Vintage Paperbacks from Gargoyle Books

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1953. First Mass Market Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+. Gorey, Edward. Another is the vast collection of Anchor paperback covers created by the late, great Edward Gorey, highly prized as tertiary collectibles in their own right! Orig. published in 1950, the work is also value as a sociopsychological… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1960. Paperback Original (PBO) 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Fair-Good. Collection of stories, poems, & social criticism by the legends of the Beat generation: Kerouac, Mailer, Ginsberg, Burroughs, & others. 25 contributions total, 224 pages. The 1960 First Printing of this mass market paperback original (PBO) from Fawcett Gold Medal… Read more about this item

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979. First Edition, 2nd Printing 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Classic & now extremely scarce work in occult studies--SIGNED by one of the authors! This book was the first to document the puzzling phenomena of telephone calls allegedly received from people who had already passed on. The authors, both parapsychologists, maintain… Read more about this item

Bogota, Colombia: Editorial La Oveja Negra, 1984. 4th Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Short story satirizing corruption in Latin America. In Spanish. Orig. published in 1962, & in this softcover Columbian edition in 1978, this is the Eighth printing of that edition from 1984, in 155 pages. Mass Market paperback has decorative wrappers with author photo… Read more about this item

Bogota, Colombia: Editorial La Oveja Negra, 1980. 4th Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A novel on the "solitude of infinite power" of a Caribbean tyrant/dictator. In Spanish. Orig. published in 1975, & in this softcover edition in 1978, this is the Fourth Colombian Edition from July 1980, in 262 pages. Mass Market paperback has decorative wrappers… Read more about this item

Bogota, Colombia: Editorial La Oveja Negra, 1984. 5th or later Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Orig. published in 1972, & in this softcover edition in Colombia in 1979, this is the seventh edition from Mar. 1984, in 118 pages. Mass Market paperback has decorative wrappers with author photo to back cover. Condition is Near Fine: just… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1961. First Mass Market Paperback Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Palacios, Rafael. The very first book & an instant classic by naturalist John Muir examines California mountains, including the wildlife that inhabit them, based on his travels throughout the region in 1868-1873. Orig. published in hardcover in 1894, this… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bantam, 1981. First Paperback 4th Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Davis, Paul. This astonishing prose poem, a "celebration of being black and being woman" by first performed at a woman's bar outside Berkeley, CA. & went on to Broadway in 1976. Orig. published in hardcover in 1975, this is the 1980 First Mass Market Paperback… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ballantine, 1970. First Mass Market Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. VG-/G+. Groundbreaking work prepared for the very first "national environmental teach-in" -- Earth Day-- on April 22, 1970, which warned that the 1970s might be "the last chance for a future that makes ecological sense." Orig. published in hardcover & then… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Bantam Books, 1978. 5th or later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Binger, Charles. Classic collection of 17 early tales from the sci-fi grand master orig. published in the pulps when he was not yet a household name. First issued in hardcover in 1962, & by Bantam in various softcover iterations beginning in 1965,… Read more about this item

Signet/New American Library, 1974. First Edition Later Printing 3rd Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Good introduction to the art & science of acupuncture, along with other ancient Chinese practices & principles. Detailed illustrations throughout the 126 pages + Bibliography in rear. First published in Feb. 1974, this is a Third Printing. With bright red wrappers decorated in black/yellow/white,… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Warner, 1975. Paperback Original (PBO) . Soft cover. Fair. Collection of short stories set in a dystopian future centered around roller ball & murder. Basis for the 1975 cult-classic film starring James Caan. First written 1966-1974 & collected in this mass market paper edition (a Paperback Original) from Warner (76-839) in July 1975, this… Read more about this item

Paris, France: Librairie des Champs-Elysees, 1976. Soft cover. Near Fine. In French, translated from the title originally published in English in 1929 as "The Seven Dials Mystery." This mass market paperback edition from 1976 is in Near Fine condition: exceptionally clean with just a hint of edgewear, pages lightly tanned but completely unmarked. Very faint creasing to front… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 1980. First British Paperback Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. True story of Joseph Merrick--the Elephant Man--a courageous man deemed a "freak" & initially shunned by British society until his rescue by a compassionate London surgeon. Issued in conjunction with the 1980 movie starring John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, & Anthony Hopkins, in 223 pages with Index… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Fawcett Premier, 1963. Paperback Original (PBO) 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Good-. Before Richard Nixon's "War on Drugs,'' there was an honest attempt during the Kennedy Administration to understand the problem of drug addiction in the US. This is a collection of 16 articles or accounts from doctors, lawyers, social critics, journalists, &… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Scholastic Book Services, 1978. First Mass Market Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Hearne, Jack. First Mass Market Paperback Edition, FIRST PRINTING, from 1978 (though only orig. hardcover 1976 publication date appears in book) of Book #25 in the popular YA series, "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators." … Read more about this item

New York, New York: Bantam, 1989. Paperback Original (PBO) . Soft cover. Very Good. Lot of 5 early forays into romance novels by the writer who would become much better known for her acclaimed mysteries. All are from the "Loveswept" series, all FIRST EDITIONs, First Printings, published 1989-1992, as well as Paperback Originals (PBOs) never published in hardcover.… Read more about this item

Manning, Oregon: Life Support Technology, Inc., 1974. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. Ingeniously designed packet of 5 small survival guides packed in a protective, accordion-fold plastic sleeve designed to take with you in a pocket or pack on the trail! Apparently, these were once standard issue as part of Bombardier Emergency Kits. Incredibly… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pyramid, 1958. First Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. Engel, Robert V.. Cold-War-era sci-fi thriller about the "scientific rivalries which are shaping the course of the world.'' Orig. published by Almat in 1958, this is the FIRST MASS MARKET PAPERBACK EDITION, First Printing, from Pyramid (G339) from that same year, in… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dell, 1958. Paperback Original (PBO) 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Powers, Richard. Fantastic cover art Richard Powers (unattributed) illustrated this story of the Medusa, "a galactic man of war." This is the First Printing of this Paperback Original (PBO) from Dell (B120), from Aug. 1958. It is an expanded version of a… Read more about this item