Collectable Paperback Books

Completely revised, updated, and expanded, this price guide to vintage paperback books lists more than 12,500 books along with their market prices and basic bibliographic data. With more than 1,000 illustrations of key paperback covers and prices ranging from $5 to over $500, this is an essential and eye-opening reference for collectors, book dealers, flea market bargain hunters, and anyone with an interest in books and popular culture memorabilia. Also included are an introduction to paperback collecting, profiles of the leading publishers and cover artists of the vintage era, pseudonyms of popular authors, and a guide to additional resources. This replaces 0967363926.

'A deaty virus escapes from a research centre.' Professor Brian Newman had accidentally created a deadly new virus. In a single glass cage in his laboratory, its first victims were slowly dying in mortal agony. For the sake of the world, the bats in that cage must never be released. But glass is all too easily broken ... This title is dedicated to those working in the NHS and Social Care in appreciation of their sterling work during these testing times. In addition 1 pound from the sale of each paperback sold will be donated to NHS Charities. Guy N. Smith has written over 75 horror novels. Since his werewolf novels (1974-77), he has written about virtually every aspect of the horror genre and is best known for his Crabs and Sabat books. He is still writing.

Second History: a Romulan time-tampering project that has transported the Enterprise and the galaxy into an alternate dimension of reality. Now, Kirk is an embittered young ensign and Spock is a beseiged Starship commander. Lured into a Romulan trap, Captain Spock and Ensign Kirk must free themselves from both their captors and their own altered selves...before the galaxy hurtles toward total destruction!

"Few realized in 1938 that a revolution was about to take place. A little book appeared in drugstores and on newsstands that would fit into the typical pocket. There was no real binding, no dust jacket; just a colorful, laminated cover....by summer of 1939 everybody was buying and reading them. Regarded by many as disposable distractions, a few people put them aside and started collections that we realize are a valuable and collectible archive of American culture. From the glittering images of square-jawed cowboys to the gritty slum-dwellers of social realism, The Great American Paperback is a bountiful museum of over 600 brilliant covers, each of them a miniature gem evocative of the fashions and attitudes of its era."--book jacket.

A hard-hitting, tour de force tale of the mob and the man who makes sure their rules are the only rules, by the American master of crime George V. Higgins. Jackie Cogan is an enforcer, and when the mob's rules get broken, Cogan is called in to take care of business. This time a high-stakes card game has been held up by an unknown gang of thugs. Calculating, ruthless, businesslike, and with a shrewd sense of other people's weaknesses, Cogan plies his trade, moving among a variety of hoods, hangers-on, and big-timers, tracking those responsible, and returning "law and order" to the lawless Boston underworld. Combining remarkable wit, crackling dialogue, and a singular ability to show criminal life as it is lived, George V. Higgins builds an incredible story of crime to an unforgettable climax.

A collector of rare books shares his personal experiences with twenty important volumes and other literary items, including a signed copy of Sylvia Plath's The Colossus, a copy of Nabokov's Lolita from Graham Greene, and the sale of J. R. R. Tolkien's college gown.