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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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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 screamed at the screen many times because there is NO way anyone who loved vintage paperbacks, let alone a rare book dealer, would handle them the way Ethan Hawke does in this movie. Just bending covers & cracking spines left and right, like they’re 2-dollar beaters, ugh! Also … wtf is this??
Hawke torturing TEXAS BY THE TAIL but the pages are cut wrong???
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Where does one even get chainmail underwear?! Find out (maybe) when you enter … THE TWILIGHT LUST (1965), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #lesbian #pulp #dailypaperback

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Woman in terrible 60s blonde wig and chainmail underwear crosses her arms defiantly behind a ratty houseplant RL 105 95c ABULTS ONLY SHE WAS USED BY MEN BUT SHE YEARNED FOR THE ARMS OF WOMEN The TWILIGHT LUST By VAL ARDEN THIS IS AN ORIGINAL, ROYAL LINE BOOK'
August 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Boy … oh boy! It’s CALL BOY (1963), the newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp #paperbackcovers #vintagesleaze #sexworkers #bisexuals #queer

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Cover of CALL BOY—two shirtless dude in black shorts enthusiastically approach a naked redhead in a bed covered with very convenient hair and cash IT WAS MEN FOR RENT IN THIS LUST RACKET! CALL BOY By TONY CALVIN 60¢ EB 907 AN EMBER BOOK
August 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Bare your midriff and unzip your jeans, it’s time to mount a full-scale SEDUCTION CAMPAIGN (1962), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #nymphomania #pulp #DailyPaperback

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Redhead with floral shirt tied above her belly button and her jeans slightly unzipped ogles someone out of frame while playing with a lantern (?)
August 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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BABY DOLL MURDERS, James O. Causey (Gold Medal, 1957)

cover: Barye Phillips

Pop Sensation paperback no. 2

#DailyPaperback #marijuana #vintagepaperbacks

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Redhead woman on be in lingerie smoking while dopey not-even-colored-in guy looks on, trying to be suave 25c 698 GOLD MEDAL BOOK THE BABY DOLL MURDERS She could look like a wistful child and she loved to play games — such as murder, men and marijuana JAMES O. CAUSEY
August 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Enter hell’s anteroom and share a smoke with … MERCEDES (1966), newest Pop Sensation paperback #DailyPaperback #vintagepaperbacks #bookcovers #pulp

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Paperback cover featuring woman on a large ottoman turning back to look at you while lighting a cigarette. She has an amazing updo and tight pink dress. Some loser is looking on. The room is a hell kind of red 4-CT MIDWOOD 33-714 MERCEDES She found there was more than one way to reach the top. CARL DEMARCO 60
August 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Don’t you hate it when you realize too late that you forgot to pack a watch *or* a shirt?!

Have a drink and a cigarette and forget your troubles with THE COMPANY SHE KEEPS (1955), newest Pop Sensation paperback #vintagepaperbacks #DailyPaperback

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Sad shirtless and watchless lady in train reflects on her life choices over whiskey (spilled?) and a cigarette (smoldering in the ashtray) DELL 800 K 824 The intimate affairs of Margaret Sargent- 25€ Her lives, loves, and disenchantments The Company She Keeps MARY McCARTHY
August 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Inspired by @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social, in addition to posting new Pop Sensation paperbacks, I’m going to post a #DailyPaperback, highlighting books from the archives, starting with this beautiful Ace Double (D-27, 1953), the first pb I ever wrote about

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Gun in foreground pointing at man and woman huddled behind steering wheel ACE BOOKS TWO COMPLETE NOVELS 35G She Was Hard to Meet and Deadly to Know! DOUBLE TAKE An ACE Original by MEL COLTON Woman on ground next to tipped-over table and spilled cocktail clutches throat as she attempts to call someone on phone ACE DOUBLE NOVEL TWO COMPLETE NOVELS 35c D-27 "Plentiful Action, Good Characters, and Sinuous Plot... - Saturday Review of Literature the Fingered Man (QUOTH THE RAVENI BRUNO FISCHER Specially Edited Edition
August 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Drop to your knees and thank god for sleaze! It’s time to take a wild spree with WILD SPREE (1964), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#lesbians #bisexuals #vintagesleaze #vintagepaperbacks #bookcovers

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Censored bec blue sky moderation fucking sucks
August 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM