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Title: Adventure House Guide to the Pulps by John Gunnison, John Locke, Doug Ellis ISBN: 1-886937-45-1 Publisher: Adventure House Pub. Date: 10 July, 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Most Important Guide to the Pulps Ever Published!
Comment: I've been a collector of pulps for nearly forty years. I own one of the largest pulp magazine collections in the world and have written numerous books and articles about these great magazines. The pulps are a major part of American publishing that have never gotten the attention they deserved. Great authors from Dashiell Hammett to H.P. Lovecraft to Robert Bloch to Ray Bradbury all began writing in the pulps.
However, there's always been one major obstacle in collecting pulp magazines. There has never been a comprehensive guide to exactly what magazines exist. When buying pulps, you never know if you are getting one of three issues or one of a hundred. The volume numbers were deceiving as many publishers mixed them up or never used them properly. Many pulps were even dated wrong. As a collector, I went crazy for years trying to discover what pulps existed. That's all changed with this book.
For the first time ever a collector can discover exactly how many issues of Weird Tales or Black Mask or literally a thousand other magazines were published. And know the exact dates of the issues. This guide is a perfect checklist for anyone who wants to collect the pulps or wants to know when they were published. It is a book aimed at pulp fans and pulp collectors. This book was never intended to be a pulp price guide or some sort of index to the contents of pulp magazines. It does exactly what it promises and does it extremely well. It is a checklist of what pulps were published and when. That information is invaluable to anyone who is a collector, fan, or researcher involved in the pulp field.
As a collector, fan, and researcher I found this book incredibly valuable. My only complaint is that it wasn't done thirty or forty years ago. If you are interested in the pulps, this is a book you must own.
Rating: 5
Summary: Invaluable Guide for pulp collectors
Comment: "The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps" is a seminal book for pulp magazine collectors. A three-year project reflecting a lifetime of collecting on the part of its three author/editors--Doug Ellis, John Gunnison and John Locke--this book should find a cherished spot on every collector's shelf. It lists by year and date 97 percent of all the pulp magazines ever published from October, 1896 to when they died in the mid-fifties. The book has a long introductory history that is a valuable resource in and of itself, as well as thumnail photographs of most of the magazines covered. Each issue gets a small box in which the buyer can check off the issue in his own collection--and keep track of those he still needs. The book is NOT a price guide--anybody who follows eBay knows the futility of that. Nor is it intended as a pictorial history of the field. But for a collector to see at a glance how many issues of a magazine were published, their date, the publishing company that issued them, etc., is information that's usually not readily available and is hard to come by. One thing for sure, if Lawrence Davidson and I had had this book prior to compiling "Pulp Culture" (now out of print), it would have made our task far easier. The author/editors are to be congratulated for a book that should be on every collector's--and every library's--shelf. Highly recommended. -- Frank M. Robinson, San Francisco, CA.
Rating: 5
Summary: Extremely useful
Comment: Any pulp collector with any size collection needs this essential resource. The biggest issue in collecting the more obscure (and often less expensive!) pulps is the lack of information on these publications. This fills that and other information voids.
Plus, as any collector knows, anything that prompts one to go through one's collection is a "must have".
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Title: It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps by Adam Parfrey, Mort Künstler, Bill Devine, Josh Alan Friedman, David Saunders ISBN: 0922915814 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Uncovered: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulp by Douglas Ellis ISBN: 1886937745 Publisher: Adventure House Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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