Elgin show will shine spotlight on pulp fiction

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20010309
Author:Denise I. O'Neal

The Windy City Pulp and Paperback Show debuts Saturday at the Ramada Inn in Elgin.

More than 40 dealers will gather for the first-time event. Available for purchase will be works by Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator of "Tarzan"); detective authors Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson and Cornell Woolrich; science fiction writers Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard, and Western writers Louis L'Amour and Max Brand.

Rare original cover art for books and magazines will also be on display and for sale.

Vintage magazines will include Black Mask, Weird Tales, the Shadow and ...

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