Vintage Paperback Oddities

 

Below, click the title-link (not the picture) for a short description of what I believe is some pretty interesting stuff

 

(This is a work in progress. I'll feature other "oddities" as I find them, always adding entries at the bottom of the page.)

 

                                           

                  The Great Dell Cover-Up                                      The Faro Kid

 

                      

                     Pocket Book 378                                        Sports Laughs

 

                                        

                         Down and Out                                           Pocket Book 159

 

   

 The Only Dell Dust Jacket

 

                                 

                          Pocket Book 459                                         Pocket Book 534

 

                                     

                     Pocket Book 413                    Dell 10¢ #33           Stickers & Stamps

 

                   

          The Generic Dust Jacket    The Vanishing Stagehand      Horizontal Covers    

 

         

"Wrap-Around" Covers           Stop Me              Curves               Bedsheets

 

          

      Mentor M21                        Junkie               The Worst Title     The First Mapback

 

                   

   Penguin S229        Ace Specials     Pocket Book #23      Gambling on Ads

 

              

The Books That Don't Exist   Lance Casebeer Books    Face of Fear      The Censor          

 

         

    Fantasy Book      Floral Study        Poster Art        Bantam Posters      Vanishing Girls

  

         

Gold Medal D1996     What Library?     Intimate 32     Monarch Books     Gothic Art   

 

                                   

       Greenleaf                 Books by John Dexter (& more)              Most Outrageous   

 

           

On the Trial       Bawdy Songs       Lion/Tuxedo?        3 Pix in 1        Pocketbook?

 

          

          Little Black Books          Greeting Card         Tall & Short           Carrie         

 

           

        Printed Sticker     All Wrapped Up      MQ MY?      Valuable Anthologies     The Ballantine "K"

 

          

Dell Ads         The AVON Stamp      Whispering Smith       "The Stripe"             Shell Scott

 

       

Ballantine Dupe #'s     Leftist Books      The Two TIPs         The Panthers       Missing Midwood

 

       

    ReCovered Text          In the Pink             Bats in Color            Two Queens       Passionate Price

 

       

        Movie Bond            Bang Bang           Two-Ups                      Other ASE Oddities      

 

         

    Deep Range        "Obscene" Books      Bantam Headache      Sure Hand           The Bottle     

 

       

Avon G1049            Sentinels                 Skyfall                   Sinner                  Helen  

 

           

Fletcher                     Lucia            Love Cult            Ballantine H-Books         Hoboes

 

         

Shooting Illustrations          Prize Books            Puzzle                 Sex Pictures           Is It Sin?

 

       

Tattoo            Number Terror          Slick Adventure          The Golden Mean (pdf)                  Doubles

 

 

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Collectible Vintage Paperbacks that are generally ignored by the "Vintage Paperback Community"

 

     

   Red Arrow              Albatross           Later Tauchnitz                    Tijuana Bibles             

 

       

    "Seal Books"                   LLL                      Jacket Library         Overseas Editions          Blue Books     

 

       

   Bonibooks          Mayfair Editions         Gold Medal, Inc           Borzoi                 Boar's Head   

 

         

    National Home Lib         Continental                Nelson's               Penny Books                   Penn RR        

 

(I will add more publishers to this group as I find them.)

 

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More Oddities

   

       

   Beacon Galaxy        Plain Bantam              Two Faulkners                Two SP's             Strange Brim

 

       

Unauthorized                Numbers             Revised                     Complexion                0008        

 

     

    'Zine Toons                     Bestseller                Reckless!                  Crazy Numbers

 

       

    Regal Line             Double DJ                   Pike Sci Fi            The "Oblong" PB   

 

     

Pocket Playboy          Dark Shadows          Stamp                 FPCI        

 

     

2nd Printings                          Avon 134               Joke Books              Stapled

 

       

     Politics                Double-Theft             Cheap Books       NAL Four Square     Pocket Cook Book

 

       

     Avon Comic Books       Banned Books        Big Pocket Books         Early Gertrude         

 

                 

The 1938 Pocket Book        First Printings       Non-Paperback Formats         Stallion 201