Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Captain Ahab's Rare Books

Chicago & New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1947. First Edition. The second Mystery Writers of America anthology, originally published by Ziff-Davis in 1947, in which 18 short stories are selected by MWA members, with each of them offering an introduction to their selection. Here, Clayton Rawson selects "The Locked Room" by John Dickson Carr; Mabel Seeley selects "The Witness for the Prosecution" by Agatha Christie; Margaret and Ken Millar on "The Hound" by William Faulkner; Anthony Boucher introduces "The Hands of Mr. Ottermole" by Thomas Burke; Leslie Charteris on G.K. Chesterton; August Derleth on R. Austin Freeman; Vincent Starrett introduces Frederick Irving Anderson; et al. A round-robin copy of an important anthology, with an exceptional collection of signatures from distinguished contributors. First Printing. Octavo (24.5cm); dark blue cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; [xii],387,[1]pp. Signed on the front… Read More

London: Sampson Low, 1950. First U.K. Edition. The second Mystery Writers of America anthology, originally published by Ziff-Davis in 1947, in which 18 short stories are selected by MWA members, with each of them offering an introduction to their selection. Here, Clayton Rawson selects "The Locked Room" by John Dickson Carr; Mabel Seeley selects "The Witness for the Prosecution" by Agatha Christie; Margaret and Ken Millar on "The Hound" by William Faulkner; Anthony Boucher introduces "The Hands of Mr. Ottermole" by Thomas Burke; Leslie Charteris on G.K. Chesterton; August Derleth on R. Austin Freeman; Vincent Starrett introduces Frederick Irving Anderson; et al. First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; xiv,418pp. Base of spine gently nudged, contemporary pencil signature of George L. Lush on front endpaper, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 12s.6d. net), gently spine-sunned, showing modest wear, a few small closed tears,… Read More

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1947. First U.K. Edition. An anthology of 'crook' stories centered around the successful criminal - not the detective. "It proves that crime, in the right hands, does pay and pay well. Here is the complete criminal and an inside picture of the detective's adversary" (from the front flap). Contains contributions by Dashiell Hammett ("Ruffian's Wife"), Agatha Christie ("Accident"), Dorothy Sayers ("Blood Sacrifice"), John Dickson Carr ("Mr. Markham, Antique Dealer"), Frederick Brown, Leslie Charteris, R. Austin Freeman, William Hope Hodgson, T.S. Stribling, Maurice Leblanc, and others. First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-607,[1]pp. Subtle offsetting to endpapers, touch of dust-soil to upper board edges, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 10s.6d. net), gently spine-sunned, with light dust-soil to rear panel, and a few tiny tears at crown; Near Fine.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1940. First Edition Thus. The first (and best) of the four novels written by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee under the Barnaby Ross pseudonym, originally published by Viking in 1932 and re-issued by Stokes and Little, Brown between 1940-42. Detective and retired Shakespearean actur Drury Lane joins forces with NYPD Inspector Thumm to "investigate the murder of the much-despised stockbroker Harley Longstreet on a passenger-jammed crosstown trolley by means of a ball of cork riddle with poison-tipped needles. This is followed by a second murder, with one of the Longstreet suspects thrown from the upper deck of the Weehawken ferry and crushed to pulp as the boat pulls into its slip; and then by a third killing, carried out aboard a New Jersey communter train within a few feet of Lane himself" (Pronzini & Muller, pp.699-700). A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone title. Hubin, p.345. First Printing (and the first published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym). Octavo (21.25cm);… Read More