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

New York: Minotaur Books, [2009]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. (22554). Octavo, boards. The author's first mystery, set in Oklahoma during WW II. A railroad yard detective investigates a death which may involve smuggling of army goods and the local German P.O.W. camp.

New York: Ace Fantasy Books, [1986]. First edition. A fine unread copy. (11511). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original. Contemporary fantasy writer is attacked by a psychic vampire. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-95. Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 153-155.

New York: Ace Books, [1986]. First edition. A fine unread copy. (16323). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original. Contemporary fantasy writer is attacked by a psychic vampire. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-95. Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 153-155.

London: Robert Hale & Company, [1971]. First British (and first hardcover) edition. A near fine copy in a near fine price clipped dust jacket, a touch of restoration to spine ends and corners, small stain spot to upper rear panel. A very uncommon book. (9978). Octavo, boards. "Time travellers are horrified to find a near-future America riven by interracial war. A simple but moving cautionary tale." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 434. Hugo award nominee and Nebula award nominee. Pringle: Science Fiction The 100 Best Novels #65.

New York: Ace Publishing Corporation, [1970]. First edition. A fine copy, unread. (29233). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Ace Books 94200. Paperback original. "Time travellers are horrified to find a near-future America riven by interracial war. A simple but moving cautionary tale." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 434. Hugo award nominee and Nebula award nominee. Tucker's best SF novel and one of the major fictions of the 1970s. Published as part of the highly regarded Ace "Science Fiction Special" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1145. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 65. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2520-24.

San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Brandywyne Books, 1986. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket (not called for) with suede cloth slipcase. (27545). Octavo, green faux leather stamped in silver on the spine. A novel of self discovery. According to the Hargreaves bibliography "18 copies, unsigned. Bound in full green leatherette cloth (simulated leather) with silver lettering stamped on the spine. Bound at the author's request for special copies to give to friends." pp. 170-171. Hargreaves, ANNE INEZ McCAFFREY, 59 Aii.

Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. First U. S. hardcover edition. A fine copy, without dust jacket as issued. (29276). Octavo, cloth. Text offset from that of the 1970 Ace edition. New introduction by Sandra Miesel. "Time travellers are horrified to find a near-future America riven by interracial war. A simple but moving cautionary tale." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 434. Hugo award nominee and Nebula award nominee. Tucker's best SF novel and one of the major fictions of the 1970s. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1145. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 65. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2520-24.

London: Michael Joseph, [1955]. First edition. Light offsetting to endpapers, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with some spotting to rear panel, touch of shelf wear to head of spine panel. (13521). Octavo, boards. The author's first science fiction novel. The world is split not into states but into business groups.

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1958]. First edition. Previous owners name in ink to rear free end paper, a fine copy in a fine price clipped first state dust jacket (lists 29 titles on rear panel). A bright, sharp copy. Part of an original single owner collection. (27539). Octavo, jacket illustration by James Heugh, cloth. "Cosmic dust from an approaching comet disturbs the surface tension of all metals, causing them to blend together. The resulting destruction of virtually all machinery breeds violence and chaos. Ken Maddox, his chemist father, and a few other scientists find a remedy ... Best of the author's three novels in the Winston 1950s series." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-579. Part of the Winston juvenile series. One of the more uncommon titles.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1992]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (16579). Octavo, boards. Twenty-eight stories with fiction by Brian Aldiss, William Gibson, Greg Egan, Pat Cadigan and many others. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-534.

New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1987]. First edition. Touch of edge rubs, a fine unread copy. (28484). Small octavo, cover by Michael Whelan, pictorial wrappers. DAW Books No. 724. Collects eighteen stories by Robert Bloch, Joe Lansdale, Charles L. Grant, Ramsey Campbell, and others. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-421.

New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1984]. First edition. A fine unread copy. (25084). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. DAW Fantasy No. 597. Signed by Karl Wagner at his contribution. Collects eleven stories by Karl Edward Wagner, Tanith Lee, Fritz Leiber, James Tiptree, Jr., and others.

New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1986]. First edition. Crease to lower rear edge, a fine unread copy. (28483). Small octavo, cover by Michael Whelan, pictorial wrappers. DAW Books No. 688. Collects nineteen stories by Ramsey Campbell, David Schow, Tanith Lee, Simon Clark and others. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-421.

New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1981]. First edition. A fine unread copy. (25072). Small octavo, cover art by Michael Whelan, pictorial wrappers. DAW Books No. 445. Collects eleven stories by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, T.E.D. Klein, and others. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-421.

[New York]: Bantam Books, [2002]. First trade edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169247) (29914). Octavo, boards. "...follows three characters over seven centuries on an alternate Earth in which Islam and Buddhism are the dominant religions. Her charming though ponderous study in comparative religions opens with wandering Mongol scout Bold Bardash stumbling through an abandoned Athens, where the Black Death has wiped out everyone. Christianity just about dies out, Judaism is a minority cult, and, after many barbarous and pointless struggles between petty warlords, the New World is discovered by the Chinese Navy, and the Renaissance is played out as a conflict between a Middle Eastern Islam and Chinese Buddhism." - Kirkus review, 1 January, 2002. Winner of the Locus award for best novel, Hugo Award nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-919.

London: Books Limited, n.d., [1921]. First edition. Tanning to free end papers, corners and spine ends a touch rubbed, spine somewhat age darkened with lettering to title and publisher rubbed, a very good to nearly fine copy. (30399). Octavo, pp. [1-14] 15-299 [300-304: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves used as front and rear free endpapers and paste-downs, original decorated light brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and blind, all edges rough cut. Scarce thriller featuring occult investigator Professor Arnold Rhymer, M.D., whose earlier exploits were recorded in Key's rare collection, THE BROKEN FANG AND OTHER EXPERIENCES OF A SPECIALIST IN SPOOKS (1920), who "tries to decipher a typed message made by one of the departed." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 128. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 304. Bleiler (1978), p. 114. Reginald 08230.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1977. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with some moderate dust soiling. (4823). Octavo, cloth backed boards. Signed inscription by Thomas to author/reviewer Neil McGaughey on the title page. "[Thomas]...with another winning combination of conspiracy, politics, and big money as ex-politico Harvey Longmire attempts to solve the euphemistic disappearance of a prominent union leader." - Kirkus Review, 13, January, 1976. Hubin, p. 795.

New York: Morrow, 1991. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (6946). Octavo, Hardcover. A Thomas Black mystery.

West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1983. Reprint edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket, light rubbing. (8654). Octavo, cloth. First published in 1919 in All Story Weekly pulp magazine as The Fragrant Web. Published the same year in hardcover as Yellow Men Sleep. Lost race adventure novel.

New York: Richard Marek, 1978. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (1605). Octavo, Hardcover. Adventure novel in the pulp tradition.