Glasses, Mugs and Cups

Circa 1980-81, a large plastic mug with raised image of legendary animal tamer, Gunther Gebel-Williams on his Farewell Tour

Three shaped Kool-Aid mugs with Kool-Aid Man face.

                             Late seventies Garfield ceramic mug.

Pete Rose commemorative glass from Cincinnati's Gold Star Chili. 

                           A large Pepsi glass with the Road Runner "Beep Beep"ing away on both sides.

A commemorative Coca-Cola glass from the 1976 KING KONG remake. The Coke logo and movie info is on the other side but wouldn't photograph well. 

Circa 1964--Pebbles lands a fish. Pebbles Flintstone and Bam-Bam Rubble on one of the FLINTSTONES glasses made from Welch's grape juice jars.

All of these are in excellent shape and quite usable. We're asking $6.00 each plus $3.00 postage for one and an additional $1.00 postage for each additional one ordered. If you'd like all nine of them, email me and I'll make you a deal. 

Email payment to booksteve@aol.com via PayPal. 

Walt Kelly--I'd Rather Be President

Tired of the current roster of Presidential wannabes? Think maybe you can do better? Well. lucy for you, someone's already thought of that...way back in 1956, in fact.

I'D RATHER BE PRESIDENT is a book by Charles Ellis and Frank Weir subtitled, "A Handbook For Expectant Candidates." It's genuinely funny, especially in light of the current political climate. That's not the reason anyone actually remembers this book, tough. No, I'D RATHER BE PRESIDENT is coveted as a collectible due to the covers and scores of interior illustrations by none other than Walt Kelly of POGO fame!

My copy is slightly yellowed but otherwise quite good on the interior (and still has a title-specific comment card to be mailed to the publisher inserted!). The cover, on the other hand, is a little more brittle around the edges than it seems like it should be and you can see some of the tears and cracks in this photo. In fact, there's now an additional one as a small sliver at the top cracked off as I lifted the book from the scanner just now! 

$16.00 + $4.00 postage

Street Enterprises Benefit Portfolio

This oversized bound portfolio was originally done up as a fundraiser in the seventies for the folks behind THE MENOMONEE FALLS GAZETTE and THE COMIC READER.

Just about anyone who was anyone at the time in comic books or strips contributed to it.

Frank Thorne
Wally Wood
Gray Morrow
Don Heck
Berni Wrightson
Walt Simonson
Jim Starlin
Dick Giordano
Sal Buscema
Milton Caniff
and a score more!

The copy seen above is not my copy. It wouldn't fit the scanner so I found another online to show you. Because of it's size, this has been hard to store properly and the copy being offered is a tad rumpled and has what appear to be a couple of ancient, non-invasive cat scratches on the front cover.

It's been offered for upwards of $100.00 online recently in only slightly better condition.

Our copy: $75.00 postpaid!

The Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies

Here we have another bargain. This little gem of  a series was THE best source of information for the budding film buff in the seventies. Each volume discusses in some depth the career of its subject with just enough personal biography to give it perspective. The books are written by some of the best film historians of the day.

I don't have the entire set but, as you can see, I have quite a few, all of which are fun and educational reading. Each volume is heavily illustrated with a full filmography. A few have my initials on the title page and some of the first ones I got have the movies circled that I had seen. Otherwise, these compact little books--about the size of a classic TV GUIDE--are in good, solid shape.

$7.00 each postpaid. Specify which ones you'd like and PayPal to booksteve@aol.com

If you'd like multiples (or all), email me at booksteve@aol.com and I'll make you an even better deal!

Dick Tracy-William Johnston

Here we have the little seen DICK TRACY novel from 1970 by William Johnston (NOT as is sometimes misreported the prolific William JohnstonE). This is the mass market edition that was reissued in 1990 during the anticipated Tracy-Mania lead-up to Warren Beatty's DICK TRACY movie. Even then, it kind of got lost in the shuffle. 

It's a straight detective novel but, as in the strip itself of 1970, there are traces of camp as our hawk-nosed, square-jawed hero takes on the insidious Mr. Computer!

Noticeably weathered pages but otherwise as new. 

$4.00 + $3.00 postage

James Bond-The Authorized Biography of 007-by John Pearson

Similar to the "biographies" of Tarzan and Doc Savage by Philip Jose Farmer from around the same time, here we have a fictional but detailed biography of James Bond. Although cashing in on the popularity of the films, the book itself mainly attempts to reconcile the events of Ian Fleming's novels and short stories to put together a spurious account of the life of the world's greatest secret agent. 

Author John Pearson had, at one time, been an assistant to Bond's creator and had written a previous book about him. A later book was an attempt at a similar biography of the British boys' hero pilot, Biggles. 

A thick 330 pages, my copy of this 1973 book is a 1975 mass market printing that shows a bit of long ago water damage along the spine in the form of ever so slightly expanded pages and faded spine color. 

$8.00 + $3.00 postage

Kids Say the Darndest Things-Art Linkletter-Signed Copy!

This is a fun book...and it's signed, too...well...sorta. I don't know. Perhaps Linkletter gave it to  close friend and thus didn't feel the need to sign his full name. On the inside front cover it just says, "Yours for better learning, Art." When you look up his autograph, this does indeed seem to be authentically his handwriting so I assume it to be legit.

Anyway, this is a collection of Art's interaction with little children from House Party and various other programs over the years. Hilarious and touching, it comes complete with an introduction by Walt Disney and illustrations by Charles Schulz! This particular edition is a 1978 reprint, 5th printing, of the 1957 original and thus also features a brand new foreword by Linkletter!

262 pages, slight wear on the cover and slight aging on the pages.

$8.00 + $3.00 postage

 Get this and the previously posted Art Linkletter book PEOPLE ARE FUNNY for just $15.00 including postage by clicking below!

The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe-Robert Slatzer

Robert Slatzer was a reporter, an author and a no-budget filmmaker. He also claimed to anyone whose ear he could catch that he was married to Marilyn Monroe briefly in 1952. This book, the paperback version of  his 1974 bestseller, is where he first went public with that claim as well as laying out the circumstantial evidence that the star had been murdered.

It's a good read and gets a lot of Marilyn's history right...but not all of it. Then it veers into conspiracy theory territory and gets a bit surreal as one loses track of what's fiction and what's fact.

I had just discovered Marilyn a year or so earlier when I bought this 1977 second printing as my first (of many) books on her. Probably wasn't the best place to start but in the big picture, it's a fun, weird book. Clearly Slatzer did actually know MM as there are photos of them together. Beyond that, however, there was never any proof of any of his claims as to his relationship with her.

456 Pages, 100 pages of documents and photographs

Slight spine crease, slight edge weathering and my initials on the title page


$12.00 + $3.00 postage