These days, you can't look up pulp horror fiction without a ton-load of Paperbacks from Hell dominating the links offered for your perusal. One of these led me to a vlogger who had the interesting idea of presenting a couple of shows evidencing how that much-loved tome has raised the market prices of the books it explored and clearly cherished.
After turning off the TV, I was in the mood to do a little investigation of my own and started searching for that collector's dream of a paperback - the Arrow edition of John Christopher's The Little People.
I soon discovered that the number one holy grail paperback on everybody's Want list, was selling in the region of the £200 - £380 mark. That was, except for one American seller who just seemed to be selling the contents of their home in a mass clearing. Whilst this particular seller was still asking for a price well over what I am willing to pay for even the rarest of titles, he was open to offers. ðĪ And so I sent off my offer, which took me below my forbidden zone, even taking into account the postage fees from the currently troubled U.S. of A. It was then a waiting game. ðŦĢ
My offer was a fair one, and came in under what I paid to source my most expensive book thus far - Guy N Smith's even rarer Crabs' Sacrifice a few years back.
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It was a bit of a troubled sleep for me as I waited for the seller's decision on my offer.
Even though it's my 59th birthday next weekend, and I am in possession of a long-idle Paypal credit card to spread the costs, I knew I would not be able to match any higher offer he demanded. And so my sleep was disturbed for a couple hours before I finally received the seller's decision.
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By the time I awoke this morning, this email was already waiting for me:
I'll write another post on this real gem of a paperback when it crosses the Atlantic and finds a home on my bookshelves. Until then I will be ð°ð as I await the arrival of the nazi leprechauns...