John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1981]. Ocatvo, boards. First U.S. edition. Eerie novel concerning a missing person, with Inspector Henry Beaumont. Publisher promotional flyer laid in.

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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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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Leonard on the title page above his printed name "Elmore Dutch Leonard" and below his name he has printed the last line from the...

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New York: Alexander Gallery, [1994]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Catalog to commemorate the exhibition and sale of Frazetta work at the Alexander Gallery, November 1-December 10, 1994. Sketches, drawings and paintings, a comprehensive sampling...

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1986. Octavo, boards. First British edition. The third in the V.I. Warshawski series.

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New York: Better Publications, Inc. 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Doubled in Death" by Norman Daniels. "The new G-Men magazine was probably the most popular pulp of those featuring federal agent crime...

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New York: Ballantine Books, [2009]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Co-winner of the 2010 Hugo award for best novel (tied with Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WINDUP GIRL). It has also won the British Science Fiction Association's award...

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New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Spenser novel.

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Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Joel Townsley Rogers and others. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection with "three excellent ghost stories: "A Recluse", "Crewe" and "The Green Room." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-59. "The other (non-supernatural) stories are...

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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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Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1940. Large octavo, single issue, front and rear covers by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, "bedsheet format." First appearance in this magazine for Robert Bloch. Two stories by Nelson...

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New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Matt Fox, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Ray Bradbury ("Black Ferris"), Dave [Davis] Grubb ("One Foot in the Grave") - his only appearance...

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New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Jim Chee novel.

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Suspense/thriller novel.

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition.

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. An 87th precinct novel.

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New York: Signet/New American Library, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. An Ed Noon novel.

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Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by H.W. McCauley, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part three of "The Return of Tharne" by Howard Browne.

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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition.

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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Mystery and adventure novel with fantastical elements.

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New York: Ballantine Books, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. 1984 Hugo nominee. See: Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-256. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-734.

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Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover by Walter Baumhofer, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Frederick Nebel, Frederick C. Davis, and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 168-170.

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

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New York: Greenberg, [1950]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...what if there were aliens on earth co-existing without being noticed because they weren’t competing with people at all? What if somebody happened to discover them and...

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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc. [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. trade edition. "...this is a non-Smiley Le Carre novel of great craft and power." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights. Smith and White: Cloak and Dagger...

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New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Chabon on the title page. In an alternate history novel in which Jews persecuted by the Nazis have a refugee settlement in Alaska. Detective Meyer...

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New York: Atheneum, 1993. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. (and first hardcover) edition. Contemporary vampire novel set in London. (Published as a paperback original in England). The author's second work of fiction, her first...

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Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc. 1963. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Novel featuring James Beckwourth, an African American, who was a fur trader, Indian fighter and adventurer in the early 19th Century America.

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[Sauk City]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc. [1989]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection of some of the author's best work including several placed in his 'Shaper/Mechanist' universe. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-438.

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New York: Trojan Publishing Corp. 1947. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

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Los Angeles, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Vance. A two volume set. Limited editions of two uncommon mystery titles. TAKE MY FACE was first...

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Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2006. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 230 numbered copies signed by Hoch. The second casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne (preceded by DIAGNOSIS: IMPOSSIBLE), which collects fifteen stories, locked...

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Springfield, MA: Magazine Publishers, Inc. 1933. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. George Janes, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Lester Dent, Frederick C. Davis, Paul Chadwick and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine...

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[Elk Grove Village, IL: Moondog's Inc. 1993]. Small octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. 28 page [including covers] booklet done for the 1993 Chicago Comicon. Interior are comic strips by various artists which feature...

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Promotional flyer and review slip laid in. Volume 1 of the Don Sebastian de Villanueva vampire series. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-92.

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