Search Results: Authors starting with B from Well-Stacked Books

Knickerbocker, 1950s. Very Good. Three vintage digest paperbacks featuring lurid, or "racy", stories. Several in the series reprinted original editions by Phoenix a decade prior. 25c cover prices, 128pp, color wrappers, side-stapled and perfect-bound. The Fallen Woman (Baker), Immoral Woman (Strong), Loose Ladies (Williams). Cover art generally uncredited. Good overall, rubbing, brief creases and ink, foxing, slight roll.

Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952. Very Good. Original pressbook for the 1952 film noir, "Don't Bother to Knock," featuring Monroe in black-and-white, looking over her shoulder in white shirt, dark skirt and heels opposite hash marks, measuring her up. One of several designs used, another uncommon ad features Monroe peeking through blinds. Based on "Mischief" (Armstrong, 1950). Blonde phenom Richard Widmark plays a man who leaves his girlfriend (Bancroft), sees a new woman (Monroe) who might be slightly insane. 20 pages, saddle stitched, 11 x 15.55 inches. Near Fine overall, only light rubbing and a tiny tear at the crown.

Duke Publishing, 1957. Good Plus. Vol. 1, No. 3, August 1957, 50c cover price, stapled 4to, 70pp, bw throughout, color cf, color wrapper. Vintage adult magazine, featuring photography of nude women, emphasizing Black models, fiction, articles, "Playboy" for the Black community at the time. Bill Ward, Gladys Mora, Robert Lowry boxing fic, Bob Tupper, Robert Bonfils, Charles Dennis, Cosetta White, Frances Taylor, Sammy Davis Jr.. Good Plus, edge rubbing, toning, stress creases, tiny pencil on the front, edge stains, small corner chips. For mature, consenting audiences.

Tudor House Publications, 1968. Very Good. Central Sales (dist.), Bradford Boone (ed., art dir.), Vibra Color printing. Vintage adult magazines featuring pinup, solo, softcore, nude photography throughout, in vibrant bright punchy color printed they called "Vibra Color," a Baltimore-based publisher & distributor. Very Good overall.Cuddles, V1N1, 1968, softcover 4to, 28pp, b/w t/o, a few color pp., essays on sexual revolution, wrestling. Very Good, rubbing, creases, sticker, short tears, remainder clip. Lili, V1N1, 1968, softcover 4to, 34pp, color t/o, essays on censorship. Very Good overall, rubbing, a few short tears and creases, small scuffs, small chip.Rocky Fudge, V1N1, 1971, softcover 4to, 30pp, color t/o, duos, trios, interracial theme, lesbiana. Very Good Plus, light rubbing, short creases, discreet small stains. For mature, consenting audiences.

Various Publishers, 1952-61. Very Good Plus. All First issued in respective series, premier issues, softcover quarto, color wrapper, stapled, perfect-bound. Vintage adventure magazines featuring great pinup color artwork, women & men in peril. A broad scope of a decade of eye-catching advertising for soldiers returning home, wartime editorials, pinup models, & Steve Holland. Many titles credited artists contributing interior illustrations. Collation upon request. All Very Good Plus overall, light rubbing & toning, a few are lesser condition & brittle, others noted.Adventure Life 8/61 (No. 2 stated but 1st issue), Battle Attack 3/57 (Shel Silverstein, front cover detached), Battlefield 1957, Challenge for Men 3/55, Hunting Adventures Fall 1954,Impact 6/57, Man's Daring 3/60 (1st w/o "Action" in title, moisture wrinkles), Man's True Action 10/55, Real Action 4/57, Real for Men 10/52, Rugged Men 11/57, Sport Trails Summer 1956 (Pollen).

N.p., 1990s. Near Fine. Vintage promotional photograph, c. 1990s, featuring B-movie legend and pinup, Adrienne Barbeau, signed in holograph ink, the photo depicting four playing cards the actress appears on. Included are two examples of the scarce playing cards, c. 1960s. Notable credits include "The Fog" (1980), "Escape from New York" (1981), "Swamp Thing" (1982), "The Thing" (1982), and "Creepshow" (1982). Photo 8.5 x 11 inches, b/w, glossy, bordered, printed on modern printer photo paper, cards about 2.5 x 3.5 inches, color, bordered, decorative versos. Photo Near Fine, cards Very Good overall. Uncommon ephemera for an uncommon actress. For mature, consenting audiences.

N.p., 1970s. Very Good Plus. Vintage proof photograph of nude model in nylons and high heels blanketed with three Barbie dolls, also nude, one being a Ken-type doll (exact doll models not confirmed), for use in publication of a Parliament News or similar magazine. 1 photo, 8 x 8 inches, black and white, single-weight silver gelatin; brief pencil notations on verso. Very Good Plus overall, a few faint creases and surface blemishes. For mature, consenting audiences.

Colour Library, 1984. Very Good Plus. First Edition, hardcover 4to in orig. dust jacket, 64pp, full-color. Vintage monograph featuring non-pornographic photography of pairs of women in leather costuming, high heels, masks, chains, etc., boudoir w/ a zing. Slight lean, light rubbing, toning & foxing overall, a few light bumps to book & jacket. For mature, consenting audiences. Photo on request. International shipping billed at cost.

Meckler Publishing, Spring 1986. Very Good Plus. Winter 1986 to Fall 1987, First Editions, perfect-bound softcover 8vo, about 88pp each, printed wraps, b/w throughout. Vintage magazines devoted to baseball history, largely produced by Michigan State University. Very Good to Very Good Plus, with light toning and foxing, most with sticker bruises and shadows on the front, one with a short tear.

McCall Corporations, 1952. Very Good Plus. July, Vol. 95, No. 3, First printing, perfect-bound and side-stapled softcover 4to, 128pp, b/w and monochromatic throughout. Vintage magazine featuring people playing baseball, both on the cover and in an essay by Specs Toporcer on the "greatest pitcher." Also, golf, Brass Halo, William P. McGivern, Edwin V. Burkholder, and great illustrators throughout. Very Good overall, light rubbing, a few tiny tears and creases.

Revolutionary Comics, 1992. Very Good Plus. First Printings, about 6.75 x 10 inches, 8vo softcover, stapled, about 30pp ea, b/w, color wrappers. Vintage comic books, from publisher known for "unauthorized and proud of it" sports biography comics, including other sports. Loren and Shapiro both edited and contributed introduction pages, with Greg Fox and others delivering out-of-the-park cover art, and (when present) Scott Pentzer designing baseball card art. Revolutionary also released issues on music groups, politicians, and conspiracy theories. Very Good Plus overall, light rubbing, toning, and spine stress to all; see specific issue details. Ty Cobb, No. 2, 4/1992, Kenneth Parrish, Jim McSweeney, Susan Dorne, small scuff and bruise to front;Willie Mays, No. 8, 9/1992, C. de Bourbon and C. Barnett, Rick Rodolfo, Susan Dorne, David Fink, 3 cards intact, faint crease to rear; Honus Wagner, No. 9, 1992, John Harrington, Adam McMahon, 3 cards intact, light wrinkling;Satchel Paige: Glory's Ancient… Read More

Popular Publications, 1948, 1950s. Vintage pulp magazines featuring people playing baseball, both on the cover and internal fiction. Pulps have yapping to wraps but no large chips and overall crisp, a few with small stains, creases, tears. Cover art generally uncredited. Each issue generally scarce. New Sports Magazine - 1948, May, Ted Stratton. New Sports Magazine - 1948, June, Wallace Umphrey, Roe Richmond.New Sports Magazine - 1949, October, Daniel Winters, William Heuman. New Sports Magazine - 1950, June, William R. Cox, W. Campbell Gault.New Sports Magazine - 1950, August, W. R .Cox, Heuman, Ted Stratton, Sam Merwin.

Krause Publications, Baseball Card News, Sports Collectors Digest, 1987. Very Good Plus. Vintage 12-month calendar devoted to baseball card collecting, its history, analysis of the hobby by year, notable cards throughout history. Color photography, player birthdays by day, and order form for the following year is intact. Krause made calendars throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Very Good Plus, with light toning and foxing, slight curl, brief creasing to the comb binding and to the front. About 8.5 x 11.5 inches, opening to 17 x 11 inches, January through December. Krause titles are seen, but the calendars run scarce.

privately printed, 1949. Very Good Plus. Vintage photographs of Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1949, depicting a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Brooklyn Dodgers. All photographs with ink notations on both sides, one vaguely hinting at the batter at the plate, a blurry Jackie Robinson. The players and the majority of the field are barely visible, but the images do capture good views along the third baseline and behind the plate. The Dodgers walloped the Pirates, 15-3, Robinson had 3 runs and 3 hits. Black/white, silver gelatin snapshots with deckle edges, all 3.25 x 4.5 inches, single-weight, small borders. Very Good Plus, a few tiny creases, light rubbing.

Self published, 1981. Very Good Plus. First Editions, stapled softcover 8vo, 20, 24 and 40pp, printed wraps, b/w throughout. Vintage magazines devoted to baseball fiction, illustration and poetry, and eventually collected as a trade paperback. Virtually the first of it's kind. Very Good Plus overall, with light rubbing and toning. Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1981 (with manuscript rejection notice signed by Shannon). Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1982 (with subscriber slip). Vol. 1, No. 3, Spring 1982 (with subscriber slip). Vol. 1, No. 14, April 1985 (Ty Cobb Georgia Peach cover).

privately printed, 1940s. Very Good Plus. Vintage photograph of a male baseball player sliding into home plate during practice, while a mask-less catcher gets ready to make the tag. Barely visible is the name "Mehoopany" on the slider's jersey. The setting is likely Pennsylvania, the date 1940s or before, a hometown field w/ a chicken wire backstop & bats, bags, spare bases in the foreground, spare players on the background. Classic playing action w/ a runner in mid-flight! Mehoopany ("Place of Beads" in Native American) is located in Wyoming County in the Alleghany NE Pennsylvania, founded in 1844. Little is documented on baseball in the small town, but there were youth sport camps during the Depression, & a few fields still exist in the region, notably the Denny Robinson, Bob Schultz, & Jenks Softball fields. Mehoopany is also of note for being the hub of the equally ambiguous 1932 Floyd Hendershot publication, "Fascinatingly Instructive Game of Bible Baseball." Black/white, 8 x 9.75 inches,… Read More

Various Publishers, 1950s. Very Good. Circa late 1940s-50s. Vintage ink blotters featuring baseball in advertisements for local businesses, with a few that are blank. Blotters were useful during the heyday of fountain pens (devices that bled ink), placed behind the parchment to absorb the excess ink and keep safe any surfaces beneath. Two Baltimore companies are represented: O.F.H. Warner, a printing company, and Maryland Casualty Company (Harrisburg, PA, office), and two are blank. Both blanks feature kids playing ball, one appears to be Leyendecker work, but both illustrations are unsigned. Three are 3.25 x 6.25 inches, 1 is slightly shorter, card stock, printed on rectos, plain versos (3 blue). Very Good overall, light foxing, rubbing, toning, a few light bumps and small creases.

Letters Magazine, 1980s. Very Good. Special N3, no date, $1.95 cover price, 114pp, b/w throughout, stapled softcover small octavo, color wrapper. Vintage adult magazine, a variant of "Letters" magazine, a digest line featuring lurid reader letters, illustrations, some photography. Some of the letters span into what passes for fiction. Fun baseball photo cover, nude blonde in catcher's mask/mit, someone off-camera swingin' their bat. Sex games, poker, contest, cartoons, fantasy roles, mail order catalogue, Irving Klaw ad. Very Good, light foxing, rubbing & creasing overall. For mature, consenting audiences.

Fabian, 1961. Very Good. Z-145, 1961. Vintage paperback, adult erotic fiction, a sexploitation paperback. Western theme with cowgirl and horse on the front panel, a story of a rich heiress and her family estate. Very Good overall, rubbing, toning, spine creases, hinge crack, a few tiny tears. Uncommon smut. For mature, consenting audiences.

Neva Paperbacks / Playtime Books, 1960s. Very Good. Five volumes. First Edition, perfect-bound softcover 12mo, color wraps. Vintage adult paperbacks, lurid fiction, several topics/themes, some emphasis on backwoods, Beatniks, femme fatales, juvenile delinquents, fast cars. Playtime noted for great cover art by Robert Bonfils. Profane language had yet to present. The Naked Streets, Flesh for Hire, The Jaded Sex, French Fever, The Rise and Fall of the Virgin Sailor. Good to Very Good Plus overall, most being Very Good. For mature, consenting audiences.