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

Kirkland, MO: Illustration, 2002. A fine copy. (23090). Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Slick magazine devoted to illustration art. This issue features articles about Norman Saunders (includes a Saunders checklist of works), Frank Frazetta, Russ Cochran and Perry Peterson.

Kirkland, MO: Illustration, 2002. A fine copy. (23091). Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Slick magazine devoted to illustration art. This issue features articles about Robert Maguire (includes a Maguire checklist of works) and Eugene Iverd.

Kirkland, MO: Illustration Magazine, 2003. Upper right corner tips slight bumped, a fine copy. (23096). Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Slick magazine devoted to illustration art. This issue features articles on Ernest Chiriacka, William George and the Aurora Model Kit artists.

St. Louis, MO: Illustration Magazine, 2004. First edition. Lower left front corner bumped, a nearly fine copy. (23098). Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Slick magazine devoted to illustration art. This issue features articles on Rafael DeSoto (includes a DeSoto magazine checklist), Mitchell Hooks, War paperbacks and more.

Evanston, IL: Greenleaf Publishing Company, 1954-1958. A nearly fine to fine set. (31550). Small octavo, 26 issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. This magazine initial started out with fiction leaning toward the humorous with a note of 'spice,' as evidenced by the titillating covers by Harold McCauley over the first seven issues. In the fall of 1956 the magazine moved to more conventional stories. In the waning days of the magazine the editor tried to move to a more serious image with the age of Sputnik and changed the title to Space Travel, in which the magazine lasted only three more issues. Authors included Robert Bloch, Edmond Hamiltion (some pseudonymous), Steven Marlowe (under pseudonym), Robert Silverberg (some pseudonymous), Randall Garrett, A. Bertram Chandler, Margeret St. Clair, Harlan Ellison and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 347-350.

New York: Ace Books, [1979]. First edition. A fine copy, unread. (25633). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Trade paperback format. Near future political thriller concerning terrorism. A middle-Eastern terrorist preys on weak and unprepared America which brings in cash from his backers.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1965]. First combined edition. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing to black background ink at edges. A very nice copy. (12802). Octavo, boards. Collects three novels: ONE-MAN SHOW (1952), A COMEDY OF TERRORS (1940) and THE SECRET VANGUARD (1940).

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1966. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to black background ink at edges. A very nice copy. (12836). Octavo, boards. Review slip laid in. A Sir John Appleby mystery novel. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1974) 1212. Hubin (1994), p. 430.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1955]. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in very good plus to near fine dust jacket with small circular hole (about 15 mm in circumference) in front panel. The jacket is otherwise a bright, unfaded very nice example. (12810). Octavo, boards. A non-Appleby Cold War suspense thriller. "A departure for Innes and a good one ... an inversion of the defector theme ..." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1974) 1223 Hubin (1994), p. 430.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1957]. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in very good plus, bright unfaded dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to black background ink at edges and a small dime-sized abrasion to rear panel. A very nice copy. (12807). Octavo, boards. A Sir John Appleby mystery novel. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1974) 1218. Hubin (1994), p. 430.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1952]. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear along top edges and some mild dust soiling to white background on front and rear panels. (12811). Octavo, boards. A Sir John Appleby mystery novel. Published in the UK as A PRIVATE VIEW (1952). "Innes' undoubted masterpiece." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1974) 1227. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 397. Hubin (1994), p. 430.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1951]. First U.S. edition. Corner tips mildly bruised, else a fine copy in very good dust jacket with matching bruises and light edge wear and several tiny edge chips. (12812). Octavo, boards. A Sir John Appleby mystery novel. Published in the UK as OPERATION PAX (1951). A suspense thriller concerning the theft of a secret formula which ultimately is discovered hidden in a book in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Hubin (1994), p. 430.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1953]. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket (correctly priced $3.00) with a bit of mild rubbing to gray background ink and tiny nick at lower corner tip of front panel. A very nice copy. (12805). Octavo, boards. A non-Appleby mystery. Basis for "Candleshoe," a 1977 Disney film starring David Niven, Helen Hayes (her last film performance), and Jodie Foster. Hubin (1994), p. 430.

New York: The Viking Press, [1978]. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169399) (30034). Octavo, cloth-backed boards. "In addition to its thrilling, convoluted plot, A DARK HORN BLOWING is also interesting for its inventive use of Norse mythology and popular ballads and for its use of point of view: the story is told variously by Nora, her husband, their son, and the prince. Perhaps most significant, though, is Ipcar's delicate treatment of the theme of self-awareness ..." - Barron, ed., Fantasy & Horror (1999) 7-189.

New York: The American Mercury / Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, n.d., [1949]. First paperback edition. Penciled letter to upper front cover, light stain lower front cover, a nearly fine copy. (24412). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. A Mercury Book, No. 135. Digest size magazine format. Abridged.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (5516). Octavo, Hardcover. Moroni Traveler.

New York: Random House, [1972]. First edition. Price stamped to upper front free end paper, a nearly fine copy in a very good to nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends and edges, a few stress creases to the front panel and a small stain to the lower front panel. (22929). Octavo, cloth backed boards. The author's second novel.

New York: Random House, [1968]. First edition. Mild fade along top edges, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with light shelf wear to head of spine panel with a small nick at the right corner fold. (15142). Octavo, cloth backed boards. The author's first book.

New York: Random House, [1972]. First edition. Mild foxing to endpapers, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a small closed tear at the upper left front panel and a touch of shelf wear to head of the spine panel. (15227). Octavo, cloth backed boards. The author's second novel.

New York: Davis Publications, Inc., 1977-78. All issues fine and unread, with some mild darkening to text paper. (11404). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. The first four issues of the digest sized science fiction magazine. Fiction by Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, John Varley, Joan Vinge, and others.