Books Bought--Matt 'n' Jeff--June 20

(Matt's haul)Okay, so we've been going to some bookstores while Matt Staggs and his wife Meg have been in town. In addition to the long-time institutions Paperback Rack and Bookshelf, we stopped at the newly risen Word Traffic and Secret Headquarters. Both of these new places are absolutely fantastic.Here's my haul, with some notes. I'd love reader comments on these books because this time I'm not buying extra copies of stuff I've already read...***I deeply enjoy old mass markets from the 1960s and 1970s. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there was more quality stuff in mass market back then. Even the Alfred Coppel looks like it's pretty darn well written.I'm a sucker for non-tea-cozy England-based mysteries, so maybe these Richardson's will suck, but then again...maybe not. As for the third one, I've been told to read some Van Vechten for awhile now...I think, with these, I just don't want the magic to end, even though it's ended.I found some more Dedalus for my collection! Anyone read these?Two more Dedalus! Woo-hoo!I fear packaging might have outstripped content on these, but from a skim they look rather well-written. We'll find out...These graphic novels looks absolutely fantastic. Anyone read them?I've always wanted this book.The universe will explode now that these two disparate books are rubbing shoulders. I've wanted both for a long, long time.Matt recommended this DMZ series to me, and a Comics Journal featuring Trondheim? How could I resist?And then I made this impulse buy, which I've explicated below with three photos. The note with the book says, "Maggots is a facsmile of a book Brian Chippendale completed but never printed in 1996 and 1997 while living in Fort Thunder, Providence, RI. Frankly drawn over the pages of a Japanese book catalog [which you can see ghosting beneath his illos--JV] Chippendale's first masterpiece has lain dormant for more than a decade." Who is Chippendale?! This book is crazy crazy cool.Interiors (nice dustjacket over the paperback)