Authors starting with Q from TBCL The Book Collector's Library

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1933 A strange issue with NY dating & "Canadian Edition" For Sale In Canada Only on the verso of the title page. Sm. 8vo., pp. 308. Red cloth printed in black with gun illustration on front cover, slightly darkened at the spine. This copy has the rubber stamp of Molson's Brewery Curlew Club on the eps & pastedowns. A very good copy of a virtual unknown issue.. 1st Edition. ... more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932 Author's first book. An early reprint [7th]- for completists. Sm. 8vo., pp. 325 + 9 ads. Bluish-green topstain. Red cloth printed in black with Hat illustration on front cover. A very good copy without dustwrapper.. ... more information

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New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1969. First Edition, first printing of the revised edition. A fine copy in ruby red cloth, black titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 146 pp. A superb reference work and an essential companion volume for the detection and crime fiction aficionado. . ... more information

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1929 First Edition of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.and the authors' first Ellery Queen mystery. (Pseudonym of Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee). A bright, fresh, better than very good copy in red cloth, black and red titles and decorations with some light use and moderate fade at the edges in a fine facsimile dustwrapper of the original. 8vo. 325 pp. A handsome copy of this MLC 5 Dagger Classic. . 1st Edition. ... more information

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1934 First Edition of Queen's second book, (pseudonym of Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee), a Queen's Quorum title and the first Ellery Queen short story collection. The notable Goldstone copy with Adrian Goldstone's neat bookplate affixed to the front pastedown - acquired in the famous 1981 Goldstone sale of Mystery & Detective fiction. A bright, fresh near fine copy in illustrated black and yellow cloth with some light use, black titles to the spine in a ... more information

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New York: Biblo & Tannen, 1969., 1969 One of 150 only Signed & Numbered copies of a total edition of 1000. First Thus. Original mustard coloured buckram 8vo., pp. xii, 146. Very fine in dustwrapper. B & T's excellent series, a reprint of the 1942 edition with a new introduction & with m any of the titles well-annotated. The history of the detective short story by the pseudonymous masters of the genre, Frederick Dannay & his cousin Manfred B. Lee. "Anthony Boucher described Queen... more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1929., 1929 First edition, one of 300 numbered copies, signed by Quennell. Original green boards, gilt. Drawings by Albert Rutherston. a good copy with some loss at the narrow spine. Small area of tape remains on the covers.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. ... more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955 First Edition of this highly-regarded thriller, featuring New York Homicide Lieutenant Timothy Trant, chosen by Julian Symons as one of the 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books in his 1957 Sunday Times List. A near fine copy in 1/4 gray cloth over red paper covered boards, (pages tanned as is usual), black titles and decorations in a very good or better bright, fresh, neatly price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper with some light overall use, a few tiny nicks and some mild c... more information

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Toronto: Collins, 1988 First Edition of this Canadian author's first book, a well-received mystery introducing amateur-sleuth Matthew Prior. 8vo. 255 pp. A fine copy in black cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a fine dustwrapper. . 1st Edition. ... more information

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