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    Quote Originally Posted by Cordial Jim View Post
    Thanks peripheral! I love the smell of good paperback in the morning.

    Picked up a few more this week...

    Great late 50's Robert McGinnis cover and an early (1960) Lawrence Block book (writing under the pseudonym Andrew Shaw), when he and Donald Westlake were making ends meet writing soft porn on the side. My first Nightstand book. Hard to find these days.


    1969 Bantam paperback edition of Psycho (first Canadian paperback edition). Still one of my favorite books! A Classic!
    Excellent pickups! In great shape.
    "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win." - SK

    WTB:
    - S/L 'Storm Front' Jim Butcher (Subterranean Press)
    - S/L 'Fool Moon' Jim Butcher (Subterranean Press)

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    I love this older bookcoverillustrations !!!

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    That copy of PSYCHO just makes me crazy!
    I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.

    And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...

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    Thanks! I'm glad to see that there are still people out there that have the love for paperbacks! Collectible paperbacks, that is.

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    Yeah, those older "pulp" PB covers are fantastic. A real snapshot in time. Congrats.

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    Latest pickups from a NOVA book sale.

    One of the last great Gold Medal PBO's (1980). Absolutely love John Dunning's books. I'm all about book collectors who write really good books that feature book collecting.



    Finally have the full text for "Throttle"!



    Guilty pleasure of mine (1971, Whitman).



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    Throttle is a great story.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cordial Jim View Post

    One of the last great Gold Medal PBO's (1980). Absolutely love John Dunning's books. I'm all about book collectors who write really good books that feature book collecting.


    John Dunning! YES!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lurker View Post
    John Dunning! YES!!
    Cool! Good to see another Dunning fan! He's one of my favorite authors. The Cliff Janeway books are my favorites. Booked to Die is a Top 10 All-Time book for me. Super stoked to have found that early PBO. It's apparently worth around $100, which blows my mind!

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    He used to come to Murder by the Book in Houston when ever a new one came out,so most of my Janeway's are signed or inscribed except Booked to Die. All I had at the time was the pb so I did get that signed.

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    Did he find Ginger North?
    I must admit John Dunning is another author I am not familiar with.
    I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.

    And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lurker View Post
    He used to come to Murder by the Book in Houston when ever a new one came out,so most of my Janeway's are signed or inscribed except Booked to Die. All I had at the time was the pb so I did get that signed.
    Wow, really cool, Lurker! I have a couple of signed Dunning books, but none in person.

    Quote Originally Posted by ur2ndbiggestfan View Post
    Did he find Ginger North?
    I must admit John Dunning is another author I am not familiar with.
    You'll have to read the book! Sorry, the book is really hard to find!

    John Dunning is a really interesting guy. He worked for the Denver Post in the 70's, wrote a couple of well-received novels in the late 70's and early 80's, then quit writing over frustrations with his publishers. He then opened a used book store called Old Algonquin Bookstore in Denver (still open today as online only). He started writing again the early 90's with the Cliff Janeway novels about a book collector who has to fight for his life. 6 books in the series, all are drenched in all things about books and book collecting. Three Edgar Award nominations. He also wrote reference books on old-time radio.

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    Nice stuff. I've never heard of John Dunning, I'll have to check him out. Are his books still in print? Anywhere I should start? That Hawaii Five-O cover is classic...

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    The Cliff Janeway books are still in print, all the others probably not (although they may be available as e-books). Definitely the place to start is Booked To Die (1992), the first Cliff Janeway book!

    http://www.simonandschuster.com/book.../9780684193830

    Here's his bio from his book store website: http://oldalgonquin.com/john-dunning/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cordial Jim View Post
    The Cliff Janeway books are still in print, all the others probably not (although they may be available as e-books). Definitely the place to start is Booked To Die (1992), the first Cliff Janeway book!

    http://www.simonandschuster.com/book.../9780684193830

    Here's his bio from his book store website: http://oldalgonquin.com/john-dunning/
    Haven’t read Dunning either. Just added Booked to Die to my to read list.
    "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win." - SK

    WTB:
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    - S/L 'Fool Moon' Jim Butcher (Subterranean Press)

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    Cool! As fans of first editions, you guys will LOVE the book! So many books are featured in the story, including a couple of Sai King's!

    Biblio did a nice "revisited" review of the book a couple of years ago, which lists some of the books mentioned in the story (and the 1992 value listed in the book vs. what the book is worth now). One of the reasons the story is so interesting is because it was just at the edge of "pre-internet" (1992). Book stores and book collecting changed so much not long after the story was published. It's a fascinating, well-written, well-plotted, time capsule of book collecting.

    https://www.biblio.com/blog/2014/04/...die-revisited/

    * Depressed to see Thomas Berger has gone down so much in value!

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