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Change of pace from Weird Tales for Hannes Bok. Illustration for Dead but still kicking by Talmadge Powell in Ten Detective Aces , March 1945. Click photo for details/to buy.

Quintana cover on this uncommon pulp. Click photo for details/to buy.

Ancient Egyptian to the rescue?. Click photo for details/to buy.

Oddball Munsey pulp combining fact articles, fiction stories and poetry. Click photo for details/to buy.

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me! Wendy Liebman. Click photo for details/to buy.

Beautiful Enoch Bolles cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. Sappho. Click photo for details/to buy.

Norman Saunders' unmistakable style on display in this cover which could have been equally well done for a paperback. Click photo for details/to buy.

Complete run of the Hugo Gernsback Amazing Deetective Stories . Condition is not great, but the covers are fun. Click photo for details/to buy.

Not the knight she was looking for. Click photo for details/to buy.

Lot going on in this cover of an early Dime Detective issue. Click photo for details/to buy.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. Mae West. Click photo for details/to buy.

Enoch Bolles cover on this issue of Spicy. Click photo for details/to buy.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. Eleanor Roosevelt. Click photo for details/to buy.

Fantastic Avison drawing, unidentified magazine/book/story. Click photo for details/to buy.

If, like me, you first saw John Newton Howitt's work in the pulps (The Spider, Terror Tales and a few others), this cover from 1918 is surprisingly different in style. It turns out that Howitt only worked in the pulps during the Great Depression, and switched back to slick illustration as soon as he could. Click photo for details/to buy.

Chris Schaare, more famous for his aviation and war pulp illustrations, does a decent pastiche of a Victorian era boxing illustration. Click photo for details/to buy.

Uncharacteristic poster style illustration from N.C. Wyeth. Click photo for details/to buy.

Wyeth's clouds are distinctive. Click photo for details/to buy.

Part 3 of At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs in this issue. Click photo for details/to buy.

Beautiful pirate cover by Charles Hargens. Click photo for details/to buy.

Cover of a Scottish fishwife by British poster artist Frank Newbould, who specialized in travel and transportation, doing illustrations for magazines, advertizements for travel lines, railways, cruise ships and the like. Click photo for details/to buy.

Seller thinks this might be an Enoch Bolles cover, i think it's more likely it's the work of George Quintana. The style of painting resembles his, and the photo on the cover resembles Quintana. Click photo for details/to buy.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time. James Cash Penney. Lower grade issue of this rare pulp. Click photo for details/to buy.

Great skull cover by Rudolph Belarski on this issue. Click photo for details/to buy.

Cover by James Montgomery Flagg, whose pencil work i like better. Click photo for details/to buy.

1940s : Rare one-issue pulp produced by Dell Publications, only 64 pages for the asking price of $1300 :-)

These Blue Book issues from 1916 with Tarzan stories are much sought after by Burroughs collectors, and hardly ever show up for sale. Click photo for details/to buy.

Archie Gunn cover on this early issue of what would become North West Stories . Click photo for details/to buy.

Nice Enoch Bolles cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

Excellent cover by C.D. Williams . Click photo for details/to buy.

Second issue of this rare magazine. Harder to find than the first issue. Click photo for details/to buy.

Cover by British artist Stanley L. Wood depicting the slave trade. Click photo for details/to buy.

These Blue Book issues from 1917 with Tarzan stories are much sought after by Burroughs collectors, and hardly ever show up for sale. Click photo for details/to buy.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels. Leigh Hunt. And a Quintana cover I actually like. Click photo for details/to buy.

These Blue Book issues from 1917 with Tarzan stories are much sought after by Burroughs collectors, and hardly ever show up for sale. Click photo for details/to buy.

Presumably this is in the Windy City, cover by Oscar Greiner. Click photo for details/to buy.

Great Bergey cover for Pep Stories. The background reminds me of those trippy 1960s paperback covers. Click photo for details/to buy.

Devil may care attitude on display in this issue of Spicy Stories . Cover by Earle Bergey. Click photo for details/to buy.

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Beautiful Parkhurst cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

October 1937 : Another woman being menaced by a giant bug on a pulp cover. I wonder if anyone collects just those covers June 1939 : She just had to pack them tight Click photos for details/to buy.

This cover must have practically drawn itself. Depicting The King of Diamonds by Hugh Kahler. Click photo for details/to buy.

Leyendecker's latest - poster for Netflix's Black Mirror :-). Click photo for details/to buy.

H.J. Soulen's bright colors never fail to delight me. Click photo for details/to buy.

Vintage British illustration, looks like a cover for an Enid Blyton story. Click photo for details/to buy.

G-Men was the most successful of the pulps cashing in on the FBI craze. This issue has a nice Belarski cover. Click photo for details/to buy.

Norman Saunders cover on this rare Street and Smith pulp. Click photo for details/to buy.

She's going into the pulp vault, and if you bid quickly it might be yours. William F. Soare cover. Click photo for details/to buy.