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

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1962]. First edition. Corners slightly bruised, a fine copy in a bright, fine dust jacket with bruise to lower right front corner and tiny rub mark to upper front panel. A sharp copy. (31415). Octavo, boards. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on the front free end paper. Collects seventeen stories, two of which, "R is For Rocket" and "Frost and Fire,"are published here for the first time in a book.

[Hornsea]: PS Publishing, 2005. Limited edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and slipcase. (31461). Octavo, cloth. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. Foreword by Ray Harryhausen. Introduction by Michael Marshall Smith. Collects seventeen stories.

London ...: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1923. First edition. Loss of upper right front corner, tanning to edges and spine, slight loss to spie ends, a very good copy of an uncommon edition. (25403). Small octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-102 [103: ads] [104: blank], original printed black wrappers. This adaptation differs from that of the 1923 Doubleday, Page edition. "This play was first performed in 1921 in Prague and has since that time been translated and performed through the world. The word robot which Josef Capek coined for the play, based on the Czech word robota, 'forced labor,' has become a part of most modern languages." - Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 38-9. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-37; (1981) 2-13; (1987) 2-15; (1995) 2-16; and (2004) II-214. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 358. Negley, Utopian Literature 182. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1837-43. Bleiler (1978), p. 39.

New York: Arbor House, [1985]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (16481). Octavo, boards. Posthumously published draft of VALIS, which ultimately mutated into something quite different. The whole novel "is set in an alternate universe in which a certain Ferris F. Fremont, rather than Richard Nixon, was elected president in 1978. The two are not dissimilar, but Nixon's paranoia about domestic 'enemies' becomes Fremont's all-out campaign against a supposed conspiracy known as Aramchek." - Mackey, Philip K. Dick, p. 115. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 427-28. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #3.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1981. First edition, trade paperback issue. A fine, unread copy. (26539). Octavo, cloth backed boards. Both trade and hardcover editions issued simultaneously. The author's first book and the first book of the Radix Tetrad sequence that "works as a complex meditation on metamorphosis elaborated within a space opera frame, so that densely ambitious moments of poetic aspiration alternate with episodes out of the rag-and-bone shop of pulp magazine fiction; this early use of space opera as frame or arena for baroque exfoliations of story immediately prefigures the similarly exorbitant work of Iain M. Banks and Dan Simmons ... After losing her radiation shield, which guards her against the full nakedness of the universe, Earth begins to mutate savagely, a transformation articulated clearly in RADIX itself through the story of a mutant superman, who undergoes the same transcendental jumpstart that jolts his planet through terrors and dimensions. - John Clute,… Read More

New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1944. Store stamp to front cover, rubbing and cover creases, some small chips, a good copy. (21087). Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Air war stories.

[London]: GraftonBooks A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [1991]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (11761). Octavo, boards. The author's well-received first book. "... RAFT features some of the most startling hard SF content in recent years. It is the first volume in the author's loosely connected Xeelee future history." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84. "Humans are stranded on a 'raft' in a pocket universe of enormous gravity. Baxter's debut novel, in which he describes his young hero's quest through a world that is strange indeed. As an all-too-rare example of British SF rooted in speculative physics, it has drawn praise from Larry Niven, Bob Shaw and others." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [296]. "It is very, very hard SF, and it's great fun, and the cosmogonic precepts of its universe are challenging to grasp, and it's quite quickly told, and it's really dumb about… Read More

[London]: GraftonBooks A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [1991]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (5). Octavo, boards. The author's well-received first book. "... RAFT features some of the most startling hard SF content in recent years. It is the first volume in the author's loosely connected Xeelee future history." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84. "Humans are stranded on a 'raft' in a pocket universe of enormous gravity. Baxter's debut novel, in which he describes his young hero's quest through a world that is strange indeed. As an all-too-rare example of British SF rooted in speculative physics, it has drawn praise from Larry Niven, Bob Shaw and others." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [296]. "It is very, very hard SF, and it's great fun, and the cosmogonic precepts of its universe are challenging to grasp, and it's quite quickly told, and it's really dumb about people." - John Clute. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84.

New York: Summit Books, 1986. First edition. Remainder mark, fine in fine dust jacket. (7137). Octavo, Hardcover.

[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1989]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (3892). Octavo, boards. Collects thirteen dark tales set in a world where "the prettiest thing is the darkest darkness." The author's second book, preceded by the well-received novel YOU BRIGHT AND RISEN ANGELS (1987).

New York: Mason/Charter, 1975. First edition. A near fine copy, corners gently bumped, in a very good dust jacket, some shelf wear to spine ends and corners with some very tiny closed tears. (11048). Octavo, boards. Signed inscription by Cain on the half title page: "To-- / with love, / & the hope (?) / enjoy it / Jim / Hyattsville, Md / July 8, 1975."

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (5550). Octavo, Hardcover. Author's first book.

Boston: The Stratford Company, 1925. First edition. A good to very good copy, spine panel color somewhat faded, gilt lettering a little dull, light wear to spine ends, some discoloration to rear boards, front hinge a little weak. (7588). Octavo, Hardcover. Illustrations by Frank R. Paul. "The literary treatment is on a very low level, but Ralph 124C41+ is renowned for its many highly imaginative technological projections projections. These include clear descriptions of radar, book and newspaper microfilms and microfiches, television, plant hormones, wireless transmission of power....etc." -Bleiler: Science Fiction: The Early Years, p. 282.

New York: Atheneum, 1984. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168848) (29634). Octavo, cloth. Third book of the Earthchild trilogy. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1219.

New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1989]. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (28612). The second Rama book, sequel to Rendezvous With Rama (1973).

New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1994]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (28613). The fourth and final novel in the RAMA series. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. First U.S. edition. Fine in a nearly fine dust jacket. (8687). Octavo, cloth. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.

New York: Simon & Schuster, [1974]. First U.S. edition. Remainder mark to bottom edge, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. (200). Octavo, cloth. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.

Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. New edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. (5059). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 400 copies. Reprint of the rare 1929 edition. Eight page introduction new to this edition by Richard Dalby.

Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Later edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (22893). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 400 copies. Reprint of the rare 1929 edition. Eight page introduction new to this edition by Richard Dalby.