Search Results: Authors starting with Q from MLC Books

Isanti, MN: Innovative Order Press, 2012. Quaday reflects on life on a southern Minnesota farm from the Great Depression through the 1980s, compiled from his columns written for the Faribault County Register. Fine, as new condition. Signed by Quaday on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Center Ossipee, NH: Carroll County Independent, 1981. Memoir by the sister of poet e.e. cummings, 172 pages. Lightly tanned with a tiny nick to the spine heel.. Staplebound Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Quercus Press, 2007. First Quercus printing. Very gently bumped. Signed by Qualey on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2004. Gently bumped with corresponding wear to the mylar covered jacket. Inscribed by Qualey on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press of St Cloud, Inc., 2009. An alumni director at a college in small-town Minnesota is asked by his estranged wife to help her friend who is accused of murder. His inquiries uncover a complex academic controversy. Gently handled. Signed by Quam on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Monument, CO: Snowfall Press, 2012. Lower corner of the rear wrap lightly creased. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Self Published, 2011. The author's story of military service in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces to his resettlement in Minnesota as a newspaper editor. Gently rubbed, light reading crease to the front cover along the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. First Edition.. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1971. Tough private detective Corbo's hunt for a secret cache of diamonds takes him from London to Antwerp, where stones are precious - and lives are cheap. First U.S. edition. Spine ends gently bumped, pages lightly tanned with remainder spray to the lower edge of the text block and a faint beverage ring to the front board. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, spine a bit darkened, in Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Random House, 2009. First printing of the first Inspector Darko Dawson mystery. Set in Ghana, Inspector Dawson leaves the city to investigate the death of a promising med student in a small rural village. Bumped with correspondig crimps to the Brodart covered jacket. Inscribed and signed by Quartey on the half title page, dated 2009. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Triangle Books, 1941. A woman is murdered in a room under constant observation (Adey 1530.) Reprint. Bumped and lightly rubbed, pages tanned. Binding square and solid, sticker residue on the front end paper. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, in Brodart.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1999. Plot outline of the final, never published Ellery Queen novel, with six previously uncollected short stories, and a section of essays and reminiscences of Ellery Queen, 222 pages. Spine heel gently bumped.. First Edition.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1933. A rodeo star is shot in front of twenty thousand people and the newsreels. Who did it and why is there no murder weapon? First U.S. printing, same date on the title and copyright pages. Bumped and rubbed with wear to the lower front corner. Damp stain to the rear board, showing on the upper and fore edges of the last 30 pages. Boards a bit bowed, spine cocked and lightly sunned. Front hinge loose, rear cracked, previous owner's name on the front end paper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

New York: Lancer Books, 1966. Lancer 73-469, paperback original. Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper, from files discovered by Ellery Queen. A novlization of the 1965 movie starring John Neville and Donald Houston as Holmes and Watson, with Anthony Quayle, Judi Dench, and Robert Morley as Mycroft. A touch of rubbing at the edges, faint spine crease. Binding tight, pages a bit tanned.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Ellery and his father are forced to seek shelter from a forest fire at a mountaintop home housing an unusual assortment of characters, including a pair of teenage boys who are conjoined twins. Cut off and fighting the fire, the murders begin. Reprint. Bright red and black boards are bumped with a bit of wear at the edges. Binding square and solid with the previous owner's name on the front end paper. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, spine slightly darkened, in Brodart.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1951. Ellery investigates a recent murder, and an impending one. Gently bumped with a touch of rubbing at the corners and spine ends. Jacket is the "25th and Most Unusual" version. Light rubbing and crimping at the edges, in Brodart. An unusually nice Book Club copy.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).

Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru, 2005. Limited Edition, number 32 of 275, signed by publisher Douglas Greene on the limitation page. Includes the separately printed pamphlet "The Case of the Three Macklins" also in fine condition. Fourteen radio mysteries. Jacket in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed By the Publisher. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Philadelphia, PA: Triangle Books/Blakiston, 1946. Reprint. Gently bumped and rubbed with a touch of wear at the edges, pages tanned. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, tanned at the edges, in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956. Inspector Queen, feeling useless after retirement, finds a murder mystery and possibly love while summering at the beach. Second printing. Rubbed at the edges, binding square and solid, pages tanned with a couple of spots of foxing to the upper edge of the text block. Jacket lightly rubbed with chips and tears, flaps tanned, in Brodart.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1946. 21 Sagas of crime. Reprint. Lightly bumped and rubbed, binding square and solid, but the spine is heavily browned and brittle with chips and tears. Covered in a dust jacket that is rubbed with small chips and tears, in Brodart.. Hard Cover. Fair/Good.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1942. Ellery moves to a small New England town where a man, who had disappeared just before his wedding, has returned and appears to be planning to poison his new wife. Bumped with light wear at the edges, spine sunned. Light foxing to the end papers and edges of the text block, previous owner's name on the front pastedown, hinges slightly loose.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.