Two of the three books you mention were published by Lion,
which I don't think had the same size press runs that Gold
Medal had. The Gold Medal PBO you mention, Black Wings, had
only one printing. Believe me there are thousands of Gold
Medal paperbacks still around even if thousands have been
destroyed. You probably won't find them on the internet
unless their somewhat rare such as those you mentioned. As an
example, my local used bookstore sells books on abebooks.com,
but they don't bother putting all the Lion and Gold Medal
paperbacks they have, even tough they sell them for about
$5-10 each. I still find them for as little as 49 cents in
some used bookstores.
Jeff
> What happened to copies of works like 'Sin-pit'
(Paul Meskil), 'Black
> wings has my angel' (Elliot Chaze) and 'Bodies are
dust' (P. J.
> Wolfeson)? At least publishers like Gold Medal must
have printed
> thousands of copies for these books. You want to
read them, look for
> them on every site and what what you find are just a
couple of copies
> available and that too very expensive. I'm sure lots
of people don't
> want to part away with their copies but still it
seems to me like a
> mystery. Could be that these books were destroyed at
a mass scale,
> unintentionally?
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