Search Results: Authors starting with B from John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. First edition. Fine in very good plus dust jacket, light wear to corners and spine ends, some age darkening to fold edges and spine panel. (11695). Octavo, cloth. The second Hannah Van Doren mystery. Babcock was a Black Mask author.

New York: Avon Book Company, [1946]. First edition. Cover creases, spine lean, separation of front cover from spine at lower left, a good copy. (25063). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Murder Mystery Monthly 38. The third Hannah Van Doren mystery. Hubin, p. 39.

New York: Avon Book Company, [1946]. First edition. Page edges very darkened, mild stress creases, some spine rubs, right front edge a little curled, a good to very good copy. (25132). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Murder Mystery Monthly 38. The third Hannah Van Doren mystery. Hubin, p. 39.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First edition. Very good plus, some rubbing to gilt of spine lettering in a very good plus dust jacket, light rubbing to spine ends and corners, small v shaped closed tear to upper front panel. (8010). Octavo, Hardcover.

New York: Crown Publishers, [2002]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (10118). Octavo, boards. Career CIA field officer's memoirs. Basis for the George Clooney film Syriana.

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in very good plus to near fine dust jacket (illustrated by Henry R. Diamond) with light shelf wear at edges, mainly lower edges, and 24 mm closed tear along bottom front spine fold. A nice copy overall. (12770). Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-4] 5-6 [7-9] 10-250 [251-252: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. A Reggie Fortune novel. Hubin (1994), p. 41.

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1942. First edition. A fine copy in nearly fine pictorial dust jacket with touch of wear along top edges and small associated nick to top edge of rear panel. A very nice copy overall. (12771). Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1] 2-546 [547-548: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in red, fore-edge untrimmed. An omnibus volume collecting a novel, THE BISHOP'S CRIME (1940) and twelve stories featuring Reggie Fortune, plus "Mr. Fortune," an essay by Bailey introducing his fictional sleuth. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 2336. Hubin (1994), p. 41.

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First U.S. edition. Printed on pulpy paper stock which is tanned (less than usual), a fine copy in fine dust jacket. Quite scarce in this condition. (12769). Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-191 [192: blank], original gray boards, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Hubin (1994), p. 41.

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1944. First edition. Light bruises to lower corner tips, a fine copy in very good dust jacket with some shelf wear and short tears at edges, mainly spine ends and corner tips. A nice copy overall. (12767). Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-223, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. A Reggie Fortune novel. Published in the UK in 1945 by Macdonald as DEAD MAN'S EFFECTS. Mr. Fortune investigates murder and sabotage during World War II. Hubin (1994), p. 41.

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with shallow chipping along top edge of front panel and short closed tear and mild dust soiling to rear panel. (12773). Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-269 [270: blank], original blue gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, cream endpapers. A Reggie Fortune novel. Mr. Fortune investigates a mysterious outbreak of typhus fever in a remote village in Wales during World War II. Hubin (1994), p. 41.

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1945. First edition. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with touch of wear at edges. A very nice copy. (12780). Octavo, pp. [1-2] [11-4] 5-6 [7-8] 9-252 [253-254: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original burgundy cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. The UK edition was published in 1946 by Macdonald. Hubin (1994), p. 42.

Garden City, New York: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937. First U.S. edition. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket, with some light shelf wear and mild rubbing. (9873). Octavo, cloth. A Reggie Fortune novel.

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1942. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in near fine pictorial dust jacket (illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele) with some light shelf wear and mild rubbing at edges and mild sunning to spine panel. (12764). Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-294, original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained terra cotta, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed, white endpapers. A Reggie Fortune novel. Published in the UK as NO MURDER (1942). Hubin (1994), p. 41.

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1941. First U.S. edition. Small 20 mm area of wear to cloth along lower rear fore-edge, else a fine copy in nearly fine pictorial dust jacket (illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele) with hint of wear at spine ends and matching area of wear along rear flap fold. A nice copy overall. (12776). Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-307 [308-310: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained blue, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, cream endpapers. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as THE LITTLE CAPTAIN (1941). Hubin (1994), p. 41.

New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1939. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket (illustrated by Duggan) with some wear along top edges with two small associated nicks and chips. A nice copy overall. (12772). Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-303 [304-306: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, cream endpapers. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as THE VERON MYSTERY (1939). Hubin (1994), p. 42.

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. A sharp copy. (12779). Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-299 [300: blank], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, cream endpapers. The fourth novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as CLUNK'S CLAIMANT (1937). Hubin (1994), p. 41.

Georgetown, CA: Talisman Literary Research, Inc., 1981. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. (9136). Octavo, cloth. One of 85 copies done in hardcover. Bibliographical data plus reminiscences by Elizabeth Brown and Harry Altshuler (who was the author's literary agent).

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. First edition. A fine copy a in fine dust jacket with new price sticker affixed over printed price. (22679). Octavo, cloth. 2045 copies printed. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-11.

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. First edition. A fine copy a in fine dust jacket. (3661). Octavo, cloth. 2045 copies printed. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-11.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. A very good plus copy in a very good dust jacket, shelf wear and rubbing to edges and spine folds, loss across head of spine panel (.5 cm deep), minor loss to bottom of spine panel, some loss and tear along bottom front edge. Somewhat uncommon in dust jacket. (8193). Octavo, Hardcover.