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September 12, 2024: New Arrivals: Pulps
Selections from the Robert A. Madle collection
Over the coming months, in addition to our other recently acquired material, we will be presenting pulps, books, and magazines from long time fan, collector, and dealer Robert A. "Bob" Madle. I was privileged to know Bob since I was a teenager, and I can still hear him telling me stories of the early days of science fiction fandom. It all started for Bob when he was eleven, when he and a friend came upon two issues of Wonder Stories in a junk shop. From then on he was hooked, using his extra money to buy more SF pulps. He actively started getting involved in the beginnings of science fiction fandom when he was 14-15 and remained involved in many aspects of science fiction for the rest of his life. Pulp magazines were particularly dear to him. In 1959 he and several others began "First Fandom" - a group of fans who were active before the first World Science Fiction convention held the July 4th weekend in 1939. He was the first President of the organization, a post he held for twenty-five years, and he was also the last surviving member upon his death. Check out the website for all the new pulp arrivals.
 | AMAZING STORIES ANNUAL.
[Burroughs, Edgar Rice]. AMAZING STORIES ANNUAL [bound volume]. 1927 (volume 1, number 1). Edited by.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Co., 1927. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Bedsheet-sized pulp, bound. This features the first printing of "Master Mind of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The... (#32949)
Price: $850.00 | | | 
|  | CAPTAIN COMBAT.
CAPTAIN COMBAT. April 1940. (Volume 1, No. 1).
Chicago: Fictioneers, Inc., 1940. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Captain Combat story by Robert J. Hogan writing as "Barry Barton." [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 77-78]... (#32676)
Price: $125.00 | | |
|  | DOCTOR DEATH.
DOCTOR DEATH. March, 1935. (Volume 1, number 2).
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Zirm, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Series character first appeared in All-Detective Magazine. "The Gray Creatures" by Harold... (#32681)
Price: $2,000.00 | | |
|  | DOCTOR DEATH.
DOCTOR DEATH. April, 1935. (Volume 1, number 3).
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Zirm, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Series character first appeared in All-Detective Magazine. "The Shriveling Murders" by Harold... (#32682)
Price: $850.00 | | |
|  | DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS.
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS. November, 1934. (Volume 6, No. 4).
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1934. Small octavo, cover by Frederick Blakesee, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Green Thunderbolt" by Robert Sidney Bowen. The Dusty Ayres series was set in the... (#32666)
Price: $125.00 | | |
|  | DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS.
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS. July-August, 1935. (Volume 8, No. 3).
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1935. Small octavo, cover by Frederick Blakesee, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Telsa Raiders" by Robert Sidney Bowen. The Dusty Ayres series was set in the... (#32670)
Price: $125.00 | | |
|  | DYNAMIC SCIENCE STORIES.
DYNAMIC SCIENCE STORIES. April, 1939. (Volume 1, No. 2). Robert O. Erisman, editor.
Chicago, IL: Western Fiction Publishing, Co., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Norman Saunders, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Authors include Eando Binder, Manly Wade Wellman, L. Sprague De Camp, Ed... (#32843)
Price: $1,250.00 | | |
|  | EERIE TALES. (only issue published).
EERIE TALES. July 1941. (Volume 1, Number 1).
Toronto, C. K. Publishing, 1941. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes eight stories, two by Thomas P. Kelley, and possibly a third with the Valentine Worth perhaps a.... (#32946)
Price: $450.00 | | |
|  | HIGH-SEAS ADVENTURES.
HIGH-SEAS ADVENTURES. December, 1934. (Volume 1, No. 1).
Springfield, MA: Adventure Publications, Inc., 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Sidney Riesenberg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. A Gernsback magazine. Fiction by J. Allan Dunn, Morgan Robertson, Warren E. Carleton... (#32656)
Price: $125.00 | | |
|  | KA-ZAR.
KA-ZAR. October, 1936. (Volume 1, number 1). [Charles Goodman, editor].
Chicago: Manvis Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover by J.W. Scott, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. All Ka-Zar stories written by Bob Byrd, a house pseudonym, here Thomson Burtis. A.... (#32684)
Price: $750.00 | | |
|  | KA-ZAR.
KA-ZAR. January, 1937. (Volume 1, number 2). [Charles Goodman, editor].
Chicago: Manvis Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover by J.W. Scott, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. All Ka-Zar stories written by Bob Byrd, a house pseudonym, here Thomson Burtis. A.... (#32685)
Price: $1,000.00 | | |
|  | MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES.
MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES. November 1938. (Volume 1, No. 2). Robert O. Erisman, editor.
Chicago: Postal Publications, 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by Jack Williamson, Henry Kuttner, Stanton Coblentz and others. [Reference: Tymm... (#32849)
Price: $350.00 | | |
|  | MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES.
MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES. February 1939. (Vol. 1, No. 3). Robert O. Erisman, editor.
New York: Western Fiction Publishing Co., Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Wesso, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Jack Williamson, Stanton Coblentz and others. Also includes an essay by James... (#32851)
Price: $75.00 | | |
|  | OUT OF THIS WORLD ADVENTURES.
OUT OF THIS WORLD ADVENTURES. December 1950 (volume 1, number 2). Edited by Donald A.
New York: Avon Periodicals, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Interplanetary adventure and space opera were to be the main story themes of this short lived magazine... (#32731)
Price: $150.00 | | |
|  | PIRATE STORIES.
PIRATE STORIES. November, 1934. (Volume 1, No. 1). [edited by Hugo Gernsback].
Springfield, MA: Adventure Publications, Inc., 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Sidney Riesenberg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. A Gernsback magazine. Fiction by F[rancis] V[an] Wyck] Mason, James Perley Hughes and... (#32660)
Price: $150.00 | | |
|  | PIRATE STORIES.
PIRATE STORIES. July, 1935. (Volume 1, No. 5). [edited by Hugo Gernsback].
Springfield, MA: Adventure Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Sidney Riesenberg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. A Gernsback magazine. Fiction by A. Hyatt Verrill, George Allan Moffatt, and others... (#32664)
Price: $100.00 | | |
|  | 10 STORY FANTASY.
10 STORY FANTASY. Spring 1951. (Volume 1, Number 1). Donald A. Wollheim, editor.
New York: Avon Periodicals, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Joseph Meyers pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by John Benyon [Harris], Franklin Gregory, L. Sprague De Camp, A. E.... (#32729)
Price: $250.00 | | |
|  | TERRENCE X. O'LEARY'S WARBIRDS.
TERRENCE X. O'LEARY'S WARBIRDS. April, 1935. (Volume 30, number 85). [Carson Mowre, editor].
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Second of three SF themed issues, written by Arthur Guy Empey. [Reference... (#32688)
Price: $450.00 | | |
|  | UNCANNY STORIES.
UNCANNY STORIES. April 1941. (Volume 1, number 1). Edited by Robert O. Erisman.
New York: Manvis Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Norman Saunders, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The only issue. Fiction by Ray Cummings, David H. Keller and others. Interior... (#32679)
Price: $400.00 | | |
|  | THE WITCH'S TALES (all published).
THE WITCH'S TALES. November-December 1936. (Volume 1, numbers 1-2). Edited by Tom Chadburn.
New York: The Carwood Publishing Co., 1936. Large octavo, two issues, illustrated by Elmer Stoner, pictorial wrappers, side stapled. Pulp magazine. All published. Inspired by a radio program started in... (#32955)
Price: $1,750.00 | | |
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John W. Knott & Susan B. Knott
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 301-512-1300 - email: jwk@jwkbooks.com
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