Monday, October 5, 2015

Paperback 907: Treasure of the Brasada / Les Savage, Jr. (Dell 673)

Paperback 907: Dell 673 (1st ptg, 1953)

Title: Treasure of the Brasada
Author: Les Savage, Jr.
Cover artist: Stanley Borack

Estimated value: $8-12

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Best things about this cover:
  • She's got the whole gun / amulet / boob trifecta going. Dude's like "Whoa... easy."
  • Gun-crotch nexus. Who has the phallus now, buddy!
  • I think she stopped a lynching. Or else she interrupted some very risky sex play.
  • Hey, it's Les Savage's son, Even Less Savage!
  • I got this paperback in a vintage clothing store in Minneapolis. 

Best things about this back cover:
  • Look out! Arrows!
  • "The faint rattle of mesquite berries" is how I will describe the sound of my next chest cold.
  • This (long!) description is vague to the point of making me not care.
  • "Try it. Come on, try it. I'm here. Try it." These are some pretty mediocre 70s dance song lyrics.

Page 123~

"Let's close the poke," he said.

Early Texans had very lively idiomatic sexual expressions.

~RP

P.S. I've been pretty lax with the updates recently because of a million things, but I'm gonna try diligently to get on a (minimum) M / F posting schedule.

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5 comments:

Nomi Lubin said...

Yay.

DemetriosX said...

I can totally hear ABBA singing that. And the cowboy looks like he's trying to dance to it, but all he can manage is the white guy shuffle.

Anonymous said...

I believe we've been given a glimpse of the Treasures of the Bra [of] Sada, but Sada doesn't seem to be wearing a bra, so I'm a bit confused.

Anonymous said...

Treasure of Braless Ada?

b.baud said...

a poke is a bag as in 'pig in a poke' buying something unseen