Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Yesterday's Muse Books

Chez Francois Andreola, 1828. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Fourth edition, second in French. Rebound in cloth. Former copy of Troy Public Library, with their marks on prelims. 1828 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author. xlvii, [1], 404, [4] pp. 16mo. 22 leaves of plates (3 folding). French text. An illustrated 19th century guide to Venice.

Venise: Chez Francois Andreola, 1828. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Fourth edition, second in French. Rebound in cloth. Former copy of Troy Public Library, with their marks on prelims. 1828 Hard Cover. xlvii, [1], 404, [4] pp. 16mo. 6 1/16 x 4 1/8. Twenty-two leaves of plates (three folding). French text. An illustrated 19th century guide to Venice.

UK: Osprey, 2004. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 7x0x9. First edition. Faint smudge on rear cover. 2004 Soft Cover. 96 pp. The German Army of World War II was the first to fully realise the benefits of using airborne troops alongside armoured formations. German Airborne Divisions became an integral part of the blitzkrieg operations that overran much of Western Europe during 1940 and 1941, from the historic raid on the Belgian fortress of Eben-Emael to the pyrrhic victory over British and Commonwealth forces on the island of Crete. This title looks at the creation, evolution, and early operational deployment of the German airborne forces ('Fallschirmtruppe'), through highly detailed orders of battle, TOEs and examinations of crucial aspects such as doctrine, training, command and control, and the concept of vertical envelopment.

London: Osprey, 1993. Reprint. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 9x7x0. Chappell, Mike. Reprint. Minor general wear. 1993 Soft Cover. 40 pp. Airborne operations have often been called a vertical envelopment, and therein lies one of the best descriptions of their value. The essence of an envelopment is to pin the enemy in place so that it can be destroyed. A strong enemy force to one's rear disrupts supplies and communications and makes one more vulnerable to an attack from the front. It also has a major psychological impact. To an aggressor the value of airborne troops, used properly, far outweighs their numerical strength. Bruce Quarrie's engaging text tells the story of the German airborne troops of the Second World War.

Tucson: Aztex Corporation, 1981. First American Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 9x6x0. First American edition. 1981 Trade Paperback. 96 pp. Black & white photographs. "The fighting branch of Hitler's infamous SS contained the toughest troops in the Third Reich and it was they who spearheaded many major operations on the Eastern Front, the most brutal and decisive of the whole war. This book is a unique visual portrait of Waffen-SS men and tanks in action, containing a rare selection of original photographs taken on the spot by German war correspondents, and will be eagerly welcomed by all historians, modellers and wargamers.

Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company / Triangle Books, 1945. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. Jacket stained on reverse side, jacket edges rubbed with a few small chips. 1945 Hard Cover. 325 pp. "After the death of his longtime friend Inspector Rummell, Ellery Queen drops in on Rummell's son, a struggling lawyer named Beau. Before their meal is through, Queen and young Rummell are partners in a newly minted company: Ellery Queen, Confidential Investigations. Rummell promises not to burden Queen with any of the work—he only wants to capitalize on the name of the world-famous amateur sleuth. But when they are hired by an eccentric millionaire who refuses to say just why he wants their services, Rummell has no choice but to turn to Queen for help. And when their client dies at sea, they discover that the wealthy old man had countless enemies who might have put him out of his misery—most of them within his own family.

Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, 1940. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 0x0x0. Slightly bowed, pages lightly toned. 1940 Small Hard Cover. 424, [4] pp. 4 1/2 x 3 5/8. A scarce installment in the Better Little Book series, by the well-known author of crime fiction.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. No jacket. Boards soiled, ink name on front free endpaper, rear hinge starting. 1937 Hard Cover. 318 pp. Karen Leith is an award-winning novelist whose fictional life and works bear a resemblance to Pearl S. Buck—she was raised in Japan and writes novels that are set there, but lives in Manhattan surrounded by Japanese customs, art and furnishings. She is engaged to marry world-famous cancer researcher Dr. John MacClure. One day, the doctor's daughter, Eva, finds Karen with her throat cut in the writer's Greenwich Village home. Eva herself has no motive to kill Karen, but the evidence she finds at the scene suggests—even in her own mind—that no one else could have done it. The investigation by Ellery Queen confronts this puzzle and also turns up startling information about a long-vanished relative of Karen Leith. Queen pierces the… Read More

New York: International Readers League, 1937. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. No jacket. Faint stain to page margin, pages toned. 1937 Hard Cover. 318 pp. Karen Leith is an award-winning novelist whose fictional life and works bear a resemblance to Pearl S. Buck—she was raised in Japan and writes novels that are set there, but lives in Manhattan surrounded by Japanese customs, art and furnishings. She is engaged to marry world-famous cancer researcher Dr. John MacClure. One day, the doctor's daughter, Eva, finds Karen with her throat cut in the writer's Greenwich Village home. Eva herself has no motive to kill Karen, but the evidence she finds at the scene suggests—even in her own mind—that no one else could have done it. The investigation by Ellery Queen confronts this puzzle and also turns up startling information about a long-vanished relative of Karen Leith. Queen pierces the veil of circumstantial evidence and finds out not only… Read More

New York: Signet, 1972. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 112x16x80. First printing. Spine and front cover creased. 1972 Mass Market Paperback. 221 pp. Ellery Queen, hoping for anonymity and some quiet time for writing, has rented a house in Wrightsville under the name Ellery Smith. The town, Wrightsville, appears ideal - attractive homes, friendly people, and little crime. The writer Ellery Smith is quickly embraced by the community, especially by the founding family of Wrightsville. All is tranquil, that is, until a series of arsenic poisonings earns Wrightsville the name Calamity Town.

Boston: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Reissue. Allen Welsh Dulles's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper (relative of U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing. These were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). No jacket. Spine faded and soiled, front board soiled,. 1949 Hard Cover. 265 pp. Not serialized before book publication. Howard Van Horn wakes up in a Bowery flophouse. His knuckles are bruised, his head is bloodied, all his valuables are gone, and he has a strong urge to leap out the window. He has been unconscious for nineteen days—another in a long line of amnesiac episodes that have destroyed this once-promising sculptor. As he comes to grips with this latest blackout, he realizes something awful. The blood on his clothes suggests that another life has been wrecked. Van Horn goes to an old friend, amateur sleuth Ellery… Read More

Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. No jacket, boards bowed and lightly soiled. 1938 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 303 pp. Solly Spaeth is a financier whose machinations with the "Ohippi Hydro-Electric Project" have left a number of people much less wealthy than once they were, including his business partner, Rhys Jardin. Jardin's beautiful daughter Valerie is involved with Spaeth's son Walter. Rhys is so impoverished, he has to sell up his personal property at auction, much to the dismay of his daughter and his long-time servant/valet/trainer, Pink. Walter asks Ellery Queen to sit in on the auction and buy every lot, which is how Ellery becomes involved when Solly Spaeth is found pierced by an ancient sword whose blade has been coated with molasses and cyanide. Suspicion falls on a number of people, including the Jardin household, Solly's son, lawyer and his mistress, the kooky Winni Moon,… Read More

New York: Magna Books, 1970. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 6x4x0. First printing. Spine creased, spine leans to the right, sticker ghost on rear cover. 1970 Mass Market Paperback. 189 pp. Where is Harlan James? He is the indicted, bail-jumping leader of Banbury's militant Black Hearts who has gone underground… but whose rage, still heard on tape, is edging the city toward interracial terror. Harlan James calls for violence - for black protests, demonstrations, drastic political action against the city's white leaders. But did he also call for - or commit - murder? It is a top priority job for Mike McCall, a new breed of crime-fighter, whose cases plunge him into the crises of modern America. When a prominent white official is shot to death, McCall must find the killer - or face open racial warfare!

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 1951 revised edition. Top of jacket and jacket spine stained. Ink name on front paste-down endpaper. ix, 132 pp. Frontispiece facsimile of the title page of Poe's Tales. A bibliographic history of the detective short story. A valuable reference for mystery "high spots" published 1845-1951.

Little, Brown and Company, 1942. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No jacket, edges of pages 293-306 lightly chewed, pages lightly toned. 1942 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 318 pp. Calamity Town is a novel that was published in 1942 by Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel primarily set in the fictional town of Wrightsville, a place that figures in several later Queen books. 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

Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 0x0x0. Hess, Erwin L. First edition. Spine leans backward very slightly, ink name & stamp on front endpaper. 1942 Hard Cover. 424, [4] pp. An installment in the popular Better Little Book series, by the mystery-writing duo who pseudonymously published under the name Ellery Queen. Includes a flip-book style action sequence with frames on the top corner of each page.

New York: International Readers League, 1937. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. Reissue (Adey 1530). No jacket. Front board lightly soiled, rear free endpaper chewed. 1937 Hard Cover. 318 pp. 8vo. A volume in the uniformly bound series of reissues by International Readers League: orange cloth, gilt titles. A mystery novel by the pseudonymous writing duo of Daniel Nathan and Manuel Lepofsky, whose pen name doubled as a character featured in their stories. Raised in Japan by American expatriates, Karen Leith now lives a reclusive life in New York, known chiefly for her highly regarded novels, of which the latest has won a major American literary award. When she is found on the floor behind her desk, surrounded by blood, it looks like foul play. But the only possible suspect is Leith's future daughter-in-law, Eva, who has recently become engaged. Eva swears by her innocence, even though she was the last to hear Leith alive and the first to find her dead. Eva was waiting outside… Read More

New York: Pocket Books, 1963. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. 1st printing. Musty. 1963 Mass Market Paperback. A small town turns into a killer mob after the murder of one of its residents.

New York: International Readers League, 1934. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. No jacket. General wear, pages toned. 1934 Hard Cover. 300 pp. 8vo. A volume in the uniformly bound series of reissues by International Readers League: orange cloth, gilt titles. A mystery novel by the pseudonymous writing duo of Daniel Nathan and Manuel Lepofsky, whose pen name doubled as a character featured in their stories.

New York: Popular Library, 1966. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. First printing. Spine creased, rear cover lightly rubbed. 1966 Mass Market Paperback. 127 pp. Is the lovely young heiress hiding somewhere among the shiny steel towers of Manhattan? Or is she the horribly mutilated corpse hauled up from the sewers of the city? Captain Timothy Corrigan, the cool cop with the eye patch, sets out to solve the puzzle and finds himself playing a fantastic game of hide-and-seek in a glittering world where everything is make-believe - except sudden, shocking death.