Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Radway & Co, 1868. Very good in original yellow wraps, with minor soiling, scattered foxing, offsetting throughout, many pages unopened.. An enjoyable pamphlet hawking presumably quack medical products Radway's Renovating Resolvent, Radway's Regulating Pills, and Radway's Ready Relief. With rather disturbing medical illustrations throughout. Scarce with five copies of all editions on OCLC as of April 2024, this copy does not match the pagination of any of the recorded copies.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. First American Edition. Very good in publisher's brown textured cloth with gilt title to spine, professionally rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt on spine a bit faded, some rubbing and bumped corners as well as some foxing and toning.. First American edition, published in the same year as the English first. An important early detective/crime fiction story, which is #3 in the Queen's Quorum checklist of the most important books in the genre since 1845. One of the short stories in this collection is The Biter Bit, which "introduced comedy into the detective story - a development of first magnitude." Also important as some commentators argue the book contained the first depiction of a female detective - and a working-class amateur detective at that. 8vo. [ii], 472pp. + 8pp. ads. Parrish 35.