Get Even More Visitors To Your Blog, Upgrade To A Business Listing >>

Blog Directory  >  Books & Literature Blogs  >  Hang Fire Books books-and-literature Blog  > 

Hang Fire Books Blog


hangfirebooks.blogspot.com
The rantings of an online bookseller located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Posting on the art and craft of online bookselling, book curiosities and emphemera, etc
2016-03-21 21:11
I bought a pile of books at a house cleanout recently. The place had 18 rooms and I kept getting lost and forgetting where I put down my piles. It didn't help that the wall paper in the plac… Read More
2016-03-21 21:11
Witness the carload of Kabbalah, occult, Theosophy, reincarnation and general WooWoo that I dumpster-dived (with permission) from a snow-covered bin behind a local thrift store. WooWoo rema… Read More
2016-03-21 21:10
My haul from a recent hunting trip. Most of the stuff in the top photo was from a house cleanout. No mind-altering wallpaper this time. The biggest excitement was having to doubletime rifle… Read More
2016-02-12 16:00
Title: Passion in White (NT 3004) Author: Richard RaymondArtist: Unknown Year: 1965 "I've got to work for a doctor to prove to myself that I'm not those things they called me at the hospita… Read More
2016-02-10 16:00
Title: Nympho Nurse (Gold Star Books IL7-75) Author: Jerry James Artist: Unknown Year: 1965 "She was a slave to her own insatiable desires. . . .Nurse Randy Scott had one burning desire--to… Read More
2016-02-09 20:09
Title: Derby Dame (BEACON SIGNAL B329) Author: Andrew KetchnerArtist: Photo Year: 1974 "Dynamite on skates--dynamite in bed!" Categories: 1970s Sleaze and GGA, Sports… Read More
2016-02-08 16:00
Title: Woman's Doctor (MAGNET BOOKS MB 318) Author: Lauris Haney Artist: Unknown Year: 1960 "He preyed on the bodies of his beautiful patients." Categories: 1960s Sleaze and&n&hell…Read More
2016-02-05 16:00
Title: Female Convict (Pyramid 191) Author: Vincent G. Burns (as told to) Artist: Robert Maguire Year: 1959 "Here is an uncompromising indictment of a vicious system that treats women like… Read More
2016-02-04 16:00
Title: Call Me Bad (Beacon B 332) Author: Orrie Hitt Artist: Milo Year: 1960 "Sherry was one of those dolls you list on your expense report." Categories: 1960s Sleaze and&nbsp&hell…Read More
2016-02-03 20:19
Title: Glad to Be Bad (MIDWOOD No. 46) Author: Adam Roberts Artist: Paul Rader Year: 1960 Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA Continue reading Read More
2016-01-29 16:00
Title: Rock 'N Roll Gal (Beacon B 131) Author: Ernie Weatherall Artist: Owen Kampen Year: 1961 "Her Body was Blonde--Her Heart was Black. The sizzling world of real gone guys--and dolls on… Read More
2016-01-27 16:00
Title: Angel's Flight (GOLD MEDAL s1047) Author: Lou CameronArtist: Mitchell Hooks Year: 1960 Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Mystery and Thrillers Continue reading… Read More
2016-01-25 21:48
Title: The Hot Beat (MAGNET BOOKS MB 314) Author: Stan Vincent Artist: Unknown Year: 1960 "A sizzling tale of unbridled passion in the untamed jungle of Hollywood night life." Categories:… Read More
2016-01-20 16:30
Moby-Dick is many things: a vivid sea adventure, an indictment of American capitalism, a Jobian argument with the cosmos, and one thing it definitely is is an 822-page (in the Rockwell Kent… Read More
2016-01-15 16:00
Title: Song of the Whip (BEACON B295) Author: Barry Devlin Artist: Robert Maguire Year: 1960 "Here was a vicious contest between man and woman. Which was the crueler...more passionate...mor… Read More
2016-01-13 16:00
Title: The Payoff (Midwood No. F232) Author: Max Collier Artist: Paul Rader Year: 1963 "An ambitious wife can corrupt everyone she touches, especially if she has no moral qualms about how s… Read More
2016-01-12 16:00
Title: The Third Lust (BEACON B586F K) Author: George Simon Artist: Unknown Year: 1963 "The well-cared-for women in their well-tended homes had time on their hands--time to pursue the new c… Read More
2016-01-11 19:30
I forgot to mention it here (which shows how Grrrrrrrrreat! I am at social media strategy) but I'm (re)building the Hang Fire Books Facebook business page after a multi-year rage quit. Plea… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Another Japanese oddity. A Strand bag from "Mister Donut" for a campaign celebrating Brooklyn(?) with the famous Strand motto "Delicious Donuts and Good Books make for Happy Times."  … Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
My new "Big Dump" business idea and todo notebook. A Christmas present from my brother-in-law who lives in the wonderland of Japan (thanks Ian!). Can't wait to use this "gratest problem-solv… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On January 1st the New York Times ran an article (with accompanying wah-wah scored video) on the New York Public Library's recently more accessible vintage erotica collection. The piece desc… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
 I'm excited to announce that I recently became a contributing reviewer for Wink Books! Wink--"Remarkable Books That Belong on Paper''--is a sister site to Cool Tools and focuses on f… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Title: The Path Between (MIDWOOD No. 72) Author: Jay Warren Artist: Paul Rader Year: 1961 "The bizarre world of the outcast sex--women who seek their pleasure with other women....Ellie coul… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This episode of the podcast You Must Remember This describes a life that is about as noir as it gets. With her masochism, addictions to plastic surgery, sex and alcohol, Gloria Grahame seems… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Title: Steffi (Beacon B216) Author: Eunice Gray Artist: Clement Micarelli Year: 1951 "Too reckless with her charms--too lavish with her love..." Categories: 1950s Sleaze and&nb&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Title: Love in Suburbia (Monarch 455) Author: John Conway (aka: John Chadwick) Artist: Unknown Year: 1960 "They spiced their lives with other men's wives.... " Categories: 1960s Sl… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Title: Split Level Sin (All Star AS 38)Author: D. W. CraigArtist: UnknownYear: 1965"The way to the top was through the bedroom where woman met woman, and man met man"Categories: 1960s&nbs&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Title: 7 Days to Death (originally published as: Gideon's Week) (Pyramid G323)Author: J.J. MarricArtist: Lou MarchettiYear: 1958Categories: Mystery and Thrillers Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Title: The Snatch (Dell First Edition A170)Author: Harold R. DanielsArtist: Mitchell HooksYear: 1958Categories: Mystery and Thrillers Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Title: Desire on Top (Raven RB 707)Author: Adam FentonArtist: UnknownYear: 1963"She used her body to whip women into a frenzy of passion... To get ahead in the business world she would make… Read More

Share the post

Hang Fire Books

×

Subscribe to Hang Fire Books

Get updates delivered right to your inbox!

Thank you for your subscription

×