Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Keel Row Books

London; Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1957., 1957. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 288. Publishers' scarlet cloth with black titles to spine, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine lightly sunned and rubbed at tips. Slight offsetting to free endpapers from jacket, with ownership inscription to front pastedown, and gift inscription from year of publication to ffep. Jacket lightly soiled and toned to white panels, with loss at spine tips and corners and four small paper repairs to reverse. A Very Good copy in Good jacket. 14 short stories by various authors including Lord Dunsany and James Yaffe, the winning entries from the Tenth Annual Short-Story Contest sponsored by "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine". Duo Frederic Dannay and his cousin Manfred Bennington Lee wrote crime fiction together under the pseudonym of Ellery Queen; Queen was also the main fictional character in their novels.

London; Published for Collins Crime Club, 1956., 1956. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publishers' scarlet cloth with black titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips lightly creased and upper board bruised top edge and corner; a little offsetting to endpapers from jacket otherwise contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket slightly toned to white panels,, with minor nicks and creases, 2 cm closed tear at upper front fold and very minor loss to edge. A Very Good copy in like dust-acket. 17 short stories by various authors including Margery Allingham and James Yaffe, the winning entries from the Ninth Annual Short-Story Contest sponsored by "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine". Duo Frederic Dannay and his cousin Manfred Bennington Lee wrote crime fiction together under the pseudonym of Ellery Queen; Queen was also the main fictional character in their novels.

London; Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1970., 1970. Hard Cover. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. 189, [1]. Publishers' scarlet cloth with gilt titles to spine in printed canary yellow dust-jacket. Spine tips slightly creased otherwise clean and bright, with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket spine lightly toned; a few minor nicks & creases to edge with very slight loss at lower front fold. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. Ingenious murder mystery set during a power failure in New York, by duo Frederic Dannay and his cousin Manfred Bennington Lee, who wrote under the pseudonym of Ellery Queen; Queen was also the main fictional character in the novels.

London; Ward, Lock and Co., 1948., 1948. Hard Cover. Early reprint. Octavo, pp. 224. Bound in ochre publisher's cloth with the original unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Dustjacket rubbed to edges with some small closed nicks to extremities. Overall a Very Good copy in a Very Good dust-jacket. A neat copy of Quentin's classic tropical romance novel.