Showing posts with label paperbacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paperbacks. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Vintage Paperback About How to Get High


A Child's Garden of Grass:

The Official Handbook for Marijuana Users

by Jack S. Margolis & Richard Clorfene

Pocket Books, 1974

mass market paperback w/illustrations

"THE STONE LOWDOWN..." -Time Magazine

"More sincerely helpful information about buying, growing, cleaning, smoking, and eating grass than is available in nearly all the other books slammed together in the past three years - perfect." - Rolling Stone

"A HIT...THE SLICKEST AND SUNNIEST EXPRESSION OF THE POT GENERATION. AN ADORABLE BOOK." -New York Post

(copied from back cover)




 

Friday, July 29, 2022

Sci-Fi Space Opera Paperback by an Underrated Female Author


Secrets Of the Lost Age

by Andre Norton

Ace Books, 1959, reprint

mass market paperback

The Constellation of the Wolf was an area of the galaxy few spacemen wanted to visit for its sparse worlds were home only to the outcasts of the civilized worlds. But now it had been learned that there was one among its runaway refugees who was more than just a misfit - one who was a definite danger to all humanity. 

The hunt was on for the desperate young man called Joktar - for if he was what they said he was, he could contaminate the universe!

Only Joktar didn't believe it - and he rallied a world of courageous outlaws to defend him.

(copied from the back cover)


 

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Vintage Paperbacks with Interesting Covers


Alfred Hitchcock's Skull Session

edited by Alfred Hitchcock

Dell mass market paperback

1st printing, 1968

DEATH
CAN BE
BEAUTIFUL

when it's dealt out by the expert hand that Alfred Hitchcock has gathered together in his never ending quest for the ultimate in chilling mystery, nerve-tingling suspense and macabre wit. So take a good grip on your easy chair, try to keep your heart out of your throat, and prepare to enjoy the finest stories ever by such brilliant writers as:

Donald E. Westlake - Henry Slesar
Helen Nielson - Robert Bloch
August Derleth - Charles Einstein
Donald Honig - Paul Eiden
C.B. Gifford - Talmadge Powell
Robert Alan Blair - Michael Brett
Jack Webb - Fletcher Flora

All personally selected by the Master
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

(text copied from back of book)



 

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