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N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in very good dust jacket rubbed at edges, light wear at spine head and foot. A Nameless Detective mystery. thirty-five years ago, Harmon Crane, king of the classic pulp writers, took his own life in his locked study. Nameless is hired by his son to find out why. Unconvinced that his efforts will unearth any new answers, Nameless still can't resist the chance to delve in his favorite world, that of pulp fiction and its creators.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.
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BONES
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COME INTO MY PARLOR: Tales from Detective Fiction Weekly
by Cave, Hugh B.
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Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2003. 1st prtg published simultaneously with the limited edition hardcover edition. A Fine, unread copy. Published in honor of Cave's 92nd birthday. Eleven stories with a new introduction by Cave.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback.
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COME INTO MY PARLOR: Tales from Detective Fiction Weekly **LIMITED EDITION / SIGNED COPY**
by Cave, Hugh B.
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Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2003. 1st ed. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Outof-print. Published in honor of Cave's 92nd birthday. LIMITED EDITION. One of 250 clothbound copies [this being #174]; SIGNED and numbered by the author. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, "Desperate Character" by Cave. Eleven stories with a new introduction by Cave. "Hugh B. Cave was one of the most popular and prolific writers during the Golden Age of the Pulp Magazines between the late 1920's and the early 1940's. His name on the cover of Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, Weird Tales, Short Stories, Clues, Argosy, Horror Story, Black Mask, Adventure, Astounding, and countless other all-fiction magazines guaranteed a story with vivid characters and crackling pace. In his new introduction, Cave writes, "What I had, in many of my tales for Detective Fiction Weekly, were folks like you and you and you, who never wore a…
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COME INTO MY PARLOR: Tales from Detective Fiction Weekly
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Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2003. 1st prtg, trade paperback published simultaneously with the limited edition hardcover edition. A Fine, unread copy. Published in honor of Cave's 92nd birthday. Eleven stories with a new introduction by Cave.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback.
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CRIME'S LAST STAND with DARK STREETS OF DOOM: 2 Original Masked Avenger Pulp Stories
by Johnson, Tom
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Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books, 2001. 1st edition, January 2001, so stated. Gryphon DoubleNovel #23. Cover Illustrations by Alfred Klosterman Digest size, stiff cardboard covers, Two Paperback Original stories featuring the Masked Avenger. 110 pps.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Klosterman, Alfred. Digest. Trade Paperback.
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DARK STREETS OF DOOM with CRIME'S LAST STAND: 2 Original Masked Avenger Pulp Stories
by Johnson, Tom
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Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books, 2001. 1st edition, January 2001, so stated. Gryphon DoubleNovel #23. Cover Illustrations by Alfred Klosterman Digest size, stiff cardboard covers, Two Paperback Original stories featuring the Masked Avenger. 110 pps.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Klosterman, Alfred. Trade Paperback.
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THE DEFECTIVE DETECTIVE IN THE PULPS
by Hoppenstand, Gary & Ray B. Browne
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Bowling Green, OH, U.S.A.: Bowling Green State Univ Popular Press, 1983. 1st prtg. near fine. Trade paperback. 6 pulp stories reprinted with original illustrations which show a study of the defective detective revealing just how widely bizarrely the genre wandered during the depression years in America. Introduction: "I'd Kiss You Sweetheart, But My Lips Are Missing" by Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B. Browne; This anthology contains: Madam Murder and the Corpse Brigade by Paul Ernst; The Brain Murders - Peter Quest Mystery by John Kobler; The Devil Beats Death's Drums by Warren Lucas; Brothers From Hell by Grendon Alzee; The Flowering Corpses by Nat Schachner; The River Styx a facsimile reprint editorial and Dead Man-Killer by Edith and Ejler Jacobson.. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. New/No Jacket. Trade Paperback.
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High Adventure #36
by Hogan, Robert J.
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Silver Spring: MD: Adventure House, 1997. First Adventure House Edition, November 1997. With a full color cover by Frederick Blakeslee and John Fleming Gould handling the interior illustrations, the book is a facsimile reprint of the original pulp published in 1936. A fine, as new copy. First Thus. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Illus. by Blakeslee, Frederick. Digest.
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MORE TALES OF THE DEFECTIVE DETECTIVE IN THE PULPS
by Hoppenstand, Gary; Roberts, Garyn & Br
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Bowling Green, OH, U.S.A.: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1985. 1st edition. 8 more stories ( 4 novels and 4 novelettes) from the pulps (Dime Mystery Magazine) of defective detectives. Fine in dust jacket, lightly sunned at spine A fine 8 page introduction by the authors helps place the stories in historical perspective. This second collection of defective detective stories features some of the best of the period, including Russell Grays gimpy hero Ben Bryn, Edith and Ejler Jacobsons hemophiliac gum-shoe Nat Perry, John Koblers glaucomatous troubleshooter Peter Quest, and Leon Byrnes deaf detective Dan Holden.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.
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MURDER, MYSTERY AND MALONE
by Rice, Craig; Marks, Jeffrey (editor)
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Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Limited to 200 hardcover copies. The second volume in Crippen & Landru's Lost Classic Series. This new collection of Rice, known at "the Mistress of the Screwball Mystery" is the first to appear since her death in 1957. Rice's biographer, Jeffrey A. Marks, has chosen and written an introduction and a new prefaces to each story. Most of the stories feature her famous detective John J. Malone, though there are two rare ones featuring her lesser known sleuth, Melville Fairr. Twelve stories. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Limited Edition.
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NONE BUT THE VENGEFUL: Classic Pulp Crime And Suspense **SIGNED COPY**
by Cassiday, Bruce
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Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books, 2000. 1st edition, September 2000. Digest sized, stapled covers. Vivid cover by Rick Hudson8 stories which have never been reprinted, nor aoppeared in book form before, complete with the illustrations and ads from the original pulps. SIGNED COPY by the publisher Gary Lovisi who also wrote the introduction. "These are Classic pulp stories of crime and suspense written by a master whose career began in the pulps but has continued to this day. GThey're also scarce, since they originally appeared in old pulp magazines and many of those issues are hard to find today. These stories have never been reprinted, nor appeared in book form before." -- from the introduction. Collects 8 classic stories: The Corpse is Familiar, A Visitor for the Dead, None But the Vengeful Heart, Doubled in Danger, My Favorite Murderess, The Other Man, Nobody Lives Forever, and No Body-But Me.. Signed. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Hudson, Rick . Book.
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REEFER GIRL **CAMEO BOOKS #330**
by Manning, Jane (Pseudonym of Ruth Manoff)
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N.Y.: Detective House, Inc./ Cameo Books, 1953. 1st edition, Paperback Original. Digest size [.35 cover price]. Vintage Paperback. Cover illustration by Rudi Nappi. GGA. Reading creases, 1/2" loss at bottom of spine, spine edges rubbed, corners nicked, rear cover creased and soiled. Extremely rare title much sought after. Perhaps the scarcest of the juvenile delinquent drug paperback originals. "The frank, biting story of a young girl of the slums, and how she was caught in the toils of evil."--Cover. " Reefer Girl is unquestionably one of the most iconic and cult classic paperbacks ever published in America. In the 1950s, few subjects were more taboo than drugs and drug use, and when depicted in art and literature, drugs were shown as a gateway to depravity, promiscuity, insanity and death. Even when presented in the guise of a morality tale, only the most counter-culture pulps, paperbacks and men's magazines were willing to tackle the topic of drug use, and to present a beautiful woman sitting alone…
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THE REVENGE OF KALI-RA
by Beck, K. K.
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Mysterious Press, 1999. 1st ed., fine in dj. Super-bankable, way-hot movie star Nadia Wentworth has found her dream role: the all-powerful, eternally beautiful Kali-Ra, Queen of Doom-- one of pulp fiction's most famous characters. That is until a cast of mysterious characters descends on Nadia's exotic Beverly Hills mansion.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy.
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