Something of an oddball category, all true firsts, all signed by contributors, but not by the most famous author.
Posts Tagged ‘pulp’
Library Additions: Signed Firsts of Bierce, Farmer and King (Not Signed by Bierce, Farmer or King)
Thursday, December 30th, 2021Library Additions: Three Half Price Books Purchases
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017Here are three random library additions, the only common denominator of which was that I picked all of them up at Half Price Books.
Random Monkey Gorilla Business
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
First up, from the world of auctioning, comes the offering of the exceedingly rare issue of June 1926 Zeppelin Stories pulp containing Gil Brewer’s “The Gorilla of the Gas Bags,” a holy grail for gorilla and zeppelin fans everywhere.
This issue formerly belonged to SF writer and pulp collector Frank M. Robinson. Bidding is currently up to $2,000, which does rather take it out of the impulse purchase range for me. Assuming, of course, that Rick Klaw, Jess Nevins and Mark Finn didn’t all chip in together to purchase it. But really, it’s a comparative bargain right now, since one just sold for $6,572.50…
Second, as seen on Fark, a giant mechanical gorilla was found abandoned in Witchford, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Insert your own gorilla in the mist joke here…