Found in Mom's Basement

Pulp book cover from 1955

A Dame Called Murder by by Robert O. Saber. Found at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats.

Vintage Do It Yourself Annual covers

From 1959:

From 1960:

From 1961:

Found at Delicious Industries.

Vintage sci-fi book covers

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov:

Earthman Come Home by James Blish:

Empire of the Atom by A. E. van Vogt:

The Forgotten Planet by George Henry Smith:

 

Doomed Planet by Lee Sheldon:

The Lizard Lords by Stanton A. Coblentz:

The Space Egg by Russ Winterbotham:

Travelers of Space edited by Martin Greenberg:

The Robot and the Man edited by Martin Greenberg:

These and other book and magazine cover images can be purchased at Cover Browser.

Czech book covers, 1920s and 1930s

Found at ffffound!

Better Homes & Gardens Barbecue Book, 1956

Found at Slashfood.

Vintage paperback mystery from 1939

Another 25¢ paperback from the White Elephant Outlet in Essex, Massachusetts.

Vintage paperback romance covers, 1940s

Last weekend, my husband and I poked about the White Elephant in Essex, Massachusetts. Not the quaint White Elephant antique store in downtown Essex, but the gloriously junky White Elephant near the Ipswich line.

In the room where everything is covered with dust (bring Kleenex) and is 75% off, I found these treasures for only 25¢ each.

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I didn't notice until I got home that Mrs. Mike is missing its first 48 pages. I bet they would have taken at least another nickel off the price if I'd noticed the missing pages sooner.