Search Results: Authors starting with Q from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926., 1926. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, xiii [1], 268 pp., frontis. [portrait], historical introduction, foreword, illustrated, map, index. Foreword by Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, U.S.A. General Miles, who knew Kelly well, compared him with such wilderness heroes as Daniel Boone and David Crockett. He explored the extensive northwest country years before serious hostilities occurred and acquired a knowledge of its topography, climate, and resources that proved to be exceedingly valuable. Kelly campaigned with Miles against hostile Indians in Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming. Fine, bright, tight copy in dust jacket with light wear to the corners, a small closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel and a small closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Handsome copy.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926., 1926. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, xiii [1], 268 pp., frontis. [portrait], historical introduction, foreword, illustrated, map, index. Foreword by Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, U.S.A. General Miles, who knew Kelly well, compared him with such wilderness heroes as Daniel Boone and David Crockett. He explored the extensive northwest country years before serious hostilities occurred and acquired a knowledge of its topography, climate, and resources that proved to be exceedingly valuable. Kelly campaigned with Miles against hostile Indians in Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming. Lightly rubbed at the spine ends and corners, else a very good, tight copy without dust jacket.

Greenwich: Fawcett Publications, [1960]., 1960. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM 1053. Very good in pictorial wrappers. Jake Barrow is hired to be a beautiful woman's body guard, but there was more to the job than met the eye. It looked like a perfect frame-up. Before Jake can solve the case he runs up against mobsters, junkies and show-biz creeps.

New York: HarperCollins, [1996]., 1996. First edition. First edition. Signed by the authors. Fine in dust jacket. Quayle is the wife of former Vice President Dan Quayle, and along with Northcutt have written their second thriller. When Washington reporter Russell Frederickson is murdered while covering the Senate reelection campaign of Georgia Senator Bob Grant, Grant unexpectedly finds himself the prime suspect. As Grant, a popular conservative black Christian senator, begins his own investigation to clear his name, he uncovers a vicious smear campaign motivated by revenge and political insecurity and involving foreign conspiracies and corrupt politicians at all levels.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933., 1933. First edition. First edition. Author's sixth mystery novel. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket, with light wear to spine ends and the extremities with a small closed tear and crease to the bottom edge of the front cover. A baffling murder takes place at "The Colosseum" in New York City, during the gala opening performance of the old-timers' Wild West Rodeo. Ellery must solve a crime which could have easily occurred many years ago in the West. He must contend on the one hand with sophisticated New Yorkers, and on the other hand cowboys, cowgirls, bronc-busters, etc. from the West. An attractive copy of this early Queen title.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938., 1938. First edition. First edition. Light off-setting to the front and rear endpapers else a fine, bright copy in a bright dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, and small nicks and chips to the extremities. Accompanying this copy is an inked handwritten letter on Ellery Queen stationery and dated March 3, 1958. Frederic Dannay responds to questions posed by the recipient of this letter. Mr. Dannay says that he does not know which author first used hypnosis as an integral part of a story, and he cannot be of help with the book Cops And Robbers by O. Henry as "we have no copies left." He further advises that all matters involving money orders and subscription requests will be forwarded to the New York Office. Signed "Sincerely, Frederic Dannay." The letter contains three paragraphs and is about 85 words. The letter has two horizontal faint, fold creases and the original stamped mailing envelope is also included.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942., 1942. First edition. First U. S. edition. Signed as "Ellery Queen" on the title page. Near fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket, light wear to the spine ends and corners with a small closed tear to bottom edge of the rear cover. "Ellery Queen moves into the small town of Wrightsville, somewhere in New England, in order to get some peace and quiet so that he can write a book. As a result of renting a furnished house, he becomes peripherally involved in the story of Jim Haight and Nora Wright. Nora's father is president of the Wrightsville National bank, "oldest family in town", and when the head cashier Jim Haight became engaged to his daughter Nora, he built and furnished a house for them as a wedding present. That was three years ago—the day before the wedding, Jim Haight disappeared, the wedding was called off, and the "jinxed" house became known as "Calamity House". Ellery rents… Read More

[Norfolk]: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2005., 2005. First edition. First edition. Limited to 275 numbered copies sewn in cloth of which this is number 186. Signed by Douglas Green (publisher). Very fine in dust jacket. Accompanying each copy of the Limited Edition is a separately printed pamphlet "The Adventure of the Three Macklins" by Ellery Queen. This volume contains fourteen previously unpublished tales. This book celebrates the one hundredth birthday of the cousins who wrote under the name of "Ellery Queen."

New York: Random House, [1962]., 1962. First edition. First edition. Fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and a small bruise to the spine panel. Stories selected by and with an introduction by Anthony Boucher. Thirty Best Prize stories from twelve years of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine [EQMM]. Authors included in the selection are William Faulkner, Helen McCloy, Jorge Luis Borges, John Dickson Carr, Charlotte Armstrong, Margery Allingham, Eleazar Lipsky, James Yaffe, and others including a "Bonus Story" by Ellery Queen.

Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, [1940]., 1940. First edition. First edition. A Better Little Book 1406. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To -- with gratitude / Ellery Queen." Pictorial covers are rubbed, small cellophane tape residue to front pastedown sheet, else a very good copy of a fragile book. It is rare to find a signed copy of this title. Very good copy.

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [[1948]., 1948. First edition. First edition. Signed on the half title page as "Barnaby Ross" and "Ellery Queen." Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners. Contains the first book appearance of Queen's Quorum. Queen's Quorum, A Readers' and Collectors' Guide To The 101 Most Important Books Of Detective-Crime Short Stories, With Critical and Bibliographical Notes, in short, A Short History Of The Detective-Crime Short Story. Also contains fourteen modern detective stories never before published in book form in the United States. Some of the authors are Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie (two selections), T. S. Stribling, Ernest Bramah, Anthony Boucher, Lillian De La Torre, Ellery Queen, and others.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n. d. (ca 1934)., 1934. First edition. First edition thus. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners. A large volume that contains two Queen novels The Siamese Twin Mystery, and The Greek Coffin Mystery. Two complete and unabridged novels. A remarkedly fine, tight copy for such a large, heavy volume. Rare in this condition.

New York: Random House, [1963]., 1963. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Laid-in is a holograph letter on Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine stationery and dated 2/28/63. The letter is an encouraging one advising a prospective author that "and while this particular story is not for EQMM, I do encourage to keep writing." The letter is signed as "Fred Dannay ("E. Q.")." Twenty short stories provided by Cornell Woolrich, Stanley Ellin, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, John Dickson Carr, Ring Lardner, Charlotte Armstrong, Margaret Millar, Patricia Highsmith, Margery Allingham, Joe Gores, et al. Ring Lardner's story "Stop Me -- If You've Heard This One" is the first book appearance of this tale. Patricia Highsmith's "The Terrapin" was judged to be the second best mystery short story of 1962. John Dickson Carr's "The Grandest Game in the World" is a brilliant critique of the detective story. Fine, bright, tight copy in fine fresh dust jacket.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957., 1957. First edition. First edition. Contains a presentation inscription By Manfred B. Lee dated April 15, 1957 on the front free fly leaf: "For Stanley Who likes to browse in E. Quine pastures. With affection , Manny." Further signed "Ellery Queen" per MBL." Fine, bright copy in dust jacket. A collection of 50 anecdotes, personal reminiscences and reflections regarding writing crime fiction. Contains the essay "Who Shall Ever Forget?," the famous and charming chronicle of his introduction to Sherlock Holmes, and "High Sherloctane; or, Having Fun With Words," in which he discusses Rex Stout's scandalous assertion that Watson was a woman.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934., 1934. First edition. First edition. Fine, bright copy in a bright, crisp dust jacket that is lightly soiled on the white rear cover and with light professional restoration to the spine ends and extremities. Insp. Queen needed to learn the identity of a man found murdered in a posh hotel. The scene of the crime bordered on the bizarre, with everything in the room turned backwards, including the victim's clothing, the rug was turned upside down, the picture faced the wall. Everything in the room that was movable had been turned backwards! Bourgeau says "one of the trickiest of the early Queen novels. Ellery deals with a locked-room mystery whose solution lies in what today can only be described as a quaint piece of deduction." An attractive copy of an elusive book.

New York: Pyramid Books, [1968]., 1968. First edition. First edition of the paperback original. It also includes The Adventure of the Murdered Millionaire, both stories rewritten for an adult audience. Both stories had been originally published as Better Little Books in 1940. Fine copy.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943., 1943. First edition. First edition. Signed on the title page "Ellery Queen"/ (Frederic Dannay). Fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket with red color on spine lightly sunned and minor wear to the foot of spine. An important anthology as well as an early one that includes stories by Eberhart, Palmer, Rinehart, Footner, Starrett, Holmes [Boucher], Christie, Orczy, Hume, Bangs, Vickers, Wallace, et al. The introduction is quite informative. Queen says, "the first true detective in literature cracked open his eggshell in 1841, emerging 'fully grown and armed to the teeth.' Out of Poe's immortal rib [ no pun intended ] came the world's first woman detective---a full twenty years later." Queen goes on to say, "again obeying the primeval laws of nature--though less laggard, let it be noted, in matters pertaining to sin--woman came second. In all these years no one has collected in one 'feminology' the best… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [[1962]., 1962. First edition. First edition of this large volume containing three complete and unabridged Queen novels: "The Siamese Twin Mystery, " "The Chinese Orange Mystery," and "The Spanish Cape Mystery." A review copy with the slip laid-in. Fine copy in dust jacket with a small closed tear to head of spine.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957., 1957. First edition. First edition. Review copy with the slip laid-in. Fine in dust jacket with a few light rubs to the extremities. A collection of 50 anecdotes, personal reminiscences and reflections regarding writing crime fiction. Contains the essay "Who Shall Ever Forget?," the famous and charming chronicle of his introduction to Sherlock Holmes, and "High Sherloctane; or, Having Fun With Words," in which he discusses Rex Stout's scandalous assertion that Watson was a woman.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1960]., 1960. First edition. First edition thus. Contains "The Tragedy of X," "The Tragedy of Y," and "The Tragedy of Z" all originally published as by Barnaby Ross, a pseudonym of Ellery Queen. Each of the three stories is complete and unabridged. A fine, bright copy in a very lightly rubbed dust jacket with minor wear to the foot of spine. A sharp copy and should not be confused with the fairly common book club edition.