Search Results: Authors starting with K from John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988. First British and first hardcover edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new. (4398). Octavo, boards. The author's first book. "Likable hoodlum Jonny Qabbala has run-ins with various gangsters and corrupt powers in a decaying Lost Angeles of the 21st century. The cyberpunkish background is brilliantly evoked..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 236. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-222. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (1261). Octavo, boards.

London: Jonathan Cape, [1930]. First edition in English. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a little spotting to the upper left front panel and a little age darkening to the spine. (23959). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-114 [115] [116: blank] original blue-gray speckled boards, spine stamped in gold, rear cover stamped in blind with the publisher's colophon. "The vigor and inventiveness of the pulp stories found few echoes in the werewolf novels of the 1930s, most of which were routine potboilers revolving around stock situations. One of the few to rise above the general mediocrity was THE WOLF'S BRIDE (1930) by the Finnish author Madame Aino Kallas. Imitating the style and legends of the old Norse chronicles, it tells of the tragic events that occur after Pridiik the hunter takes the lovely Aolo for his bride." - Frost, The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature, pp. 144-45. A high point of early werewolf fiction unaccountably dropped from the 1978 Bleiler Checklist. Bleiler, The Guide to… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1978]. First edition. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with slight shelf wear to the upper right front corner and wear to the lower left corner of the rear panel. (20904). Octavo, boards. The third Toby Peters mystery, set in Chicago, a case which involves the Marx brothers.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1977]. First edition. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with some mild edge rubs and a long 33 mm closed tear to the upper front panel. (26062). Octavo, boards. The second Toby Peters mystery, set in Hollywood, a case which involves Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Raymond Chandler and others centered around the a murder during the filming of The Wizard of Oz.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (5531). Octavo, boards. Toby Peters.

New York & Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1956. First edition. Darkening to edges of text block, a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some light rubbing and light shelf wear to edges. (8557). Octavo, Hardcover. A Johnny Liddell hard boiled novel.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1964]. First edition. A fine unread copy. (16319). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Berkley Medallion F974. Paperback original. "Despite Kapp's otherwise unextraordinary plotting, the combination of invulnerability and rage in the tale generates a sense of nearly uncontrollable energy, imparting to this one book something of the exhilaration of Keith Laumer and a touch of the complexity of Alfred Bester, whose Gully Foyle - THE STARS MY DESTINATION - is clearly echoed." - SFE online. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 293.

New York: Lion, [1953]. First edition. A fine copy, tiny crease to lower right corner, unread. (12194). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Lion #119. Paperback original. Hardboiled crime.

New York: Lion, [1953]. First edition. Light, partial age-darkening to inside of covers, hint of dust soiling along rear spine fold, else a fine unread copy. (16353). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Lion #119. Paperback original. Hardboiled crime.

New York: Lion Books, Inc., [1953]. First edition. A near fine copy, some mild stress creases to cover, unread. (12197). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Lion #132. Paperback original. Female serial killer, hardboiled crime.

New York: Pocket Books, 1993. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (5532). Octavo, Hardcover.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. First edition. The book ex-library though very good copy, tape ghosts to front and rear cloth panel, light stains to free end papers, glue mark to rear free end paper. No evidence of pocket removal or any library markings to pages or edges. The dust jacket is near fine, small light stain to upper left rear corner at fold, light shelf wear to corners. No tape markings to dust jacket at all. A very uncommon book. (7936). Octavo, Hardcover. Last of the three novels using this pseudonym. About a killing spree by two young people in the southwest.

[New York]: The Macmillan Company, [1969]. First edition. A fine copy, slight stain on front free end paper from sticker bleed that was on the jacket flap, in a fine dust jacket, with just a touch of rubbing to corners and spine ends, residue from price sticker on front flap. (9219). Octavo, cloth. Signed by Block on the title page. The first of three books as Paul Kavanagh.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169377) (30016). Octavo, cloth-backed boards. Sequel to THE MASTERS OF SOLITUDE (1978).

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First edition. Light purple remainder spray to bottom edge of text block, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169293) (29953). Octavo, boards. "Borrowing a little from Tolkien and a touch from BRAVE NEW WORLD, this fantasy of America's distant future is equally interesting and exciting" - Bookviews. "Combining the intriguing plot with an army of fascinating characters, strange weapons and well-paced action, the authors have created a first-rate fantasy." - Publishers Weekly. "As an SF writer, Godwin remains best known for the first two volumes of the Masters of Solitude sequence, both with Marvin Kaye: THE MASTERS OF SOLITUDE (1978) and WINTERMIND (1982); a projected third volume did not appear. Set in a post-holocaust USA, the first volume depicts a conflict between rural followers of a diseased mutant form of Christianity and a city in which a science-based world view is encapsulated; in the second, a personal drama and an interesting half-breed… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. First edition. Near fine, some spotting to top edge, rubbing to corners and spine ends in a near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing and shelf wear. (9308). Octavo, illustration by Jan Esteves, boards. Story collection.

[London]: Macmillan, [1972]. First edition. A fine copy in an about fine dust jacket with a touch of soiling and edge wear. (11819). Octavo, boards. Original anthology. "A collection of studies of real-life crimes mostly by authors who write crime fiction..." - jacket flap.

New York: Dutton, 1966. First U.S. edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, light residue from old internal tape reinforcement. (5540). Octavo, Hardcover. Mrs. Craggs.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1981. First U.S. edition. Near fine, without dust jacket as issued. (5539). Octavo, Hardcover. Non fiction on early 20th century British detective fiction.