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NEW
PAPERBACK PRICE GUIDE OUT SOON!
Antique Trader
Collectible Paperback Price Guide by Gary Lovisi is a gorgeous 304
page quality trade paperback
book that will list all the “key” collectible
paperbacks, over 3,500! of them, and show over 1,000 cover reproductions of the
most interesting and rare
editions in full color on quality slick paper. This book is
sorely needed in the field and I
was honored to have so many fine collectors
and dealers help me with it
over the last year. The book will feature new updated
price values BUT only for the
most scarce 3,000-4,000 editions in Good, Very
Good and Fine, pseudonym info, dealers, and a lot of
collector info. It will be out
from Krause Publications in May,
2008 at $19.99.
NEW
SHERLOCK HOLMES BIBLIOGRAPHY OUT NOW!
Sherlcok
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 + postage.
The
book will also be published in a large-size limited edition hardcover from
George
Vanderberg’s Battered Silicon Dispatch Box in around
May, 2008.
Are
you looking for that special or hard-to-find or out-of-print book? I’ve had
the opportunity to pick up many nice books at various book shows. Many of these
‘dupes’ are listed for sale here. As I have always bought for condition, so
most books are nice copies. Access over 9,000 items in the ‘Catalog’ section in the Main Menu.
Good hunting!
Announcing two recent books by Gary Lovisi:
West Texas War and Other Western Stories, 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 available now from the publisher:
Ramble House Books, at their website at: www.ramblehouse.com
A HISTORIC
SCIENCE FICTION PUBLISHING EVENT!
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!
OUT NOW!!!
Two New ORIGINAL Golden
Amazon novels:
by science fiction legend, John Glasby!
--- See Tee Sun (Golden Amazon #28)
--- The Crimson Peril (Golden Amazon #29)
these are $16 each +
postage!
NEW from GRYPHON BOOKS:
----- The Fenton Art Glass Murder by Gary
Lovisi, new chapbook and first in new
Gryphon Minibook series, features retired cop
Bentley Hollow who embarks on
an investigation of a crime in the rare Depression
glassware collecting hobby. The
book features a color cover by Lucille Cali based on
art by Denis McLoughlin,
18pp, as new, $5.00 + 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.
----- Hardboiled #37, latest issue with
all new hard crime and noir tales by The Lees
Sisters, Tina Casey, Cindy Rosmus, Gerald Browning,
Robert Benson and others,
new, $10.00 + postage.
----- Paperback Parade #68, latest issue
with extensive article on Baseball vintage
paperbacks, Edgar Box, the Gore paperbacks of
Herschell Gordon Lewis, an
interview with artist Sandy
Kossin, more, $10.00 + 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, $60.00 + postage.
----- Paperback Parade #67, extensive
interview and memoir by UK SF great David S.
Garnett, Award Books sleepers!, The Amboy Dukes,
Trojan Pocket pulp pbs,
news, ads, more, $10 + postage.
----- Paperback Parade #66, our 20th
Anniversary issue! Great articles on crime author
Ed Lacy, Lion author Linton Baldwin, Remembering
Mickey Spillane, SF author
postage.
----- Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen+
by Dana Martin Batory, 14 excursions
into the Sherlockian mythos, cover art by Sidney
Paget, $16 + postage.
----- Sherlock Holmes & The Coils of Time
by Ralph E. Vaughan, Holmes and H.G.
Wells’ time traveler fight Morlocks in London! Great
science fiction and
Sherlockian adventure, cover art by Jukka
Murtosaari, trade paperback, out now for
$16 + postage.
4
Classic Hard Crime Thrillers by Noir Master Harry Whittington!
----- 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.
----- Vengeful Sinner by Harry
Whittington, she used her body to catch a killer! 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.
----- DeBracy’s Drug by E.C. Tubb, a
classic science fiction adventure novel by an
SF master, rousing action, out again after 50 years!
This is the first American
edition, $16.00 + postage.
----- 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 $75.00 + postage.
----- “Book
Show Girl” T-SHIRT: Many fans have loved this special T-shirt created
especially for the 15th Anniversary of The
NYC Collectable Paperback &
Pulp Fiction Expo, held Sept 7th,
2003, and features “Book-Show Girl”, with
cover art based on the Uni-Book, Tent-Show Girl by Steve Harrigan, “Men
Bought Her Books at Their Peril!” It’s great fun.
Shirt is white with black vintage
digest cover image on front and text. Sizes: LARGE
and EXTRA LARGE,
available at
$12.00 (+ 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]
----- Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the
Martian Vision by Richard A. Lupoff,
first new edition in 30 years and first paperback, a
great survey and history of
by George Barr and interior illos, a excellent
addition to ERB-dom, out now,
$16. + postage.
----- Collecting Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Paperbacks by Gary Lovisi, a
reprint and new edition of this popular collectors
book on these three popular
genres in paperback, many covers shown along with
history, key books, authors, artists, collectables, as new, $16. [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 London as they fight the minions of Cthulhu. In
the process they meet Aliester
Crowley and assorted luminaries of the period in
this mix of Doyle and H.P.
Lovecraft. Out now at $16.
Collectable Paperback Shows:
New
York City Collectible Paperback & Pulp Fiction Expo #20, our big 20th
Anniversary show! Will be held in October 19, 2008, more details will
appear herer as they become available. Many guest artists and authors and
dealers from all over the country!
NEW Ramble
House BOOKS of NOTE!
THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Gary Lovisi presents 3 of his best Sherlock Holmes pastiches, including “The Adventure of the Missing Detective” the 2005 Edgar Award finalist for Best Short Story, includes a new intro by Lovisi and an Afterword by Richard A. Lupoff, cover and back cover map by Gavin O’Keefe, price is $18 for the trade paperback or $30 for the hardcover.
WEST TEXAS WAR AND OTHER
WESTERN STORIES by Gary Lovisi, collects the novel of the title (first time published
in the US) and 6 short stories with an introduction by Ed Gorman, trade
paperback $18.
To
order contact Ramble House at www.ramblehouse.com or www.lulu.com/ramblehouse.
NEW by Gary Lovisi:.
----- “The American Adventure” an original
Sherlock Holmes pastiche in The
American Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by Michael Kurland,
St.
Martins Press, due late 2008 or early 2009.
----- Antique Trader Collectible Paperback Price
Guide, first new and updated price
guide for the field in 7 years, 304 pages, trade
paperback, with over 1000 color
photos of scarce and collectible paperbacks, updated
price values, dealers, info,
more, an essential guide from Krause Publications, out
May 2008, at $19.99.
----- “The Inside Man” in Deadly Dames, Bold
Venture Press, trade paperback, due
October, 2008. The book will also be edited and
feature an introduction by Lovisi.
----- “Boxing, Babes & Bullets” a
boxing/romance pulp story in Blazing! Adventures
Magazine special Bouchercon trade paperback book, due
October, 2008. The
book also contains an introduction by Lovisi.
----- “Lead
Poisoning” original western story in the new Cemetary Dance book
Western Noir, out in 2008.
----- Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective in
Paperback & Pastiche, large-size,
spiral-bound bibliography of all the Sherlock Holmes
pastiches in paperback and
many parodies, with price values, and many full
color pages showing some of the most interesting and rare Sherlockian
paperbacks of all kinds, this is an update and expansion of my 1990 edition,
with intros by John Bennett Shaw and Michael Kurland, out in December 2007 at
$50.00 + postage. Copies signed upon request.
----- There will also be a hardcover edition
published by Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
----- The Fenton Art Glass Murder by Gary
Lovisi, new chapbook and first in new
Gryphon Minibook series, features retired cop
Bentley Hollow who embarks on
an investigation of a crime in the rare Depression
glassware collecting hobby. The
book features a color cover by Lucille Cali based on
art by Denis McLoughlin,
18pp, as new, $5.00 + postage.
----- West Texas War and Other Western Stories,
see above to order,
----- The Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
collection of three Sherlock Holmes
pastiche stories, from Ramble House Books [see above
to order].
----- “Vin Packer: Past, Present & Future” article on this classic author’s fine crime
writing, pseudonym of Marijane Meaker, in Mystery Scene #100 Augus,t 2007.
--- “Three Daring Divas of Paperback Pulp Fiction” coming in Blood N Thunder
magazine, due out in Spring, 2008.
----- “Classic baseball Paperbacks of the 40s and
50s”, lists all the books, values and
many covers on the fantastic baseball website:
www.keymancollectibles.com/paperbacks.htm
----- The Adventure of the Missing Detective
Sherlock Holmes pastiche out soon in a
German hardcover from Blitz Verlag, translated in
German language.
----- “Louis
S. Glanzman: The Fine Art of Illustration”, a major article on this master
artist in issue #19 of Illustration magazine
June, 2007.