Gryphon Books
WebNEWS:
issue #44, May, 2010
WebNEWS keeps you up-to-date on
news & new books here at Gryphon Books HQ.
PLEASE NOTE: Our email has now changed to “GryphonBooks@att.net”
3 new crime books by Gary Lovisi Out NOW!
Ultra-Boiled:
Hard Crime stories
by Gary Lovisi
This
new Ramble House trade paperback contains 23 of my best hard-boiled and noir
crime stories; reprints as well as new shocking originals, with cover painting
by artist Joseph Cali. The book is 275 pages, and is out now for $20 in trade
paperback; $35.00 in the limited hardcover in jacket + postage, from Gryphon
Books [copies signed on request] or from www.abebooks.com, www.alibris.com
and Ramble House Books through their website at www.RambleHouse.com.
New
These two new UK trade paperbacks, in large print format, offer five
full-length Sherlock Holmes adventures, some previously published but in
severely cut versions. These are very attractive paperback editions,
Sherlock
Holmes and The
Contains three full-length Sherlock Holmes
pastiches, “The Loss of The Sophy
Anderson”, the original uncut version of “Sherlock Holmes and The Crosby Murders” which was cut by over
10,000 words for the US appearance in The
Strand Magazine, and “Mycroft’s Great
Game”, as new, $25.00 + postage.
The
Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes
Contains
the original uncut version of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Nominated
Best Short Story “The Adventure of The Missing Detective” and the original uncut version of “The American Adventure” which was
cut by over 10,000 words for the
Dames, Dolls & Delinquents
A Collector’s Guide to Sexy
Pulp Fiction Paperbacks by Gary Lovisi
This big, beautiful book, 8.5 x 11” in size shows over 700 of the best
sexy paperback covers with information on the artists and price values for
each. The best of US,
Krause
Books: www.krausebooks.com.
The book is discounted at
$16.49 if you order online: from Krause Books at www.krausebooks.com
or Amazon.com at www.amazon.com or some of the other online sites.
SIGNED COPIES: For those of you that are
interested in signed copies they are available for sale from Gryphon Books for
$25. + $5 Priority Mail Postage.
Also
check out this previous hit Krause book on collectible paperbacks:
Antique Trader Collectible
Paperback Price Guide
by
Gary Lovisi
This lovely 302 page price guide lists values in Good, Very Good and Fine condition for almost 4,000 of the most collectible and most valuable key American mass-market paperbacks and shows 1,100 covers in startling, gorgeous full-color. The book is printed on quality slick paper and is a handy 6 x 9” size. It covers each genre by chapter, with chapters on Fantastic Fiction (SF/F/H), Mysteries & Crime, Westerns, Movie and TV tie-ins, Sex and Social Issues, and more! There is a listing for pseudonyms, recommended dealers, book shows, an index of authors and more! There has never been a book like this before in our hobby and I believe it will become the template for all future books about books. Reaction has been very positive with dealers and collectors agreeing it is a bargain and offers wonderful new information on rare and scarce paperbacks. It is published by Krause Publications, the leader in books on antiques and collectibles.
Cover price: $19.99 +
postage.
How To
Order:
www.krausebooks.com the official Krause
Publications website. You can also find both books at B. Daltons, Barnes &
Nobles, Waldens and all major chain bookstores, located in their collectibles
section and at various book seller websites: Tower Books, Amazon.com and
Amazon.com.uk, Barnes & Noble.com, and abebooks.com.
Both
books can also be ordered at my website, through www.gryphonbooks.com.
Dames, Dolls & Delinquents is $25.00, and The Collectible Paperback Price
Guide is $20.00, add
$5 for Priority Mail. Copies signed upon request. You can also pay using
VISA or Mastercard (send card info in 2-3 emails. International orders inquire
on postage.
Email:
GryphonBooks@att.net) or mail a check or money order to:
Gryphon Books,
Book dealers and stores wishing to order multiple copies for resale can call Krause Books at
800-289-0963
ARE YOU LOOKING
FOR
THAT
SPECIAL BOOK?
Over 11,500 collectable and reading copies of all
genre paperbacks, hard covers and magazines (including digests of all types)
are listed for sale by accessing the ‘Catalog’ section in the Main Menu of my website: www.gryphonbooks.com. Just put in the author name, title, or other search
interest.
Good hunting!
ANNOUNCING:
DEADLY
DAMES edited by Gary Lovisi
The
best of new hard crime fiction short stories by some of the best masters in the
mystery genre and talented newcomers, This new trade paperback includes stories
by Max Allan Collins, Ed Gorman, Vin Packer, Mike Black, Gary Lovisi, Lonni
Lees, Arlette Lees, Art Cosing, C.J. Henderson, Cindy Rosmus, John Sunseri,
Wayne Dundee, Pearce Hansen, Terrence Butler, Fleur Bradley, with cover art by
Robert Maguire and interior illos by Ben Fogletto. It’s a gorgeous package of
intense and violent femme fatale and noir bad girl crime stories. Sometimes the
last man standing is a woman… Out now at $16.95 + postage from Bold Venture Press at www.boldventurepress.com.
Also available from Gryphon Books for $16.95 + $5. Priority Mail.
Bad
Cop…No Donut is just out, a new hard crime anthology edited by John L. French from
Padwolf Publishing ($16, trade paperback). It contains new stores by Gary
Lovisi (“Bent Cop”), as well as other fine writers such as O’Neil De Noux, Mike
Black, C.J. Henderson, Ron Fortier, Wayne Dundee and more. If you like hard
crime tales, this one is for you, $16.oo + postage.
Announcing:
West Texas War and Other Western Stories by Gary Lovisi contains the
title novel and 6 great western short stories, with an introduction by Ed
Gorman, trade paperback, $20.00, hardcover in jacket $30.
The Secret
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, contains 3 pastiche stories, including his Edgar Nominated story and an
Afterword by Richard A. Lupoff, trade paperback $20; hardcover in dust jacket
$30.
Both
books available now from the publisher:
Ramble
House Books, at their website at: www.ramblehouse.com
THE GOLDEN AMAZON:
27 BOOK SERIES
NOW COMPLETE!
A HISTORIC SCIENCE FICTION
PUBLISHING EVENT!
Gryphon Books is proud to release the
last 3 books in our ongoing historic publishing program, which now makes the entire 27 book series of
Golden Amazon Science Fiction novels by John Russell Fearn available for the
first time ever! These classic science fiction pulp adventures feature a female
Doc Savage-type hero in spine-tingling sense-of-wonder, exciting pulp SF
thrillers. All 27 books are available in
attractive trade paperbacks at $16 each + postage.
All books are First American
Editions!
+ Two New ORIGINAL Golden
Amazon novels out NOW:
by science fiction legend, John Glasby!
--- See Tee
Sun
(Golden Amazon #28)
--- The
Crimson Peril (Golden Amazon #29), $16
each + postage!
NEW from
GRYPHON BOOKS:
Playing Detective by Ron Goulart, contains two great original stories
featuring Nick and Nora Charles-like husband and wife team Jack Branner and
Connie Bowen, in murder mysteries set in old-tine Hollywood and among old-time
radio shows, great fun, cover art by Jukka Murtosaari, 55pp trade paperback,
color cover, $10.00 + postage.
Paperback
Parade #74,
Orrie Hitt paperbacks and his lesbian pbs as by Kay Addams, UFO paperbacks, noir writers Ted Lewis and
Geoffrey Homes, Restoration of paperbacks and much more, $10.00 + postage.
Paperback
Parade #73,
takes an extensive look at the UK Corgi paperbacks of James Hadley Chase, all
the great sexy, pin-ups in scanties cover photos, also an extensive article on
Chase’s key book No Orchids For Miss Blandish and much more, $10.00 + postage.
Hardboiled #41, new crime and noir
masterpieces by C.J. Henderson, Arlette Lees, Libby Cudmore, Frankie Bill, G.D.
McFetridge, Wayne D. Dundee and more, $10.00 + postage.
Hardboiled #40, great hard-hitting
crime fiction by Morris Hershman, Terrill Lee Lankford, Ed Doherty, John D.
Nesbitt [John’s story just won the
coveted Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for Best Short Story of
2009], Bob Strother, Tina Casey and a host of others, $10.00 + postage.
The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D.Hoch, collects all the Holmes
pastiches by this master of the short story. With cover art
by Jukka Mutosaari and an Afterword by Gary Lovisi, out now at $20.00 +
postage.
Sherlock
Holmes:
Sherlock
Holmes & The Coils of Time by Ralph E. Vaughan, Holmes
and H.G. Wells’ time traveler fight Morlocks in
Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective in
Paperback & Pastiche by Gary Lovisi contains information on all the
Sherlock Holmes pastiches in paperback, and many other paperback books about
the Great Detective, with 180 pages, many in full color showing the best and
most scarce of these books, and price values for each edition. It contains
intros by John Bennett Shaw and Michael Kurland and material about, and from,
many authors, and is an updating and expansion of my 1990 edition,
this new version is large-size and spiral-bound, published by Gryphon
Books now at $50.00 + $5.00 Priority postage in
The Sexy Digests by Gary Lovisi, this price guide, survey and index
to the sexy pin-up and expliotation digest paperbacks of the 1950s has been
reprinted in a new edition, color covers, large size trade paperback with
hundreds of startling sexy covers shown in large b&w images, new, $30.00 +
postage.
Vignettes of
Sherlock Holmes by Richard Kellogg, a wonderful collection of his Sherlockian
writings, with cover art by Frederic Dorr Steele and illos by Sidney Paget, 100
page trade paperback, out in December 2007 at $16.00 + postage.
Modern
Historical Adventure Novels by Gary Lovisi, paperback original, spiral-bound,
144 page non-fiction survey, index and price guide to hundreds of collectable
books in this historical adventure genre from the late 1960s to present (the Modern Era), with info, bios and most US
and UK hardcovers and paperbacks by Patrick O’Brian, Bernard Cornwell, Allan
Mallainson, Alexander Kent, Dudley Pope, George MacDonald Fraser and many more,
color covers with over 250 full color reproductions of the covers of
popular, key and rare books in this genre, as new, a gorgeous limited edition
book, $50.00 + postage.
Classic Hard Crime
Thrillers by Noir Master Harry Whittington!
Vengeful Sinner by Harry Whittington, she used her body to catch a killer! Out now, $16. + postage.
One Got Away by Harry Whittington, he
could get the girl, or the money! Out now, $16. + postage.
Married To
Murder
by Harry Whittington, she had a way with men, of leading them to the grave! Out now, $16. + postage.
Satan’s Widow by Harry Whittington, there
was invitation in her glance, but murder in her heart! Out
now, $16. + postage.
Sin Pit by Paul S. Meskil,
incredible hard-boiled cop and crime Noir by a master, new edition, reprints
rare Lion Book from 1950s, intro by Gary Lovisi, new Afterword by the author,
as new, trade paperback, $16.00 + postage.
The Pulp Crime
Digests
is a survey, index and price guide to the hundreds of traditional mystery and
exploitation crime digests of the 50s and 60s with information found nowhere
else. It features an Introduction by Harlan Ellison and cover art by Robert
Maguire (from Manhunt), and an
Afterword by Peter Enfantino. It contains an issue by issue list with contents,
author, cover artist, value for each issue for digests such as Manhunt, Trapped, Guilty, Man From UNCLE, Two Fisted, Bloodhound, Off Beat, Web Detective, Hunted,
and about 90 more, some very obscure. The book is a large-size paperback, about
150pp, and sells for $35 + postage. I
will gladly sign copies upon request.
PRIMAL SPILLANE: The Early Stories, by Mickey Spillane, edited
by Max Allan Collins and Lynn F. Myers, Jr., is an incredible First Book
Edition collection of early Mickey Spillane stories that have never
appeared in book form before. Spillane is the master of hard-boiled fiction,
the creator of world-famous Mike Hammer and much more! This book features 29
classic tales not seen for over 50 years! The stories include hard-boiled,
crime, WWII, suspense, thrillers, monster stories even a couple of SF! The book
is a trade paperback with a stunning sexy girl cover by vintage paperback
master Robert Maguire, and is available now for $20.00 + postage.
A few copies of the very limited signed edition of just 100 copies, (signed by Spillane, Collins, Myers and Maguire) is available for $100.00 + postage.
Souvenirs of
Sherlock Holmes by Gary Lovisi, features articles on the Sherlock Holmes books and
pastiches, with many covers of rare and collectable paperbacks and hardcovers
show, new, $16.00 [copies gladly signed upon request]
Sherlock
Holmes & The Terror Out Of Time by Ralph Vaughan,
incredible original novel as Holmes joins Doyle’s other hero Professor Edward
Challenger in
Collectable Paperback Shows:
New York City Collectible
Paperback & Pulp Fiction Expo #22, the big 2010 show will be held on Sunday,
September 19, 2010, at the Holiday Inn on 57th Street in NYC. A
limited number of 6’ and 8’ tables available but book tables asap.
Guest authors and artists so far include:
CHARLES ARDAI, award-winning crime author
and editor of Hard Case Crime.
ED BALCOURT, renown
artist rep who was a key player in paperback publishing.
LINTON BALDWIN, Lion Books crime author.
MARCUS BOAS, fabulous fantasy artist.
ELAINE DUILLO, famous cover artist and
the “Queen of Romance!”
RON GOULART, master storyteller, SF
writer, pulp and comic book scholar, more.
C.J. HENDERSON, crime, fantasy and SF
author.
MORRIS HERSHMAN, Manhunt author and soft-core author as Arnold English.
MARVIN KAYE, famous fantasy author and
Sherlockian anthologist.
JACK KETCHUM, famous author of chilling
horror and wonderful fantasy!
SANDY KOSSIN, classic vintage paperback
cover artist and illustrator!
ANNETTE & MARTIN MEYERS, mystery author couple,
also write as Maan Meyers.
JOHN NORMAN, science fantasy author and
creator of the famous GOR series.
RHODA PLOTKIN, wife of artist Barney
Plotkin.
S.J. ROZAN, crime author and creator of
the famous Lydia Chin series.
NORMAN SPINRAD, famous science fiction
author, as available.
STAN TRYBULSKI, crime author, www.stantrybulski.com
F. PAUL WILSON, famous science fiction and
horror masterful author.
PERSIA WALKER, crime author, www.persiawalker.com.
KEN WISHNIA, hard crime and mystery
author.
NEW by Gary Lovisi:.
“Seven Hungry Killers on The Run” crime article in Blood N Thunder magazine #27, out Summer 2010.
“Bent Cop” a brutal crime noir original short story in the anthology Bad Cop, No Donut edited by John L. French (Padwolf Publishing) trade paperback and out now.
“Stoop-It” an original crime story will appear in the online magazine Yellow Mama edited by Cindy Rosmus, in issue #21, out August, 2010.
Bad Girls Need Love Too!, out in early 2011 from Krause Books in trade paperback is a celebration of sexy, pin-up paperback cover art and the outrageous blurbs and text of these very collectable books. Great fun and a great gift book!
“Notable Holmesian Paperback Pastiches & Other Odities” a non-fiction article on Holmes pastiches in issue #3 of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine (Wildside Press).
“The American Adventure” an original Sherlock Holmes
pastiche starring a young Sherlock Holmes and his mentor Dr. Joseph Bell in The
American Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by Michael Kurland (St.
Martins Press, hardcover) out now.
“The Inside Man” in Deadly Dames, Bold
Venture Press, trade paperback, due January. 2009. I also edited the
book and it features an introduction by me. This is a cool book with Bob
Maguire cover art and stories by Ed Gorman, Max Allan Collins, Vin packer, and many others. Order at www.boldventurepress.com.
“Lead Poisoning” original western story in
the new Cemetery Dance book On Dangerous Ground, will be
out sometime in 2011.
Eight
of my stories are available as Internet downloads for only 99 cents each at www.ebookstore.sony.com.
These include some western, SF, hard-boiled cops, adventure and Sherlock Holmes
pastiches, including my Edgar Award nominated story, “The Adventure of the
Missing Detective.
“Rudy Nappi: Celebrating The Artists & His Work” in issue #28 of Illustration magazine.