Title: My Gun Is Quick
Author: Mickey Spillane
Cover artist: Lou Kimmel
Estimated value: $4-7
[Part of the Laura R. Braunstein Collection]
- This is what all vintage paperbacks should look like—authentically beat to fuck.
- People really read Spillane. To pieces.
- I love the male fear hand! Gender equity!
- The *Hammer* mystery will *hit* me? Stellar wordplay, copy guy.
- I feel like they should be "seductively-lit" apartments. Not "-lighted." Hey, copy guy...
- Damn, that Spillane portrait is olden. I'm used to the buzz-cut, t-shirted, gun-wielding dude. This dude:
Finally she said, "The baby clothes, Mike . . . it fits!"
Mike, now wearing a onesie, wondered how he would ever regain his dignity.
~RP
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1 comment:
Hmm... seeing a Mickey Spillane paperback that's beat up this much gives me the creepy feeling that inside I'll find that the worst of the violence-porn passages will be underlined.
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