Here's what I picked up from Thanksgiving through Christmas of last year. Most of these were purchased from an antique mall in Owego, New York, for $1 - $4 each.
The 'Mutants Amok' entries got favorable reviews from Glorious Trash ('Mutant Hell is even more brain-addled than its predecessor, and I mean that as a compliment'), so they were worth getting. 'Passport to Eternity', The Ballard anthology, would seem to be an Old School Treasure......
The Avram Davidson anthology and the Manley Wade Wellman volumes are the top 'finds' here......the Ace version of 'The Languages of Pao' is nothing more than a direct copy of the typeset of the smaller-sized, 1966 Ace paperback (#F-390), which tells you that Ace could at times be utterly cheap and mercenary in how they approached publishing.
The 'Brak' volumes caught my eye, what with their understated, highly stylized Charles Moll covers. The Zelazny book is one of the Ace 'illustrated' sf mass-market paperbacks, and a member of a series that launched in the mid-80s. It features copious, high-quality black-and-white illustrations by Esteban Maroto.
The Vance anthology may constitute a 'find' (or not). 'Uncut', the anthology of stories by British author Christopher Fowler, is rather obscure, but may be worthwhile. I suspect the Philip Jose Farmer novel 'Flesh' is filled with New Wave Excess, but I'll give it a try......
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