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

[New York]: Avon Books, [1973]. First edition. Mild edge rubbing, a nearly fine copy. (18327). Octavo, cover art by George Wilson, pictorial wrappers. Avon 17731. The ninth volume in this series.

[New York]: Avon Books, [1973]. First edition. Mild crease to front cover, mild edge rubs, a nearly fine copy. (18324). Octavo, cover art by George Wilson, pictorial wrappers. Avon 15545. The sixth volume in this series.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. First U. S. edition. Leather edges rubbed, chipping and loss to spine edges, a good to very good copy. Appleton's Town and Country Library did at least one other title is this format. This edition omits the ads in the rear present in the cloth edition. (28930). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-239 [240-244: blank] original three-quarter leather and marbled boards, ruled, tooled, and lettered in gold. "A sophisticated supernatural novel..." "One of the 19th century classics." - Bleiler-Guide to Supernatural Literature #621. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 2-27.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. First U.S. edition. Some dustiness to edges, touch of rubbing to extremities, upper right front corner gently bumped, else a bright attractive copy in fine condition. (8040). Octavo, cloth. "A sophisticated supernatural novel..." "One of the 19th century classics." - Bleiler-Guide to Supernatural Literature #621. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 2-27.

Kokomo, IN: All-Fiction Field, Inc., 1949. Covers trimmed, creasing and closed edge tears to front cover, a good to very good copy. (27308). Octavo, single issue, cover Lawrence, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features "The Valley of Silent Men" by E. C. Vivian. Short fiction by Margaret St. Clair. Primarily FFM reprinted science fantasy material. "Famous Fantastic Mysteries [has] a special historical significance because it preserved (and introduced a new generation to) the older traditions from which modern science fiction emerged." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 212-216.

New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1940. Crease to front cover, closed tear to left front cover, a very good or better copy. (26208). Octavo, single issue, cover Virgil Finlay, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes stories by A. Merritt, Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint, and others. Primarily FFM reprinted science fantasy material. "Famous Fantastic Mysteries [has] a special historical significance because it preserved (and introduced a new generation to) the older traditions from which modern science fiction emerged." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 212-216.

Chicago: All-Fiction Field, Inc., 1945. Mild edge wear, reading crease to front cover, some fraying to paper paper of upper spine, a very good copy. (20187). Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contains "Phra the Phoenician" by Edwin Lester Arnold. Primarily FFM reprinted science fantasy material. "Famous Fantastic Mysteries [has] a special historical significance because it preserved (and introduced a new generation to) the older traditions from which modern science fiction emerged." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 212-216.

Kokomo, IN: All-Fiction Field, Inc., 1949. Covers trimmed, reading crease, mild rubbing, several small closed tears to lower front panel. A good to very good copy. (27307). Octavo, single issue, cover Lawrence, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features the classic "The Purple Cloud" by M.P. Shiel. Short fiction by Stanley Mullen. Primarily FFM reprinted science fantasy material. "Famous Fantastic Mysteries [has] a special historical significance because it preserved (and introduced a new generation to) the older traditions from which modern science fiction emerged." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 212-216.

New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1939. Tape to spine and tape areas to right front cover, bottom front cover unevenly trimmed. A good copy. (20252). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes stories by A. Merritt, Manly Wade Wellman, Todd Robbins, Donald Wandrei and others. Primarily FFM reprinted science fantasy material. "Famous Fantastic Mysteries [has] a special historical significance because it preserved (and introduced a new generation to) the older traditions from which modern science fiction emerged." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 212-216.

Chicago: All-Fiction Field, Inc, 1948. Mild wear to edges, a bright nearly fine copy. (20854). Octavo, single issue cover by Lawrence, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Purple Sapphire" by John Taine and "The Night Before the End of the World" by Murray Leinster.

New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publisher, 1940. Chips to front cover, pencil markings, ink stain to lower front cover, chip to upper rear cover, dampstain along lower rear cover edge, with readable contents, a good copy. (26113). Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Four stories, all written by Max Brand, all using the same character. The first of three issues. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 231-234.

[London: The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., 1936]. First edition. Tiny creases to corners, small tear and crease to lower left corner, a few spots, a very good or somewhat better copy. (13612). Champion Library No. 174. Juvenile adventure novel set in Egypt featuring a lost temple and treasure. First published in serial form.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1939. Slight edge rubbing, a fine copy. (19759). Large octavo, single issue, front cover by Robert Fuqua, rear cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, "bedsheet format." Stories by Stanton Coblentz, Nelson Bond and others. This was a companion science fiction and fantasy magazine to AMAZING STORIES.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1946. Some tiny edge tears, a very good copy. (26018). Octavo, single issue, cover by Arnold Kohn, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Chester S. Geier, Rog Philips and others. This was a companion science fiction and fantasy magazine to AMAZING STORIES. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1950. Mild edge wear, a nearly fine copy. (27410). Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert Gibson Jones. pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Carl F. Myers, Mack Reynolds, June Lurie, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.

Kokomo, IN: Best Books, Inc., 1951. Reading crease, crease to lower right front cover, nick to upper front cover, a very good copy. (27312). Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Largely a reprint magazine which started life as Fantastic Story Quarterly. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 249-250.

Kokomo, IN: Best Books, Inc., 1954. Edges trimmed, reading crease, a very good copy. (27318). Octavo, single issue, cover by Jack Coggins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Largely a reprint magazine which started life as Fantastic Story Quarterly. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 249-250.

Kokomo, IN: Best Books, Inc., 1953. Mild edge wear, a very good or better copy. (26281). Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Largely a reprint magazine which started life as Fantastic Story Quarterly. This issue includes "Dawn of Flame" and The Black Flame." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 249-250.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1949. A nearly fine copy. (26304). Octavo, single issue, cover by James B. Settles. pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Alexander Blade (house pseudonym) and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1953. Mild tanning to text paper, slight loss at base of spine, a nearly fine copy. (26852). Octavo, single issue cover by W. T. Mars, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Includes new fiction by William P. McGivern, John Wyndham, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester and others. Fantastic was an interesting magazine with ups and downs, the first couple years under Browne's editorship and then later under Cele Goldsmith were high spots. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 221-232.