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

New York, Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1948]. First edition. Long crack to front cover, several small tears at the head of the spine, some splitting along rear gutter, a good copy in a very good dust jacket with wear to spine ends with some tiny tears and creases, light wear to corner tips, some darkening to spine and rear panels. A serviceable copy. (28114). Octavo, boards. The author's first book. A novel of WW II centered on a combat platoon in the pacific. Basis for the 1958 feature film of the same name.

Eugene, OR: Author's Choice Monthly Pulphouse Publishing, [1991]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (29194). Octavo, cloth. One of 300 numbered clothbound copies signed by Williamson. Collects eight stories. Author's Choice Monthly, Issue Twenty-four.

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1975. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a mild crease to the upper rear panel. (22843). Octavo, jacket illustration by Tim Kirk, cloth. Anthology of original stories, some Lovecraftian. Authors include Thomas Burnett Swann, Robert Aickman, Stephen Goldin, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, E. Hoffman Price and others. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-288.

New York: Ace Books, [1998]. First edition. A fine copy, unread. (30351). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original. Collects nine stories and a poem. Authors include Greg Bear, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Stephan Baxter and others.

Nantucket: Eel Grass Press, 1989. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (3515). Octavo, Hardcover. One of 250 signed copies.

Np, nd, [1942]. First edition. Stain to lower left front cover, erasure to lower front cover, several stress creases, a very good copy. Rare. (27587). Octavo, pp. [1] 2 [3-4] 5-8 [9-10] 11-14 [15] [16: blank], [Note: two color comic inserts 4 pages and 8 pages], illustrated throughout, printed wrappers. This is one of the earliest essay's on comic books, an offprint from Print: A Quarterly Journal of Graphic Arts (Summer, 1942). It also includes two four color comic inserts, the first "The Minute Man Answers the Call" with writing credit to Gaines and illustrated by an uncredited Sheldon Moldoff, which is a promotion to buy War Bonds. The second insert is "Picture Stories From the Bible: The Story of Ruth" by Gaines and artist Don Cameron. M. C. Gaines is essentially the father of the modern comic book. In 1933 he devised a saddle stitched newsprint pamphlet which was the precursor of the modern four color comic book. Gaines founded All-American Publications which featured original material… Read More

New York: Congdon and Weed, 1983. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (7144). Octavo, Hardcover. A Harry Stoner novel.

New Haven and New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1982. First edition. Near fine in near fine price clipped dust jacket. (7280). Octavo, illustrations by the author, boards. Signed by the author with a spider drawing. A Homer Kelly mystery. Illustrations by the author.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1969. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket with some slight edge rubbing. (7283). Octavo, Hardcover. Sequel to The Rebel of Rhada.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (5702). Octavo, boards. The first Nebraska mystery novel.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. First edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild dust soiling, a touch of wear at the spine ends and slight darkening to spine panel. Uncommon (28076). Octavo, cloth. Collects eight stories by Roger Zelazny (two contributions), James H. Schmitz, Harlan Ellison, Gordon R. Dickson, Larry Niven, Brian W. Aldiss, and J. G. Ballard. The first and by far the most elusive book of this distinguished series. Includes the first book publication of Dickson's, Nebula award nominated "Computers Don't Argue" which depicts a computer dystopia. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 20-1.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a little toning to the spine panel. Uncommon. (28078). Octavo, cloth. Collects seven stories by J. G. Ballard, Harlan Ellison, Gary Wright, Samuel R. Delany, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, and Anne McCaffrey. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.

New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1973]. Second edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (28081). Octavo, cloth.cloth backed boards. Collects seven stories by Theodore Sturgeon, Keith Laumer, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, R. A. Lafferty, Harry Harrison and Joanna Russ, and essay by Thomas D. Clareson. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First edition. Some darkening to interior gutter margins, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with some toning to edges next to spine folds. Uncommon. (28080). Octavo, cloth. Collects seven stories by Theodore Sturgeon, Keith Laumer, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, R. A. Lafferty, Harry Harrison and Joanna Russ, and essay by Thomas D. Clareson. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First edition. Some darkening to interior gutter margins, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some toning to edges next to spine folds. Uncommon. (28079). Octavo, cloth. Collects six stories by Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven, Samuel R. Delany and Theodore Sturgeon, and two articles by Darko Suvin and Alexei Panshin. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First edition. Some darkening to interior gutter margins, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a little toning to the spine panel. Uncommon. (28077). Octavo, cloth. Collects eleven stories by Richard McKenna, Bob Shaw, R. A. Lafferty, Jack Vance, Frederik Pohl, Philip K. Dick, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.

San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1990]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (29449). Octavo, cloth-backed boards. Collects fiction by James Morrow, Jane Yolen, George Alec Effinger, Jack McDevitt, Neal Barrett, Jr., Gene Wolfe, Connie Willis and others and nonfiction by Ian Watson, Lois McMaster Bujold, Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-544.

London: Scion Ltd., [1950]. First edition. Mild wear to spine ends and corner tips, a nearly fine copy. (24428). Octavo, cover by Ronald Turner, pictorial wrappers. "A Scion Scientific Novel." The scattered atoms of the long-dead sole survivor of a peaceful alien race annihilated by the super science of an ancient pre-antediluvian Earth civilization are reunited by Earth scientists during a laboratory experiment. The super intelligent, amoral, and totally evil alien assumes the form of a beautiful woman, Nebula, and makes plans to exterminate mankind to avenge its dead race. "The basic plot of this story is based on 'The Multillionth Chance' which appeared in the September 1946 issue of THRILLING WONDER STORIES, as by John Russell Fearn." - Harbottle and Holland. Harbottle and Holland A155.

New York: Trident Press, 1964. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket showing some soiling. (768). Octavo, cloth.

[Mountain View, CA]: Night Shade Books, [1998]. First edition. Some light spotting to page edges, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (15008). Octavo, boards. Investigation of the history of the Necronomicon.