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

Garden City: Doubleday, 1986. First edition. Fine, remainder spray in fine dust jacket with light rubbing to extremities. (2885). Octavo, boards. Collection of short stories.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. First edition. Very light remainder spray on bottom edge of text block, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169292) (29952). Octavo, boards. Collects four novellas, "Kiss the Vampire Goodbye," "The Man Who Killed Forever," "Candlewyck," and "The Queen of Kilimanjaro.

London: Philip Allan, [1933]. First edition. Formerly Hugh Lamb's copy with his inked signature on the front free end paper, some soiling to cloth with spine a bit darkened, a very good copy. An as new facsimile dust jacket is included. (28172). Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-252 [253-256: ads], original yellow cloth, spine panel stamped in black. Original anthology collecting thirteen stories by Birkin (as "Charles Lloyd"), Douglas Newton, Elliott O'Donnell and others. Part of the classic fourteen volume "Creeps" series. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1351. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 11946.

New York: Ace Books, [1956]. First edition. Store stamps to first page of each title, text paper age tanning, some edge rubbing and reading creases, a very good copy. (16385). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Ace double D-195. Paperback original. The Colby book is the author's first novel. The Dudley book is the author's second. Jaffery, S., Double Trouble: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles, pp. 46.

[London: Gollancz, 2010]. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. A fine unread copy in wrappers with a touch of rubbing. (17390). Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers. The author's first novel and first book in the Jean de Flambeur sequence. "...an sf tale of very considerable noirish exuberance, with elements of Space Opera, Cyberpunk, Cosmology-wonk, Hard SF and McGuffin-hunt mixed together in a solar system - fairly distant into the future - governed by AIs and their Avatars, by godlike entities who inhabit (or are) Spaceships and/or Living Worlds, and by various examples of Posthuman Evolution. - Clute, SFE online.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1992. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (5670). Octavo, Hardcover. A "Nameless Detective" mystery.

Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, [2001]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (27259). Octavo, cloth. One of 1,000 numbered copies. This copy signed by Martin and artist Charles Vess on the title page. Collects three novellas, including the Hugo award winning (and Nebula nominee)"Blood of the Dragon," which is an excerpt from A Game of Thrones turned into a novella for magazine publication. The book also includes a television screenplay as well as new introductions by Martin to the selections.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1927]. First edition. Front and rear covers mottled, possibly damp stains, a very good copy in a good price clipped dust jacket backed on the verso with brown paper tape wear to spine ends with minor loss, light wear to corner tips, vertical crease to left front panel. (24565). Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [1-2] 3-451 [452-458: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], original yellow-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge not stained, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed. The author's second SF novel. Discovery of a process to extract gold from sea water and its consequences. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2151. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 745. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 211. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 191. Reginald 13968.

New York: Tor, [1994]. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169345) (29995). Octavo, boards. The author's first novel, but sequentially the second book of the Nanotech Quartet. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-454. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1990]. Limited edition. A fine copy. (30644). Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Kelly Freas, full leather, a.e.g. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Bear. Introduction by James Gunn. "From a near-utopian, computerized Los Angeles of the year 2047, a bio-transformed policewoman goes to the Caribbean in search of a rare murderer. Meanwhile, artificial intelligences probe the stars as the Binary Millennium dawns." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 294. "An engrossing story as well as a complex meditation on the nature of intelligence, free will, and sin." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-96. 1991 Hugo nominee. Part of the Easton Press signed first edition series. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #18. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.

New York: Knopf, 1988. First edition. Remainder mark, fine in fine dust jacket. (4024). Octavo, Hardcover.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1989. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169124) (29822). Octavo, boards. Second book of "The New Springtime" trilogy, preceded by AT WINTER'S END (1988). Published later in the U.S. as THE NEW SPRINGTIME (1990).

Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. First hardcover edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (29274). Octavo, cloth. Collects six stories including the title fiction, winner of the 1971 Nebula and 1972 Hugo awards.

Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First edition. A very good copy, light remainder spray to bottom edge in a very good dust jacket with soiling to white background of jacket, small closed tear to upper front panel, small closed tear to lower front panel at spine fold, shelf wear to spine ends with minor loss, light age fade to spine lettering. (10074). Octavo, cloth. Mystery novel by a writer better known for his science fiction work. The U.S. edition precedes the U.K. hardcover.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169204) (29878). Octavo, boards. Signed on the title page by Watson. "... exuberantly develops the notion that the [chess] pieces' long-range abilities of movement and killing are talents, and extends the conceit far beyond the usual, terminal recognition that this is a game that must end." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 181. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-488.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1948. First edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, internal cello-tape reinforcement, light shelf wear to spine ends. (5865). Octavo, Hardcover. The best detective stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. First hardcover appearances of the first Merlini short story by Clayton Rawson, and "The Specialty of the House" by Stanley Ellin.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1949. First edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket showing rubbing and shelf wear, some chipping with loss to spine ends. (7471). Octavo, Hardcover. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. Includes stories by Fredric Brown, Helen McCloy, Clayton Rawson, Leslie Charteris and many others.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1950. First edition. Some age darkening to edges of paste down from glue aging, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear to the spine ends and upper and lower edges, a 12 mm closed tear to the upper front panel. (21966). Octavo, boards. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 13 of the 33 prize winning stories. Authors include John Dickson Carr, Craig Rice & Stuart Palmer, Stanley Ellin, Margery Allingham, John D. MacDonald and others.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1951. First edition. Tiny stain to front cover, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, tiny hole to the "S" in AWARDS on front panel, closed tear with rubbing to upper rear panel / spine edge. (21967). Octavo, boards. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 14 of the 30 prize winning stories. Authors include Charlotte Armstrong, Stanley Ellin, Roy Vickers, Q. Patrick, C. S. Forester, Lord Dunsany and others.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1947]. First edition. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends and some age darkening to rear panel. (9928). Octavo, cloth. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. First hardcover appearance of Jack Finney's first story "The Widow's Walk"