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

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. First edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket, spine panel is faded, light shelf wear to corners and spine ends, back panel age darkened. (5867). Octavo, cloth. The best detective stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the first volume in this series. First hardcover appearance of Kenneth Millar's (Ross MacDonald) with his first story "Find the Woman.

New York: Random House, [1962]. First edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket. (5827). Octavo, Hardcover. 21 stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine.

New York: Random House, [1964]. First edition. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. (1252). Octavo, cloth. The 19th annual collection, 24 stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1950. First edition. Some age darkening to edges of paste down from glue aging, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear to the spine ends and upper and lower edges, a 12 mm closed tear to the upper front panel. (21966). Octavo, boards. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 13 of the 33 prize winning stories. Authors include John Dickson Carr, Craig Rice & Stuart Palmer, Stanley Ellin, Margery Allingham, John D. MacDonald and others.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. First edition. Neat small bookplate affixed to front paste-down, some tanning along top edge of cloth, some spotting to rear cover a nearly fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with minor restoration to spine ends and upper front corner tip, professional repair to long tear to rear panel. An attractive copy which presents well. An uncommon title in dust jacket. (27613). Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [1-2] 3-304 [305-306: blank], original beige cloth, front and spine stamped in red. An Ellery Queen mystery novel. Hubin, p. 660.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1944. First edition. A fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to corner tips and spine ends, some color fade to orange ink of spine panel. (28923). Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi-xiv [1-3] 4-363 [364-366], original black cloth front and spine stamped in orange, top edge stained red.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1953]. First edition. A nearly fine copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket with closed tears and wear to the head of the spine panel and upper front panel, some color fade to the lower spine panel, wear to the corner tips. (21969). Octavo, boards. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 16 of the 55 prize winning stories. Authors include Steve Frazee, Roy Vickers, Stanley Ellin, Eleazar Lipsky, Lillian de la Torre, Edgar Pangborn and others.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some light edge wear and rubbing. (5844). Octavo, cloth. Collects twenty-six stories from writers not known for mystery fiction. Authors included are Sinclair Lewis, Pearl S. Buck, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Will Cather, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon and others. Introductory comment before each story.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, closed tear repaired on the verso to the upper right front corner, several closed tears to the upper spine panel with tape repair to the verso. Uncommon in the jacket. (22533). Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-502 [503: acknowledgments] [504: blank], original gray cloth spine stamped in black, red and gold. Anthology of 25 detective stories not previously collected in a U. S. anthology, the "Challenge to the Reader" is that the detectives in the stories names are changed and it is left to the reader to identify them and the author. Includes the work of A. Conan Doyle, H. C. Bailey, Agatha Christie, Ernest Bramah, Dashiell Hammett and others. The first anthology edited by Queen.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1951. First edition. Tiny stain to front cover, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, tiny hole to the "S" in AWARDS on front panel, closed tear with rubbing to upper rear panel / spine edge. (21967). Octavo, boards. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 14 of the 30 prize winning stories. Authors include Charlotte Armstrong, Stanley Ellin, Roy Vickers, Q. Patrick, C. S. Forester, Lord Dunsany and others.

New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1970. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (12378). Octavo, cloth backed boards. The twenty-fifth annual selection of stories reprinted from EQMM. Contributions by Stanley Ellin, Christina Brand, Anthony Gilbert, Michael Gilbert, Lawrence Treat, Margery Allingham, Julian Symons, Joe Gores, and others. Review slip laid in.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1947]. First edition. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste down. A nearly fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, some dust soiling and a closed tear to the rear panel. (21965). Octavo, cloth. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM, the second in the series. Fiction by H. F. Heard, Carter Dickson, Q. Patrick, Leslie Charteris, Stuart Palmer and others. Also includes the first hardcover appearance of Jack Finney's first story "The Widow's Walk"

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1947]. First edition. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends and some age darkening to rear panel. (9928). Octavo, cloth. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. First hardcover appearance of Jack Finney's first story "The Widow's Walk"

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d., [c. 1930s]. Reprint. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with fading to the spine panel. (835). Octavo, boards.

New York: The American Mercury, n.d.. First paperback edition. A near fine copy with a little edge rubbing, in wrappers. (7289). Wrappers. Abridged from the 1938 hardcover edition. Anthology of stories in which the detective's name is changed and the reader must deduct their identity from reading the story.

New York: World, 1969. First edition. Fine in fine price clipped dust jacket. (1253). Octavo, Hardcover. 22 stories from EQMM.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First edition. Darkening to text paper, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some rub marks to front panel and some overall dust soiling. (16254). Octavo, cloth backed boards. Winner's of the magazines annual short story contest. Includes the Edgar nominated "And Already Lost" by Charlotte Armstrong. Another significant fiction, "Malice in Wonderland" by Rufus King. Other authors include Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Manly Wade Wellman and ten others.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. First edition. Corner tips a bit worn, some soiling and light stains to cloth, a very good copy. An uncommon title. (30888). Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix-xii [xiii-xiv] [1-2] 3-357 [358: blank], pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black. The first collection of Queen stories with eleven adventures. Queen's Quorum 90. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 92. Hubin, p. 660.

New York: Random House, [1964]. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. (12494). Octavo, cloth. The 19th annual collection, 24 stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. John D. MacDonald, Michael Gilbert, Roy Vickers, Helen McCloy Gerald Kersh and many others.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. First edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with shelf wear along the upper edge with slight loss at upper spine panel, mild shelf wear to lower spine panel and slight color fade to ink lettering of spine panel. (21972). Octavo, cloth. Companion volume to 101 YEAR'S ENTERTAINMENT. This anthology collects 32 stories with focus on successful crooks. With commentary before each story. This contains the first book publication of the Dashiell Hammett story, "Ruffian's Wife" (from Sunset Magazine, 1925). Author's included are a who's who of the best; Agatha Christie, H. C. Bailey, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Grant Allen, Roy Vickers, R. Austin Freeman, William Hope Hodgson, Leslie Charteris, Fredric Brown and many more.