Sun 13 May 2018
This week’s assortment of pulps up for auction on eBay can be found here:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/lewis-62/m.html?item=273204029542&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562
Not all pulps listed on eBay sell. I’ve put together a list of those you can purchase from me directly, plus ones I’ve quoted to would-be buyers directly and not taken.
Here’s the link:
https://mysteryfile.com/Books/Pulps
Lots of Dime Detective in this online list, plus a scattering of other titles.
May 13th, 2018 at 7:23 pm
I started collecting pulps in the mid-70s, and over the years I amassed a sizable amount of them, perhaps a thousand or more. I concentrated on the detective pulps, but for some reason as I’ve been going through boxes in my basement and garage that hadn’t opened in years, I’ve surprised myself as to how many western pulps I managed to accumulate.
Perhaps because they’ve always been very cheap, pricewise, I’m not sure. Every time I open another box, I’m hoping it will be filled with BACK MASK’s, or CLUES, and it’s disappointing to find it’s only more WESTERN STORY’s.
Not that I have anything against WESTERN STORY. It was a great magazine filed with great stories, most of them by Max Brand.
In any case, I decided to start selling them off a couple of years ago, 15 to 20 a week on eBay, whenever I had 10 days to tend to auctions — preparing, waiting a week for the auctions to end, and then packing them up and mailing them out.
The first week was the toughest, letting go of magazines I’d owned for years, but after that, once the ice was broken, it became easier and easier.
It may have helped that pulps were never my primary collecting interest. That was and always has been paperback — mysteries, SF and westerns — and detective fiction in hardcover. I have more of either one of these than I could possibly read in 20 lifetimes, and they’re on the schedule to go next.
In fact, I’ve already started, with several boxes of SF and fantasy paperbacks up for sale on Amazon, if anyone should happen to want them.