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My Vintage Paperback Collection, one book at a time / aka Rex Parker aka Michael Sharp / https://salmongutter.blogspot.com

Man punching blonde Erle Stanley Gardner THE CASE OF THE BACKWARD MULE Killer or not- she had it coming! COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
A SIGNET CLASSIC•451-CW107: THE COMPLETE UNEXPURGATED EDITION OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS NOVEL D. H. LAWRENCE LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER tupshur
THE HUNTER by RICHARD STARK StallA PERMABOOK EDITION
Four fingers and a bent penis emerge from a pile of maize? Pocket book N: 157,105,804 JOEL TOWNSLEY ROGERS 385 the red right hand A MYSTERY COMPLETE & UNABRIDGED
Drawing for a portable radio ticket found inside Pocket Books DRACULA
Floating head of blonde looks down on dude who is standing & staring at what appears to be a dead lady near the bottom of a staircase 1090 25° THE DEVIL THREW DICE She was the kind of gal that many men might kill. AMBER DEAN THE COMPLETE BOOK
Redhead man grabbing frightened dark haired lady by white dress. Tearing it. Looking like he’s about to backhand her while ghost waiter looks on When a girl prefers men who mix love with murder, she's... ASKING FOR TROUBLE JOE RAYTER Author of THE VICTIM WAS IMPORTANT
Man yelling at woman tough, realistic novel of Hollywood 35c WHAT D'YA KNOW FOR SURE? LEN ZINBERG
Man yelling at woman tough, realistic novel of Hollywood 35c WHAT D'YA KNOW FOR SURE? LEN ZINBERG
Man embracing woman as lady looks on through window 1083 BETBOo 20 25° THE COMPLETE BOOK A novel of love and violence • AND SOMETIMES DEATH (THE TROUBLE IN THOR) POCKET BOOKS INC. JO VALENTINE
Blonde watching brunette caress lothario’s freshly shaven face 134 She was forced to share a forbidden love SAVAGE TRIANGLE LOUIS-CHARLES ROYER Author of "LOVE CAMP" 25¢
Blonde in white top and skirt w pink scarf floating underwater
Bald dude w green eyes whose body is a spacescape of green planets and firing spaceships Tales of now, then, and never by the supreme master of the strange VISIONS AND VENTURERS Theodore Sturgeon 12648 • 1.75 ذ لكل
Cover of KILLER’S PAYOFF by Ed McBain Woman in turquoise dress holding white gloves being stared at by man in foreground holding a letter and what looks like a picture of the woman from her stripper days
EASY TO KILL Agatha Christie Freaky man falling backward as red hand reaches out to touch him
Golf ball in a tuft of grass next to hypo next to brownish leaf PAN books X736 AGATHA CHRISTIE WHY DIDNT THEY ASK EVANS P 0.60
Art Carney holding a paperback (flanked by Bill Macy)
Dead man in foreground standing ma and lady off to sides 1085 25 Agatha Christie THE UNDER DOG AND OTHER MYSTERIES An exciting novelette plus eight gripping stories by the master mistress of crime THE COMPLETE BOOK
Trunk w/ woman’s head emerging along with limbs of what looks like marionette. There’s also a hammer standing on end next to a red ball for some reason DELL 6984 AGATHA GHRISTIE POIROT LOSES AGLE T FEATURING HERCULE POIROT 95c
Cover of 1000 Year Plan —- bald dude w bushy eyebrows in superfly red spacesuit w three spaceships flying in an arc behind him
Dude w bloody hands and lady w two candles squat near probably dead man AGATHA CHRISTIE 820 a murder is announced The fatal shots were fired exactly on schedule! COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
Cover of THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY —woman in sparkly gown collapsing into foreground
Cover of THE HOLLOW —grayhaired man bends over blonde curly haired lady in mauve chair. He’s got one arm around her, she does Not seem into it Pocket Bank 485 COMPLETE & UNABRIDGED Agatha Christie The HOLLOW Hereule Poirot solves the murder of Dr. Christow who inspired dangerous passion in many women
Hawke torturing TEXAS BY THE TAIL but the pages are cut wrong???
Spines of vintage paperbacks, mostly Jim Thompson
Man escorting lady out of a fire (?) 25€ DELL BOOK 550 AGATHA CHRISTIE Across Europe to the Orient, danger follows MR. PARKER PYNE DETECTIVE COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED:
Dead body on carpet, from the shins down DELL 937 Agatha 25€ Christie Murder at Hazelmoor
Cover of LORD EDGWARE DIES Lady in wide brimmed black hat and black veil Britain's Queen of Crime Agatha Christie Lord Edgware Dies Fontana Books | 2/6
Cover of SEXBOUND (1961) —coy blonde sucks fingers on bed 846CF SEyboUN By DEAN McCOY IF YOU DARE - SHARE THE EXCITEMENT OF THESE COUPLES TRAPPED IN A COZY MOTEL-ISOLATED BY STORM, BY SEDUCTION, AND BY THEIR OWN UTTER LACK OF MORALITY ...! A NOVEL STRANGE, SAVAGE AND WHOLLY FRANK - GRAPPLING WITH THE PROBLEMS OF INFIDELITY CREATED BY AMERICA'S ROADSIDE INNS
Cover of TEN PLUS ONE by Ed McBain B&W Photo of man on urban sidewalk in gray suit recoiling like he’s been shot and man in black suit trying to help him
Cover of CASSIDY’S GIRL (1955) Dark haired woman lying on bed in foreground, dude w back turned and hands in pocket in background
Silhouettes of firemen putting out house fire while giant head of lady apparently made of fire floats above them POPULAR LIBRARY STORIES OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE 137 SIX TIMES DEATH WILLIAM IRISH "WELL WORTHY OF THE ATTENTION OF ALL LOVERS OF GOOD SHORT STORIES! NEW YORK TIMES
Cover of STRANGLER’S SERENADE—Lady in a shit ton of lingerie running up stairs from a guy in a gray suit, hat and red tie
Cover of CORRUPTION CITY—man in fedora menacing woman against a brick wall backdrop - 25° RST ITION Corruption The hoods owned the town —and they'd stop at nothing to keep it By HORACE McCOY
Bored blonde in shiny black leather boots and nothing else sits in a cheap chair looking bored and holding what appears to be a red feather SCL/S95265 95¢ MAC Undress Rehearsal The amateur play turned on every sexy woman in town. What an orgy! John Carver
Orange-pantied lady vaguely menaces nightgowned lady with a cat o nine tails V-1070- T $1.95 IMPERVIOUS TO PAIN by David Malcolm
Smiling Blonde on quilt on bed. Front cover of… Woman Trap. She was the kind of creature that convulsed into a sea of rippling heated waves, thrashing and squirming as if she hadn't had a man in years, when the truth was that the more she made love, the wilder she became.
Curvy lady struts through bar, past the approving gaze of many female onlookers
ANGIELINA by Irving Lazar (Creepy Photo of man embracing woman, his face hidden behind hers; she looks dead into the camera) She was eager and ready for all comers-male or female who would fall into her web of unspeakable lust and unnatural desire. FB 95c
Woman in terrible 60s blonde wig and chainmail underwear crosses her arms defiantly behind a ratty houseplant RL 105 95c ABULTS ONLY SHE WAS USED BY MEN BUT SHE YEARNED FOR THE ARMS OF WOMEN The TWILIGHT LUST By VAL ARDEN THIS IS AN ORIGINAL, ROYAL LINE BOOK'
Cover of CALL BOY—two shirtless dude in black shorts enthusiastically approach a naked redhead in a bed covered with very convenient hair and cash IT WAS MEN FOR RENT IN THIS LUST RACKET! CALL BOY By TONY CALVIN 60¢ EB 907 AN EMBER BOOK
Redhead with floral shirt tied above her belly button and her jeans slightly unzipped ogles someone out of frame while playing with a lantern (?)
Redhead woman on be in lingerie smoking while dopey not-even-colored-in guy looks on, trying to be suave 25c 698 GOLD MEDAL BOOK THE BABY DOLL MURDERS She could look like a wistful child and she loved to play games — such as murder, men and marijuana JAMES O. CAUSEY
Paperback cover featuring woman on a large ottoman turning back to look at you while lighting a cigarette. She has an amazing updo and tight pink dress. Some loser is looking on. The room is a hell kind of red 4-CT MIDWOOD 33-714 MERCEDES She found there was more than one way to reach the top. CARL DEMARCO 60
Sad shirtless and watchless lady in train reflects on her life choices over whiskey (spilled?) and a cigarette (smoldering in the ashtray) DELL 800 K 824 The intimate affairs of Margaret Sargent- 25€ Her lives, loves, and disenchantments The Company She Keeps MARY McCARTHY
Gun in foreground pointing at man and woman huddled behind steering wheel ACE BOOKS TWO COMPLETE NOVELS 35G She Was Hard to Meet and Deadly to Know! DOUBLE TAKE An ACE Original by MEL COLTON
Censored bec blue sky moderation fucking sucks
THE DEVIL IS GAY paperback cover—standing man proudly displays his right nipple to man sitting (foreground) on bed while heavily bewigged woman (?) (background) looks on—all against orange backdrop
Woman on staircase w/ red handkerchief, man at bottom looking up Kathleen Norris 488 WALLS OF GOLD SHE MARRIED FOR POSITION AND LUXURY, BUT HER HEART MADE HER SEARCH FOR LOVE COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
Woman embracing man on bed SHE'D TRY ANYTHING ONCE -OR ANYBODY! GOLDEN TRAMP GAY WAS A PECULIAR GIRL... SO BEWITCHINGLY BEAUTIFUL. YET SHE WOULD GIVE HERSELF TO MEN, TO WOMEN, EVEN TO COMPLETE STRANGERS- WHY? WHAT DROVE HER TO THIS ENDLESS ORGY OF THE FLESH: Daoma Winston BEACON B 272 35 ¢ K
B&W photo of mob murder victims BOOK co. OF AMERICA 75c₴ 005 CHICAGO CITY OF SIN John J. McPhaul THE BRUTAL MESSAGE DELIVERED BY A RIVAL GANG'S MESSENGERS ON VALENTINE'S DAY IN 1929 TO THE BUGS MORAN GANG.
Clothed man standing embraces naked woman emerging from bed ORRIE HITT'S great, new novel DOMINO BOOKS 72:712 50€ THE PASSION HUNTERS an isolated mountain lodge-and open season on SIN!
Red head caressed self after opening bills, I think A scorching novel about a small-town girl who became a whole nation's symbol of sex 35c "Fascinating... refreshing" -Washington Post Miss America DANIEL STERN Watch for the motion picture starting Carroll Baker.
Lady holding towel in front of her naked body while German Shepherd barks at us “50c GOLD MEDAL dI665 RICHARD TELFAIR THE BLOODY MEDALLION "This Richard Telfair novel is as terrifying as anything I myself have ever written." SAX ROHMER Creator of Dr. Fu Manchu”
Book cover w man and woman embracing and a hotel room key motif for the book title “pb PERMABOOK EDITION M•4257 35c THE COMPLETE BOOK When life for a married woman becomes a little routine, a little boring. is a lover the answer? MARY ORR Author of THE WISDOM OF EVE, from which was made the brilliant and amusing movie ALL ABOUT EVE Sane PLACE TO MEET”
Woman in green dress w long orange coat smoking, looking back at man at betting window at horse track “DELL D300 He threw away pride, decency, and love for a rotten little tramp and the sick excitement of the race-track world. LONG 35€ SHOT (Original title: THE LONG CHANCE) a brilliant first novel by DAVID MARK”
77918・955 The Sexy Superspy in a sizzling scenario of gangland warfare Barness Paul Kenyon Hard-core Murder
Cover of The Baroness no. 4—woman doing yoga-karate in blue leotard and tights surrounded by images of Roman decadence (gladiator, Parthenon-looking bldg, tiger) all against hot pink background 77918•95$ The Sexy Superspy in a sizzling scenario of gangland warfare Barness Paul Kenyon Hard-core Murder
Paul Newman and Patricia Neal "To be compared to Salinger's Catcher in the Rye" SP218 -Best Sellers 50c HUD by Larry McMurtry A brilliant novel— now a powerful motion picture STARRING PAUL NEWMAN WINNER OF THE JESSE H. JONES AWARD FOR FICTION (Original title: Horseman, Pass By)
Original paperback cover art by Stanley Borack (Cowboy w rifle slung over shoulder, smoking, against brown background)