I'm excited, again (what else is new?).I was checking out a
charity stall that I regularly scan for old books when I
heard one of the ladies saying "I've got all these Carter
Brown books that belonged to my nephew. I didn't even know
that he read THAT sort of stuff" as she was reaching into a
bag & pulling out these books. "I do!" I said, shoving a
couple of old ladies out of the way.The charity volunteer
responded with an "oops" look on her face. The long &
short of it : a bag of nearly 30 mostly slightly mouldy but
still beautiful vintage pb's, UK & Australian. Mostly
Erle Stanley Gardner*, a few C Browns including a couple of
digests & a couple of one-offs - "The Tall Stranger" a
Gold Medal Western by Louis L'Amour & "Bullets for the
Bridegroom" by David Dodge. Does anyone have info about the
L'Amour & Dodge books? By the way, isn't it amazing that
half a century later these books still have an unsavoury
reputation at least with people of that particular
generation? The Oz & UK pb covers of the time were quite
tame compared to the US equivalents, too.Oh, don't worry
about those little old ladies I rumbled with. They can give
it as well as take it. Talk about hard-boiled.
*Despite what (I think) David Honeybone may have said on this
topic in an earlier discussion here, Gardner was phenomenally
popular in Oz & if he, or James Cain, have ever been out
of print it wasn't for very long & you could easily find
2nd hand copies.
Rene
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