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My Vintage Paperback Collection, one book at a time / aka Rex Parker aka Michael Sharp / https://salmongutter.blogspot.com
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We’re sorry, The Great Space Disco is closed for renovations. Extensive renovations. It’s the 1,000-YEAR PLAN (1955), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#pulp #vintagepaperbacks #bookcovers #bookcoverart

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Cover of 1000 Year Plan —- bald dude w bushy eyebrows in superfly red spacesuit w three spaceships flying in an arc behind him
February 12, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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Emerging from 2-month hibernation to throw more vintage paperbacks at you!

First, an announcement: MURDER! That’s right, A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED (1951), newest Pop Sensation paperback!

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp #bookcoverart

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Dude w bloody hands and lady w two candles squat near probably dead man AGATHA CHRISTIE 820 a murder is announced The fatal shots were fired exactly on schedule! COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
February 10, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Liven up your Thanksgiving with … well, a dead body. But a literate one! It’s THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY (1946), latest Pop Sensation paperback #pulp #vintagepaperbacks

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Cover of THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY —woman in sparkly gown collapsing into foreground
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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He seemed so suave, so worldly, so debonair, but between his ears was … THE HOLLOW (1948), newest Pop Sensation paperback #pulp #vintagepaperbacks

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Cover of THE HOLLOW —grayhaired man bends over blonde curly haired lady in mauve chair. He’s got one arm around her, she does Not seem into it Pocket Bank 485 COMPLETE & UNABRIDGED Agatha Christie The HOLLOW Hereule Poirot solves the murder of Dr. Christow who inspired dangerous passion in many women
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I gasped

(THE LOWDOWN, 2025, ep. 1)
Spines of vintage paperbacks, mostly Jim Thompson
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Solve the Case of the Mysterious Stench with … MR. PARKER PYNE, DETECTIVE (1951), newest Pop Sensation paperback #vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Man escorting lady out of a fire (?) 25€ DELL BOOK 550 AGATHA CHRISTIE Across Europe to the Orient, danger follows MR. PARKER PYNE DETECTIVE COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED:
October 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Leave a well-dressed corpse ✅—it’s MURDER AT HAZELMOOR (1957), newest Pop Ssnsation paperback

#pulp #vintagepaperbacks

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Dead body on carpet, from the shins down DELL 937 Agatha 25€ Christie Murder at Hazelmoor
October 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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I keep reading Edgelord Dies and thinking, “cool” … but no, it’s LORD EDGWARE DIES (1962), newest Pop Sensation paperback #pulp #vintagepaperbacks

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Cover of LORD EDGWARE DIES Lady in wide brimmed black hat and black veil Britain's Queen of Crime Agatha Christie Lord Edgware Dies Fontana Books | 2/6
October 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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the artist, Clement Micarelli, after painting masterpieces like the cover for Sexbound, retired from commercial art in 1971 and later painted many ultra-conservative Christian artworks featuring Jesus and the usual tableaux. alas!
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Any sport in a storm.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Take your fingers out of your mouth, it’s time for SEXBOUND (1961), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#DailyPaperback #pulp #vintagepaperbacks

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Cover of SEXBOUND (1961) —coy blonde sucks fingers on bed 846CF SEyboUN By DEAN McCOY IF YOU DARE - SHARE THE EXCITEMENT OF THESE COUPLES TRAPPED IN A COZY MOTEL-ISOLATED BY STORM, BY SEDUCTION, AND BY THEIR OWN UTTER LACK OF MORALITY ...! A NOVEL STRANGE, SAVAGE AND WHOLLY FRANK - GRAPPLING WITH THE PROBLEMS OF INFIDELITY CREATED BY AMERICA'S ROADSIDE INNS
October 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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The Turret Room by Charlotte Armstrong (Charlotte Armstrong Lewi) (Fawcett Crest T1317, 1965). Cover Art by Harry Bennett. #TheTurretRoom #CharlotteArmstrong #1960s #book #books #paperback #coverart #cover #artwork #HarryBennett #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers #FawcettCrest
September 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Overwhelmed by arithmetic?! Start easy with … TEN PLUS ONE (1964), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Cover of TEN PLUS ONE by Ed McBain B&W Photo of man on urban sidewalk in gray suit recoiling like he’s been shot and man in black suit trying to help him
September 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Dear Diary, let me tell you about … CASSIDY’S GIRL (1954), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Cover of CASSIDY’S GIRL (1955) Dark haired woman lying on bed in foreground, dude w back turned and hands in pocket in background
September 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Sixth time’s the charm! It’s SIX TIMES DEATH (1948), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#pulp #vintagepaperbacks

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Silhouettes of firemen putting out house fire while giant head of lady apparently made of fire floats above them POPULAR LIBRARY STORIES OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE 137 SIX TIMES DEATH WILLIAM IRISH "WELL WORTHY OF THE ATTENTION OF ALL LOVERS OF GOOD SHORT STORIES! NEW YORK TIMES
September 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Put on *all* your lingerie and run away from … the STRANGLER’S SERENADE (1952), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperback #pulp

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Cover of STRANGLER’S SERENADE—Lady in a shit ton of lingerie running up stairs from a guy in a gray suit, hat and red tie
September 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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When the hotels are full up in Graft Town, head on over to … CORRUPTION CITY (1959), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Cover of CORRUPTION CITY—man in fedora menacing woman against a brick wall backdrop - 25° RST ITION Corruption The hoods owned the town —and they'd stop at nothing to keep it By HORACE McCOY
September 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Put on your orgy boots and grab your fanciest red feather, it’s time for UNDRESS REHEARSAL, the newest Pop Sensation paperback

#DailyPaperback #vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Bored blonde in shiny black leather boots and nothing else sits in a cheap chair looking bored and holding what appears to be a red feather SCL/S95265 95¢ MAC Undress Rehearsal The amateur play turned on every sexy woman in town. What an orgy! John Carver
September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Put on your orgy boots and grab your fanciest red feather, it’s time for UNDRESS REHEARSAL, the newest Pop Sensation paperback

#DailyPaperback #vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Bored blonde in shiny black leather boots and nothing else sits in a cheap chair looking bored and holding what appears to be a red feather SCL/S95265 95¢ MAC Undress Rehearsal The amateur play turned on every sexy woman in town. What an orgy! John Carver
September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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She’d have to be impervious to pain to sit on that horrific scratchy bedspread for any length of time… it’s IMPERVIOUS TO PAIN (1972), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Orange-pantied lady vaguely menaces nightgowned lady with a cat o nine tails V-1070- T $1.95 IMPERVIOUS TO PAIN by David Malcolm
September 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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When you have spent WAY too much of your life knee-deep in midcentury sleaze… 👋
trashmenace.bsky.social Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · Sep 2
Think this is the same model as Commie Sex Trap
September 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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The exciting new story of a woman who couldn’t keep her trap shut! (That’s my theory, anyway.) It’s … WOMAN TRAP (1962), newest Pop Sensation paperback #vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Smiling Blonde on quilt on bed. Front cover of… Woman Trap. She was the kind of creature that convulsed into a sea of rippling heated waves, thrashing and squirming as if she hadn't had a man in years, when the truth was that the more she made love, the wilder she became.
September 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Got flagged with a “sensitive content warning” for this one, despite the fact that it’s no more “sensitive” than many other contents I’ve contented, sigh. I hate this prudish algorithmic world.

Anyway, TORMENTED BRIDE (1965)!

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Curvy lady struts through bar, past the approving gaze of many female onlookers
August 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Got flagged with a “sensitive content warning” for this one, despite the fact that it’s no more “sensitive” than many other contents I’ve contented, sigh. I hate this prudish algorithmic world.

Anyway, TORMENTED BRIDE (1965)!

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Curvy lady struts through bar, past the approving gaze of many female onlookers
August 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Calling all comers (!!). Your presence is requested by … ANGELINA (1964), newest Pop Sensation paperback

[Was this written by *the* Irving “Swifty” Lazar? Probably not. But I can dream…]

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp #DailyPaperback #vintagesleaze

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ANGIELINA by Irving Lazar (Creepy Photo of man embracing woman, his face hidden behind hers; she looks dead into the camera) She was eager and ready for all comers-male or female who would fall into her web of unspeakable lust and unnatural desire. FB 95c
August 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM