Cool and Collected - collecting pop culture memories and memorabilia
A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
If you’ve been a good little boy or girl this year, Santa might bring you The Art of Hammer: The Official Poster Collection From the Archive of Hammer Films. This book is a must have for any fan of vintage horror films and movie posters. Synopsis: Hammer is almost as well known for the way it [...]
A Collection a Day #67 – Pulp Fiction, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. If I was a boy in the 50′s, this is what the floor of my bedroom would have looked like. The stories in the pulps usually were not great masterpieces, but their covers sure were. The art used on the covers [...]
A Collection a Day #66 – Big Little Books, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Big Little books or BLBs have a pretty solid collecting base. Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with them. I love the size and shape, and the graphics are fantastic, but I really hate how fragile these are. I’m afraid [...]
A Collection a Day #47 – Modern Library Books, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. In 1917, the Modern Library series was introduced, and over 750 titles have been printed since then. The goal of the series was to reprint the world’s best books. They are an affordable way for the masses to read and [...]
A Collection a Day #45 – “Mars” books, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. I’ve been doing a lot of books lately. I guess I may be reaching the limit of my collections, but I probably have enough books to bore you for weeks! Here is another idea for a collection — books with a [...]
A Collection a Day #43 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Edgar Rice Burroughs is the grand-daddy of science fiction and fantasy novels as we know them. If you have never read his John Carter of Mars series, do yourself a favor and check them out. It still amazes me how [...]
A Collection a Day #42 – The War of the Worlds, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. One of my favorite kinds of collections is one that shows a variety of depictions of the same thing. Here are four different paperbacks of H.G. Well’s classic, “The War of the Worlds.” This book has been around [...]
A Collection a Day #38 – More Ace Double Sci-Fi books, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Here are some more recent Ace Doubles. The left half of this photo shows one side of the books, while the right half shows the flip side. I love a good deal, and the buy one, get one [...]
A Collection a Day #30 – Ace Double Sci-Fi Paperbacks, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Who doesn’t like a two-for-one deal? Ace Doubles are two novels in one book. Finish one novel and then you just flip it over and you have a whole different novel with its own cover. Sci-fi greats such as [...]
A Collection a Day #10 – Vintage Western Paperbacks, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. The best thing about collecting old Western paperbacks is that you can still occasionally find them in used book stores. While most of the vintage sci-fi books have become scarce, westerns have not been totally picked over. If I see [...]
