I recently attended a book sale and while waiting in line started up a conversation with the person next to me.  She was reading a Mrs. Pollifax book for the third or fourth time.   She was disappointed that she had read all the Mrs. Pollifax books at least three times and wished there were more.  [...]

We have attended many different shows and conventions in just the few short years that we have been working as dealers since my husband has retired.   I have written previously about the different kind of shows and conventions but I do want to reinforce about what a collector’s show is about. PulpFest is an excellent [...]

Yes! Paperbacks can have dust jackets.  The publishers after World War II were looking for gimmicks and marketing tools.  I like to think that they wanted to make the paperback more “acceptable” to people – more like hardcovers- not so much like the pulp magazines that were so prevalent at the time.   Although Bantam came [...]

My father is a voracious reader and collector of all things sci-fi. Bookcases in my parents’ home office are filled with back issues of Analog and familiar titles by Isaac Asimov and Orson Scott Card. While bookstores are fine for new titles, the great sci-fi novels of the 1950s and 1960s are best found in [...]