John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA, Fine first editions of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery and adventure fiction

THE WHITE DRAGON.

McCaffrey, Anne.

New York: Ballantine Books, [1978]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Includes a two page map of Pern and a 17 page "Dragondex", a guide to peoples and terms. The third book in the "Pern"...

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BLOODED ON ARACHNE.

Bishop, Michael.

[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1981]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first story collection. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-123.

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THE MOON MOTH AND OTHER STORIES.

Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack...

London: Dennis Dobson, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Collection of five stories first published in paperback as THE WORLD BETWEEN AND OTHER STORIES (1965). Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack...

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THE STEPFORD WIVES.

Levin, Ira.

New York: Random House, [1972]. Ocatvo, printed wrappers. First edition. Advance reading copy. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Levin to a mystery publisher and bookseller. Filmed in 1975 from a screenplay by William Goldman. Remade in 2004.

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LOVE AND GLORY.

Parker, Robert. B.

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Parker on the title page. A non-mystery title.

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IN THE MIST AND OTHER UNCANNY...

Walter, Elizabeth.

[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1979. Octavo, dust jacket and frontispiece by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. Collects seven stories, the author's own selection of her best work. "The stories are of novelette length, which...

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CARNAL HOURS.

Collins, Max Allan.

New York: Dutton, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Nathan Heller novel.

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FROST AND FIRE.

Zelazny, Roger.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1989]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Review materials laid in. Collects ten stories including "Permafrost" and "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" and two essays on...

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ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.

ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION. February 1939. (Volume...

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first cover painting for ASTOUNDING by Hubert Rogers, the artist linked to the Golden...

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DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.

DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY. January 18, 1930. (Volume 47, No. 2).

New York: The Red Star News, Co., 1930. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 1 of the Edgar Wallace novel, "The Green Ribbon." "Detective Fiction Weekly maintained a strong personality in a crowded...

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THE HISTORIAN: A NOVEL.

Kostova, Elizabeth.

New York, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [2005]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel involving the legends and folklore of Vlad Tepes and Count Dracula.

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CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE...

Polito, Robert (compiler).

[New York]: The Library of America, [1997]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects THE KILLER INSIDE ME by Jim Thompson, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY by Patricia Highsmith, PICK-UP by Charles Willeford, DOWN THERE by David Goodis...

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THE VENGING.

Bear, Greg.

London: Legend, 1992. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Prints the contents of THE WIND FROM A BURNING WOMAN and two other fictions not included in the Arkham House book.

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TALES BEYOND TIME: FROM FANTASY TO...

De Camp, L. Sprague and Catherine...

New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1973. Octavo, boards. First edition. Adventures in time and space for children.

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THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST...

Blackwood, Algernon.

New York: Donald C. Vaughan, 1915. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [1] 2-316 [317: blank] [318-320: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], original dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First...

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THE VORTEX BLASTER.

Smith, Edward E.

Reading: Fantasy Press, 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 341 copies printed. Inscribed by Smith on the front free endpaper. According to publisher Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, these copies were "run immediately after Gnome Press edition .....

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THE MANY WORLDS OF MAGNUS RIDOLPH.

Vance, John Holbrook, writing as "Jack...

London: Dennis Dobson, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. "Six adventures of the old, bearded, omniscient title character who roams the galaxy solving mysteries and righting wrongs." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide...

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CHILD OF RAGE.

Thompson, Jim.

New York: Lancer Books, 1972. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.

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HIGHWAYS IN HIDING.

Smith, George O.

New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1955]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Science fiction novel.

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SOMETHING NEAR.

Derleth, August.

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1945. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second collection of Derleth's fiction published by Arkham House, twenty-one stories first published in the pulps, eleven of which appeared in WEIRD TALES. Barron (ed)...

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BLOOD MUSIC.

Bear, Greg.

New York: Arbor House, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A brilliant novel, expanded from a novelette (Nebula award winner 1983, Hugo award winner 1984) that extends the SF imagination to new horizons." - Anatomy of...

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OPERATOR #5.

OPERATOR #5. October-November, 1936. (Volume 7, No. 4). [Steele, Curtis].

Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover novel "The Bloody Forty-five Days"

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MACHINE IN WARD ELEVEN.

Willeford, Charles.

New York: Belmont Books, [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont #90-286. Paperback original.

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UNDERDOG.

Burnett, W[illiam] R[iley].

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Involves a political boss and murder. The "patsy" framed for murder seeks to get even. Hubin, pp. 119-120.

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THE MARK OF MERLIN.

McCaffrey, Anne.

San Francisco, CA, Columbia,PA: Brandywyne Books, 1984. Octavo, suede cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. Trade edition. Romantic mystery thriller.

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THE EIGHTH CIRCLE.

Ellin, Stanley.

[New York]: Random House, 1959. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Winner of the Edgar award for best novel, 1958. "Murray Kirk, legates of Frank Conmy's small detective agency, has also- unknowingly, inherited his embittered judgments which...

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VENUS EQUILATERAL.

Smith, George O.

Philadelphia: The Prime Press, 1947. Hardcover. First edition. The author's first book. A collection of hard SF stories first published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION during the 1940s.

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DOWNBELOW STATION.

Cherryh, C. J. (pseudonym of Carolyn...

New York: Daw Books, Inc., [1981]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. First printing with code "L10" on page 438. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Part of the author's Alliance-Union Universe future history series...

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CALIFORNIA ROLL.

Simon, Roger L.

New York: Villard Books, 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Inscribed by Simon on the front free end paper. A Moses Wine mystery novel.

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SAMUEL LYLE: CRIMINOLOGIST.

Crabb, Arthur. (pseudonym).

New York: The Century Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-347 [348-350: blank], inserted frontispiece and three illustrations by S. C. Coll, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Collection of...

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THE MOON'S WIFE.

Attanasio, A. A.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.

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KING BLOOD.

Thompson, Jim.

London: Sphere Books Limited, [1973]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Author's last novel.

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RUNES OF AHRH EIH ECHE [cover...

Howard, Robert E.

[Lamoni, Iowa: Jonathan Bacon, 1976.]. Large octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-38 [39-40] [note: pagination includes covers], pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. This copy signed by Jonathan Bacon. Prints the texts of...

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ASTOUNDING STORIES.

ASTOUNDING STORIES. June 1937. (Volume 19...

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Don A. Stuart story.

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THE WAR CHIEF.

Burroughs, Edgar Rice.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-283 [284: blank], original orange cloth, front panel stamped in brown and blind, spine panel stamped in brown. First edition. 6000 copies printed. Heins WC-1.

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OUR LADY OF PAIN.

Blackburn, John.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. Octavo, boards. First edition. "...probably Blackburn's most tightly structured, exciting book." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-41.

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