Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. Book Club Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Pale green cloth boards with blue titling. Bindings tight and square. Minimal shelf handling. Very nice jacket with light handling wear. Now in new Mylar protective sleeve. BCE - Book Club Edition, 8.5 inches tall. 312 pages.. Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: to write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both author's name and that of the detective-hero.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Good/Good. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with some spotting on the front. The dust jacket is price-clipped, age toned and with loss on the front corners a a sliver of the rear jacket. 8vo 7.75 inches tall; 313 pages. First Edition, First Printing. The Winners of the Fourth Annual Detective Short-story Contest sponsored by Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine. 16 tales each with a theme such as a Locked Room Mystery, the Perfect Crime, the Deductive Detective Story or the Trick Ending.

Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1954. Near Fine in Illustrated Wraps. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrated wraps; oblong, 8.5 by 5.5 inches. 78 pages. Black/white reproductions with description an the facing page. Includes Native American chiefs, warriors, women and outdoor scenes.. George Catlin was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians.