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A gallery of well loved vintage paperbacks for book lovers, pickers, and collectors.
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March 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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A worn black paperback edition of Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto” below the author and title it reads in red: introduction by Stefan T. Posson gateway edition .65
March 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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A weathered paperback copy of “Hey, Peanuts: selected cartoons from MORE PEANUTS Vol.2” by Charles M. Schultz A cartoon drawing of Lucy running towards Charlie Brown with a letter in her hand while singing his name loudly. In response, Charlie covers his eyes in exasperation thinking “oh, good grief!”
February 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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A vintage paperback of “The Time Machine” and “The War of the World’s” by H.G. Wells. The white cover has a thin black line around the border with a futuristic painting of chrome spaceship and large, looming alien robot looking entity behind it.
February 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Vintage Snoopy/Peanuts paperback. The bright blue cover reads from top to bottom: $1.00 “Snoopy, Come Home: a Nee Peanuts Book” by Charles M.Schultz (Holt, Einehart and Winston, Inc.) with a panicked Snoopy sitting upon his red doghouse with a chirping nest of baby Woodstocks in a nest beside him.
February 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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An aged paperback edition of Still Life with Woodpecker: a Sort of a Love Story by Tom Robbins. The front cover resembles the vintage package design of Camel brand cigarettes, depicting a desert scene with pyramids and palm trees in the background. In the foreground in a dark red-brown column border, and in the center is a drawing of a woodpecker in flight with a matchstick in its mouth, in side profile, flying to the left.
February 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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A vintage paperback copy of Homer’s The Odyssey, translated by W.H.D. Rouse. The blue cover is bordered at the top in white with script writing (that reads: M21 $.35 The Story of Odysseus) and below in black with script writing (that reads Mentor Classics). In the center is a circle split horizontal in two shades of blue representing sky and sea. A ship with a large white sail on one side of the circle and on the other a Roman helmet with a red brush plume atop.
February 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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A weathered paperback printing of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The dogeared corners crease the dark grey border around a black & white pencil drawing of a man and woman on the front cover.
February 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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A photo of a vintage paperback of Beuwolf by Burton Raffel. The formally white cover is faded around the edges with a mid century woodblock depiction of an old white bearded man fighting a large, fire-breathing dragon, with a sword.
February 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM