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

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with light toning to the spine panel and slight shelf wear with a couple mild stress creases at the base of the spine panel. (17006). Octavo, cloth. "A brilliantly realized science fiction future darkened by Kafkaesque paranoia. As portrayed by Dick, a world in which cryogenic suspension has abolished traditional concepts of death and in which psychics can alter the future by changing the past is one that offers no foundation for objective truth." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-113. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-336. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-97. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2350-56.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First edition. Light staining to gutter margins from binders glue bleed, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with light toning to the spine panel (seems common to this title) and slight shelf wear to the corner tips. (29049). Octavo, cloth. "A brilliantly realized science fiction future darkened by Kafkaesque paranoia. As portrayed by Dick, a world in which cryogenic suspension has abolished traditional concepts of death and in which psychics can alter the future by changing the past is one that offers no foundation for objective truth." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-113. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-336. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-97. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2350-56.

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Corroboree Press, 1985. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (16483). 1250 copies printed of which this is one of 1200 trade copies. Dick's filmscript incorporates an ending that differs from that of his novel.

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Corroboree Press, 1985. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (21469). Octavo, cloth. 1250 copies printed of which this is one of 1200 trade copies. Dick's filmscript incorporates an ending that differs from that of his novel.

Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, [1994]. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168877) (29658). Octavo, cloth. Collects forty-six stories and a poem, "Look About You." Edited, with story notes, by Paul Williams. Forewords by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Gene Wolfe.

[London]: Headline, [1992]. First hardcover edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169182) (29859). Octavo, boards. Original anthology collecting nineteen stories by Katherine Dunn, Brian Aldiss, Michael Bishop, Kurt Vonnegut and others.

New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1954]. First edition and first U.S. paperback edition. Some edge rubbing, a nearly fine to fine copy which appears unread. (30356). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Ace Double D44. THE ULTIMATE INVADER collects "The Ultimate Invader" by Eric Frank Russell, "The Alien Envoy" by Malcolm Jameson, "The Malignant Marauder" by Murray Leinster, and "The Temporal Transgressor" by Frank Belknap Long.

[New York]: Kensington Books, [1997]. First edition. A fine unread copy in wrappers. (12886). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original, trade size format. Trivia questions from books, movies and tv.

London: Robert Hale, 1971. First hardcover edition. Previous owners stamp to free end paper, fine in a fine dust jacket. (7753). Octavo, Hardcover. An Ed Noon adventure. First published as a paperback original under the title of Little Miss Murder (New American Library, 1971). Ed clients are the President of the United States and the New York Mets.

[Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, Inc., 1992]. First separate edition. Bottom of spine a little bumped, fine copy. (23171). Small octavo, imitation leather. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Card. Short Story Hardback #29. The story was a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee.

NY: Ballantine Books, [1983]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (28125). Octavo, cloth backed boards. The the third book of the Novaria series. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-83.

London: Little, Brown and Company, 1992. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (3930). Octavo, cloth. Horror anthology which includes a reprint of the very scarce short novel THE HOLE OF THE PIT by Adrian Ross which has not seen print since original publication in 1914.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First edition. Some mild rubbing to spine ends and a touch to corner tips, a clean nearly fine copy. (20927). Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-362, fly leaf at rear, 21 full-page and many smaller illustrations by Jean de Bosschere throughout the text, original maroon cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. Collects a short novel, "The Flaw in the Crystal," and six short stories. A major collection of supernatural fiction. "An underrated writer ... Excellent." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1478. "Sinclair's stories are among the most outstanding examples of the ghost story as moral fable." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-178. Sinclair's "contribution to the genre, small as it is, is notable." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 387-88. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Supernatural Fiction, p. 163. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co., n.d., [1896]. First edition. End papers age darkened, brief penciled marginalia by a critical contemporary reader on several pages, cloth rubbed at spine and corners, a very good copy. (28724). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-228, original dark blue pictorial cloth, spine and front panels stamped in brown, white, and gold, top edge rough trimmed. "Her second and best-known collection of ghost stories, including the classic 'The Shadow in the Moonlight.' The narrative viewpoint of the children makes it more effective, but then Molesworth's best work was written for such innocent eyes. The adult tales are typical ghosts and premonitions, straightforward and competent. Beautiful pictorial binding and title page designed by Fred Hyland." - Robert Knowlton. "These stories convey only low-intensity chills, but they are charming, atmospheric, and original. Known mainly for her children's literature, Molesworth featured children in her ghost stories and invested her style with a childlike… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1916]. First edition. Rear hinge repaired, light wear to corner tips and spine ends, some light staining to rear cover, a good to very good copy. (22367). pp. [i-viii] ix-xiv [xv-xvi] 1-247 [248: blank], frontispiece and three inserted plates with illustrations by S. Edwin Megargee, Jr., original pictorial black cloth front stamped in dark yellow and silver, spine in dark yellow. Collection of short stories based on actual cases related to the author from the Department of Justice, Bureau of Investigation files, though the main character Special Agent Billy Gard is fictional. The author, in his five-page introduction, covers the establishment DOJ's Bureau of Investigation (the direct forerunner of the FBI), how real agents differ from fiction and how they operate. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 37. Hubin (1994), p. 254. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 D-650.

[Bristol, Rhode Island: Hobgoblin Press, 1995.]. First edition. Light edge tanning, a nearly fine copy. Uncommon. (23237). Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. Reprints from periodicals and other sources a miscellany of essays, articles, reviews and letters. With an introduction by the editor.

[West Warwick, RI: Necronomican Press, 1978. First edition. Some age toning to edges, tiny stain to upper right front corner, crease to upper left rear cover, a very good copy. (23073). Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. Includes poetry, non-fiction and short fiction.

[West Warwick, RI: Necronomican Press, 1978, 1980, 1982]. First editions. Some age tanning to edges, very good to nearly fine copies. (21277). Octavo, 3 volumes, pictorial wrappers, stapled. Includes poetry, non-fiction and short fiction.

London: Allen & Unwin, 1986. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (4405). Octavo, Hardcover. 1985 World Fantasy Award winner as best novella.

New York: Popular Library, [1969]. First edition. A fine copy, some age darkening to spine edges. (11749). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Popular Library #8104. Paperback original. Novelization of the feature film with John Wayne and Rock Hudson, based on the screenplay by James Lee Barrett.