Search Results: Authors starting with Q from John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First edition. Darkening to text paper, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some rub marks to front panel and some overall dust soiling. (16254). Octavo, cloth backed boards. Winner's of the magazines annual short story contest. Includes the Edgar nominated "And Already Lost" by Charlotte Armstrong. Another significant fiction, "Malice in Wonderland" by Rufus King. Other authors include Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Manly Wade Wellman and ten others.

New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1969. Later edition. A nearly fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with mild wear to spine ends and corner tips, slight fade to spine panel. (23009). Octavo, cloth. Fifty pieces on the aspects of mystery fiction.

New York: Random House, [1965]. First edition. Inked previous owner stamp and two inked letters to front paste-down, slight spine lean, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with several tiny spots to front panel, mild shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, small piece of superfluous clear tape to upper spine panel. (6733). Octavo, cloth. According to Douglas Dannay, this novel was written by Avram Davidson from a 71-page outline by Frederic Dannay, with Davidson's completed manuscript then revised by Dannay and Lee. Hubin, p. 660.

New York: Random House, [1965]. First edition. A fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket, mild shelf wear and rubbing. (12501). Octavo, cloth. The 20th annual collection, stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Stanley Ellin, Nicholas Blake, Robert L. Fish, Avram Davidson, Fredric Brown and many others.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1948. First edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, internal cello-tape reinforcement, light shelf wear to spine ends. (5865). Octavo, Hardcover. The best detective stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. First hardcover appearances of the first Merlini short story by Clayton Rawson, and "The Specialty of the House" by Stanley Ellin.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. First edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with shelf wear along the upper edge with slight loss at upper spine panel, mild shelf wear to lower spine panel and slight color fade to ink lettering of spine panel. (21972). Octavo, cloth. Companion volume to 101 YEAR'S ENTERTAINMENT. This anthology collects 32 stories with focus on successful crooks. With commentary before each story. This contains the first book publication of the Dashiell Hammett story, "Ruffian's Wife" (from Sunset Magazine, 1925). Author's included are a who's who of the best; Agatha Christie, H. C. Bailey, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Grant Allen, Roy Vickers, R. Austin Freeman, William Hope Hodgson, Leslie Charteris, Fredric Brown and many more.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. First edition. Corner tips a bit worn, some soiling and light stains to cloth, a very good copy. An uncommon title. (30888). Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix-xii [xiii-xiv] [1-2] 3-357 [358: blank], pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black. The first collection of Queen stories with eleven adventures. Queen's Quorum 90. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 92. Hubin, p. 660.

New York: Random House, [1964]. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. (12494). Octavo, cloth. The 19th annual collection, 24 stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. John D. MacDonald, Michael Gilbert, Roy Vickers, Helen McCloy Gerald Kersh and many others.

New York: Random House, [1962]. First edition. A fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket, mild rubbing to extremities, closed tear and crease to head of spine panel. (12493). Octavo, cloth. This is the 17th Annual collection of stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Author's included are: Avram Davidson, Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish, William McGivern and others.

New York: Random House, [1961]. First edition. A fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket, some mild dust soiling and slight shelfwear to extremities. (12495). Octavo, cloth backed boards. The 16th annual collection, 22 stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Frances and Richard Lockridge, Stanley Ellin, Evan Hunter, Hal Ellson, Arthur C. Clarke and many others. This also includes the first appearance in hardcover of Hammett's, "A Man Named Thin." The Hammett story was previously unpublished, it was acquired by in 1946 by the editors but did not see print in the magazine until 1960 (this story has no relation to The Thin Man).

Boston: Little, Brown, 1949. First edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket showing rubbing and shelf wear, some chipping with loss to spine ends. (7471). Octavo, Hardcover. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. Includes stories by Fredric Brown, Helen McCloy, Clayton Rawson, Leslie Charteris and many others.

Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2005. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (16724). Octavo, cloth. One of 275 numbered copies signed by the publisher Douglas Greene. Collects 14 radio scripts which aired on The Adventures of Ellery Queen. Includes a separate pamphlet "The Case of the Three Macklins" which was aired on the Kate Smith Hour.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First edition. Small closed tear to the head of the spine, a very good to nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear to corner tips and spine ends with shallow loss to head of spine panel, 11 mm closed tear to upper front panel and a 6 mm closed tear with creasing to lower front panel. (21973). Octavo, cloth. Collects twenty-six stories from writers not known for mystery fiction. Authors included are Sinclair Lewis, Pearl S. Buck, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Will Cather, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon and others. Introductory comment before each story.

New York: The Dial Press/Davis Publications, Inc., [1976]. First edition. A near fine copy, some darkening to edges of text block in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing. (9927). Octavo, boards. Anthology. 3 short novels and 11 short stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe is featured in one of the short novels, Ed McBain's 87th precinct is featured in another.

New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, [1970]. First edition. A near fine copy, light glue stain to rear free endpaper in a fine dust jacket. (12499). Octavo, cloth backed boards. The 25th annual collection, 25 stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Edward Hoch, Stanley Ellin, Anthony Gilbert, Joe Gores and others.

Boston: Litttle, Brown and Company, 1943. First edition. Several mild pressure creases to cloth at upper spine end, else a fine copy in very good to near fine pictorial dust jacket with light wear at spine ends, rubbing to corner tips, and 41 mm closed tear at upper edge of front panel. A pretty copy. (12368). Octavo, illustrated by Pauline Jackson, cloth. An Ellery Queen mystery novel.

New York: World, 1969. First edition. Fine in fine price clipped dust jacket. (1253). Octavo, Hardcover. 22 stories from EQMM.

New York: The American Mercury, n.d.. First paperback edition. A near fine copy with a little edge rubbing, in wrappers. (7289). Wrappers. Abridged from the 1938 hardcover edition. Anthology of stories in which the detective's name is changed and the reader must deduct their identity from reading the story.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d., [c. 1930s]. Reprint. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with fading to the spine panel. (835). Octavo, boards.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1953]. First edition. A nearly fine copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket with closed tears and wear to the head of the spine panel and upper front panel, some color fade to the lower spine panel, wear to the corner tips. (21969). Octavo, boards. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 16 of the 55 prize winning stories. Authors include Steve Frazee, Roy Vickers, Stanley Ellin, Eleazar Lipsky, Lillian de la Torre, Edgar Pangborn and others.