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Acolyte, v. 4, issue 1, whole no. 13, Winter 1946
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ken place at the end to hold it down to eight reels, or something. Damn it, I like to see the lovers suffer and beautiful women weep and guys to use these hauntingly beautiful lines that make everything right again and everybody gets happy as hell. But they crossed me up. Even at that, it had the goddamndest twist I have ever seen on earth or in the army. Oh it was all too starry-eyed and just the sort of sad searching fantasy that drives me into raptures. ---oo0oo--- WATCH THE MARQUEES FOR: The Beast with Five Fingers, Chant of the VooDoo, an Angel Comes to Brooklyn, The Enchanted Forest, Tarzen and the Leopard Men, Bride of the Rain God, Dragonwyck, House of Dracula, Bedlam, Brute Man, Catman of Paris, The Last Man in the World, Strangler of the Swamps, Fear, Mr. and Mrs. Satan, Pillow of Death, Brave New World, and Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit. BANQUETS FOR BOOKWORMS LANEY RACKETEERS vs HOBBYISTS -o0o- Here are some of the promised exposes: Julius Unger, of Brooklyn, New York, furnishes several interesting comparisons. I have before me one of his lists which offers two of the inprint Bizarre Series (See Acolyte #11, p. 27)-- The Thing in the Cellar and The Cancer Machine --at $3.00 and $2.00 respectively. The publisher furnishes these at 25[[cent symbol]] each postpaid. Then one of Unger's printed postcard lists quotes the Canadian magazine, Uncanny Tales, at four issues for $10.00 (unspecified issues). I quote from a letter from L. A. Croutch, a Canadian fan dealer: "The highest I have charged was between two and three times cover price, depending on condition; if it was mint...about 3 times cover price. Others went at twice cover price and some copies still are worth in my opinion only the cover price." Since the cover price on most issues is 15[[cent symbol]], Unger's quotation seems beyond defense. On another of Unger's cards, this one postmarked July 19, 1945, he offers a professionally bound set of Fantastic Novels for $20.00. An unbound set was offered on page 28 of #12 Acolyte at only $2.00, and I suggest that the binding could not have cost more than $2.50. Walt Liebscher has a number of bound volumes of fantasy magazines, and tells me his binding costs have not averaged more than $1.50 per volume. It is difficult to run comparisons on Unger's book prices since the fellow cagily neglects to specify the edition. However, cheap editions of many of the volumes he offers can be obtained new at a fraction of his prices. If one is interested in reading copies rather than what edition it may be, he might be interested in these figures: (cheap edition new price in parentheses) Rocket to the Morgue, $3.5 (25c); Seven Footprints to Satan, $1.50 (25c); Lost World, $1.00 (49c); Donovan's Brain, $1.00 (49c) (25c). Unger has dozens of other quotations upon which I look with jaundiced eye, but I believe that these few concrete examples should suffice to warn collectors that not all books from Brooklyn are bargains. (continued on page 30) -- 21 --
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ken place at the end to hold it down to eight reels, or something. Damn it, I like to see the lovers suffer and beautiful women weep and guys to use these hauntingly beautiful lines that make everything right again and everybody gets happy as hell. But they crossed me up. Even at that, it had the goddamndest twist I have ever seen on earth or in the army. Oh it was all too starry-eyed and just the sort of sad searching fantasy that drives me into raptures. ---oo0oo--- WATCH THE MARQUEES FOR: The Beast with Five Fingers, Chant of the VooDoo, an Angel Comes to Brooklyn, The Enchanted Forest, Tarzen and the Leopard Men, Bride of the Rain God, Dragonwyck, House of Dracula, Bedlam, Brute Man, Catman of Paris, The Last Man in the World, Strangler of the Swamps, Fear, Mr. and Mrs. Satan, Pillow of Death, Brave New World, and Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit. BANQUETS FOR BOOKWORMS LANEY RACKETEERS vs HOBBYISTS -o0o- Here are some of the promised exposes: Julius Unger, of Brooklyn, New York, furnishes several interesting comparisons. I have before me one of his lists which offers two of the inprint Bizarre Series (See Acolyte #11, p. 27)-- The Thing in the Cellar and The Cancer Machine --at $3.00 and $2.00 respectively. The publisher furnishes these at 25[[cent symbol]] each postpaid. Then one of Unger's printed postcard lists quotes the Canadian magazine, Uncanny Tales, at four issues for $10.00 (unspecified issues). I quote from a letter from L. A. Croutch, a Canadian fan dealer: "The highest I have charged was between two and three times cover price, depending on condition; if it was mint...about 3 times cover price. Others went at twice cover price and some copies still are worth in my opinion only the cover price." Since the cover price on most issues is 15[[cent symbol]], Unger's quotation seems beyond defense. On another of Unger's cards, this one postmarked July 19, 1945, he offers a professionally bound set of Fantastic Novels for $20.00. An unbound set was offered on page 28 of #12 Acolyte at only $2.00, and I suggest that the binding could not have cost more than $2.50. Walt Liebscher has a number of bound volumes of fantasy magazines, and tells me his binding costs have not averaged more than $1.50 per volume. It is difficult to run comparisons on Unger's book prices since the fellow cagily neglects to specify the edition. However, cheap editions of many of the volumes he offers can be obtained new at a fraction of his prices. If one is interested in reading copies rather than what edition it may be, he might be interested in these figures: (cheap edition new price in parentheses) Rocket to the Morgue, $3.5 (25c); Seven Footprints to Satan, $1.50 (25c); Lost World, $1.00 (49c); Donovan's Brain, $1.00 (49c) (25c). Unger has dozens of other quotations upon which I look with jaundiced eye, but I believe that these few concrete examples should suffice to warn collectors that not all books from Brooklyn are bargains. (continued on page 30) -- 21 --
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