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Gs La]\Ce Casebeer VOLUME ONE, NUMBER TWO 0 (TPCN NUMBER THIRTEEN) DI o A L ID L E E R A t/ B 7TII A I}i THIS ISSUE BARRY BERI'IARD. .lulASS IvTARKET I,,TURI,{URI}IGS LA]\CE CASEBEER.. .. ...... r.. ......f 1,1/0]\,IDER ? WILLIAI'i LYLES . .KEYHOLE COI'IFIDE|{T IAL I I',{. KIRKLIN........ T.LIVING I\/ITH A COLLECTOR o BRUCE TAYLOR,.RA.RE BOOKS ARE GEITING SCARCE GEORGE KELLEY........I " "VAULT OF THE AGES LANCE CASEBEERi . .'!{H0 DREW THAT GIRL? N BILI DENHOLIVI. .. .DE}IH0LI,,1'S LA\\l K ???fl??flflfl??fl?? FI G I I I I I n I tr tr I I I I tt D COLLECTI 1\]G PAPERBACKS? is a bi-monthly newsletter dedicated to aI1 paperback book collectors. It features the following items and/or advertizingt 1) Resul-ar columns by WiIliam Lyles, Bruce Ta-r;1or, Dave Killian, Bill Denholm, Barry Bernard, George Kel1y, I'1. Kirklin & Lance Casebeer. 2) Irregular columns, Ietters and information of general interest by its readers and followers. 3) Anecdotes, questions and letters by and to the readers. These are absolutely free to the initiate and are greatly eneouraged, as we neeci your comments and questions in able to better serve vour wants. 4) Introciuctions and/or general advertisements listing no material for sale or as wanteri bv yourself. Cost to you is $t.OO per typer,r'ritten 11qy4L!'. oa 5) Personal want lists. Cost to you is S2.OO per tvpeurritten page. 6) Sales lists. Price is $3.00 per tvpewritten pase. P1ease note: Do not remit multiple copies of y,our ad or article. A single t''rpewritten page for each page submitted is all that is needed, as I finci the cost of reproduction for you to be higher than for me and mv collating is made easier with the single pages. Thank you. I encourage ads of all types, as well as letters, criticizms, columns, checklists, etc, as it will only be throueh the introduction of the rearlers as well as regular columnists that this newsletter will be of use to all. Please attempt to furnish all information by the 15th of the month prior to mv mailine deadline. 1 will be mailins on a bi-monthly schedule as follows: 1 liriarch, I Mav, 1 JuIy, I September, I I'lovernber and I Januarv. A11 material should be in my hands no later than the 15th of the month prior in order to make that particular issue. I a1low mvself the general freedom of non-specializatton as to genre, author, artist or paperback content. I limit mgself only in that our mater:ia1 will deal onlv with the soft, paper-covered books of the years following 19)8, Subscription rates: A $5,00 membership fee places you on the lists of the Paperback Book Gu1ld and allows you a free membership card and si:l (5) bi-monthly issues of the newsletter 'Collecting Paperbacks?'. Other benifits will be arranged as the Guild grows in size. A1I members will be elieible for additional published items arb either no cost or at a reduced cost as I get the material released. A11 acis, letters, inquiries (monies) and relevant material should be adciressecl to Lance Casebeer, 93b S.E. 15ttr; Portland, Oregon, 972L4 or to COLLECTII{G PAPERBACKS? at the same address. THE BUtt PEN Beginning with this j-ssue, all letters to the readers or to the editor whieh offers material cieemed informative to the general subscri-bers will be found under the above heading. I have taken the liberty to reprint several letters here, all coming from inciividuals who I feel will not resent my decision. fn the future, if you do no! want me to reprint your letier in this column, please so ahvis-iffiour letter. I wi.sh to offend no one, no to assume upon your intentions. Thank vou. CIay Kimball writes: Yes, fom stiIl interesteci in the G books in the Ace D series. (see issue +L) Ever lreard of Hip Books? (Motto: they fit on your hip) Published and distributed by Hip Books Inc, Alexanclria, VA., under arrangements with OwI Press, fnc. I have #lt rThe Mystery 0f The Red Suitcase" by Lula M. Dayi copyrirh\, 19b6, There are a dozen titles listed in the back, all boncerning said LuIa Duy, but whether any of them ever appear- ed I couldn't say. I have my cloubts that they sold too well since thev were prieed at 50A or twice what the other brands \^/ere selfing for. Not to mention that the writing is terrible. In fact, this looks like a Vanity Press affair, but I've never heard of Vanity Press paperbacks. Enjoyed all of the first issue of CP?, especially M. Kirklin's essay, which is really too close to truth to be funny. f also like the artistfs column. I find the covers of nlany paper- backs to be fascinating, I especially like the early Ace and Avon ( cloesno t everyone?) . Jeff Meyerson writes: Thanks for the first issue of CP?. It was great. I enjoyed every- thing in it this time. 'Living With A Papervack Book Collector' was particularly amusing. I know Bruce was only covering U.S. pbs in his Woolrich listing, but I thought he (and others) misht be interested to know that rNight Has A Thousancl Eyes' ( Hop1ey) was never printeci in hard eover in Eng- lanrl; the first British eclition was the Penquin pb #660 (t949), A1so, most of the Mercury/nestsellerfonathan Press eciitions were abridgecl. Keep up the good work. El1en Nehr writes: The first issue of Collecting Paperbacks? came today and f'm con- gratulating myself all over the house for having the foresight to send for a copy. I have had to hide 'Living \{ith A Paperback Book Cotlector'. If r1y husband ever finds out that there are more spouses out there suffer- ing the way he is we are all in big trouble. What if they formed a club? If you are putting it up for a vote, here is one for the nevr title. One or two exclamation marks after the question mark might be in order, too. r Let's hope the state of Oregon recognizes you soon. Some day you must read the copy of The l{ystery FANcier where Guy Townsend explains how the United States Post 0ffice thought he was DEAD. Guess it proves that being an Editor isn't all glory. 2 Bruee l\tlerrill writes: While living in London for three years, I maintained my paper- back pursuits, but founC that, for the most part, the cover art tradi- tions were inferior to what we have here. l'1V own inclinations were tovrards the surrealist-expressionist styles founC at their best in the forties ( especially the early Popular) , ancl the glossy realism of the Siqnets. illuch of the British cover work of the forties anci fifties appeared to be rather cierivative anci perfunctory--this is often the case with the eontent, as we1l. A lot of the emptiness here may be clue to the market position enjoyeci by Pensuins. ( Inciclently, while back there this r,vinter, I found that the orange Penguins of the forties were in the process of turning the corner from'old' 'to'colleetable', probably encourased by the tremendous price increases that British books of a1I varieties have experienced in the past two years) . Anyrar2y, two exceptions to this were the early Pans (of the forties) which are ex- pressionist and very exotiually colored, and a series known as Boarciman Books. These are mysteries I Inzrrf by Anerican authors, v,rith an original stvlized and quite successful approach to cover art. Some verv ima- sinative use of borders. Both are fairlv rai's, but f recommenci them to any collectors who find themselves in that part of the worId. Fur- thermore, if anyone has 2ny particulars as to the dates and artists involveC here, I'd appreciate knowing about it. And if voufre fond of the tough-guy style of the 50's, be sure to see Vincent llinell's "The Bandvragon" , v,rhich contains a ballet in a rnock touqh-quv spirit vrith Fred Astaire as the Cetvrctive and Cyd Carisse as the dame. ?he routine begins with a curtain covereC in blown-up Spitaine style covers (e.g. , "Shoot l,'ie, Sugar! " ) , vrhich is parted by machine gun fire! ffie#ffirffi ffiffiffiffi[sffi. AN OPEN LETTER TOT FORI"IER SUBSCRIBERS OF THE PAPERBACK COLLECTOR'S NEWSLETTER FROMr Louis B1ack, /\ rr rr rr ,!.\.r ,r r\ r\ ir ir ri ri 7i ,\ ii it "r As with the best laid plans of mice, those of men often go astray as we11. I{hen Lance first talked to me about taking over the Newsletterr we decided that he would honor all outstanding subscriptions. Ihis assumption was based on my sending Lance a sma11 surplus of funds that had accumulated in the Newsletter treasury. A surplus that would help make up the huge price discrepancy. It was also based on my recollecting that the number of outsranding issues (issues of the Newsletter sti1l owed to subscribers) was not that great. I-lnfortunately any surplus rvas used to put out the last issue of the Newsletter under my editorship and the number of issues owed turned out to be far more than I had anticipated. This combination made it potentially financially disastrous, for Lance to attempt to honor subscriptions for IPCN. There is a 60 cent difference between whaB Lance charges and what TPCN charged and Lance is sti11 CHARGING LESS THAN COST for each issue.
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