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

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A very sharp copy and unusual thus. (31416). Octavo, boards. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on a label affixed to the front free end paper. Collects sixteen stories, most of them classics. Three stories, "Chrysalis," "Pillar of Fire" and "Time in Thy Flight" appear here for the first time in a book, and "The Screaming Woman" appears here in this format for the first time in a book (a comic book adaptation appeared earlier in THE AUTUMN PEOPLE [1965]).

[Hornsea]: PS Publishing, 2005. Limited edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and slipcase. (31460). Octavo, cloth. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. New introductions to this edition by Arthur C. Clarke and Tim Powers. Collects sixteen stories, most of them classics.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1982]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (10596). Octavo, cloth backed boards.

London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, [1947]. First edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with mild wear to the corner tips and spine ends, small closed tear to lower spine panel, thin slightly darkened strip along right front edge. An uncommon book, more so in dust jacket. (29323). Octavo, cloth. Collects thirty-five very short stories, including some criminous, horror and dark fantasy.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some mild edge rubbing and a mild shelf wear to corner tips and spine ends. (14952). Octavo, cloth. Signed inscription by McBain on the half title page. An 87th Precinct novel.

New York: Pyramid Books, [1953]. First U.S.edition. A fine unread copy. (12517). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pyramid #94. Paperback original. First U.S. edition of the author's first book. Mystery novel.

New York: Del Rey, 1978. First edition. Light spotting to top edge, fine in a fine dust jacket. (8595). Octavo, cloth backed boards. Volume II in the Legends of Camber of Culdi. See Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-155.

New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1997]. First U. S. edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (26582). Octavo, boards. Sequel to A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ, largely written by Miller but completed by Terry Bisson from notes and outlines after Miller's death. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.

New York: Saint Mystery Library Books, [1960]. First edition. Light spine crease, touch of edge rubbing, small crease to upper front corner, a very good copy. (13603). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Saint Mystery Library No. 11. GAP 128. Mystery anthology, the feature story first appeared in The Saint mystery magazine. The Harlan Ellison story, "Find One Cuckaboo" -a private eye mystery first appears in this volume.

New York: Popular Library, [1943]. First U.S. paperback edition. A very good copy, ink name to title page, with some mild rubbing and some cover creases. In wrappers. (11323). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Popular Library. This first volume in the popular library Mystery novel with the Saint.

[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2007. First hardcover edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (25966). Octavo, leather backed cloth. One of 111 numbered copies signed by Card. Historical fiction concerning a woman who emigrates to the U. S. and eventually marries Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saints movement. Originally published in 1984 titled WOMAN OF DESTINY.

[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2007. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (28593). Octavo, cloth. Trade hardcover edition. Signed and dated by Card. Historical fiction concerning a woman who emigrates to the U. S. and eventually marries Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saints movement. Originally published in 1984 titled WOMAN OF DESTINY.

Harrisburg, PA: A Superior Reprint published by The Military Service Publishing Co., [1945]. First edition. A fine copy in a just about fine dust jacket with some separation to the lamination along the upper edge. The jacket is a later add on by Bantam Books. (26782). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Superior Reprint M656. Collects twenty-four short stories selected from his various collections.

[London]: New English LIbrary, [1976]. First British edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A stunning sharp copy. Note: Not an export copy (those copies had the publication information on the copyright page inked out with a black marker). (27615). Octavo, boards. Vampire novel set in a sleepy Maine town. Filmed twice as made for television films. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-172. Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #72.

London: Faber and Faber, [1966]. First edition. Some mild offset to end papers, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (11066). Octavo, cloth. Ten stories including "The Saliva Tree," winner of the 1965 Nebula award for best novella. The "notable" title piece, "a centenary tribute to H. G. Wells, reworks ideas from several of that great writer's novels." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1999), p. [312]. "Excellent collection." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-5. One of the major story collections of the 1960s.

Boston: Gregg Press, 1981. First U. S. edition. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (29271). Octavo, cloth. Offset from the 1966 Faber and Faber edition. Introduction by Peter Nichols. Ten stories including "The Saliva Tree," winner of the 1965 Nebula award for best novella. The "notable" title piece, "a centenary tribute to H. G. Wells, reworks ideas from several of that great writer's novels." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1999), p. [312]. "Excellent collection." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-5. One of the major story collections of the 1960s.

London: Faber and Faber, [1966]. First edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a small 5 mm closed tear to the upper right front panel and a touch of age toning to the spine panel with a tiny stain at the head. (29155). Octavo, cloth. With compliments slip from the publisher laid in. Ten stories including "The Saliva Tree," winner of the 1965 Nebula award for best novella. The "notable" title piece, "a centenary tribute to H. G. Wells, reworks ideas from several of that great writer's novels." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1999), p. [312]. "Excellent collection." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-5. One of the major story collections of the 1960s.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1943. First edition. Slight fade to the spine, a very good to nearly fine copy in a good to very good dust jacket with stress creasing, shallow chipping to the spine ends, light wear at the corner tips, tiny closed tear to the upper front panel, some light stains and abrasions to corners of the flaps. (25640). Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-224, cloth. The second Doan and Carstairs novel. "Norbert Davis was among the most talented writers who specialized in pulp fiction in the Thirties and early Forties." and "Davis...was one of the few writers to successfully blend the so-called hard-boiled story with farcical humor" - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 189-190. Hubin, p. 218.

London: Alston Rivers, Ltd, 1909. First edition. Previous owner's gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper, foxing throughout, rear hinge cracked, rubbing to covers and spine, a good sound copy. Uncommon. (13994). Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-309 [310, blank] [311-312: ads] 24 page catalog inserted to rear "A Complete Catalog of the Publications of Alston Rivers," frontis and eleven inserted plates by Spenser Pryse, title page printed in orange and black, original red cloth, spine and front cover stamped in gold. Expansion of short story "The Head" (collected in FEAR [1910]). Published in the U.S. (by Doubleday) as THE HOUSE WITH NO ADDRESS.

London: Victor Gollancz, [2000]. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169081) (29789). Octavo, boards. The author's first novel, in which "two groups of human migrants settle on the eponymous planet, whose radical and demanding simplicity -- it is salt-covered -- make it into a sounding board against which the dire incompatibilities of the two societies become drastically clear: one of them being a patriarchic hierarchy and the other anarchical." - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (online). Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #65.