Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Charles Agvent

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in an attractive Very Good dustwrapper with light edgewear and minor chipping to the head of the spine. Ellery Queen's subtle attack on his longest and most complicated case to date developed out of a baffling series of murders in New York City." An Advance Review Copy with the publisher's slip giving a publication date of 26 September 1949 laid in. Interestingly, the date of 18 September 1949 stamped in red near the $2.75 price on the dustwrapper front flap.

(London): Gaberbocchus, (1958). First Edition in English. Hardcover. Near Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper. Translated from the French and with a preface by Barbara Wright. Illustrated with drawings. The story of a minor brawl in a Paris bus told in 99 different ways.

(New York): (Martino Publishing), [1991]. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. Two volumes in red cloth; lxxxiv, 517; ccxliv, ix, 655 pages. Reprint of the 1958 and 1961 editions. Illustrated with a few plates. Limited to 400 copies. A useful and authoritative bibliography of one of the greatest collections of botanical books and manuscripts covering the period of the 12th through the 18th centuries.