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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 3, 2020 20:03:03 GMT
Another haul, mostly from the junk shop. Undoubtedly the classiest pickup, and one for the back of the vault, is this what looks like a 70s soft porn magazine for .50c. For all the Star Wars fans out there: Couple of Chthulhu Tales comics, which I'm yet to read: Lost Squad: These from a bookshop in Newcastke last week for a couple of bucks: I think this is the precursor of his later glossy book on pulps, this one from Ace in 1973: Latest Wyndham reprints from Penguin with these strange covers: Toni Johnson-Woods book on Australian pulp from the junk shop for $3:
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Post by andydecker on Dec 3, 2020 21:38:15 GMT
Great stuff as always. Wookieerotica is hilarious.
I used to buy a lot of comics, but always avoided Boom. Cthulhu Tales was one of those with indie artwork which I never could into it. The one issue I sampled was unreadable. Horror comics are very hit and miss. I recently re-read the classic Clive Barker's Hellraiser reprint and gave upfast. Pretentious and mostly plotless.
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 3, 2020 21:54:59 GMT
I used to buy a lot of comics, but always avoided Boom. Cthulhu Tales was one of those with indie artwork which I never could into it. The one issue I sampled was unreadable. Horror comics are very hit and miss. I recently re-read the classic Clive Barker's Hellraiser reprint and gave upfast. Pretentious and mostly plotless. Yeah, the few stories I've read of the first issue of Cthulhu Tales aren't great. I recently had standing orders for the Hill House set of titles, eg Basketful of Heads, Dollhouse, Low Low Woods etc. They weren't bad, but nothing seems as good as the pre-code horror comics, or the Marvel and DC horror anthology comics of the 60s and 70s (I never much liked those series horror comics like Tomb of Drac or Werewolf By Night). Now that H aunted Horror seems to be no more, there's nothing I'm particularly interested in buying.
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 10, 2020 20:46:29 GMT
The Lifeline Bookfair has finally kicked off again, at a smaller-than-usual venue at the Tuggeranong basketball courts. Not the huge numbers they usually get, but it was nice being able to browse without bumping into people. Not a great deal of vaultish interest as yet: WDL Frankenstein, 1959, for $2: Arrow Drac, 1958, for $2 - I've got this edition but the sticker on the cover was one I hadn't seen before - who ever thought The House for Books would reside in Wagga Wagga? $3 - has some obscure Victorian horrors $3 - haven't seen this one before: $5 - fine anthology for kids:
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 11, 2020 21:00:36 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Dec 11, 2020 23:39:03 GMT
Wonderful finds! When I read another interview with Jacqueline Simpson yesterday, she talked about the encouragement Katharine Briggs gave her when she was starting out with her folklore studies.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 12, 2020 13:40:13 GMT
Assuming it is the same book with a different title, this is the paperback I have of Briggs, which is excellent.
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Post by helrunar on Dec 12, 2020 14:46:37 GMT
Michael, according to one bibliography I just checked, these are indeed the same book, published under two different titles. The cover on yours is charming.
I'm curious about Briggs' book The Anatomy of Puck which is described as research into folklore about faeries in Elizabethan England. My cat thinks I need to purchase Nine Lives: Cats in Folklore, with drawings by John Ward. It was published in 1980, the year of the illustrious author's death.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 12, 2020 14:47:58 GMT
Michael, according to one bibliography I just checked, these are indeed the same book, published under two different titles. The cover on yours is charming. I'm curious about Briggs' book The Anatomy of Puck which is described as research into folklore about faeries in Elizabethan England. My cat thinks I need to purchase Nine Lives: Cats in Folklore, with drawings by John Ward. It was published in 1980, the year of the illustrious author's death. H. Yer cat?
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 12, 2020 19:33:54 GMT
Assuming it is the same book with a different title, this is the paperback I have of Briggs, which is excellent. That's the one I've got too - I didn't realise the title was different until now.
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 12, 2020 19:51:58 GMT
3rd day and a few more things. Peter Saxon 1st edition for $2: Another PS book, this one an anthology of circus horrors for $5: Delta Stud, aka Black Hercules, for a buck: Giant book of Golden Dawn rituals and suchlike for $8. Looks well read so hopefully the previous owner got what they wanted out of it: Last day today.
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 13, 2020 19:50:34 GMT
And some pickings on the 4th and final day, most of which I've got, but they were only .50 cents each as it was half price day. Great to see the bookfair back, and a fine time was had, though not the usual Vaultish gems. Grafton, 1991 Corgi, 1977 Star, 1983 Arrow, 1974 Baen, 1995 Fount, 1985
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Post by helrunar on Dec 13, 2020 19:55:52 GMT
Great finds as always, James! I was curious as to what tales were included in The Rivals of Frankenstein. I found the table of contents listing here along with a small picture of an alternate cover, one I have to say I like rather more than the one on the edition you just scored: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?301245Authors include Lovecraft (the Herbert West yarns), Clark Ashton Smith, Eando Binder, Manley Wade Wellman, and inevitably, Don Glut. Good stuff!!! cheers, Hel
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 21, 2020 21:29:50 GMT
Took a couple of pics of the junk shop - this is a giant warehouse next to the tip where junk is resold, including loads of unwanted books:
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 22, 2020 19:56:41 GMT
Final pre-Christmas find, for a buck at the Vinies shop. The last thing mentioned in it is Vault of Evil: enter picture to search
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