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

Springfield, MA: Better Publications, Inc., 1949. Damp stain to lower left throughout the magazine, a good to very good copy. (21880). Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by L. Ron Hubbard writing as "Rene Lafayette," a Jack Vance Magnus Ridolph story, Murray Leinster, Clifford Simak and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc, 1942. Light edge wear, a very good copy. (26237). Octavo, single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Fiction by L. Ron Hubbard, Anthony Boucher, Jane Rice and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.

Springfield, MA: Better Publications, Inc., 1949. Tiny chip to lower right front corner, a nearly fine to fine copy. (28228). Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by L. Ron Hubbard writing as "Rene Lafayette," a Jack Vance Magnus Ridolph story, Murray Leinster, Clifford Simak and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.

Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1949. Mild edge wear, split at lower left front cover at spine, a nearly fine copy. (28226). Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by L. Ron Hubbard writing as "Rene Lafayette," John D. MacDonald, Arthur C. Clarke, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.

Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1949. Upper and right edges trimmed, small light stain to lower front cover, small tape stain to lower left front corner, a nearly fine copy. (28227). Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by L. Ron Hubbard writing as "Rene Lafayette," Ray Bradbury "The Lonely Ones," Arthur C. Clarke, Margaret St. Clair, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1929. First edition. Lower corner tips and spine ends slightly bruised, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with edge wear, slight loss at spine ends, several closed tears to upper front panel with a small chip at upper left, shallow loss at spine ends with an age darkened spine panel, tear and large chip 30 mm x 13 mm at lower rear right corner. (30527). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-376, jacket art by Paul Stahr, original blue-gray cloth, front panel stamped in black and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in black. Occult thriller featuring a man with paranormal abilities. First published as a six-part serial in ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY, beginning 29 December 1928. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 117. Reginald 08542.

London: John Spencer & Co. (Publishers) Limited, n.d., [1959]. First edition. Small 35¢ price sticker affixed to front cover. 15 mm closed tear to lower front cover with crease, a very good copy. (24459). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Badger Books SF 13. Set in the distant future, the story recollects the period, a thousand years before the events of the novel, a period when the Sun cooled and Earth became uninhabitable. Mankind migrated to Venus, and later to Mercury. On Mercury the colonists are enslaved by the dictatorial Overlords, against whom they finally rebel and destroy. They return to Earth, which is now recovering as the ice recedes and the planet warms up again. Also present is a short story, "Point of No Return" by Max Chartair (i.e. John Glasby) about an advanced space ship that enters deep space beyond the orbit of Pluto, never to return. Not in Clarke. Reginald 08637 (dating 1954).

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1960. First edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some if the usual light rubbing to the black ink background of jacket and some mild shelf wear to the corner tips, slight soiling to the white background of the rear panel. (25663). Octavo, illustration by Gary Gore, cloth. 1559 copies printed. Classic werewolf novel, revised from the publication as a Weird Tales serial in 1925. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 4-9. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 984. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-141.

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1960. First edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some if the usual light rubbing to the black ink background of jacket and some mild shelf wear to the spine ends. (22689). Octavo, illustration by Gary Gore, cloth. 1559 copies printed. Classic werewolf novel, revised from the publication as a Weird Tales serial in 1925. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 4-9. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 984. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-141.

New York: Eton Books, Inc., [1952]. First edition. A fine unread copy with some slight edge rubbing. (12191). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Eton #E111. Paperback original. The author's second novel. Harboiled novel with P.I. Matt Ranzino.

London:Dennis Dobson, [1972]. First British (and first hardcover) edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (29064). Octavo, boards. "Nowhere is Lafferty's devout Catholicism more evident than in this strange mélange of a novel, which incorporates elements of fantasy and science fiction while being indefinable as either. The book's madcap characters and bizarre settings are typical Lafferty, as is the uncertainty about whether the wild plot, essentially a secret history of the world, amounts to a complete allegory or simply a crazy game -- or perhaps both. No matter, since the result is also typical Lafferty in being highly entertaining and absorbing." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-217. The earlier American paperback original was published as part of the highly regarded Ace "Specials" series. 1970 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-621. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-157. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 45.

London: Dennis Dobson, [1975]. First British (and first hardcover) edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A lovely copy. (#168885) (29666). Octavo, boards. Collects twenty-one stories. "The first and best of Lafferty's collections ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-622. Includes two utopian stories, "Primary Education of the Camiroi" and "Polity and Custom of the Camiroi." Also has a robot AI story, "All the People," and "What's the Name of That Town?," an Eipktistes story. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 300; 304.

New York: Charles Scribner's Son's, 1974. First edition. (16634). Octavo, cloth. The author's third collection of short fiction. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 574-78. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-622.

London:Dennis Dobson, [1972]. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Lower corners bumped, a nearly copy in a nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with new Dobson price sticker affixed (£2.75). (22278). Octavo, boards. "Nowhere is Lafferty's devout Catholicism more evident than in this strange mélange of a novel, which incorporates elements of fantasy and science fiction while being indefinable as either. The book's madcap characters and bizarre settings are typical Lafferty, as is the uncertainty about whether the wild plot, essentially a secret history of the world, amounts to a complete allegory or simply a crazy game -- or perhaps both. No matter, since the result is also typical Lafferty in being highly entertaining and absorbing." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-217. The earlier American paperback original was published as part of the highly regarded Ace "Specials" series. 1970 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-621. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-157. Pringle,… Read More

Minneapolis: Corroboree Press, 1983. First edition. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (16632). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 1000 copies, this is one of 970 numbered and signed by Lafferty. Collects fifteen Barnaby Sheen stories, one original to this collection, two revised.

London: Dennis Dobson, [1975]. First British and first hardcover edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket which has the lamination lifted along the front panel at the spine edge (a common problem). (15827). boards. Collects twenty-one stories. "The first and best of Lafferty's collections ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-622. Includes two utopian stories, "Primary Education of the Camiroi" and "Polity and Custom of the Camiroi." Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 300; 304.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1993]. First edition. Head of spine slightly bumped, a fine copy in a fine jacket with bump at the head of the spine panel. (26563). Octavo, boards. "With a breakneck pace and a wonk's sense of humor, Laidlaw ( Neon Lotus ) neatly satirizes our postmodern society in this wild, almost hallucinatory novel. In the future U.S.A. that is the book's setting, flat-screen entertainment has evolved into full virtual-reality experience; stars are "wired'' to transmit from their senses directly to their worshipful audiences, who are themselves wired to receive more channels than a cable box..." - Publisher's Weekly. "As brilliant a satire on the future of media and popular culture as any of Pohl and Kornbluth's classic works." - George Zebrowski. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-626.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated on Murray Hill, 1936. First edition. A very good plus copy, previous owners bookplate to front paste down in a very good dust jacket, chipping to head of spine panel, light chipping to base of spine panel, shelf wear and some small tears to edges. (8882). Octavo, cloth. Weird mystery novel.

New York: Parsee Publications, [1947]. First paperback edition. Text paper age darkened, edge rubs and creases to spine, mild color fade to spine, author's name penciled in ink to spine, a very good copy. Uncommon. (26768). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Bleak House Mystery 19. Mystery novel.

New York: Ideal Distributing Company, [1947]. First paperback edition. Text paper age darkened, tear to lower left spine/front cover edge, reading crease a good copy. (26758). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Green Dragon 26. Mystery novel.