John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1939. Large octavo, single issue, front cover by Robert Fuqua, rear cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, "bedsheet format." Stories by Ross Rocklynne, Eando Binder, Harl Vincent and...

New York: Arbor House, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. 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...

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The first novel in the Spenser series.

London: Peter Davies, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. The author's first novel. "The book's compassionate outlook and portrayal of a man's dismal treatment by his own intelligence service make it a feeling man's Spy...

Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This book was the source material for the Steve McQueen feature film "Bullitt" The feature character...

New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1957]. Small octavo, cover by Robert Maguire, pictorial wrappers. Later printing. Pocket #2846.

New York: Tor, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Stross on the title page. The continuing adventures of Miriam Beckstein and alternate worlds.

Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, 1997. Quarto, Illustrated by Rick Berry, boards. First printing of this illustrated edition, trade issue. Foreword by Ellison. Ellison's short story, first published in 1965, pits a rebel against a....

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Collection of eight stories, five previously uncollected. All where used in parts of his early Philip Marlowe novels, THE BIG SLEEP, FAREWELL, MY LOVELY...

London, New York and Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1899. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii viii 9-373 [374: blank] 1-10: ads, 16 inserted plates with illustrations by Sidney Paget, original pictorial bevel-edged blue cloth, front...

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Young adult novel concerning a 18 year old boy who awakens in a dystopian future. Reginald 15262. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.

New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by John Guinta, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Ray Bradbury's seventh Weird Tales appearance, "Reunion." Also fiction by August Derleth, Manly Wade Wellman, Frank Belknap Long...

London: Century, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.

[West Kingston, Rhode Island]: Donald M. Grant Publisher, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Weird adventure story first published in the pulp magazine Adventure.

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...

[Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First complete edition. 500 copies printed. First publication of the complete edition with the addition of chapters 5 & 6 as well as a previously unpublished introduction by Machen.

[New York]: Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, [1945]. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-127 [128], pictorial wrappers. First edition. Jonathan Press No. J17. Digest size magazine format. Collects the following stories; The Whosis Kid, The Gutting of...

New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects fourteen stories by Alfred Bester, Hal Clement, Lester del Rey, C. M. Kornbluth, and others. Includes Jerome Bixby's "It's...

[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1972. Octavo, illustration by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First edition. Collects seventeen stories. Tymm: Horror Literature 4-122.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects fifteen stories including "The Little Black Bag," "Shark Ship," and "Two Dooms." Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-349. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 969.

Jamaica, NY: Experimenter Publications, Inc., 1930. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 3 of "The Universe Wreckers" by Edmond Hamilton. And a short story by John W. Campbell, Jr.

Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1933. Octavo, single issue, cover by Von Gelb, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the Robert E. Howard story, "The Voice of El-Lil."

London, Melbourne, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Signed by Campbell on the title page. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-68.

Berlin: August Scherl G.m.b.H., [1926]. Octavo, 3 volumes, each containing four inserted plates with eight film stills, all bound in their original wrappers. First, second and third photoplay editions. The three issues of the German...

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format. Includes Ray Bradbury's first appearance in Astounding, a short in the Probability Zero...

[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, [1988]. Octavo, illustration by J. K. Potter, cloth. First edition. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. A retrospective collection of thirty stories featuring many of the author's best works as well...

NY: Pellegrini & Cudahy Publishers, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects nine stories, first published between 1940 and 1948, all but one appearing in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-179.

New York: The Dial Press, 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. This copy has a full page presentation inscription signed by Ludlum to fellow author Donald Westlake (and his wife Abby). Scarce signed by Ludlum.

London: Sidney L. Ollif, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-262 [263: ad] [264: printer's imprint] [265-266: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of the author), half title and title leaves...

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1968]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal d1890. Paperback original. Crime novel.

New York: Standard Magazines Inc., 1946. Octavo, single issue, front cover by Rudolph Belarksi, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Mystery fiction.

London: The Bodley Head, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A collection of twelve stories including the nasty "Kecksies" and other excellent tales selected by Bowen as her personal favorites with perceptive introduction by Michael Sadleir...

[London]: Macmillan, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Hamilton. Modern space opera on an epic scale. Book one of "The Night's Dawn Trilogy." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-489.

New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday / A Foundation Book, [1989]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The fourth Riftwar book. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-120.

New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Battle of Greed" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Steve Fisher writing as Stephen Gould short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective...

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part 2 of "Second Stage Lensman" by E.E. Smith. Includes a story by Eric...