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

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., [1923]. Later edition. A very good minus copy, some general rubbing, expecially to edges, spine shows some spotting and age darkening. (12142). Octavo, [i-iv] v-xii [xiv-xvi] 17-333 [334-336, blank], fore-edge untrimmed. cloth backed boards. Later printing of the first edition, statement of printing on copyright page. More Kai Lung tales. Preface by Hillare Belloc.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 1928. First U.S. edition. Very good in pictorial boards, rubbing to board edges. (7194). Pictorial boards.

London, Sydney, Wellington: Unwin Hyman, [1988]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (25019). Octavo, boards. Signed by Jones on the title page. In the near future England "is on the edge of collapse into a police state, and Islamic movement threatens world stability, and a fascist cult called BREAKTHRU may just about tip things over the edge ... A typically rich brew from Jones, with a tightly extrapolated future Europe, told utterly convincingly, with a matter-of-fact twisting of reality added for good measure." - Butler, The Pocket Essential Cyberpunk, pp. 63-4. Kairos is a reality-altering new drug that induces a strange aging effect reminiscent of Philip K. Dick's Ubik. "Corporate dystopia -- UK Ltd. Pollution." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.

Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 1998. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (22996). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 300 numbered copies. Collects three tales first published in MAGIC CARPET MAGAZINE and WEIRD TALES in 1933. Introduction by Ray Bradbury.

New York: Tor, 1995. First edition, first printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. (7378). Octavo, boards. Correct first edition which was recalled by Tor due to a large number of errors in the text. Buyers were encouraged to return their copies and exchange them for a corrected second printing.

Woodstock, IL: The Dramatic Publishing Company, [1986]. First separate edition. A fine copy. (31488). Small octavo, stiff printed wrappers. First separate publication of Bradbury's play written in 1975, adapted from his short story of the same name.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1993]. First edition. Head of spine slightly bumped, a fine copy in a fine jacket with bump at the head of the spine panel. (26563). Octavo, boards. "With a breakneck pace and a wonk's sense of humor, Laidlaw ( Neon Lotus ) neatly satirizes our postmodern society in this wild, almost hallucinatory novel. In the future U.S.A. that is the book's setting, flat-screen entertainment has evolved into full virtual-reality experience; stars are "wired'' to transmit from their senses directly to their worshipful audiences, who are themselves wired to receive more channels than a cable box..." - Publisher's Weekly. "As brilliant a satire on the future of media and popular culture as any of Pohl and Kornbluth's classic works." - George Zebrowski. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-626.

London: Century/Legend, 1990. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (2936). Octavo, boards. A novella.

London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century, 1990. First edition. A fine copy in a cloth slipcase, no dust jacket as issued. (29065). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Shepard. A novella. "A modern reinterpretation of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness, distinguished by intensely surreal episodes rendered in lucid prose." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-330.

London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century, [1990]. First trade hardcover edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (29067). Octavo, boards. A novella. "A modern reinterpretation of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness, distinguished by intensely surreal episodes rendered in lucid prose." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-330.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. First hardcover edition. A fine copy. (30640). Octavo, illustrations by Richard Powers, full leather, a.e.g. Introduction by Fred Pohl. Collector's notes laid in. Issued as part of the Easton Press "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 381.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1965]. First edition. Lower corners gently bumped, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine moderately dust soiled dust jacket. (15228). Octavo, cloth. The author's first book. A collection of his best early writing from Esquire and The New York Herald Tribune and other sources.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1990]. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (7057). Octavo, boards. Signed by Kijewski. The second Kat Colorado mystery.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1990]. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (14912). Octavo, boards. Signed by Kijewski. The second Kat Colorado mystery.

[New York]: HarperCollins Publishers, [2000]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (12850). Octavo, boards. In regressing a person to a past life, he channels Adolf Hitler. The author's first book.

New York: Doubleday, 1992. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (7059). Octavo, boards. Signed by Kijewski. A Kat Colorado mystery.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1989]. First edition. Age toning to text paper, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. (22538). Octavo, boards. Signed and dated by Kijewski on the title page. The first Kat Colorado mystery.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1989]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket (7058). Octavo, boards. Signed inscription by Kijewski and dated in the year of publication. The first Kat Colorado mystery.

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1976]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (17305). Octavo, cloth. 4391 copies printed. Collects twelve stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 248. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-41. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33.

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1976]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (22749). Octavo, cloth. 4391 copies printed. Collects twelve stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 248. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-41. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33.