Search Results: Authors starting with Q from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

hypnotic therapeutics in theory and practice, Harpers, 1908, first edition., a vg+ copy.

THE JOHN ASKIN PAPERS VOLUME 1: 1747 - 1795, Detroit Library Commission, 1928, first edition, a vg or better copy in half dark brown leather and lighter brown cloth. Illustrated. Askin was a fur trader, business man and Detroit pioneer who spent most of his years between Mackinaw and Detroit. 1/1,000 copies.

BURTON HISTORICAL COLLECTION LEAFLETS, from November, 1926 through May, 1939, Detroit Public Library, first editions, near fine in wraps. A collection of 27 miscellaneous issues. 

THE LITTLE PEOPLE'S PAGEANT OF CORNISH LEGENDS, S & S, 1986, first edition, fine in like dust-wrapper with a closed tear to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Profusely illustrated in both full color and black & white on virtually every page by Michael Foreman.

THE PRAIRIE AND THE SEA, Jennings & Graham, 1905, first edition., some light soiling to the pictorial covers, but a near vg copy profusely illustrated with photos on nearly every page.

THE ADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN, G & D, (1934), a couple of tape stains to paste- downs and dust-wrapper flaps, else a bright vg copy in a near vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear, dust-soil and chipping.

MAN BITES DOG in Blue Book for June, 1939, first edition, a bright vg+ copy in the publishers original full color pictorial wraps. Also contains 2 short stories by H. Bedford Jones, et.al.

THE PENTHOUSE MYSTERY, G & D, 1941, first edition., 1/4 inch closed tear to the head of the spine, else a tight vg+ copy. Novelized from the film of the same name.

ELLERY QUEENS'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE for August, 1957, Joseph Ferman, first edition, just about vg in wraps. Original contributions by Hugh Pentecost, Rufus King, Victor Canning, Avram Davidson, John Collier, Edmund Crispin, F. l. Wallace, et.al.

THE ROMAN HAT MYSTERY, Stokes, 1929, first edition, some shadowing and bumping to sections of the bottom margins of about half the text block, else a bright vg+ (perhaps near fine) copy in as new facsimile dw. The authors first book in a long series of books to follow. HAYCRAFT/QUEEN corner-stone.

MIND OVER MATTER in Blue Book for October, 1939, first edition, small chip missing from the head of the spine, some staining to the rear panel which has bled on to the upper and lower margins of several leaves, else a bright near vg copy in the publishers original full color pictorial wraps. Also contains BLADE OF THE BUCCANEERS, a novel by Donald B. Chidsey and a short story by H. Bedford Jones, et.al.

DOUBLE, DOUBLE, L-B, 1950, first edition., some reaction to the glue on the gutters and paste-downs, else a bright vg+ copy.

THE ODD MAN in Playboy for June, 1971, first edition, near fine in wraps. Also contains CENTRE COURT by John McPhee & GRAY MATTERS by William Hjortsberg, yet another Vargas Girl, et.al.

THE TRAGEDY OF X, Stokes, 1940, first thus with the Ellery Queen authorship, a solid vg copy. HAYCRAFT/QUEEN corner-stone.

THE SPANISH CAPE MYSTERY in Redbook Magazine for April, 1935, first edition., vg in wraps. The true first edition of this novel.

ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE for July, 1945, Lawrence Spivak / American Mercury, first edition, vg+ in wraps with Salter front cover illustration. Contains the works of Anthony Berkeley, Dashiell Hammett, et.al.

THE PENTHOUSE MYSTERY, G & D, 1941, first edition., just about fine in like dust-wrapper with some slight dust-soil to the rear dust-wrapper panel and some minor inner reinforcement. Novelized from the film of the same name.

ELLERY QUEENS'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE for January, 1958, Joseph Ferman, first edition, just about vg in wraps. Original contributions by Whit Masterson, Mignon Eberhart, Christianna Brand, Michael Gilbert, Lillian De La Torre, et.al.

THE HOUSE OF BRASS, NAL, 1968, first edition, two glue stains to the r.e.p., else vg+ in near vg dust-wrapper with some shallow chipping to the dust-wrapper spine extremities.

ELLERY QUEENS'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE for July, 1957, Joseph Ferman, first edition, just about vg in wraps. Contributions by Gerald Kersh,, Agatha Christie, Helen Mccloy, Manly Wade Wellman, Ellery Queen, et.al.