John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's second story collection from Arkham House, fourteen stories culled mostly from Weird Tales magazine. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #894. Tymn (ed): Horror Literature 4-123.

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[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc. 1959]. Small octavo, cover painting by Robert McGinnis, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell #B127. Paperback original. First published in Cosmopolitan magazine in a shorter version as "Ultimate Surprise."

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Kokomo, IN: Better Publications, Inc. 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Jack Vance, Jack Williamson, Anthony Boucher and others.

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New York & Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc. 1956. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Johnny Liddell hard boiled novel.

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Bangor, Maine: Philtrum Press, 1984. Folio, illustrations by Kenneth R. Linkhauser, cloth-backed boards. First edition. 1276 copies printed of which this is one of 250 copies numbered in red ink reserved for private distribution by...

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Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, [1985]. Small octavo, jacket art by Richard Powers, First edition. One of 200 numbered copies comprising the limited edition, signed by Vance, artist Richard Powers. Additionally signed by Tim Underwood...

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Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948. Octavo, jacket illustration by Hannes Bok, cloth. First edition. One of an undetermined number of subscriber's copies signed by Hubbard on front free endpaper. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-184. Bleiler, The...

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of 1979 Nebula award and 1979 Hugo award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-749.

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Chicago: New Publications, Inc. 1948. Octavo, single issue cover by Lawrence, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Ship of Ishtar" by A. Merritt.

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Sauk City: Arkham House, 1942. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1054 copies printed. The third Arkham House book. Smith's first major collection of dark fantasy tales and the first Smith book published by Arkham House. Barron...

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Dunellen, N.J. Tower Magazines, Inc. 1933. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. "The Murder Club" by H. Bedford Jones. Also fiction by Herman Landon, Barry Perowne and others. A large format, densely illustrated, bedsheet-sized pulp...

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[London]: Rapp + Whiting, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition.

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New York: Avalon Books, [1960]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The third volume in the adventures of Harold Shea. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 3-106.

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New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Shiwan Khan Returns" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Steve Fisher writing as Grant Lane short story.

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London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1926. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii 1-319 [320: printer's imprint], original medium brown cloth, front panel ruled in dark brown, publisher's imprint stamped in dark brown at base of...

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[Chicago]: Academy Chicago Publishers, [1985]. Octavo, First edition. Posthumously published mainstream novel originally written in the late 1950s, set in Southern California.

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[London]: Orbit, [2005]. Octavo, boards. First British hardcover edition. Signed by Stross on the title page. A fix-up novel linking together Stross's innovative “Lobsters” stories, that begins in the early twenty-first century, just on the...

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New York: Ace Books, Inc. [1963-. Small octavo, covers by Roy Krenkel, pictorial wrappers. First paperback editions. Ace F-213, F-220, F-233. The text of these editions follows that of the original versions in Blue Book...

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New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1993]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Novel set on another planet in which the feminist colonists establish a matriarchal society. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-159.

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New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover by De Soto, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1977]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Review slip laid in. Novel set in 19th century Europe involving mystery and illusion. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-153. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The...

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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1965. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects three novellas, "To Marry Medusa," "The Comedian's Children" and "The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff." This collection was not published in the U.S.

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New York: Beech Tree Books / William Morrow, [1988]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Mystery novel.

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1963]. Octavo, jacket art by Irv Doktor, cloth. First edition. The author's last juvenile novel.

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New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For John Squires / With my very / best wishes /...

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[New York]: Kensington Books, [1997]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original, trade size format. Trivia questions from books, movies and tv.

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1984. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Spy thriller with Blackford Oakes.

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Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by H.W. McCauley, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

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New York: Mason and Lipscomb Publishers, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Historical account of the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean war.

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San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1980-81. Octavo, 5 volumes, leatherette. First U. S. hardcover editions volumes 1-3, first hardcover edition volume 4, first edition volume 5. Volumes 1-3, one of 175 numbered copies signed...

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New York: Best Publications, 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Criminal C.O.D." by Phoebe Atwood Taylor.

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[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc. [1983]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing. White label signed by Bear affixed to front free end paper. Six short novels and stories, two of which were Nebula nominees.

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[London]: Coronet Books, [1982]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First British edition. Signed by Vance on the title page. The fifth and final volume in the Demon Princes series. Hewett and Mallett, The Works of Jack...

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New York: E.P. Dutton, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Kate Fansler mystery.

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Akron and New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-243 [244: blank] [fly leaves front and rear], original green cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Boys' adventure novel.

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San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Limited to 350 copies of which this is one of 333 numbered copies signed by Zelazny. Collection of eleven stories involving the half...

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