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

[New York]: Avon Books, [1973]. First edition. Mild edge rubbing, a nearly fine copy. (18327). Octavo, cover art by George Wilson, pictorial wrappers. Avon 17731. The ninth volume in this series.

[New York]: Avon Books, [1973]. First edition. Mild crease to front cover, mild edge rubs, a nearly fine copy. (18324). Octavo, cover art by George Wilson, pictorial wrappers. Avon 15545. The sixth volume in this series.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. First U.S. edition. Some dustiness to edges, touch of rubbing to extremities, upper right front corner gently bumped, else a bright attractive copy in fine condition. (8040). Octavo, cloth. "A sophisticated supernatural novel..." "One of the 19th century classics." - Bleiler-Guide to Supernatural Literature #621. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 2-27.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. First U. S. edition. Leather edges rubbed, chipping and loss to spine edges, a good to very good copy. Appleton's Town and Country Library did at least one other title is this format. This edition omits the ads in the rear present in the cloth edition. (28930). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-239 [240-244: blank] original three-quarter leather and marbled boards, ruled, tooled, and lettered in gold. "A sophisticated supernatural novel..." "One of the 19th century classics." - Bleiler-Guide to Supernatural Literature #621. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 2-27.

Kokomo, IN: All-Fiction Field, Inc., 1949. Covers trimmed, reading crease, mild rubbing, several small closed tears to lower front panel. A good to very good copy. (27307). Octavo, single issue, cover Lawrence, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features the classic "The Purple Cloud" by M.P. Shiel. Short fiction by Stanley Mullen. Primarily FFM reprinted science fantasy material. "Famous Fantastic Mysteries [has] a special historical significance because it preserved (and introduced a new generation to) the older traditions from which modern science fiction emerged." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 212-216.

New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1939. Tape to spine and tape areas to right front cover, bottom front cover unevenly trimmed. A good copy. (20252). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes stories by A. Merritt, Manly Wade Wellman, Todd Robbins, Donald Wandrei and others. Primarily FFM reprinted science fantasy material. "Famous Fantastic Mysteries [has] a special historical significance because it preserved (and introduced a new generation to) the older traditions from which modern science fiction emerged." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 212-216.

Chicago: All-Fiction Field, Inc, 1948. Mild wear to edges, a bright nearly fine copy. (20854). Octavo, single issue cover by Lawrence, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Purple Sapphire" by John Taine and "The Night Before the End of the World" by Murray Leinster.

Kokomo, IN: All-Fiction Field, Inc., 1949. Covers trimmed, creasing and closed edge tears to front cover, a good to very good copy. (27308). Octavo, single issue, cover Lawrence, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features "The Valley of Silent Men" by E. C. Vivian. Short fiction by Margaret St. Clair. Primarily FFM reprinted science fantasy material. "Famous Fantastic Mysteries [has] a special historical significance because it preserved (and introduced a new generation to) the older traditions from which modern science fiction emerged." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 212-216.

New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1940. Crease to front cover, closed tear to left front cover, a very good or better copy. (26208). Octavo, single issue, cover Virgil Finlay, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes stories by A. Merritt, Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint, and others. Primarily FFM reprinted science fantasy material. "Famous Fantastic Mysteries [has] a special historical significance because it preserved (and introduced a new generation to) the older traditions from which modern science fiction emerged." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 212-216.

Chicago: All-Fiction Field, Inc., 1945. Mild edge wear, reading crease to front cover, some fraying to paper paper of upper spine, a very good copy. (20187). Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contains "Phra the Phoenician" by Edwin Lester Arnold. Primarily FFM reprinted science fantasy material. "Famous Fantastic Mysteries [has] a special historical significance because it preserved (and introduced a new generation to) the older traditions from which modern science fiction emerged." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 212-216.

New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publisher, 1940. Chips to front cover, pencil markings, ink stain to lower front cover, chip to upper rear cover, dampstain along lower rear cover edge, with readable contents, a good copy. (26113). Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Four stories, all written by Max Brand, all using the same character. The first of three issues. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 231-234.

[London: The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., 1936]. First edition. Tiny creases to corners, small tear and crease to lower left corner, a few spots, a very good or somewhat better copy. (13612). Champion Library No. 174. Juvenile adventure novel set in Egypt featuring a lost temple and treasure. First published in serial form.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1951. Mild edge wear, a very good copy. (27415). Octavo, single issue, cover by Ed Valigursky. pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Paul Fairman, Milton Lesser writing as "Stephen Marlowe," Mack Reynolds writing as "Dallas Ross," Rog Phillips and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.

Kokomo, IN: Best Books, Inc., 1953. Mild edge wear, slight loss to base of spine, tiny chip at upper left front cover above the staple, a very good copy. (28211). Octavo, single issue, cover by Ed Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Largely a reprint magazine which started life as Fantastic Story Quarterly. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 249-250.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1942. Light damp stain to upper left front corner, tiny tears along yapp edges, a very good to nearly fine copy. (26016). Octavo, single issue, front cover by J. Allen St. John, rear cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by E. K. Jarvis (house pseudonym), Don Wilcox, Nelson Bond, Robert Bloch, Russell Storm (pseudonym for Robin Moore Williams) and others. This was a companion science fiction and fantasy magazine to AMAZING STORIES. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1951. First edition. Edge wear, small chip to upper right front corner and lower front edge, small loss to spine ends, a good to very good copy. (27413). Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert Gibson Jones). pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Rog Phillips writing as "P. F. Costello" and writing as "Peter Worth," John Jakes, William Campbell Gault, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1940. Wear with some slight loss to upper right corner, mild edge rubbing, a very good to nearly fine copy. (19760). Large octavo, single issue, front cover by Robert Fuqua, rear cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, "bedsheet format." Stories by Philip Nowlan, Robert Moore Williams, Nelson Bond and others. This was a companion science fiction and fantasy magazine to AMAZING STORIES.

Kokomo, IN: Best Books, Inc., 1952. Mild edge wear, reading crease, a very good to nearly fine copy. (27314). Octavo, single issue, cover by Erle K. Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Largely a reprint magazine which started life as Fantastic Story Quarterly. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 249-250.

Flushing, NY: Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., 1972. Text paper age darkening, mild crease to lower right front corner, slight bump at head of spine, a just about fine copy. (26839). Octavo, single issue, cover illustration by Jeff Jones, stiff pictorial wrappers, Digest sized magazine. Features a new Conan story, "The Witch of the Mists" by L. Sprague De Camp and Lin Carter. This story is the first in a series of new Conan stories by these two authors. Also includes fiction by Avram Davidson, James Tiptree, Jr., and others.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1953. Mild tanning to text paper, loss at base of spine panel and slight loss at head of spine, some cover creases, a very good copy. (26850). Octavo, single issue cover by Robert Frankenberg, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Includes new fiction by Richard Matheson, Henry Kuttner, C. M. Kornbluth, John Wyndham and others. This issue also features and Edgar Allan Poe story unfinished at his death, here completed by Robert Bloch. Fantastic was an interesting magazine with ups and downs, the first couple years under Browne's editorship and then later under Cele Goldsmith were high spots. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 221-232.