The Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show & Sale
PulpFest 2020 may be six months off, but the annual Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show & Sale is right around the corner. It will take place on Sunday, March 8, at the Glendale Civic Auditorium at 1401 North Verdugo Road in Glendale, California from 9 AM to 4 PM. Featuring an admission price of five bucks, it’s the best bargain in town!
Now in its 41st year, the convention was started by Tom Lesser in 1980. It has grown to be the world’s largest vintage paperback gathering. The 2020 show will feature over eighty dealer tables with tens of thousands of vintage paperbacks for sale, from inexpensive filler copies to the rarest collectibles in the hobby. In addition to collectible paperbacks, you’ll also find pulp magazines, original illustration art, hardbound science fiction and mystery books, and more. There is no telling what might show up! Even with a crowd of collectors around, it’s possible to be the one who discovers a hidden gem at the event. This year, you could be that lucky person!
Meet Authors and Artists
Over the years, the show has featured an exciting roster of guest authors and artists. It has included such notables as Robert Bloch (18 years); Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, and A. E. Van Vogt (all for over 10 years); and the champ, William F. Nolan (with nearly 35 appearances). This year’s show will feature over forty authors and artists talking with attendees and signing their works for free! Click here for a schedule of the show’s guests.
You’ll find more information on this great collectors gathering at the convention’s website, its Facebook page, or by calling Tom Lesser at 818-855-1786. While you’re at the show, pick up a PulpFest 2020 post card to learn more about “Summer’s Great Pulp Con.”
PulpFest 2020 will begin Thursday evening, August 6, and run through Sunday afternoon, August 9. It will take place just outside of Pittsburgh at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania. To learn how to join PulpFest 2020, click the register button below our home page banner.
(The Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show & Sale’s posters were originally designed by the late Glenn Souza. He started in the early 1990s and continued through 2007. He then handed the job over to Tony Gleeson.
Tony’s 2020 poster for the Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show & Sale features the artwork of the talented illustrator Earle K. Bergey. The painting was originally used as the front cover art for the June 1951 issue of Standard Magazines’ THRILLING WONDER STORIES.)
