Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc, 1960. First Edition. Paperback. Gold Medal Book 1033. A Jake Barrow mystery. Price marked out on cover, slight slant to spine. A good copy. ; Small octavo.

Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1959. Second Edition. Printed wrappers. Prosatori #10. Second edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies, published to celebrate the Nobel Prize awarded to the author. 33pp. Original wrappers. Mild fading to spine else a fine copy with the original wraparound band. Text in Italian.; 32mo.

Milano: Edizioni Primi Piani, 1938. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 198pp. Original bright yellow wraps printed in black. Short tear to the spine heel, name on the flyleaf, two small bookstore stickers to first and last page. Text block is clean with mild toning along the edges. A bright, near fine copy. In the Italian language.; Octavo.

New York: Pocket Books, 1952. Paperback. Pocket Book 471. Third printing. A good+ copy. Cover art by Frank McCarthy.; Small octavo.

Concord, NH: Mercury Publications, Inc, 1952. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Pages are age-toned, wear to covers. A very good copy. Contributions by Thomas Flanagan, John Dickson Carr, and others. Cover art by George Salter.; Octavo.

Concord, NH: The American Mercury, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Toning to pages, some wear. A very good copy. Contributions by H. F. Heard, Algernon Blackwood, and others. Cover art by George Salter. ; Octavo.

Concord, NH: The American Mercury, Inc, 1948. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Toning to pages, some wear, faint stain to fore edge. A very good copy. Contributions by Hugh Pentecost, Raoul Whitfield, Stanley Ellin, and others. Cover art by George Salter. ; Octavo.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Steele, Frederic Dorr. xxii, 363pp + index. Black cloth stamped in red on the front panel and the spine panel. Collects thirty-three stories ranging from parody to satire to exact imitation by Agatha Christie, Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen, Vincent Starrett, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Bret Harte, John Kendrick Bangs, August Derleth, Hugh Kingsmill, Frederic Dorr Steele, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Manly Wade Wellmann, and others. Dustjacket drawing and illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Light wear to head of spine. A nice near fine copy in very good- price-clipped dustjacket with light fading and tiny chip to spine panel, two old tape mends to the verso, and a short closed tear. ; Octavo.

Concord, NH: The American Mercury, Inc, 1942. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Date in pencil on front cover, two nicks to back cover, faint corner crease to front cover. About near fine with nice white pages. Includes stories by Georges Simenon, Frederick Nebel, Margery Allingham and others. Also includes the index to volumes 1 to 3. Cover art by George Salter. ; Octavo.

Concord, NH: The American Mercury, Inc, 1943. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Two tiny nicks to back cover, rusted staples. A very good copy with nice white pages with the exception of the pages in the middle which apparently were lower grade stock. Includes They Can Only Hang You Once by Dashiell Hammett and stories by O. Henry, Agatha Christie, Maurice Leblanc and others. Cover art by George Salter. ; Octavo.

London: Collins, 1958. First British Edition. Hardcover. Collects sixteen stories by Rufus King, A. H. Z. Carr, Frederick Nebel, Theodore Sturgeon and Don Ward, Wade Miller and others. Slightly bruised spine ends. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; Octavo.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. Gray cloth stamped in gold and red on cover and spine, top edge stained red. Mild toning to endpapers. A fine copy in about fine dustjacket with mild rubbing to rear panel. Complimentary copy with publisher's slip laid in. Fourteen stories previously unpublished in book form in the US by Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Stribling, E. C. Bentley, Ernest Bramah, C. S. Forester and others. Also includes Queen's Quorum, a list of the 101 most important books of detective-crime short stories with critical and bibliographical notes. A lovely copy. ; Octavo.

Concord, NH: The American Mercury, Inc, 1946. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Light foxing to edges of back cover. About near fine. Contributions by John Steinbeck, Ngaio Marsh and others. Cover art by George Salter. ; Octavo.

Concord, NH: The American Mercury, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Mild toning to edges and back cover, letter in pen on front cover. A very good copy. Contributions by Algernon Blackwood, Stuart Palmer and others. Cover art by George Salter. ; Octavo.

Concord, NH: The American Mercury, Inc, 1945. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Light toning to back cover, a couple of tiny nicks to spine. About near fine. Contributions by Cornell Woolrich, John Dickson Carr, and others. Cover art by George Salter. ; Octavo.

New York: Davis Publications, Inc, 1965. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Pages are age-toned, mild shelf wear. A very good- copy. Contributions by Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, Hugh Pentecost and others. ; Octavo.

New York: Mercury Publications, Inc, 1953. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Pages are slightly age-toned, mild wear to covers. letter to top edge. About near fine. Contributions by Earl Derr Biggers, Dorothy L. Sayers and others. Cover art by Taylor Oughton.; Octavo.

New York: Davis Publications, Inc, 1960. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Pages are age-toned, tear across the spine. A very good- copy. Contributions by Agatha Christie, Theodore Sturgeon and others. Cover art by Mel Hunter.; Octavo.

New York: Mercury Publications, Inc, 1952. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Pages are age-toned, mild slant to spine, light shelf wear. A very good copy. Contributions by Lord Dunsany, Mark Twain and others. Cover art by George Salter. ; Octavo.

New York: Davis Publications, Inc, 1965. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Pages are age-toned, tiny chip to back cover. A very good copy. Contributions by Agatha Christie, Patrick Quentin and others. ; Octavo.