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driveintheaterofthemind · 5 months

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Vintage Paperback - Alfred Hitchcock's Once Upon a Dreadful Time by Alfred Hitchcock

Dell (1964)

#Paperback Art #Paperback Cover #Alfred Hitchcock #Alfred Hitchcock Presents #Alfred Hitchcock's Once Upon A Dreadful Time #Mystery #Horror #Film #Television #TV #Dell Books #Dell #Skulls #1964 #1960s #60s #Paperback #Paperbacks

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thehauntedrocket · 1 year

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Vintage Paperback - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 16 Skeletons From My Closet by Alfred Hitchcock

Dell (1963)

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leisurecd · 5 months

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ok i'm just going to ask for books for christmas

#graham coxon's book in paperback cos i'm not asking for a 60+ euros book for xmas when i can get multiple for that kind of money #joan didion's what she means #maybe some other joan didions + patti smith book of days :o)

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toomuchhorrorfiction · 2 years

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1960s horror paperback—they don’t make ’em like this anymore!

#paperbacks from hell #horror fiction #books #reading #vintage paperbacks #horror #paperback books #horror novels #book cover art #paperbacks #scary books #book covers #60s horror #richard matheson #stir of echoes

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disease · 2 years

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THE ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE BORIS O’HARA | DELL BOOKS: #7586, 1967

#boris o'hara #howard browne #vintage #graphic design #60s #the st. valentine's day massacre #paperback #dell books #u

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 8 months

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"RUSH IN AND DIE, DOGS -- I WAS A MAN BEFORE I WAS A KING."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Lancer novel 73-526 Paperback Original, "Conan the Adventurer" by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp. Cover art by the late, great Frank Frazetta (1928-2010).

PIC #2: The second paperback cover was published by Prestige Books Inc. and distributed by Ace. Only $1.95.

Resolution at 1991x3371 & 1249x2045.

Source: https://pulpcovers.com/conan-the-adventurer.

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station451 · 2 years

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I may not be a young people but I do love this Tempo Books edition of Chilling Stories From Rod Serling’s the Twilight Zone!

Open the book, read the pages, and enter The Twilight Zone IF YOU DARE!

Stories by Walter B. Gibson and Serling himself; cover artist unknown.

#mine #rod serling #the twilight zone #walter b. gibson #chilling stories from Rod serling’s the twilight zone #vintage paperback #vintage sci fi #science fiction #sci fi #vintage books #twilight zone #tempo books #1960s paperback #1960s sci fi #60s science fiction #60s sci fi #bookblr #book collection #book collector

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vsthepomegranate · 2 years

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illustration by Eric Von Schmidt for Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me by Richard Fariña (1966)

#1960s art #1960s books #cuban revolution #campus novel #travelogue #60s psychedelia #Illustration #paperback #cover art

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televinita · 1 year

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BAD HUMAN

@ the jackass in my apartment building who threw a ton of books into the recycling container this week: there is a (very large, with plenty of space remaining) Little Free Library right across the street. Use your eyes!

(and even if you did it because they were damaged by mildew or similar issues I couldn’t see, most of those belong in the garbage; our city apparently can recycle paperbacks but books bound into hardcover spines are not the same as a stack of regular paper, dammit. people who make recycling harder by including disallowed items fill me with Anger)

But let’s assume these people were just lazy. I’ll admit there were probably too many to have fit them all into the LFL (which frankly just makes the amount of waste hurt worse), but with a nominal amount of effort, there’s also a library one mile down the road where you can donate to your heart’s content! And three different thrift stores + a Half Price Books within a 5 mile radius! Oh, and I almost forgot, in one of the local grocery store parking lots there’s even a freaking drop-off bin for Better World Books!

Ugh, this Valentine’s Day has taken a drastic turn for the worse.

#at least it didn't appear to be any kind of books that would personally interest me #because I couldn't have fished anything out even if I'd wanted to #from what I could see it was a lot of older nonfiction about classic cinema / actors and some mass market paperbacks from the 60s and 70s #still a PAIN IN MY HEART though #I accept that unwanted books will be destroyed but I alsodont think that should ever be a private collection owner's first decision

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hugepolecat3298 · 2 years

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i dont like how much books cost i think books should go back to being $9.99 and then hardbacks can be like $15-20 and then the like big fancy ones that are all colour pages they can still be expensive idc

#originals #it could jusy be that the $10 books im thinking of werelike. kids books and theyre still that amount and its just that adult books cost mor #whih is also bs eye mo #googled a book about dinosaurs and it was $30 i dont need to know aboit dinosaurd THAT bad #also the cheapest book within eeach of my bed is $16 #thats only 6 dollars more i guess but $6 would be a lot if youre like minwage #irs paperback and 200 pages when did that get a 60% price increase

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driveintheaterofthemind · 29 days

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Vintage Paperback - The Child Buyer by John Hersey (1961)

Art by Sandy Kossin

Pocket Books

#Paperback Cover #Paperback Art #Sandy Kossin #Science Fiction #John Hersey #The Child Buyer #Pocket Books #Vintage #Art #Paperback #Paperbacks #1961 #1960s #60s

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thehauntedrocket · 9 months

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Vintage Paperback - Armagedden 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan

Ace (1962)

#Paperback Cover #Paperback Art #Science Fiction #Buck Rogers #Philip Francis Nowlan #Armageddon 2419 AD #Ace Books #Ace #Film #Vintage #Art #Paperback #Paperbacks #1962 #1960s #60s

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niennanir · 10 months

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Listen to your elders

So last week I posted abut the importance of downloading your fic. And then three days later AO3 went down for 24 hours. No one was more weirded out by this than I was. But while y’all were acting like the library at Alexandria was on fire I was reading my download fic and editing chapter eight of Buck, Rogers, and the 21st Century. And also thinking about what I could do to be helpful when the crisis was actually over.

So first off, I’m going to repeat that if you’re going to bookmark a fic, you really need to also download the fic and back it up in a safe place. I just do it automatically now and it’s a good habit to get into.

But let’s talk about some other scenarios. Last October I lost power for over a week after hurricane Ian. Apart from not having internet or A/C I did find plenty to do, I collect books so I had plenty to read, but maybe, unlike me, your favorite comfort reads aren’t sitting on a bookshelf. So let’s do something about that, shall we?

In olden times many long years ago around 1995 we printed off a lot of fic. It was mostly SOP to print a fic you planned to reread and stick it in a three ring binder. And that’s totally valid today too, but you can also make a very nice paperback with a minimum amount of skill and materials.

Let’s start with the download; Go to Ao3 and select your fic, we’ll be working with one of mine. This method works best with one shots, long fic tends to need a more complicated approach. Get yourself an HTML download

Open up the HTML download and select all then copy paste into any word processor. Set the page to landscape and two columns, then change the font to something you find easy to read, this is your book, no judgement. This is all you have to do for layout but I like to play a little bit. I move all the meta, summary, notes to the end and pick out a fun font for the title:

No time like the present to do a quick proofread. Congratulations, you’ve just created your first typeset. On to the fun part.

Now you’re going to need some materials: 8.5x11in paper ruler one sheet of 12x12 medium card stock (60-80lb) scissors pencil pen or fine tip marker sheet of wax paper white glue two binder clips 2 heavy books or 1 brick butter knife

You’ll also need a printer, if you’re in the US there is almost a 100% chance your local library has a printer you can use if you don’t have your own. None of these materials are expensive and you can literally use cheap copy paper and Elmers glue.

Print your text block, one page per side. Fold the first page in half so that the blank side is inside and the printed side out:

use the butter knife to crease the edge. Repeat on all the sheets. When you’ve finished, stack them up with the raw edge on the left and the folded edge on the right. I used standard copy paper, because you’re only printing on one side there’s no bleed to worry about. Take the text block and line everything up. Use the binder clips to hold the raw edge in place.

Wrap the text block in the wax paper so that the raw edge and binder clips are facing out. I’m going to use my home built book press but you don’t need one, a brick or a couple of books or anything else heavy will work fine.

Once the text block is anchored down, take off he binder clips and get out the glue.

You can use a brush but you don’t need one, smear some glue on that raw edge.

Go make a margarita, watch The Mandalorian, call your mother. Don’t come back for at least an hour

In an hour smear some more glue on there and shift your brick forward so that the whole book is covered. This keeps the paper from warping. While glue part 2 is drying we’ll do the cover. Get out your 12x12 cardstock

Mark the cardstock off at 8.5 inches and cut it. Measure in 5.5 inches from the left and put in a score line with the butter knife (the back edge not the sharp edge)

Carefully fold the score line, this is your front cover. You have some options for the cover title, you can use a cutting machine like a cricut if you have one, you can print out a title on the computer and use carbon paper to transfer the text to the cardstock. I was in a mood so I just freehanded that beoch. Pencil first then in pen.

Take your text block out from under your brick. Line it up against the score mark and mark the second score on the other side of the spine

Fold the score and glue the textblock into the cover at the spine. Once the glue dries up mark the back cover with the pencil and then trim the back cover to fit with your scissors.

Voila:

I’m going to put this baby on the shelf next to the Silmarillion.

The whole process, not counting drying time, took less than an hour.

If you want to make a book of a longer fic, I recommend Renegade Publishing, they have a ton of resources for fan-binders.

#fanbinding #fanfiction #Nir paperback

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frostbite-merun · 7 months

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my heart is full of so much anger and hate rn <3

#this is about a paperback book going for 60 dollars btw

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ringojonesproductions · 1 year

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Time to read the most shocking book of 1966! #hedylamarr #hollywood #60s #amreading #tcm #paperbacks #books #autobiography https://www.instagram.com/p/CoWFsqNMoK8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#hedylamarr #hollywood #60s #amreading #tcm #paperbacks #books #autobiography

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 5 months

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"...IMAGINATION WILL MAKE YOUR RACE THE MASTERS OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on cover art to the first printing of "Cosmic Engineers" in paperback format, written by Clifhrod D. Simak, with cover art by Jack Gaughan, published by the Paperback Library in December 1964.

Resolution at 646x1000 & 500x848.

""My Lord," said Gary, "think of it! Imagination saving the people of another universe. The imagination of a little third-rate race that hasn't even started really using its imagination yet."

"You are right," declared the Engineer, "and in the aeons to come that imagination will make your race the masters of the entire universe."

-- "COSMIC ENGINEERS," first published in 1950 by Gnome Press, written by Clifford D. Simak

Sources: http://mporcius.blogspot.com/2018/11/cosmic-engineers-by-clifford-simak.html & Biblio.

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