r/VintagePaperbacks

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Need help finding copies of out-of-print literary journals.

I'm helping a friend hunt down a copy of every published work by Anne Carson (a crazy feat, I know). Most publications are readily available online but we have a short list of literary journals that published her from the '90s and early 2000s that we can't seem to find anywhere. Any suggestions for other subreddits to post this or specific booksellers to check with would be super appreciated.

Here is the list of journals as well as the titles of Carson's works that were published in each:

  1. Convivium (summer 2003), "Swimming at Noon Always Reminds Me of Marilyn Monroe"
  2. Matrix (1996, #49), "Anne Carson: The Matrix Interview"
  3. New Muses (1985, Volume 9, Issues 2–3), "Conversations with the Confused: Cold Feet"
  4. Pearl (Winter 1993, Issue 14), "Catallus: Carmina"
  5. Planetarium Station (Winter 1986–1987, Issue 3), "Short Talks"
  6. Satellite (1999), "Interview with Anne Carson" (by Ken Chen)
  7. Satellite (October 2000), "Bindings"
  8. Satellite (2001), "High Class(ical), An Interview with Poet and Classicist Anne Carson" (by Ken Chen)
  9. Stanford Literature Review (Fall 1986, Volume 3, No. 2), "'Echo with No Door on Her Mouth': A Nation Refraction Though Sophokles, Plato, and Defoe"
  10. Thamyrus (Autumn 1994, Vol. 1, Issue 1), "The Gender of Sound"
  11. Trois (1997, Vol. 12, Issue 2), "Artaud Script / Artaud Week"
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u/HeftyMarch1176 — 14 hours ago

Powers of Darkness by Robert Aickman. Collins 1966.

Probably one of my best finds - 10p from the shop in the local refuse tip.

u/darren648 — 3 days ago

Calamity Fair. Wade Miller. Signet 843, January 1951. 1st paperback edition. Cover artist Barye Phillips. Wade Miller is a pseudonym of Robert Allison Wade and H. William Miller. Other pseudonyms used by them are Whit Masterson, and Will Daemer.

u/Altruistic_Flow_3638 — 2 days ago

My Son, the Murderer. Patrick Quentin (Hugh Wheeler). Avon G1267, 1965. Cover artist Vic Kalin.

Alternate title: The Wife of Ronald Sheldon.

The Patrick Quentin pseudonym was used by other authors besides Wheeler - Richard Wilson Webb, Martha Mott, Kelley, and Mary Louise Aswell. Wikipedia has an good article on the creation and usage of Patrick Quentin.

u/Altruistic_Flow_3638 — 3 days ago

Vanish in an Instant. Margaret Millar. Dell 730, 1952. Cover artist Griffith Foxley.

Margaret Millar was married to Kenneth Millar better known by his pen name Ross Macdonald.

They each received Grand Masters Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. Ross Macdonald in 1972 and Margaret Millar in 1983.

u/Altruistic_Flow_3638 — 5 days ago

The Anti-Death League, by Kingsley Amis

Ballentine, 1967. An attempt to market this in the US as a spies-and-sex romp, when in reality, this is one of Amis’ most grim and emotional novels. Note also how the jacket copy harks back to Lucky Jim, the only book of his that US readers were likely to be familiar with.

u/dblowe — 6 days ago