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[Knygathin]

Makes me wonder if there is actually a definite limited number of printed 50s paperbacks. Or if they flow infinitely out of a cornucopia.

[dem]

Thanks for sharing these, James. I find the cover artwork for Act One: Murder! particularly lovely, and it again poses the question why the bulk of today's paperbacks are so uniformly dull in the design department that your other books would mutiny should you bring one home, and they'd be right. To browse the horror fiction that doesn't look like horror fiction section in Foyles is to know despair.

[junkmonkey]

Sept 13, 2013 12:58:55 GMT Johnlprobert said:

Sept 12, 2013 19:23:07 GMT Craig Herbertson said:

I have a kind of love hate thing with Sheckely. His early shorts are definitely top notch and not lacking in horror. Just started this collection 'Untouched by human Hands' and its a great four square cover. (Not as tiny as it seems but my image skills are at a low par.)

I love Sheckley! I'm busy tracking down all his short stories at the moment, and once I've exhausted those I intend to start on the novels. A very amusing author - definitely an influence on Douglas Adams but a fine comedy SF writer in his own right.

There are a few of his short stories and novels on gutenberg.org

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=robert+sheckley

I'm a big fan of his earlier stuff. (I read my 10 year old daughter Dimension of Miracles as a bed-time read last year.) But what I have seen of his later stuff was pure hackwork. I couldn't even get past the first chapter of his Babylon 5 novelization A Call to Arms - and I loved that show.

[jamesdoig]

50c each at a charity fair today:

[jamesdoig]

Found a pile of these in the remainder shop for $14.95. Great introduction by Darryl Jones, who pays his dues to Rosemary and Darroll Pardoe. Nicely produced volume with notes and other ancillaries.

[jamesdoig]

For a buck at the junk shop at the tip:

[Craig Herbertson]

Leigh Brackett Sword of Rhiannon Ace
Leigh Brackett The Coming of the Terrans Ace
The Black Stranger and other Tales R E Howard UON Press
Wolfshead R. E Howard - Lancer Sf

Just reread Wolfshead - cracking stories - Wolfshead itself is a perfect tale - so good it seems utterly believable.

[jamesdoig]

Been watching Twilight Zone episodes and felt the urge to read some Charles Beaumont. These were bought at Gaslight Books in Canberra for the princely sum of $10 each:







And this for $3

[jamesdoig]

Couldn't resist this at the junk shop for a buck:



Who could resist:



Or the lesbian horses book:

[H_P_Saucecraft]

Had a bit of luck on Thursday, found a PS Hardback of Mr. Campbell's 'Just Behind You'(signed copy) for £1.

Shows how long it's been since I looked at this thread, I completely missed James' Hamlyn find (you jammy git ). Never seen a copy of Isobel in the flesh, but you've proved they're out there.

[jamesdoig]

The Lifeline Bookfair has rolled around again and bugger me if someone hadn't donated 41 Arrow Dennis Wheatleys for 2 bucks each, so I bought the lot. Here's a few:

[Craig Herbertson]

One of those great moments in the usual desert of opportunities in the used book chase. |crackling covers.

[jamesdoig]

Mar 29, 2014 7:39:16 GMT Craig Herbertson said:

One of those great moments in the usual desert of opportunities in the used book chase. |crackling covers.

Yes, it hasn't been a bad bookfair - quite a few vintage paperbacks.

Also picked up this thing for a couple of bucks:

[jamesdoig]

Mar 31, 2014 7:57:45 GMT jamesdoig said:

Some more guff from the bookfair:

Signet (1966). They were big shoes Christian Bale had to fill.





Vol 4 #6 Jan 1968



Contents
Robert Hart Davis, The Million Monsters Affair ("Cunningly and well had THRUSH forged its fearsome instrument of death, as Solo and Illya followed their most perilous assignment of all. For mindless, without souls and without pity, happy children were transformed into homicidal monsters - and a proud city lay cowed at their feet.")
Ray Bradbury, The Night
George F. Bellefontaine, The Persuaders
James McKimmey, Long Winter Ahead
Frank B. Long, Bribe Money
Barry N. Malzberg, Disorderly

[Craig Herbertson]

Mar 31, 2014 8:04:06 GMT jamesdoig said:

Mar 31, 2014 7:57:45 GMT jamesdoig said:

Some more guff from the bookfair:

Signet (1966). They were big shoes Christian Bale had to fill.





Vol 4 #6 Jan 1968



Contents
Robert Hart Davis, The Million Monsters Affair ("Cunningly and well had THRUSH forged its fearsome instrument of death, as Solo and Illya followed their most perilous assignment of all. For mindless, without souls and without pity, happy children were transformed into homicidal monsters - and a proud city lay cowed at their feet.")
Ray Bradbury, The Night
George F. Bellefontaine, The Persuaders
James McKimmey, Long Winter Ahead
Frank B. Long, Bribe Money
Barry N. Malzberg, Disorderly

Great finds although they stoke a chord of misery with me. When I was about seven my brother was really into Batman. Being poor he made a Batman costume out of an old bed sheet. He suggested I dress as Robin and then compounded the torture by insisting we parade around the streets solving crime. Even as a seven year old I knew there was something terrible about this - especially as the bed sheets were white, the swimming trunks didn't quite look right and we would dye the sheets later. I protested but my brother said 'don't worry no one will recognise us in these paper masks'. A sad conceit, immediately shattered by a neighbour saying hello to us a few yards up the road. I was proven horribly correct when we were slinking along a high wall (too afraid of heights to walk)and some teenagers playing football saw us.

To this day I can hear the laughter as almost to a man they fell to the ground paralyzed with mirth.