A few corrections and additions to my post of a few minutes
ago on paperback "Doubles."
The Day Keene Double I was thinking about was not published
by Belmont or Macfadden (although Macfadden was a regular
Keene publisher). The Double was from Lancer Books and
featured Keene's WHO WAS WILMA LATHROPE and MURDER ON THE
SIDE. Keene had another Lancer Book Double that he shared
with Milton K. Ozaki's CITY OF SIN. I don't have that one but
I bet Bill Crider does as IIRC he is is an Ozaki fan.
The Lancer Doubles also featured a split cover with the split
going straight across the front. The Belmont Doubles, I
believe, were diagonal splits.
Oh, and Belmont Books did two separate editions of Harlan
Ellison's DOOMSMAN. The one that I mentioned shared the book
with a Lee Hoffman novel. Hoffman was a BNF (Big Name Fan),
an associate editor of Infinity Science Fiction (and wife of
editor Larry Shaw) when it purchased Harlan Ellison's first
professional sale, and a very underrated writer (as witness
her excellent westerns). So it is not surprising that Ellison
would hand back the Hoffman half when he ripped autograph
seeker copies apart.
However, Belmont did a second double edition of Ellison's
DOOMSMAN that paired it with a Lin Carter story. If anyone
ever had the courage to present that edition to Ellison, I
wonder what happened to the book?
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Moore"
<moorich@...> wrote:
>
> Belmont did a few doubles in the 1960s of both
mysteries and
science
> fiction. One I recall was a 1967 pairing of Harlan
Ellison's
DOOMSMAN
> with Lee Hoffman's TELEPOWER. I've heard reports
that now and
then at
> convention autograph sessions would hand the volume
to Ellison
only to
> have him tear it apart and throw away his half while
offering
praise
> for Hoffman's story.
>
> There was another SF double pairing Lin Carter with
Frank Belknap
> Long. Somewhere around here I have a mystery pair by
Day Keene
that I
> am reasonably certain was a Belmont. I have a
nagging minority
> thought that it may have been from
Macfadden.
>
> The Belmonts did not have two covers on reverse
sides as did Ace.
> They had a split cover with two illustrations one on
top of the
> other. Now that I think of it, Robert Bloch also had
a Belmont
double.
>
> Back in the early days of paperback reprints, the
digest format
(as in
> digest-sized magazines) competed with the pocketbook
format. Some
of
> the digest publishers did splits with two authors
sharing a
volume.
>
> Richard Moore
>
>
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Juri Nummelin"
> <juri.nummelin@> wrote:
> >
> > Apart from Ace Doubles, at least the porn
publisher Midwood did
> Doubles.
> > I've noticed they are pricy.
> >
> > Later on Gryphon Books has done some Doubles,
but they are more
> > pamphlet-like.
> >
> > Juri
> >
>
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