Video of the Week... The Frank M Robinson collection of pulps and books
Source: Paul Frazier Collectibles
Video of the Week... The Frank M Robinson collection of pulps and books
In months to come, auctioneer Adventure House will be offering the Frank M Robinson Collection on their website.
Frank M Robinson is an author and editor who has worked for magazines such as Science Digest and Playboy. He's written a number of books including the thriller The Power, made into the movie of the same name.
More recently he's authored The Dark Beyond the Stars and Waiting... both science-fiction novels.
He is an avid collector in the world of Pulp and the book Pulp Culture, which he co-wrote with Lawrence Davidson, won the Pop Culture Book of the Year 1999 (Independent Publishers Association).
Robinson's collection includes nearly 10,000 pulps, digests, books and artwork all of which will be offered. The collection includes the highest grade run of Weird Tales, ever assembled.
Pulp can be big business. Hugh Joseph Ward's The Evil Flame, Spicy Mystery Stories pulp cover from 1936 sold at Heritage in the summer of 2010 for staggering $143,400.
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