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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2011, 05:59:49 PM »



Just back from a Tique Hunt this Saturday afternoon. Snatched up this nead Vampire book......the Edward Gorey cover is a great plus!    Buddy

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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2011, 06:06:17 PM »
Bud, *awesome* score!!! That cover is GREAT!!!!!

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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2011, 06:15:31 PM »
Hi ya Illo! Yea, I have a friend that is very into Vampire books......so I got this with the intent of giving it to him. May just never mention it and keep it myself! Ha!   Buddy

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« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2011, 07:33:20 PM »
Hi ya Illo! Yea, I have a friend that is very into Vampire books......so I got this with the intent of giving it to him. May just never mention it and keep it myself! Ha!   Buddy
yeah I've learned my lesson buying books as gifts, NEVER buy one that you might want to keep lol

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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2011, 08:19:34 PM »



Just back from a Tique Hunt this Saturday afternoon. Snatched up this nead Vampire book......the Edward Gorey cover is a great plus!    Buddy

I've got that same book, only in paperback. When I lived in NJ, I used to haunt The Strand Bookstore in lower NYC. I picked up quite a few old books back then. Several of them were non-fiction, like Montague Sommers' "The Vampire in Europe" & "The Vampire: His Kith & Kin." Most were from the '40s & '50s. I also picked up anthologies by Algernon Blackwood & M.R. James. Since moving to NC in '99, I haven't found a decent used bookstore. My most recent "collectible" book purchase was a hardcover edition of "Dracula," illustrated by Edward Gorey, published by Barnes & Noble Books in 1997 in honor of its centennial.
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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #20 on: June 26, 2011, 07:19:19 PM »
Bud, that artwork ROCKS!!
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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #21 on: June 26, 2011, 07:49:30 PM »
DEFINITELY still collecting!  I just got a copy of the play THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS, on which the Bogart film was based, and a first edition reprint of THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR.  Both are thoroughly nice reads...enjoyable, and unstressful.

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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #22 on: January 27, 2012, 11:56:03 AM »
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I love crime/mystery fiction, and have a lot of vintage paperbacks of Hammett, Spillane, Chandler, etc


My basement is still in a mess, but I'm running across some cool stuff. These Mickey Spillane paperbacks have covers that I'm sure were rather racy at the time they came out........ Buddy









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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #23 on: January 27, 2012, 12:01:19 PM »
My basement is still in a mess, but I'm running across some cool stuff. Thes Mickey Spillane paperbacks have covers that I'm sure were rather racey at the time they came out........ Buddy

I dunno considering that you could find similar covers on horror/suspense comics??!  I think images like this only became racy after the crack down on such stuff!

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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #24 on: January 27, 2012, 02:09:12 PM »
NOW you're talkin', Bud!  Spillane is the man!  Great covers on that first batch of paperbacks.

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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #25 on: January 27, 2012, 02:29:20 PM »
I know they are not super old, but I have been collecting the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Rod Serling, and Alfred Hitchcock lately. One really old book I would like to get my hands on is Dante's Inferno with the original artwork by Gustave Dore.
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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #26 on: January 27, 2012, 03:19:50 PM »
Oh yes!

I have many wonderful old books..one is signed by Colin Clive..of course  :o
The one he signed is the Journey's End book, the play edition, signed by him and the writer.
I also collect film annuals from Clive's active years as well as bound volumes of 1920s theatre magazines, they always look mighty impressive on the shelf..nice and heavy !
Also fond of classic playwrights and books about anything classic film..as in pre late 30s.
There are books everywhere in my house, luck that those old ones are quite decorative with their gilded patterns and text on the covers.
Talking about decorative old books, old fairytale books always look good as well as Art Nouveau era books..very beautiful.
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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #27 on: January 28, 2012, 08:12:10 PM »
Here's some paperbacks of The Avenger. Reprinted pulp stories from Doc Savage's creator Kenneth Robeson.........great Bama covers.       Buddy


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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #28 on: January 28, 2012, 10:35:47 PM »
Buddy, some of those are actually by one of Bama's students, I believe his name was Peter Caras, if this old memory is working.

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Re: Anyone collect old books?
« Reply #29 on: January 29, 2012, 04:45:14 PM »

I wonder if my first edition paperback release of "Star Wars" (DelRey Books, Dec. 1976) is an antique yet?


Or my first edition paperback novelization of "House of Dark Shadows"?
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