Matthew Sullivan

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I’ll protect you from the hooded claw.

52 Pick Up cover shows a reel of super 8 film & a hypodermic syringe on a blue background. And my morning batch brew take away coffee.
1st edition of ‘Searching For John Ford’ by Joseph McBride. The cover shot frames the two O’s in the subjects name as the lens of his spectacles
Welcome Back Kotter gum & trading cards
‘Sammy Davis Jr Simgs The Great TV Tunes’ LP. Includes Baretta, Kojak, Hawaii Five O, Mary Tyler Moore, All In The Family and the Jeffersons!
Back cover bio of Vern E Smith and blurb for ‘The Jones Men’ Payback Press paperback
My UK Payback Press 1997 copy of ‘The Jones Men’ by Vern E Smoth. African American man in leather coat with fur collar posing with foot on bumper of a car in a city street.
‘Your House Will Pay’ by Steph Cha, Faber paperback, and the remnants of an espresso at the late, lamented cafe Goodbye Horses.
25th Hour film poster depicting Ed Norton character and dog named Doyle
Abacus UK PB cover shows 2 Black MPD uniform officers speaking to a young Black man in a frayed looking t-shirt
4 Jom Thompson Black Lizard paperback reprints from The 1980s. The Getaway The Grifters Wild Town & Recoil
Box cover of ‘Really Into Something’ in shades of pink and purple shows a woman with A dark bobbed hairdo wearing a long leather coat and pointed shoes standing outside terrace house railings
Unknown Man No 89 on a table at Ashley’s Ann Arbor bar with a Buzzsaw IPA
Penguin mass market paperback of Shirley Hazzard, ‘The Transit of Venus’
UK hardcover edition of ‘The Anderson Tapes’ by Lawrence Sanderson. Cover shows a city scape, a reel of audio tape, a blue steeled Colt .45 handgun, and ammo & a gold watch.
Black lizard crime books
Isaac Hayes ‘Shaft’ soundtrack
The Big Chill soundtrack LP with photos from the film
Old castle books ‘26 edition of ‘Into The Badlands’ yellow cover with black print framing, a B&W photo of wrecked vehicles and road sign in desert.
‘The Deadly Streets’ Harlan Ellison
‘White Tears’ Penguin paperback by Hari Kunzru
‘Do Not Sell at Any Price’ by Amanda Petrusich
Archie Bunker with Wdith’s left behind slipper after his friends and neighbours cleared out her closets when she died of a stroke.
‘The Blessington Method’ Cover shows a raw egg featuring a pained face with bulging eyes drawn on it smashed onto a green background
Coronet paperback of Gavin Lyall novel Uncle Target shows a tank and people riding camels. The cover is of reflective silver surface ala late 80s publishing. (Now flaking and tarnished)
Covers of ‘Pulling A Train’ & ‘Getting In The Wind’ from Kicks Books by Harlan Ellison. Both covers joined show a woman in skirt and ponytail armed with a switchblade & a straight razor standing over two injured gang boys seated up against a wall.
2011 paperback edition of Bill Pronzini, ‘Panic!’
Text reads “BILL PRONZINI is twenty-eight, currently a bachelor, and has been writing professionally for the past five years. He is an avid collector of pulp magazines, mystery novels and magazine rejection slips. Born in Petaluma, California, he ordinarily resides in San Francisco. At present he is living and writing in Germany.”
3 different UK paperback editions of the Doomsters by Ross MacDonald. 2 Futura & one Pan. Pan features photographic close ups of eyes. Futura feature a gold plated revolver & a pocket automatic with a pearl handle.
1972 Coronet paperback of John Creasey novel ‘Gideon’s Ride.’ Cover copy reads “A man is murdered on a London bus, the clippie who witnessed it is silenced, and Gideon goes on the buses with a vengeance.” Illustration is of a murdered West Indian woman bus conductor and a red London double decker bus with numberplate ‘Cop 750.’ The bus is a 176 to Willesden.
The Looters by John Reese
Inside Man Ice Station Xebra Went the Day Well & Malcolm x
Ice Station Zebra film Poster from 1968 showing submarine, planes and paratroopers
Biography of writer /psychiatrist Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz.
Malcolm X & Cop posters
Swag paperback
Poster For 1987 James Woods film ‘Cop’