BANTAM BOOKS -MURDER/MYSTERY PAPERBACKS 1940s-1950s - RARE!

Description: BANTAM BOOKS PAPERBACK COLLECTION - 1946-1952 - RARE PULP PAPERBACKS - SIMON & SCHUSTER, CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PLUS A VARIETY OF OTHER PUBLISHING COMPANIES - BANTAM BOOKS - A SERIES OF PULP PAPERBACKS - ALL BOOKS ARE IN GOOD/ACCEPTABLE TO VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH MINOR TO MODERATE WEAR - A FEW BOOKS ARE IN CLOSE TO POOR CONDITION, BUT WITH COMPLETE STORIES AND DECENT CONDITION OF THEIR COVERS - THESE BOOKS (BANTAM BOOKS) ARE RARE, AND COMPARED TO THE OTHERS LISTED, CONTAIN THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WEAR AND DAMAGE ---THE STORIES ARE COMPLETE!---THE COVERS ARE GOOD! - *** THESE BANTAM BOOKS ARE PRICED ACCORDING TO THEIR RARITY AND SCARCITY, ALONG WITH THEIR QUALITY - SOME OF THESE BANTAM BOOKS' PRICES ARE MORE RELATIVE OF BEING RARE & SCARCE, THAN UPON THEIR CONDITION VARIOUS BOOKS WITH VARIOUS WEAR: MINOR TO MODERATE COVER WEAR, SHELF WEAR, EDGE & CORNER WEAR, LIGHT RUBBING AND TANNING PAGES FROM AGE - MINOR TRAVERSE FOXING IN SOME TEXT BLOCKS/EDGES AND BITS OF COLOR FADE AT STAINED EDGES - FEW BOOKS MAY CONTAIN A VERY SMALL BIT OF WATERMARKINGS - THERE MAY BE A DOG EAR HERE AND THERE - "THE AFRICAN QUEEN"-#712 IS SIGNIFICANTLY DAMAGED WITH WATER MARKINGS, COVER APPEARS BETTER THAN THE LEAVES - A FEW COPIES MAY HAVE A SMALL SCRIBBLE OR VERY FEW TINY INK MARKS ON THE COVER - FEW BOOKS DO HAVE BITS OF SOIL WITHIN COVERS (MOSTLY BACK COVERS) AND SOME LEAVES - MOST BOOKS HAVE PRIOR OWNER'S NAME/INITIALS WRITTEN NEAR THE OPENINING (ALL BOOKS COME FROM A BIBLIOMANIAC WHO OWNED A MASSIVE COLLECTION) - SOME COPIES HAVE RANDOM SCRIBBLING ON FRONT MATTER (MAINLY IN PENCIL) - SOME BOOKS MAY HAVE A TEAR OR POSSIBLE FEW PAGES DETACHED - ONE BOOK HAS HALF PAGE TORN IN FRONT MATTER - SOME COPIES HAVE DETACHED COVERS *** - ALL BOOKS ARE COMPLETE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A BOOK OR TWO MISSING IT'S FRONT MATTER--*** "THE HATERS"-#857- IS MISSING IT'S FRONT MATTER, BEGINNING AT CHAPTER 1 (SHOWN IN IT'S INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS) *** - *** "THE DRAGON MURDER CASE" -#362- IS THE BOOK WITH THE SYNOPSIS PAGE (FIRST PAGE UPON OPENING) TORN IN HALF, MISSING THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE PAGE - THIS IS THE ONLY BOOK WITH A TORN, MISSING LEAF PIECE*** - FEW BUT NOT ALL COVERS HAVE TRAVERSE CREASING ALONG WITH MINOR PEELING OF LAMINATE - PAPER PEELING, MAINLY THAT OF THE BACKSTRIPS - BANTAM USED A GREAT DEAL OF ORIGINAL ART TO GRACE THEIR COVERS, INCLUDING ORIGINAL COVER ART AND THEIR PICTORIAL INNER COVERS (INSIDE COVER ILLUSTRATIONS) - BANTAM BOOKS' PLIABLE PAPERBACKS ARE KNOWN TO TILT OR WARP IN THE FRONT - SOME OF THESE BOOKS ARE A LITTLE WARPED - COCKED SPINES ARE MORE PREVALENT AS WELL AS MORE BANTAM BOOKS APPEAR TO HAVE BROKEN HINGES (***MANY BANTAM BOOKS APPEAR TO HAVE SPINE SEPARATION) - YOU PICK AND CHOOSE ANY AND ALL OF THE AVAILABLE TITLES YOU'D LIKE! - PLEASE REFER TO PHOTOS AND SELECT YOUR CHOICE/S FROM THE DROP DOWN TITLE MENU - BOOKS' SIZE APPROXIMATELY 4 1/4" x 6 3/8" PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE UPON ANY INQUIRY YOU MAY HAVE *** MANY OF THESE BANTAM BOOKS HAVE A UNIQUE SYNOPSIS, PREFACE OR EPIGRAPH, ALONG WITH A BLURB - VERY COOL!IT IS COMMON FOR THESE BOOKS TO HAVE INFORMATIVE FRONT MATTER--INCLUDING AN "ABOUT THE COVER" PIECE, A CAST OF CHARACTERS AND DEDICATIONS - MANY OF THESE BOOKS ARE RARE WITH THE MOST VIVID, SHARP & FASCINATING ART ON THEIR DISTINGUISHED & AIRBRUSHED PULP PAPERBACKS - *** PICTORIAL INNER COVERS ARE FOUND ONLY IN THE BANTAMS BOOKS OF THIS COLLECTION--NUMBERED 26 THROUGH 52 (SHOWN IN EACH BOOK'S INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS) *** "NET OF COBWEBS" -#26- IS THE ONLY BOOK IN THIS COLLECTION WITH IT'S OWN DUST JACKET - THIS BOOK'S COVER HAS A DIFFERENT ILLUSTRATION THAN IT'S DUST JACKET'S COVER - THIS BOOK APPEARS TO BE VERY RARE AND ULTRA SCARCE! ***

Price: 9 USD

Location: Bailey, Colorado

End Time: 2024-10-26T20:43:19.000Z

Shipping Cost: 8 USD

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BANTAM BOOKS -MURDER/MYSTERY PAPERBACKS 1940s-1950s - RARE! - YOU PICK & CHOOSE!

Item Specifics

Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer

All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

Item must be returned within: 14 Days

Refund will be given as: Money Back

Features: Illustrated, Laminated, Numbered Copy

Format: Paperback

Personalize: No

Item Length: 4 1/2"

Item Height: 6 1/2"

Illustrator: Casimer Norwaish, Various, Gilbert Fullington, Hy Rubin, Bob Doares, Al Werner, J. Karl, Bischoff, Ken Riley

Topic: Antiques, Art History, Books, Classic Literature, Collectibles, Crime, Entertainment, General Thriller, Hobbies, Illustration, Literature, Paper, Pulps, Spooky Stories, Suspense, Thriller, Killers, Murder, Paperbacks, Choice, Pick & Choose

Book Series: Bantam Books

Vintage: Yes

Era: 1940s

Ex Libris: No

Edition: First Edition

Language: English

Publication Year: 1946

Item Weight: 10 oz.

Book Title: Various

Author: Graham Greene, Rex Stout, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Bart Spicer, Frederic Brown, William Krasner, John Spain, Dorothy Cameron Disney, Theodore Strauss, Selwyn Jepson, S. S. Van Dine, MacKinlay Kantor, Mary Collins, C. S. Forester, Hammond Innes, Ione Sandberg Shriber, Frances Crane, Edwin Rolfe, Lester Fuller, Geoffrey Homes, Lewis Padgett, Leslie Ford, Bruce Marshall, Gene Fowler, James Hilton, Frederick Lewis Allen, Elizabeth Sanxay Holding

Narrative Type: Fiction

Publisher: Various

Inscribed: No

Genre: Crime & Thriller, Horror, Murder, Mystery, Paranormal, Pulp Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense