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NEW PAPERBACK PRICE GUIDE OUT NOW!
HOW TO ORDER
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 four thousand of the most collectible and most valuable key American mass-market paperbacks and shows over 1,000 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.
Release date: May 26, 2008
How To Order:
www.krausebooks.com
the official Krause Publications website.
The book will be sold at B. Daltons, Barnes & Nobles, Waldens and all major chain bookstores, located in their collectibles section.
The
book can be pre-ordered now at various book seller websites: Tower Books, Amazon.com
and Amazon.com.uk, Barnes & Noble.com, and abebooks.com.
The
book can also be ordered at my website, through www.gryphonbooks.com.
The total price is $25.00, which includes Priority Mail. Copies signed
upon request. You can pay using VISA or Mastercard (send card info in 2-3
emails. International orders inquire.
GryphonBooks@worldnet.att.net) or mail a check or money
order to: Gryphon Books, PO Box 209, Brooklyn, NY, 11228-0209.
Book dealers and stores wishing to order multiple copies for resale can contact Brenda Mazamke
at Krause Books, at Brenda.Mazemke@fwpubs.com.
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Some of you might like to hear the interview with me on the Sunday,
June 29th edition of the Watcha
Got! radio show hosted by Harry
Rinker, a leader in antiques and collectibles who loved my new paperback
price guide. You can download an archive of the show at www.harryrinker.com
, my interview is about 10 minutes and is in the last half hour of the 2 hour
show. Harry and I talk about collectible paperbacks and the new book.
----- 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 + $5.00 Priority
postage in USA.
----- 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.
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 over the years as well as a
top-notch sexy digest, crime digest and crime vintage paperback collection
recently. Many are listed for sale here. I have always bought for condition so
most books are decent or nice copies. Access over 10,000 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!
Two New ORIGINAL Golden
Amazon novels:
by science fiction legend, John Glasby!
--- See Tee Sun (Golden Amazon #28)
--- The Crimson Peril (Golden Amazon #29), $16 each + postage!
OUT NOW!
----- The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D.Hoch,
a big new beautiful book that 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.
NEW & out now from
GRYPHON BOOKS:
----- Paperback Parade #70, latest issue,
over 100 pages, article and interview on
gorgeous pin-up model Betty Brosmer, Wilson Tucker, Avon
“round cornered”
paperbacks, news, ads, more, $10.00 + postage.
----- 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.
----- 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
$10.00 (+ 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.
----- 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! Confirmed guests include:
JOE DEVITO, wonderful cover artist,
also did Doc Savage pb covers.
LINTON BALDWIN, classic Lion Books crime
author.
ANNETTE &
MARTIN MEYERS:
Mystery and suspense authors who also
write as Maan Meyers.
SANDY KOSSIN, classic vintage paperback
cover artist.
CHARLES ARDAI, crime author and editor of
the Hardcase Crime series.
JACK KETCHUM, famous horror author.
C.J. HENDERSON, fantasy and science
fiction author.
MARIJANE
MEAKER,
vintage Gold Medal crime author, crime author as Vin
Packer and also author of many
lesbian novels as Ann Aldrich.
MARVIN
KAYE, famous fantasy author and Sherlockian anthology editor.
PETER
STRAUB: (tent.) a master of the fantasy and horror novel.
KEN
WISHNIA: hard crime author.
JOHN
NORMAN: heroic fantasy author, creator of the popular Gor series.
JASON STARR: hard crime author and Hard
Case Crime paperback author.
NORMAN SPINRAD: legendary author of popular
science fiction and more!
ANN BANNON: popular author of lesbian
pulp novels!
MARCUS BOAS: amazing heroic fantasy
artist!
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 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 Cemetery Dance book
On Dangerous Ground, out in late 2008.
--- “Three Daring Divas of Paperback Pulp Fiction” coming in Blood N Thunder
magazine, out Spring, 2008.