Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Star Cat Books

Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Slightly scuffed cover, tight binding, good pages with no marks or tears, great typefaces used-- so very early 40s! This is an anthology of other detective stories which Queen then renamed using fake author names to make it a guessing game for the reader. Answers to the story as to the real author are at the end of each story.

Cleveland, Ohio: Tower Books / The World Publishing Company, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Wartime edition from Tower Books, #T-343. Binding tight, but paper yellowing due to high acid content of wartime "cheap" paper. Jacket has minor tears and wear to edges & spine from shelving. Pages clean and unmarked. Owner's name penciled onto frontispiece along gutter. Note ad in back that this book could be mailed "to a boy in the armed services anywhere for only 4¢ postage," as well as a quote from Roosevelt on the copyright page. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good (considering age). Slightly worn cover edges, very tight binding, but some spotting on edges of pages when book is closed. Gorgeous frontispiece showing map of Manhattan in 1949. 1st edition.