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Post by dem bones on Dec 23, 2007 21:38:23 GMT
Did anybody catch The Antiques Roadshow from Rochester Cathedral on BBC1 earlier this evening (Sunday 23rd Dec. 2007)? A gentleman had brought along samples of his rare pulp paperbacks including an original Reform School Girls (current price, £2,000) and raunchy stuff with titles like Real Men, Kiss Of Death and Sex Gang. He's collected over 11,000 pulps and is now about to sell the lot to a US dealer for £50, 000. I thought: 'I've met him' and after a minute or so I remembered where. Those of you who've attended the Zardoz pulp fair will recall the charming fellow on the desk who takes your entry money? Was chatting to him last time but, I'm ashamed to say, his name escapes me right now. I'm sure Justin will know ...
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Post by dem bones on Jul 31, 2008 13:27:45 GMT
Thanks to Maurice Flanagan of Zardoz Books for putting me out of my misery! " ... chap you saw was Peter Chapman. Peter organises [the Pulp] Fair so will be there, hope to see you then. All best" Peter - and Maurice - were interviewed by Dan Synge for The Guardian, Sat. April 16th 2005, and, as if we didn't know it already, are very much men after our own heart. I particularly appreciate: Is there an ounce of literary appeal in these lost pulp classics? I ask.
Chapman is unrepentant, like one of his hard-boiled heroes
emerging on to a neon-lit sidewalk: "Back in the old days, these
books were 120 pages and they had a beginning, middle and
end. That was it. Who needs 700 pages of crap you can't even
fit in a coat pocket?"Full article: Extracting a pocket size profit from pulp fiction |
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