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Acolyte, v. 3, issue 4, whole no. 12, Fall 1945
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Chicago firm offers mint copies, bound in black cloth with gold stamping, truly beautiful volumes. But here is a small sample of other items offered by these two firms. Titles priced from 45¢ to 89¢ each include: The Other Worlds (Stong), Great Ghost Stories of the World (Laing), Creeps by Night (Hammett), The Uninvited (MacArdle), Killer and the Slain (Walpole), Sam Small Flies Again (Knight), She (Haggard), Best Ghost Stories (James), One Man Show (Thayer), Tales of Terror (Karloff), A Guy Named Joe (White), Invasion (van Loon), eleven Tarzan titles (Burroughs) and eleven Thorne Smith titles. Up to $1.98: Houseboat on the Styx (Bangs), Warrior of the Dawn (Browne), Out of hte Silent Planet and Perelandra (Lewis), Canape-Vert (Marcelin), The Golden Rooms (Fisher), World's Beginning (Ardrey), King Solomon's Mines (Haggard), Moon Pool (Merritt), Witchcraft-- Its Power in the World Today (Seabrook), and The Golden Bough (Grazer). The last two are non-fiction. Up to $2.69 (fiction and non-fiction): Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Wise and Fraser), Phantom Victory (Lessnder), Time Must Have a Stop (Huxley), Six Novels of the Supernatural (Viking Portable Library), Pause to Wonder (Fisher and Humphries), Men Before Adam (White), Lost Continent of Mu, Children of Mu, and Sacred Symbols of Mu (Churchward). At $3.19 and $4.98 respectively: Rockets (Ley) and Dweller on Two Planets (Phylos). Then there is the Center Book Club, 243 Market Street, Newark 2, New Jersey; a book club that functions by mail only. One becomes a member by merely applying in writing. The club does little or no advertising for it needs none, since a member may order from the club any book in print at a 15% discount from the publisher's price. It will be noted that this 15% discount parallels quite closely many of the prices quoted by the two Chicago firms.) The fifth source is something else altogether, an out-and-out wholesale house. I have bought nothing from this firm because I simply cannot use twenty-five or thirty copies of a single title. In the hands of a reliable and generous fan-dealer, this source might prove beneficial to dealer and collector alike. An example is the current H. P. Lovecraft volume, Supernatural Stories, which is retailing everywhere at 49¢. In quantities of 50, this volume may be had at 30¢ each. Also at 30¢ are The Croquet Player (Wells) and Of Lunar Kingdoms (Wilson). All in mint condition of course. I shudder to think what outre profits this source might make available to the wrong fan dealer. (The address of this firm may be had from the editor of The Acolyte.) From this brief resume of a small segment of the book selling racket, it should be evident to the dullest reader that a very imposing and worthwhile collection may be built up without paying through the nose for it. Just because you live in a small town and are dependent on Uncle Sam to bring you your books does not mean that you need be victimised. Wide-awake collectors will shell out sizeable sums only for books that are genuinely valuable and hard to get. (paid advertisement) MINT FANTASY MAGAZINES FOR SALE: UNKNOWN and UNKNOWN WORLDS. Complete mint set, 39 issues... $15.00 FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES. Complete mint set, 35 issues....15.00 FANTASTIC NOVELS. Complete mint set, 5 issues... 2.00 WEIRD TALES. Mint copies, 1936: Oct, Nov, Dec. 1937: Jan, Feb, Apr, May, July, Aug, Sept, Oct. 1938: all issues EXCEPT Mar & June. 1939: all issues EXCEPT Jan, July, Aug. PER COPY... .50 WEIRD TALES. Mint set, Jan 1940 thru July 1945. 34 issues... 7.50 ALL THESE MAGAZINES ARE IN MINT CONDITION. ALL PRICES POSTPAID. Raymond E. Ripa, 38 1/2 Franklin Street, Newport, Rhode Island [page no:] --28--
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Chicago firm offers mint copies, bound in black cloth with gold stamping, truly beautiful volumes. But here is a small sample of other items offered by these two firms. Titles priced from 45¢ to 89¢ each include: The Other Worlds (Stong), Great Ghost Stories of the World (Laing), Creeps by Night (Hammett), The Uninvited (MacArdle), Killer and the Slain (Walpole), Sam Small Flies Again (Knight), She (Haggard), Best Ghost Stories (James), One Man Show (Thayer), Tales of Terror (Karloff), A Guy Named Joe (White), Invasion (van Loon), eleven Tarzan titles (Burroughs) and eleven Thorne Smith titles. Up to $1.98: Houseboat on the Styx (Bangs), Warrior of the Dawn (Browne), Out of hte Silent Planet and Perelandra (Lewis), Canape-Vert (Marcelin), The Golden Rooms (Fisher), World's Beginning (Ardrey), King Solomon's Mines (Haggard), Moon Pool (Merritt), Witchcraft-- Its Power in the World Today (Seabrook), and The Golden Bough (Grazer). The last two are non-fiction. Up to $2.69 (fiction and non-fiction): Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Wise and Fraser), Phantom Victory (Lessnder), Time Must Have a Stop (Huxley), Six Novels of the Supernatural (Viking Portable Library), Pause to Wonder (Fisher and Humphries), Men Before Adam (White), Lost Continent of Mu, Children of Mu, and Sacred Symbols of Mu (Churchward). At $3.19 and $4.98 respectively: Rockets (Ley) and Dweller on Two Planets (Phylos). Then there is the Center Book Club, 243 Market Street, Newark 2, New Jersey; a book club that functions by mail only. One becomes a member by merely applying in writing. The club does little or no advertising for it needs none, since a member may order from the club any book in print at a 15% discount from the publisher's price. It will be noted that this 15% discount parallels quite closely many of the prices quoted by the two Chicago firms.) The fifth source is something else altogether, an out-and-out wholesale house. I have bought nothing from this firm because I simply cannot use twenty-five or thirty copies of a single title. In the hands of a reliable and generous fan-dealer, this source might prove beneficial to dealer and collector alike. An example is the current H. P. Lovecraft volume, Supernatural Stories, which is retailing everywhere at 49¢. In quantities of 50, this volume may be had at 30¢ each. Also at 30¢ are The Croquet Player (Wells) and Of Lunar Kingdoms (Wilson). All in mint condition of course. I shudder to think what outre profits this source might make available to the wrong fan dealer. (The address of this firm may be had from the editor of The Acolyte.) From this brief resume of a small segment of the book selling racket, it should be evident to the dullest reader that a very imposing and worthwhile collection may be built up without paying through the nose for it. Just because you live in a small town and are dependent on Uncle Sam to bring you your books does not mean that you need be victimised. Wide-awake collectors will shell out sizeable sums only for books that are genuinely valuable and hard to get. (paid advertisement) MINT FANTASY MAGAZINES FOR SALE: UNKNOWN and UNKNOWN WORLDS. Complete mint set, 39 issues... $15.00 FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES. Complete mint set, 35 issues....15.00 FANTASTIC NOVELS. Complete mint set, 5 issues... 2.00 WEIRD TALES. Mint copies, 1936: Oct, Nov, Dec. 1937: Jan, Feb, Apr, May, July, Aug, Sept, Oct. 1938: all issues EXCEPT Mar & June. 1939: all issues EXCEPT Jan, July, Aug. PER COPY... .50 WEIRD TALES. Mint set, Jan 1940 thru July 1945. 34 issues... 7.50 ALL THESE MAGAZINES ARE IN MINT CONDITION. ALL PRICES POSTPAID. Raymond E. Ripa, 38 1/2 Franklin Street, Newport, Rhode Island [page no:] --28--
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