN COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACKS: "A Time in the Sun" Jane Barry (Bantam); "Brand of the Lawless" Jackson Cole (Popular 1st); "Clayburn" Al Conroy (Dell 1st); "Last Train to Bannock" Al Conroy (Dell 1st); "Gunflame" John Daniels (Bantam 1st); "Skyline Riders" Francis Hilton (Dell 1st); Long Ride to Abilene William Hopson (MacFadden 1st); "Last Stand at Papago Wells" Louis L'Amour (Gold Medal 1st); "On the Dodge" William Raine (Popular 1st). All FA to VG+, GD ave. $ 36 - 54

980 WILD CARDS SERIES edited by George R. R. Martin: Hardback books series numbers II, III, IV and V. Book club editions with nice FN- or better DJ, books are VF/btr. Four books. $ 20 - 30

1015 WOLLHEIM, DONALD A. (Editor) - "THE POCKET BOOK OF SCIENCE-FICTION" (Pocket Book #214, 1st prt, Mar 43), Nice VG+ paperback. This early paperback includes stories by Ambrose Bierce, H.G. Wells, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert A. Heinlein, more! $ 50 - 100

If you would like a copy of our illustrated auction catalog please send
$2.00 to Quasar Comics and Collectibles, P.O. Box 2227, Louisville, KY,
USA 40201-2227. (We really appreciate the $2.00 for your first catalog as it
helps to defray some of our catalog production costs. Participants in our
auctions will continue to receive future catalogs for free.) We will also post our
auctions on the web, check the latest auction status periodically checking this
page.  If you would like free notification of upcoming auctions, send us your
e-mail address (and mailing address for a postcard reminder) to:
notification@quasarcomics.com

Thank you for your patience.  I think you will find the wait to be worth it!

Excelsior!

Bruce W. Edwards
Owner
Quasar Comics and Collectibles

This page was last updated on May 15, 2000.

Unless otherwise noted, all text, characters, logos and graphics are copyright ©1996-2000 or trade marks of
Quasar Comics and Collectibles and can not be used, except for review purposes, without the written
permission of Quasar Comics and Collectibles.