About

First To Knock publishes books and records.

First To Knock titles have been featured in outlets such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Hermitix, CrimeReads, The Washington Post, Leaf by Leaf, Apocalypse Confidential, Tulsa World, Cinepunx, Largehearted Boy, Aquarium Drunkard, The Line of Best Fit, The Rodeo, This Land, Tulsa Public Radio/NPR, and Weird History.

Writer Michael P. Daley formed First To Knock in 2017. The company is based in Michigan City, Indiana. It is independently run and distributed.

First To Knock titles are available on the FTK webshop, or at some some of the finest bookshops in the United States, Canada, France, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Stockists include:

Arizona

The Heard Museum (Phoenix)

California

Skylight Books (Los Angeles)

Secret Headquarters (Los Angeles)

Escapist Comics (Berkeley)

Illinois

Quimby's (Chicago)

Seminary Co-Op (Chicago)

Shuga Records (Chicago)

First Aid Comics (Chicago)

Indiana

Static Age Records (Michigan City)

Maryland

Atomic Books (Baltimore)

Third Eye Comics (Annapolis)

Michigan

The Book Beat (Oak Park)

Booksweet (Ann Arbor)

A Novel Concept (Lansing)

New York

Mast Books (New York City)

Topos Bookstore (Ridgewood, Queens)

Oklahoma

Magic City Books (Tulsa)

The Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa)

Oregon

Revolutions Bookshop (Portland)

Pennsylvania

50 Watts Books (Philadelphia/Online)

Partners and Son (Philadelphia)

Fungus Books (Pittsburgh)

Apport Used Books (Allentown)

Rhode Island

Riffraff (Providence)

Virginia

Small Friends Records & Books (Richmond)

Washington

Apparition Books (Renton)

Left Bank Books (Seattle)

Australia

The Dragonfly Rose Bookshop (Sydney)

Belgium

Librebook (Brussels)

Canada

The Beguiling (Toronto)

France

BATT Coop (Paris)

United Kingdom

Hill of Dust Books (Leeds)

The Horse Hospital (London)

Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)

The Jewish Museum (London)