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Snappy - September 1936

Nice Bergey cover on this issue of Snappy . Click photo for details/to buy.

Vogue - 1927 interior/cover by Ruth Grafstrom

Watercolor by artist Ruth Grafstrom. Not sure if its for a cover or an interior. Click photo for details/to buy.

Double Detective - June 1939

Double Detective was a great detective pulp before it changed into a hero pulp. This issue has stories by Richard Sale and John Lawrence. Click photo for details/to buy.

Amazing Detective Tales - August 1930

Vaping was deadly back then. Click photo for details/to buy.

Saucy Stories - June 1924

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances."' Pat Paulsen". Click photo for details/to buy.

The Popular Magazine - April 1931

Great John Drew cover on this issue. Click photo for details/to buy.

Pep Stories - July 1936

Great Bergey cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

Nifty Stories - August September 1930

Promises New Novel Narratives on the cover. Which must mean its full of reprints :-). Click photo for details/to buy.

Ace-High Magazine - February 17 1923

Beautiful H.C. Murphy cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

Airplane Stories - May 1931

Rare aviation pulp issue, the title lasted 2 years but copies are quite rare.. Click photo for details/to buy.

Clues Detective Stories - February 1938

The Mummy Wakes would have been a better title than Detour to Death , which sounds like a newspaper headline for an accident. Click photo for details/to buy.

Breezy Stories - August 1936

Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat. Miranda Kerr. Click photo for details/to buy.

Film Fun - 2 issues

July 1940 : Enoch Bolles cover September 1929 : Actress Sue Carol, who was Alan Ladd's wife, is the cover model Click photos for details/to buy.

Fort Dearborn Magazine - 4 issues with Paul Strayer covers

Paul Strayer was a Chicago based illustrator, these covers for a local banking concern are an interesting mix of modernity and history. Click photo for details/to buy.

Herbert Morton Stoops interior illustration for unknown "slick" magazine - 1920s-1930s

Great illustration; reminds me of Somerset Maugham's South Sea stories. Click photo for details/to buy.

Amos Sewell interior illustration for unknown pulp magazine - 1930s

Amos Sewell did a lot of pulp interiors in the early 1930s. This is probably for a Street and Smith western title like Western Story or Wild West Weekly . Click photo for details/to buy.

Dime Detective - October 1935

Fred Nebel, William E. Barrett, Fred C. Davis and T.T. Flynn in the October 1935 issue of Dime Detective at its peak. Click photo for details/to buy.

Film Fun - February 1938

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Black Mask - 4 issues

December 1932 : Second story of Erle Stanley Gardner's first lawyer hero, Ken Corning June 1934 : John Carroll Daly's Race Williams and Erle Stanley Gardner's Phantom Crook in this issue July 1935 : Two reporter detectives - Jerry Tracy and George Harmon Coxe's Flashgun Casey August 1935 : Another two reporter detectives in this issue - Ted Tinsley's Jerry Tracy and Fred Nebel's Kennedy Click photos for details/to buy.

Adventure - October 15 1928

Classic Charles Durant Oriental menace cover for Adventure . Click photo for details/to buy.

Fred Humiston - 2 interior illustrations for Short Stories

On the left is a Fred Humiston illustration for Guest of Allah by E. Hoffman Price in Short Stories . It's either in May 25/Jun 10 1947 On the right is a Fred Humiston illustration for The luck of Los Pintados by W.C. Tuttle in Short Stories . It's from the Jun 10 1947 issue Click photos for details/to buy.

Scandals - November-December 1933

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. - Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan . Click photo for details/to buy.

People's Ideal Fiction Magazine - September 1910

Great period cover from Robert A. Graef. Click photo for details/to buy.

Paris Nights - August 1933

The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards. Paul Bryant. Click photo for details/to buy.

Hollywood Scandals - 1930s

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Manhattan Magazine - 1932-1933

Price seems way too high for this beautifully illustrated map. Click photo for details/to buy.

Romantic Western - January 1938

Why is he wearing a mask? Is he infected? must be what she's thinking. Click photo for details/to buy.

Fifteen Range Romances - August 1953

This lot has the first issue of Fifteen Range Romances, August 1953. Click photo for details/to buy.

The Red Book Magazine - August 1913, February 1914

Elinor Glyn was the Jackie Collins of the Edwardian era, and the serial that began in the February issue, The Man and the Moment , was made into a movie starring Billie Dove.. Click photo for details/to buy.

Complete Stories - March 07 1930

Great Fred T. Everett cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

Cupid's Capers - October 1937

This must be the advanced yoga issue. Click photo for details/to buy.

Gay Parisienne - February 1937

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. Forrest Gump. Click photo for details/to buy.

Uncanny Tales - March 1940

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Click photo for details/to buy.

Stanley Borack - 3 cowboys

1950s : 1950s : 1950s : Three frontier gunmen by Stanley Borack Click photos for details/to buy.

Blue Book - July 1932

Original illustration art by George Avison for Albert Richard Wetjen's The Ship of Silence in the July 1932 issue. Click photo for details/to buy.

Buck Jones Western Stories - November 1936

First issue of this western hero pulp based on the movie star. Click photo for details/to buy.

Phantom Detective - August 1938

She looks like she's seen the titular Specter of death . Click photo for details/to buy.

Black Mask - 2 issues

May 1932 : All-star issue with Raoul Whitfield, Paul Cain, Carroll John Daly, Fred Nebel and Erle Stanley Gardner February 1932 : Raoul Whitfield and H. Bedford Jones in this issue Click photos for details/to buy.

Strange Stories - 1940s

Strange Stories was a short-lived competitor to Weird Tales. It lasted 13 issues, this lot has the complete run in excellent condition. Click photo for details/to buy.