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Post by dem bones on Sept 16, 2019 5:41:50 GMT
Forthcoming Paperback & Pulp Fair at the Royal National has been rescheduled due to hotel refurbishment. New date: Royal National Hotel
38-51 Bedford Way
Russell Square
London WC1H 0DG
Sunday 24 November 2019
9-30 - 3pm. Admission £1.50 (also covers entry to the ephemera & postcard fair). Dealers tables £55 each.
For more information, please email organiser Neil Pettigrew:
harry.npATvirgin.net (substitute AT with @)
Please spread the word.Thanks to Justin Fanatic for raising the alert! |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 20, 2019 19:14:51 GMT
*NEW* Vault Urgent reminder! *NEW* Vault Urgent reminder! It's on Sunday. End of *NEW* Vault Urgent reminder! End of *NEW* Vault Urgent reminder! |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 25, 2019 18:07:42 GMT
Many thanks to Justin, Anna, Richard, Sev, H.P. Saucecraft, Nigel, Stephen Jones, Maurice, Neil, David and all the dealers for the very great pleasure of their company at yesterday's pulp fair. Once again they pretty much had to kick we stragglers out otherwise we'd likely still be there. Not a whole heap of horror & supernatural on offer - plenty of crime, SF, and sleaze back with a vengeance - but picked up some brilliant/ rancid novelisations including the M. Avallone masterpiece, Partridge Family #2: The Haunted Hall and S. M. Guariento recommendation Monte Carlo or Bust. Am extremely grateful to Crom for The Pack, Anna for her recent Shadowcats micro collection, Justin for PF 42, and Dave for Skarrs. Lovely day out. Pub next door to Royal National is class, too. |
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Post by helrunar on Nov 25, 2019 20:35:52 GMT
Oooh, I like that Dutch Fu Manchu paperback. It turns out to be a 1964 edition/translation of The Hand of Fu-Manchu. Very handsome and sinister! Details here about Dutch Sax Rohmer editions (likely not to be complete). philsp.com/SaxRohmer/Dutch.htmSounds like an excellent time! cheers, H. |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Nov 25, 2019 21:54:47 GMT
Can only echo dem's sentiments, a great day and great company; was good to have a post fair chat and pint with dem & Anna this time. Many Thanks to Anna for the books and the pint - I owe you one  .
Yesterday's haul:
Albion! Albion! - Dick Morland (NEL) £2
Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbinders in Suspense (Lions) £1
Donald F. Glut - The New Adventures of Frankenstein No. 2: Terror of Frankenstein (MEWS/NEL) £1
George G. Gilman - Two of A Kind: Edge Meets Adam Steele (NEL) £3
James A. Muir - Breed No.7: Time of The Wolf (Sphere) £2
Sandy Fawkes - Killing Time (Hamlyn) £2
Robert C. Dennis - The Sweat of Fear (Arrow) £1
Dan J. Marlowe - Operation Fireball (Coronet) £1
Even found the perfect present for the birthday of an off vault friend (he doesn't come on here, so won't find out): Louis L'Amour - Hondo (Gold Medal Books)(Appears to be first edition) £2
& Thanks again to Anna:
James Herbert - Ash (Hardback) (Macmillian)
Anna Taborska - Shadowcats (Black Shuck Books)
Anna Taborska - For Those Who Dream Monsters (Mortbury Press)Killing Time by Sandy Fawkes definitely looks like vault material, will try and get a thread up on it fairly soon.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 26, 2019 10:38:15 GMT
Oooh, I like that Dutch Fu Manchu paperback. It turns out to be a 1964 edition/translation of The Hand of Fu-Manchu. Very handsome and sinister! Details here about Dutch Sax Rohmer editions (likely not to be complete). philsp.com/SaxRohmer/Dutch.htmSounds like an excellent time! cheers, H. Ah yes. A very charming young lady was selling a massive selection of sleaze plus miscellaneous, the bulk at £3 a go or 4 for £10. I'd nabbed 25 Great Ghost Stories, Partridge Family #2: The Haunted Hall, and The End of the World, so went with the Dutch Rohmer to make up the numbers. Stephen Jones was v. impressed. He was even more impressed with The Haunted Hall, but that kind of goes without saying. Anyway, I remembered to request an emal address for seller: Mark Wilkinson - Pulp Fiction sjsmw1 ATbtinternet.com |
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Post by andydecker on Nov 26, 2019 14:13:10 GMT
Donald F. Glut - The New Adventures of Frankenstein No. 2: Terror of Frankenstein (MEWS/NEL) £1
George G. Gilman - Two of A Kind: Edge Meets Adam Steele (NEL) £3
James A. Muir - Breed No.7: Time of The Wolf (Sphere) £2
Dan J. Marlowe - Operation Fireball (Coronet) £1
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Killing Time by Sandy Fawkes definitely looks like vault material, will try and get a thread up on it fairly soon.All nice books. I have read Gilman's Two of a Kind quite a few times. If you get past the first two chapters which I still think out of character for the boys, especially Steele, after all those years, this novel is a lot of fun.The plot is a bit basic, but the interaction of both heroes is entertaining. Breed 7 is a bit by the numbers, like a lot of Wells' solo output, but it is better than the later numbers. I love the Marlowe novels. Even if the rigid spy formula watered Drake down and the last ones are not very memorable, they are a lot of fun. |
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Post by andydecker on Nov 26, 2019 14:18:37 GMT
Ah yes. A very charming young lady was selling a massive selection of sleaze plus miscellaneous, the bulk at £3 a go or 4 for £10. I'd nabbed 25 Great Ghost Stories, Partridge Family #2: The Haunted Hall, and The End of the World, so went with the Dutch Rohmer to make up the numbers. Stephen Jones was v. impressed. He was even more impressed with The Haunted Hall, but that kind of goes without saying. Anyway, I remembered to request an emal address for seller: Mark Wilkinson - Pulp Fiction sjsmw1 ATbtinternet.com Sounds like you had a good time. That young people selling pulp is encouraging. |
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Post by severance on Dec 1, 2019 22:18:40 GMT
Typical - the one time I'm the first person that has to leave early, the stragglers all end up in the pub afterwards! And it looks like I missed Anna altogether - still, it was a pleasure to catch up with Dem, Crom, HP, Justin and Nigel - for the brief period I was there. A bit light on the purchases, only 5 books this time, but also got a copy of the 2nd issue of 'Worlds of Strangeness' from Nigel.
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