Back 14 -15 years ago when I started this blog, I would order 'wholesale lots' and collections of sci-fi and popular interest paperbacks from eBay. You could get a box of books for under $50, back then. In the last decade I've rarely done this, as I have accumulated more than enough paperbacks to take up my reading time. However, recently while perusing Etsy I came across an offer for 40+ paperbacks from the 1960s and 1970s.
There's something about opening that heavy cardboard box, and catching that first musty whiff of aged paper, that makes the Paperback Fanatic treasure his or her pasttime........
I'm not familiar with any of the books in my Etsy lot, but I'm hoping some are promising. I'm mindful that in general, the covers always are more exciting than the contents. Particularly with paperbacks from this era, which often took dull novels from the 50s and early 60s and dressed with up with lurid covers to entice people to buy them.
For example, there's 'Love Me Little,' by 'Amanda Vail,' which first saw print in hardback in 1957, before being reissued as this salacious mass-market paperback in October, 1967. Hubba-hubba, baby ! Let's ball !!!!!!!!!
But I have high hopes for Paul Gallico's 'The Poseidon Adventure,' a foundational novel for the 70s genre of disaster movies.
My Etsy purchase included several potboilers, each over 450 pages in length, those pages being crammed with smaller font. I don't know how likely I am to sit down and read those books.
