Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Singularity Rare & Fine

London: Faber & Faber, 1947. First UK Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good. 7.5" x 5. Very Good in Good jacket. London: Faber & Faber, 1947. First English Edition. 7.5"x5", 607 pp. Red cloth, silver spine imprinting, red, black & white jacket as show in scan. Mild darkening at volume margins, page edges and endpapers age toned. Jacket soiled and lightly chipped, faded at spine. See scans. VG book in G plus jacket. Ellery Queen's anthology of the great criminals of modern fiction, including those of Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, O.Henry, Leslie Charteris and Sinclair Lewis, among many others. A nice one for the mystery/detective genre collector. "Ellery Queen" himself was in fact the pseudonym of writers - and cousins - Manfred Lee (actually born either Manfred or Emanuel Lepofsky, in Brooklyn) and Frederic Dannay (actually born either David or Daniel Nathan, also in Brooklyn), who between them also wrote as Avram Davidson, Richard Deming, Edward… Read More

Chicago: Clarke & Co., 1866. First Edition . Full-Leather. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [from engravings]. Good. See scans and description. Chicago: Clarke & Co., 1866. First Edition. Large, very thick octavo, 1,022 pp. with 12 steel engraved portraits. Full calf, two gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels. Notable scuffing, spine ends and tips of corners worn bare, amateur tape repair at joints, front hinge, and verso of title page. Blind stamp of the Historical Society of Montana. The name of O.A. Southmayd [2nd Lt., I Company, 18th Wisconsin Regiment] is stamped on front and back covers, making this presumably his copy. Overall, just Good; contents, however, are VG+ to NF. See scans. Association example of the extremely rare 1866 first edition of E.B. Quiner's much sought-after compendium of factual information on the title subject, one which has been so admired that a year 2000 reprint has recently been published, sponsored by the St. Croix Valley Civil… Read More

New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. John Mattos (Jacket). New, and immaculate. Stated First Edition, First Printing. See scans and description. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2012. Octavo, illustrated jacket by John Mattos, a nice thirties-style depiction, robin's-egg blue and gray boards with silver spine imprinting, bonus secition at the end, 'An English Christmas Companion', with recipes, games and traditions for Yuletide; 312 pp. total. New, immaculate and never read. See all scans. The sixth in the Lady Georgiana (Her Royal Spyness) "Georgie" series of mystery novels. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LPR92

New York: The Designer Publishing Co., Inc., 1925. First Edition . Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. 13 1/2" x 10 3/4. Various. New York: The Designer Publishing Company, 1925. The May, 1925 issue, volume 61, number 6. 13 1/2" x 10 3/4", 86 pp. Pictorial Wrappers. Bright, Very Good condition, with wear at spine in front and back, and a small amount of soiling. See scans. Of very pleasing aspect, colorful and clean for a magazine from the era. A fascinating art-deco-y publication very similar to, and on a par with, the contemporaneous offerings of The Delineator by Butterick. Includes fashion - a number of elongated, deco-ish flappers images illustrating dressmaking pattern descriptions, fiction, and articles on a variety of subjects. Included among those are: "The Blind Goddess", the beginning of a serial novel by Arthur Train; "Everybody Lies", a love story by Royal Brown; "Prologue", a tale by the prolific Octavus Roy Cohen which makes the… Read More

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bernard Fuchs. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. First English Language Edition (the French first edition was issued in 1977). With the scarce accompanying eight-fold publisher's pamphlet (see scans). Octavo, 280 pp., illustrated throughout with sophistication by Bernard Fuchs. This First Edition of the translation from Sagan's French is by Abigail Israel. As New; immaculate. Franklin's lavish leather binding of Sagan's very French traipse of erotica, a woman in temporary-ish lust with a guy in ardent spiritual love because that's what he - as a "kamikaze lover" - does; a "tale of an obsessive love". Full rich maroon leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, moire endpapers of a truly beautiful - but rather un-nameable color, and a matching satin page-marker ribbon in that same… Read More