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

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1942. First edition. Some toning to end papers, some erasures to front free end paper, a clean, nearly fine copy in an attractive very good dust jacket with a small "v" chip to upper front panel, several tiny tears and crease to lower front panel, light wear to spine ends with shallow loss at head of spine panel, mild color fade to spine panel. (25433). Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-342, original blue-green cloth, spine stamped in gold. A brother and sister move to rural Devon and purchase Cliff House in which they find it is haunted by a ghost. The author's best known novel which became a bestseller U. S. (first published in the U. K. as UNEASY FREEHOLD, 1941). Filmed in 1944 with Ray Milland. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 124. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1064. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 275. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 128.… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1942. First U.S. edition. Former owner's name in ink to front free end paper, spine a little leaned, a very good or somewhat better copy in a very good dust jacket with a small triangular chip to the lower front panel (5 mm wide, 12 mm deep) and a small closed tear (7 mm) with crease to upper front panel, chipping with loss to spine ends, moderate sun fade to spine panel which also has a vertical crease down the center. An uncommon book in jacket. (16246). Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-342, original blue-green cloth, spine stamped in gold. The author's best known novel, a ghost story-haunted house novel which became a bestseller here in the U.S.; published in the U.K. as UNEASY FREEHOLD (1941). Filmed in 1944 with Ray Milland. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 124. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1064. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 275. In 333.… Read More

New York: Doubleday/Foundation, 1989. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (3297). Octavo, Hardcover.

Eugene, OR: Hypatia Press, 1987. First edition. A fine copy in slipcase with a matching numbered art print. (29124). Octavo, leather. One of 250 leather bound copies numbered with roman numerals, signed by "Bertie" MacAvoy, introducer Anne McCaffrey, and artist Leslie Newcomer. The author's first book. 1984 World Fantasy Award nominee. Runner up for the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-172. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 82.

Eugene, OR: Hypatia Press, 1987. First hardcover edition. A fine copy in slipcase with a matching numbered art print. (26488). Octavo, leather. One of 250 leather bound copies numbered with roman numerals, signed by "Bertie" MacAvoy, introducer Anne McCaffrey, and artist Leslie Newcomer. The author's first book. 1984 World Fantasy Award nominee. Runner up for the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-172. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 82.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1924. First edition. Light tape ghosts to front and rear end papers, mild wear to spine ends and corner tips, a very good to nearly fine copy in a good dust jacket (with fine wraparound illustration by T. Hadejen) with wear to corners with minor loss, rubbing to folds, light wear to spine ends, browned clear tape to spine ends and rear corners, browned tape to verso at spine ends and front flap. (24545). Octavo, pp. [1-6] [i-iv] v [vi] [1-2] 3-414 [415-420: blank] [note: first three and last three leaves are blanks], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. Issued later in Britain as ULTIMATUM and reprinted as a serial in AIR WONDER in 1929. "The League of the Covenant uses secret weapons and airships to force peace on the world." - Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 51. "A classic of its day." - Tuck (1978), p. 287. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1389. Clareson, Science Fiction in America,… Read More

New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1950. First edition. A fine unread copy, bookstore stamp to verso of front cover. (12429). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Gold Medal #124. Paperback original. The author's first book. Hardboiled mystery.

Greenwich, CT: A Fawcett Gold Medal Book, [1966]. First edition. Mild darkening to text paper, spine slightly toned, very slight bump to upper right and lower left front corners. (26626). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Gold Medal d1674. Paperback original. The seventh Travis McGee novel. Hubin, p. 526.

New York: Popular Library, 1957. First edition. A very good copy, spine somewhat leaned, reading creases. (7755). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original.

[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1957]. First edition. Fine in wrappers, slight crease to lower front corner. (5935). Small octavo, cover painting by Victor Kalin, pictorial wrappers. Dell #B112. Paperback original.

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1967. First edition. Very good, some spotting to fore-edge in a very good dust jacket, some rubbing to front edges, light shelf wear to spine ends. (4828). Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover publications of THE DEEP BLUE GOOD-BY, NIGHTMARE IN PINK, & A PURPLE PLACE FOR DYING.

London: Robert Hale Limited, [1961]. First hardcover edition. A very good copy in a very good or somewhat better dust jacket with some mild creasing and edge wear, rub mark to lower right front corner. (17242). Octavo, boards. Hubin, p. 526.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1961. First edition. A fine unread copy in wrappers, touch of rubbing to head of spine panel, small nick at base of spine panel. (5933). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original.

London: Robert Hale Limited, [1962]. First hardcover edition. A nearly fine copy in a very good or somewhat better dust jacket with light edge rubbing and light shelf wear to spine ends, moderate soiling to spine panel and several tiny closed tear to lower front panel with a crease. Uncommon. (17244). Octavo, boards. Fine noirish fiction from a master. "He [MacDonald] was particularly fascinated by people on the margins of a corrupt enterprise. In 1960's "The Only Girl in the Game", a desolate novel about the operation of a Las Vegas casino, he writes with equal sympathy about the manager who wants to get something unpleasant done and isn't fussy about the details, and the underling who knows all too much but thinks he can stay in his job and keep his own hands clean. The result is a portrait of American business so unsparing it makes "Mad Men" look like "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." - Lee Sandlin, book review in the Wall Street Journal, September 2013… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First edition. A fine copy, darkening to text block in a very good dust jacket, light rubbing to front flap fold and spine folds, light shelf wear with rubbing to spine ends, corners. (7592). Octavo, Hardcover. Hardboiled.

New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1951]. First edition. A fine unread copy, sharp. (12431). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Gold Medal #186. Paperback original.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1961. First edition. A very good to near fine copy, light reading crease to spine edge, a little rubbing to rear panel. (7517). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original. Hardboiled.

Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1965]. First edition. Mild darkening to text paper, a fine unread copy. (26625). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Gold Medal d1499. Paperback original. The sixth Travis McGee novel. Hubin, p. 526.

Greenwich, CT: A Fawcett Gold Medal Book, [1967]. First edition. Mild darkening to text paper, mild crease to upper right front corner, a few edge rubs, an about fine copy, unread. (26627). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Gold Medal d1750. Paperback original. The eighth Travis McGee novel. Hubin, p. 526.

London: Robert Hale & Company, [1973]. First British and first hardcover edition. Spine a bit leaned, foxing to top and fore edges, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear to the spine ends and color fade to spine panel to a light tan, mild foxing along verso of upper edges. (22924). Octavo boards. A Travis McGee mystery.