Category: Vintage Paperbacks (pre-1970)

Like Wild

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Derby, Monarch 345 : 1963

Seller ID: 018154

Condition: Near Fine

A man returning to Florida after a stint fighting guerrillas in Laos is faced with a corrupt fellow who wishes to steal his land; the corrupt fellow's woman (who wishes to teach him a thing or two about "how to stake out a claim on a man no matter what his previous commitments"); and his fiancee's kid sister, who wants him, and doesn't particularly care that he's her sister's betrothed (the poor sonuvabitch shoulda stayed in Laos). 141 pages + three pages of advertisements for other books published by Monarch. Cover artist's name misspelled as Ericson on copyright page. Mildly cocked, thin re...
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An AFB 4-book historical fiction multi-pack: Anthony Adverse in Africa, Wild is the River, The Courts of the Lion, Fair Wind to Java

By: Allen, Hervey, Louis Bromfield, Robert W. Krepps, Garland Roark

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, New York, New York, Garden City, Dell 283, Bantam A910, Bantam A894, Perma P127

Seller ID: 018647

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A collection of four historical novels, some of which you may have heard of, others of which may be new to you, but all of which once had their day in the sun, and are looking for another brief moment in the light before the next time-travel historical sensation pushes them even further into the shadows. Or words to that effect. In the Allen title (a Dell map-back), Adverse looks to Cuba "for relief from the vague restlessness which assails him." The Bromfield story is a "turbulent novel of 1862 -- and the Yankee seizure of New Orleans." Krepps offers "A Historical Novel of Barbaric Africa in ...
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An AFB 5-book historical fiction multi-pack: Bedford Village, Sun in Their Eyes, The Last Frontier, A Breath of Scandal, The Secret Road

By: Allen, Hervey, Monte Barrett, Howard Fast, Bonnie Golightly, Bruce Lancaster

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dell D128, Popular Library 224, White Circle CD 458, Avon T-474, Perma M-3016

Seller ID: 018330

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good or better

All five titles are in G (occasionally better) condition, with no loose or missing pages, and are offered for those who just wish to read a variety of historical fiction novels, some of which may have been forgotten (or never discovered) by today's readers, or consigned to the back shelf of the literary closet. Sorry, but no substitutions of titles.
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An AFB 5-book mystery multi-pack: A Coffin For Dimitrios,The Chocolate Cobweb, A Question of Proof, The Happy Highwayman, Cats Prowl at Night

By: Ambler, Eric, Charlotte Armstrong, Nicholas Blake,Leslie Charteris, A.A. Fair

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pocket 232, Pocket 575, Popular Library, Pocket 272, Dell 315

Seller ID: 019048

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Good

A five-book lot of mysteries/thrillers by some of the top names in the field. The Fair title boasts a map-back illustration. Average used condition. Sorry, but no substitutions.
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Autobiography of a Flea

By: Anonymous (Stanislas de Rhodes)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: No Place, No Publisher

Seller ID: 018026

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A classic in the field of erotica, first published in 1887, and the basis for the 1976 porno film of the same name. Although the words "First American Publication" are emblazoned across the top of the front cover, there is no publisher listed, no place, no date, or any copyright information. A bit of slant, moderate edgewear, some creasing, surface wear, light tanning.
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Make Mine Mavis

By: Ard, William (pseudonym of John Jakes)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sydney, Starbooks / Star Books

Seller ID: 018019

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

No date (circa 1962). A Lou Largo novel. In this one, our intrepid hero kidnaps a singer from a sadistic Vegas gangster/talent agent, then without knowing who they are, beds both the sadist's wife and his mistress, whereupon said sadist experiences the proverbial meltdown, exhorting his "kill-crazy goons to stop Largo from making a further shambles of his love-life and business." Ard wrote two Lou Largo books before ceasing human operation in his way-too-young late-thirties. His death didn't mean the end of Largo, though, because both Lawrence Block, and (in this instance) John Jakes took a st...
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AN AFB 5-book mystery/thriller multi-pack: Advance Agent, The Scandal of Father Brown, The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke, The Assassin, The Phantom of the Opera

By: August, John, G.K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, E.M. Harper, Gaston Leroux

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Popular Library 133, Pocket 60, Popular 122, Berkley D2027, Dell 24

Seller ID: 018877

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Reading copies (Fair to Good)

A five-book lot of mysteries/thrillers, two of which are collections of stories featuring the authors' best-known characters (Chesterton's Father Brown, and Freeman's Dr. Thorndyke), and one of which (Leroux) is a map-back. While they're all intact, careful reading is suggested so that they remain so. Sorry, but no substitutions.
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An AFB 5-book fiction multi-pack: The Small Back Room, Jailbait, Pomp and Circumstance, Nightmare, The Wind That Blows

By: Balchin, Nigel, William Bernard, Noel Coward, Guy Endore, F.W. Lister

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Lion Books 31, Popular Library 1392, Dell 537, Dell D183, Pocket bB19

Seller ID: 019077

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Good or better

A multi-pack featuring a variety of themes, promoted on the front covers as "The story of an inadequate man," "Teen-Age Hoodlums On The Loose," a "wonderfully wicked tale of an uninhibited island paradise in the South Pacific," and the story of a woman who "led a double life -- wife to one man, wanton to many," and nothing on the Lister book, with the publishers probably figuring that the Glyn Jones cover illustration of a sailor and a painted trollop would be enough to draw in the intended audience. Everything's intact, but best nonetheless to read with care, since vintage paperbacks sometim...
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Fury in the Heart

By: Ballard, W.T. (pseudonym of Todhunter Ballard)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Monarch 134 : 1959

Seller ID: 005578

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback original. Okay, here's the deal (pay attention, now, 'cause it gets complicated): in the Hollywood branch of something called Etna Publication Relations we've got a head honcho with a chick named Kitten, who, in order to get ahead, is willing to switch her bodily allegiance to the head honcho's heir apparent, who's determined to replace the honcho, said honcho being the target of a virginal young thing eager to explore a little of the erotic life, while in the background of all of this, patiently waiting for everything between the honcho and the heir apparent and the chick and the v...
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BARUCH The Public Years

By: Baruch, Bernard M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Cardinal GC-135 : 1962

Seller ID: 018458

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

After leaving Wall Street as a successful financier, Baruch "recalls the exciting role he played for nearly fifty years in national and international affairs." Follow-up to 'My Own Story.' 415 pages (including index) + three pages of advertisements for other Cardinal titles. While as common as dirt in one edition or another, for some reason this Cardinal paperback edition does not seem to be as generally available. Moderate surface wear, tanning. Should be read with care, since, being almost as old as I am, without gentle handling it may fall apart.
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A House of Women

By: Bates, H.E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Mayflower Dell 3825 : 1965

Seller ID: 013066

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

The story of a barmaid who marries "a farmer whose skinflint family is steeped in the tradition of its own prosperity." 284 pages. Some spine cocking, light edgewear, three grey remainder stripes across fore-edge, tanning, moderate handling wear. Uncommon edition.
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An AFB 5-book fiction multi-pack: Trial by Marriage, The Housekeeper's Daughter, Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal, A Certain Smile, One Man Show

By: Bell, Vereen, Donald Henderson Clarke, Lloyd C. Douglas, Francoise Sagan, Tiffany Thayer

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dell 582, Avon 503, Dell 304, Dell D206, Avon nn

Seller ID: 019220

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Various conditions

A five-title lot of general fiction, one of them a map-back ('Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal'). All are in at least G condition, with some being much better. Sorry, but no substitutions.
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An AFB 5-book mystery multi-pack:Trent's Last Case, She Died a Lady, The Lodger, The Fate of the Immodest Blonde, Dead Wrong

By: Bentley, E.C., Carter Dickson, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Patrick Quentin, Dead Wrong

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pocket 269, 507, 43, 676, Dell 314

Seller ID: 018872

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Various conditions

A five-book lot of classic mysteries featuring Philip Trent; Sir Henry Merrivale; a certain 19th-century murderer known as the Ripper; a group "of people thrown together by violence"; and security officer Gil Vine (a map-back). All five are G or better. Sorry, but no substitutions.
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An AFB 5-book Mystery/Thriller 5-pack: Trent's Last Case, The House Without a Key, The Smiler and the Knife, The Stars are Dark, The Ministry of Fear

By: Bentley, E.C., Earl Derr Biggers, Nicholas Blake, Peter Cheyney, Graham Greene

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Penguin 78, Bantam N8446, White Circle 268, White Circle 211, Penguin 530

Seller ID: 018989

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Good or better

We have here a Philip Trent mystery, a Charlie Chan case, a Nigel Strangeways battle against a secret society, and a pair of WWII spy thrillers, all by renowned writers, most of whose work has stood the test of time. None in collectible condition, but since no words have fallen out, all are in perfectly serviceable shape. Offered as a lot of five titles, with no substitutions.
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Trial and Error

By: Berkeley, Anthony

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Pocket Books 307 : 1945

Seller ID: 018294

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

A man "doomed to almost immediate death because of a weak heart" decides "to make one final gesture and eliminate from the scene the most obnoxious person he could find." (This was written in 1937, nine years before Donald J. Trump was born, so unfortunately--) 329 pages + two pages promoting other titles offered by Pocket Books. Spine cocked/rolled, laminate lifting around edges, minor chipping to spine ends. Internally tight and clean.
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The Black Camel

By: Biggers, Earl Derr

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Montreal, Pocket / Pocket Books of Canada 133 : 1944

Seller ID: 017734

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good or better

Canadian printing. When an actress is murdered, our philosophical detective oozes into something approaching action as he deals with "the confusion of alibis, false clues, and a weird crystal gazer," until, "at the forty-eighth hour the tangled skein unravels to reveal a nerve-tingling solution!" 275 pages + author biography and advertisements for other Pocket titles. Spine cocked/rolled, moderately sunned spine, light soil, surface wear, moderate wear to corners/spine ends.
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The Chinese Parrot

By: Biggers, Earl Derr

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Avon 344

Seller ID: mys.00018

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Canadian printing. A Charlie Chan mystery. Strongly cocked, reading crease, creased corners, light soil to edges, rubbing to back cover.
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Doctor Grant of Bonnybraes

By: Blair, Joan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Winnipeg, Harlequin 703 : 1962

Seller ID: 018578

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

An uncommon edition of a title first published by Mills & Boon under the title 'Course of True Love.' A doctor who moves to a small town is thrilled to rejoin an old friend whose sister loathes him from the get-go. Fortunately for him, the feeling is mutual. Naturally, this being a Harlequin, romance is the inevitable result. 224 pages. Strongly cocked, a bit of corner wear, a couple of turned corners, moderate handling wear.
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An AFB 4-book mystery multi-pack: The Smiler and the Knife, Over My Dead Body, The Sour Lemon Score, Burden's Mission

By: Blake, Nicholas, Franklin Mayfair, Richard Stark, Harry Whittington

Price: $10.00

Publisher: White Circle 268, Book Company of America 009, Gold Medal R2037, Avon S379

Seller ID: 019054

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Good or better

Four titles featuring a variety of miscreants committing an impressive collection of despicable acts generally frowned upon by polite society, but usually given only a little attention by the people in power so long as the despicable acts are forced upon the poor and powerless. No loose pages, missing words or kidnapped punctuation.
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John Smith Hears Death Walking

By: Blassingame, Wyatt

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bartholomew House/Bart House Books 5 : 1944

Seller ID: 013029

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good to Very Good

Paperback original. A collection of the detective's cases. 190 pages. A bit cocked, slightly sunned spine, edgewear, reading crease, moderate general wear.
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The Unfriendly Future

By: Boardman, Tom, Jr. (editor) (contributors: Mack Reynolds, Will Worthington, Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison, Terry Pratchett, Jay Williams)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Four Square 1347 / New English Library / NEL : 1965

Seller ID: 019086

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good to Very Good

Paperback original containing six stories that "tell about the future -- but the problems might be happening today!" Contributors include Mack Reynolds ("Russkies Go Home!" -- now THAT turns out to be both prescient then and pertinent now), Will Worthington ("The Food Goes in the Top"), Brian W. Aldiss ("Danger: Religion!"), Harry Harrison ("Rescue Operation"), Terry Pratchett ("The Hades Business"), and Jay Williams ("The Seed of Violence"). The Pratchett story, his first to be published, appeared in 1963 in Science Fantasy #60 before being collected here. Not a particularly common titl...
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Johnny Saxon

By: Bogart, William G.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harlequin 114 : 1951

Seller ID: mys.00421

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Good

Private investigator and former mystery writer Johnny Saxon is hired to help a woman regain her memory, only to discover that she is probably the next target of a killer. Cocked, thick cover creases, edgewear.
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An AFB 5-book western multi-pack: South of Rio Grande, Duel in the Sun, Two-Gun Fury, On the Dodge, The Sea of Grass

By: Brand, Max, Niven Busch, Chuck Martin, William MacLeod Raine, The Sea of Grass

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pocket 390, Popular Library 102, Graphic 502, Pocket 743, Pocket 413

Seller ID: 018794

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Reading Copies

Five dusters, all of which have been read several times (and presumably enjoyed, although there's never the slightest proof that such a claim is true). None of them could be described as being in collectible condition, but all the pages are intact, and none of the words have fallen out, so they're all good for at least one more reading. The Busch title is a tie-in for thge movie of the same name, which starred Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck.
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The Brat

By: Brewer, Gil

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Greenwich, Gold Medal 708 : 1958

Seller ID: 007119

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A young woman enduring "the rotting, sun-blasted shack, the one room where they all lived, slept, made love, died," and "the sly, lustful eyes of her father's friends," is willing to use her lovely body to escape to a new life (curious how seldom it turns out that some guy can do the same thing). Spine cocked, uneven 1/4" tear to bottom edge of front cover/first end paper, some mild waviness at spine, light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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The Brick Foxhole

By: Brooks, Richard

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Toronto, Studio 110

Seller ID: 017733

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Very Good

No date (circa 1950). Brooks's first novel, tackling the theme of homosexuality in the army, and its repercussions for one man at the hands of another just out of the service. Published before Brooks became a top Hollywood screenwriter/director, and the basis for Crossfire, a film directed by Edward Dmytryk, that starred Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, and Robert Ryan (you didn't *have* to be named Robert to star in this flick, but apparently it helped a whole helluva lot). 320 pages, cover photograph shows film close-up of Robert Ryan. Edgewear, thin/uneven crease to top right corner of front c...
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The Lion Murders

By: Brown, Elwood

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto & New York, Pony Book 127 / Weldun Publications

Seller ID: 018252

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

No date (1946). A young detective on vacation in southern California finds himself involved in solving murders in the film industry. A title from a short-lived publisher. 160 pages. Reading and handling creases, crosscrack, edgewear, thin/short cresae to bottom right corner of front cover.
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The Twins

By: Bruce, Edmund

Price: $30.00

Publisher: No Place, Ug 3013

Seller ID: 018303

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

No date (circa 1960s). The tender-hearted story of a pair of twins and their sexual escapades. Ok, so it isn't that tender-hearted, but it is about twins (Randy and Sandy), and they do have sexual escapades. 190 pages + one-page advertisement. Rubbing, impressions/scratches, corner creases, 3/8" tear to bottom right spine edge, a couple of nicks to fore-edge. If you plan to read this literary masterpiece, as opposed to just shelving it in your collection, it would be wise to do so carefully, since some of these vintage items tend to disintegrate in your hands if they aren't handled with care.
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The Asphalt Jungle

By: Burnett, W.R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Montreal, Pocket Books of Canada 714 : 1950

Seller ID: 017355

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

Canadian printing. "It had been 'the perfect crime' until one small thing went wrong -- blowing the gang sky-high and leaving the boys clawing for life." 247 pages, cover illustration of one thug hammering another, and looking as if he means it. Vertical creases to left edge of front cover, 1/8" tear to bottom right spine edge, subsequent creasing between that and bottom of vertical creases, light rubbing, a few impressions, wear to top tips of final 15 or so pages, a little bleed from edge colour to cover edges of back cover. Internally tight and clean.
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19 Tales of Terror

By: Burnett, Whit and Hallie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam A1550 : 1957

Seller ID: 018814

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Paperback original of an interesting collection of terror/suspense stories, including work by A. E. Sandeling writing A. E. Shandeling ("Return of the Griffins "), John Steinbeck ("The White Quail"), Lord Dunsany ("The Two Bottles of Relish"), Mary Norton ("Paul's Tale"), W. Somerset Maugham ("Lord Mountdrago"), Gloria Neustadt Biggs ("The Cat"), Karen Blixen writing as Isak Dinesen ("The Young Man with the Carnation"), Robert W. Cochran ("Foot of the Giant"), Jerry Wexler ("I Am Edgar"), Ivan Bunin ("The Calling Cards"), Whit Burnett ("The Night of the Gran Baile Mascara"), May Sarton ("The S...
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An AFB 5-book histoical fiction multi-pack: Khartoum, The Devil in Velvet, God's Angry Man, The Fortunes of Captain Blood, Caroline Coquette

By: Caillou, Alan, John Dickson Carr, God's Angry Man, The Fortunes of Captain Blood, Caroline Coquette

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Signet P2941, Bantam F2052, Cardinal C-128, Popular Library 241, Dell D133

Seller ID: 018856

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Good

Five historical novels, the first taking place in Khartoum and a tie-in for the movie of the same name (cover painting depicts stars Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier); the second being "A novel of deception and slumbering evil in degenerate, brawling London -- 1675"; the third "based on the life of John Brown, who fought to abolish slavery"; the fourth giving us the story of "the elegant surgeon-buccaneer [who] was ever a jump ahead of his foes"; and the final title a sequel that tells the continuing story of Lady Caroline de Bievre, this one finding her "enmeshed in the violent passions o...
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Category: Vintage Paperbacks (pre-1970)