John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA

New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1946. Octavo, single issue, cover by Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Phalid's Fate" by Jack Vance. Also fiction by Henry Kuttner, Murray Leinster, Fletcher Pratt and others.

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[New York]: ROC, [1991]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects twenty-two stories. Authors include Stephen King, Ruth Rendell, Robert Aickman, Tom Disch, Clive Barker, Angela Carter and others.

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New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., n.d. [1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Dell #391.

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New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Two stories by Robert Heinlein, "Universe" and writing as "Anson MacDonald," "Solution Unsatisfactory." Also Isaac...

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Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Five Gold Bands" by Jack Vance and "Pardon My Iron Nerves" a Captain Future story by Edmond Hamilton...

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Kokomo, IN: Recreational Reading, Inc., an affiliate of Popular Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first issue which reprints 'Creep, Shadow!" by Merritt.

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[London]: Coronet Books / Hodder and Stoughton, [1978]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First British edition. Signed inscription by Wagner on the title page. This is the full text, the Powell books edition (1970) was "butchered...

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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A classic ghost story in a strict Christian context." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-62.

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Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Anthology of classic authors which all first appeared in British fiction magazines from the period of the early 1920s to 1939...

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New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by Howard V. Brown. Feature story is the first part of "I Am Not God" by Nat Schachner...

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Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc., 1986. Octavo, illustrated, cloth. First edition. Issue-by-issue survey of Galaxy (1950-1980) with some publishing history. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 12-43.

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New York: Readers' Guild, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features the first published story by Harry Bates writing as Anthony Gilmore.

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New York: Baen Books, 1989. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. A Miles Vorkosigan adventure. One section of this novel is comprised of the novella "The Mountains of Mourning." This novella won both...

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London: James Bowden, [1898]. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-viii [1] 2-339 [340: blank] 16 page undated publishers catalog inserted into rear. three inserted plates with illustrations by Stanley L. Wood, original pictorial green cloth, front panel...

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New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue, cover by Modest Stein, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Goblins" by Kenneth Robeson. Includes "The Skipper" short feature.

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. Octavo, illustration by Lee Manso, cloth. First edition. Inscribed "My very best wishes/ A. E. Van Vogt." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-183.

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New York: Best Books, Inc., 1952. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Reprints. Includes the reprint of a Robert E. Howard as Patrick Ervin story, "Texas John Alden."

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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1959. Octavo, decorated boards. First edition. 815 copies printed of which this is one of 80 hardbound copies. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Derleth on the title page.

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London: Macmillan, [1987]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Copy 160 of 176 numbered copies signed by Banks. "Conflict between two dystopian cultures, one Islamic, the other communist. First of his novels of the Culture, few of...

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New York: St. Martin's Press, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Tough, slick narrative of an interstellar which lasts [over] 1000 years. To the soldier hero, it seems to last about ten years, thanks to the...

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Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1952]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. One of the subscriber copies, signed by the author on the front free end paper. Basis for the 1955 film starring Jeff Morrow. While not...

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London: Edward Arnold & Co., [1947]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7-9] 10-184, original decorated gray boards with cream cloth shelf back, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Collects thirteen supernatural stories in...

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Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1975. Allen Servos. Cloth. First edition. 4144 copies printed. The author's first book, an episodic novel in the vein of Lovecraft utilizing the Cthulhu mythos.

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West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1986. Octavo, illustrated by Barclay Shaw, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. The first major cyberpunk novel. Nebula award winner 1984, Hugo award winner 1985, Philip K. Dick award 1985. Anatomy...

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New York: Random House, [1940]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The first Quentin Toby mystery novel.

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New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part 1 of "Second Stage Lensman" by E.E. Smith.

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Chicago: Manvis Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Edward Ronns, Anthony Boucher, E. Hoffman Price and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 145-147.

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Jamaica, NY: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1930. Large octavo, single issue, Cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Skylark Three," part 2, by E.E. Smith.

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New York: Torquil, 1959. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Mike Shayne mystery.

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New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format. Includes Lester Del Rey, A.E. Van Vogt, Murray Leinster, L. Ron Hubbard and others.

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London: Collins, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel. A mystery set in the Mediterranean.

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New York: Glen-Kel Pub. Co., Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by Gross, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Ki-Gor, Jungle Lord. Bondage/sacrifice cover.

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New York: Timescape Books, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Planetary romance. "...set on a lost colony planet that has reverted to feudalism." - Clute, SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-713.

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London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-15] 16-255 [256] [note: first two leaves are blanks used as front paste-down and free endpaper], true endpapers at rear, original orange cloth, front and...

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San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, illustration by Stephen Fabian, pictorial wrappers. First edition. The further adventures of Cugel the Clever, and The Dying Earth. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance...

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New York: Walker, [1991]. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first P.I. Dave Garrett novel.

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