New on Archive.org, The Science-Fiction Collector #4 (July 1977). Includes “Bibliographic Notes on some HLP Books” by British Lovecraft collector and dealer Ted Ball. The information delves into printing histories and is thus still likely to be of use to collectors of the titles discussed. For instance, stating that some copies of Selected Letters I will have pink lettering on the jacket.

Collector #4 has a survey and bibliography of science fiction paperbacks that (in those days) classed as outright ‘pornographic’, and were published during the first half of the de-censorship era, approx. 1961-1975. Includes Frank Belknap Long’s 160-page novel Mating Center (1961)…