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

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. First edition. Light foxing to page edges, a very good copy. (22351). Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-304 [305-306: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. The author's second novel. A depression era story in which a stockbroker with impending bankruptcy has to deal with his wife who is having an affair with a younger man. Hubin, p. 597.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. First edition. Spine a little age darkened, a very good copy in a good to very good dust jacket with rubbing, shelf wear to spine ends, upper spine panel split from front and rear panels, glue stain and abrasions to rear of jacket from brown paper backing removal. (7664). Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-298 [299] [300: blank] [301: publisher's statement] [302-304: blank], cloth. The author's second crime novel and third and last novel. Suspense novel set in a snowbound Maine village by one of the masters of the hard-boiled school. "This is a first rate, virile piece of story-telling. It moves dramatically but in a restrained and effective manner towards its ultimate goal. Each link is securely fastened in the chain of events and by allowing fate rather than human initiative to decide the final outcome, it retains plausibility." - NY Times review by Mabel L. Rossbach, 2 February, 1936. Hubin, p. 597.

New York: Avon Publishing Co., Inc., [1950]. First edition. A fine copy. (26647). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Avon #264. Paperback original. Six hard boiled stories first published in Black Mask magazine. Hubin, p. 597.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1994]. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (5158). Octavo, boards. The second Blanche White novel.

New York: St Martin's Press, [1992]. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to base of front panel. (7089). Octavo, boards. Author's first mystery.

New York: St Martin's Press, [1992]. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (4812). Octavo, boards. Author's first mystery.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (17949). Octavo, boards. Signed by the author on the title page. A Harry Hole novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (17950). Octavo, boards. Signed by the author on the second free endpaper. A Harry Hole novel.

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Expanded (and first hardcover)edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (18534). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects twenty-one stories with introduction and bibliography of story sources by Lamb. An expansion of Lamb's earlier collection of Nesbit's horror fiction, IN THE DARK: TALES OF TERROR, published as an Equation paperback in 1988. "A noteworthy modern collection of Nesbit's weird fiction." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-72.

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Expanded (and first hardcover)edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (11417). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects twenty-one stories with introduction and bibliography of story sources by Lamb. An expansion of Lamb's earlier collection of Nesbit's horror fiction, IN THE DARK: TALES OF TERROR, published as an Equation paperback in 1988. "A noteworthy modern collection of Nesbit's weird fiction." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-72.

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.

New York: Walker, 1986. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (5624). Octavo, Hardcover.

New York: Walker, 1987. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (5623). Octavo, Hardcover.

Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1947. Text paper age darkened, reading crease, some cover scratches, a very good copy. (16209). Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. W.T. Ballard, Bruno Fischer, and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 373-374.

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., [1994]. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. (12882). Octavo, cloth backed boards.

London, Sydney, New York...: Simon & Schuster, [1992]. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with corners slightly bumped and small closed tear to lower rear panel. (1140). Octavo, boards. Vampire novel.

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., [1995]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (26583). Octavo, Sequel to Anno-Dracula (1992). Part of Newman's alternate history in which Count Dracula was not destroyed by Van Helsing. This books takes place during World War I and uses historic and fictional characters.

London, Sydney, New York...: Simon & Schuster, [1992]. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (12878). Octavo, boards. Signed by the author on the title page. Vampire novel.

London, Sydney, New York...: Simon & Schuster, [1994]. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. (12881). Octavo, boards.

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., [1998]. First U.S. edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. (12880). Octavo, cloth backed boards. Sequel to Anno Dracula and The Bloody Red Baron.