Search Results: Authors starting with Q from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Pocket Books, 1947. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 459; New York's legendary Ellery Queen teams up with Beau Rummell, a tough private detective, to investigate the death of Ellery Queen, Inc.'s first client. Text is clean, tight, age-tanned with slight spine lean, in whole but somewhat worn pictorial wrappers showing minor creasing, rubbing and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: The Dial Press/Davis Publications, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. An Ellery Queen mystery anthology of 5 novellas and 16 short stories based on selections from "Best Detective Stories of the Year" from 1963 to 1977 when that series was in its heyday. Authors selected include Symons, Asimov, Highsmith, Treat, Pentecost, Breen, Vickers, and, of course, Queen. Spine ends bumped, text edges foxed, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. Dustjacket shows small tears, some creasing and chipping but remains 98 percent whole, not price-clipped.

New York: Pocket Books, 1964. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Fair To Good. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 45012; Ellery Queen, New York City's legendary amateur sleuth, hunts down the murderer of a woman killed in a department store window in one of the best novels in this celebrated mystery series; Eighteenth Printing of First Pocket Books Edition (first hardcover in 1930; first paperback in 1940); text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned, very slight spine lean in pictorial wrappers showing creased back cover with repaired tear near spine, some other minor surface and edgewear. A nice reading copy of a classic whodunit.

New York: Signet/New American Library, 1981. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Signet E9675; A pair of mysteries by the original Ellery Queen, first issued in 1953 and 1954. "The Scarlet Letters" is a case of adultery and murder among the wealthy, investigated by Ellery Queen in an ethical quandry over intruding on his friends' marriage; "The Glass Village," one of the handful of Queen mysteries without a Queen, is set in a small New England village and features Judge Lewis Shinn and his nephew, John, trying to save an innocent man's life by putting him on trial for murder. The text is clean, tight, and square; the pictorial wrappers show reading creases, minor surface and edgewear, no tears or significant chipping. For the completist Queen collector.

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. The 27th novel in Ellery Queen's classic series of mystery whodunnits featuring writer and amateur sleuth, Ellery Queen, is set in Queen's beloved New York City. Queen has several problems -- who is the lover of Mrs. Lawrence, the pretty, young, rich Broadway producer? How can she be saved from the folly of her affair and the fury of her husband, an unsuccessful writer with uncontrollable rages? Queen begins his search for the unknown lover by trying to decipher a series of "scarlet letters" that have him running all over NYC. Then there's murder. An added attraction: Nikki Porter, long Queen's assistant in short stories and radio scripts, makes her first appearance in one of the novels. Book club edition. About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 224 pages in green paper-covered boards with red lettering on front cover and spine. Boards and text are complete and unmarked, showing only light surface wear and soiling.… Read More

New York: Pocket Books, 1941. First Paperback Edition, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Pocket Books 71; Considered one of the greatest mysteries of all time, reprinted more than thirty times in five different edtions in the decade after it was first issued in 1930; a young Ellery Queen tracks down the killer who left the corpse of a beautiful woman in a Fifth Avenue department store window; Fourth Printing; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; lamination on the pictorial wrappers is peeling, some wear at the edges, corners and spine ends, no major tears or chips.

New York: The New American Library, 1968. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A late mystery from the original Ellery Queen (Dannay & Lee) that might be described as a "sixties black humor satire combined with the classical Queen whodunnit." Hendrick Brass, the last member of a wealthy Dutch family, invites six strangers to his 16th century ancestral home in New York's Sleepy Hollow country, makes the six his heirs and then leaves it to Ellery Queen to solve his murder. Yellow cloth-covered boards show only a very slight spine lean and edgewear. Previous owner's name, address and 1969 date on the front end paper, o/w boards and text are clean and tight. The predominantly white dustjacket is somewhat soiled with several inch-long tears. It is, however, close to 98% complete with no chipping or creasing. Makes a decent reading copy.

New York: Pocket Books, 1963. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage Paperback, Pocket Books 4703; Is the murder of Angel, who was no angel, being blamed on her husband by a vengeful DA? First Printing of Pocket Books Original First Edition; bookseller's stamp on front end page, o/w clean and tight; address sticker on inside front cover, date in ink, price neatly blacked out on front cover, very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc., 1965. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback, Dell 2140; a later mystery by Dannay & Lee, the original Ellery Queen authors, in which Queen returns to the small town he thought he was done with to hunt down a serial killer; First Dell Paperback Edition (initially published by Little, Brown in 1950); cover art by Victor Kalin; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; back cover's corners slightly creased, o/w wrappers show only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Pocket Books, 1964. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Fair To Good. Vintage Paperback, Pocket Books 50486; writing under the house pen name of Ellery Queen, Runyon tells this story of a police officer turned travel agent who agrees to chaperone a rich woman's teenage daughter on a trip to Mexico, where the daughter promptly disappears; First Printing of the First Pocketbook Edition; bookseller's stamp on front end page, o/w text is clean and tight; reading crease, small tear on front cover along fold at top of spine, bottom of spine chipped, some edge and corner wear.

New York: Avon Books, 1958. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage paperback, Avon T-242; in this classic 1930s mystery, New York City's greatest amateur sleuth, Ellery Queen, attends a Hollywood wedding and finds himself investigating a publicity stunt that led to the murder of two famous movie rivals on their wedding night; text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned, some spine lean in pictorial wrappers showing reading crease, other minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Pocket Books, 1943. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 245; Ellery Queen, New York City's legendary detective/genius, visits Hollywood and solves a murder. Text is clean, tight, very slight spine lean, age-tanned; whole but worn pictorial wrappers show several light creases on front cover, small tear top of spine. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: The Dial Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Ellery Queen's Anthology #34, Fall-Winter, 1977; includes a Nero Wolfe short novel by Rex Stout, novelets by Simenon, Blochman and Symons, fourteen short stories including work by Queen, Patricia Highsmith, and Dick Francis. Boards and text are clean and tight; edges lightly soiled with a slight spine lean; dustjacket is somewhat worn at corners, with chipping and small tears along edges and top and bottom of spine. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Bantam Books. This is the fourth of the Ellery Queen mysteries , originally published in 1932 and reprinted many times since. As one of the first nine Queen mysteries, its title contains a nationality and the now legendary "Challenge to the Reader: "Ungentle reader, you now have in your possession all the facts pertinent to the only correct solution of the problem..." In this case, there is a missing will that may or may not be buried with an elderly Greek art dealer in his coffin. This copy is from the 1985 Bantam Books' "Collection of Mystery Classics." First printing, first edition thus (with complete numberline). About 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches, 299 pages including an introduction by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. Bound in dark brown faux leather boards with gold lettering on front cover and spine as well as decorative end pages. Boards show only very minimal surface and edgewear, no major damage such as tears or bumped corners. Text is clean, complete and unmarked.… Read More

New York: Pocket Books, 1963. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 6133; a 1930s-era classic whodunit by Ellery Queen featuring the famed New York City writer-detective searching for the killer of the man with the double identity; cover art by Harry Bennett; thirteenth printing of First Pocket Book Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in blue pictorial wrappers showing very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1969. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback, Pyramid T-2129; a collection of short stories and novelettes by ten legendary masters of the mystery genre including Chandler, Hammett, Stout, Household, Ambler and Queen himself; text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show only very minimal surface and edgewear; Very Good to Near Fine. Very Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Pocket Books, 1955. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Fair To Good. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 2283; Ellery Queen, America's most famous amateur sleuth is in Wrightsville, three people are dead and Queen himself is the focal point in a sensational trial splitting the town into raging factions and making him a murderer's target; Seventh Printing of First Paperback Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned with store and date stamp on front end paper; pictorial wrappers are whole but worn, with small, tape-repaired tear at bottom of spine, some light staining, creasing, edgewear. A reading copy of a good classic mystery.

New York: Popular Library, 1965. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Popular Library SP386; the last novel in Queen's mystery series featuring New York City actor and amateur sleuth Drury Lane and a stolen Elizabethan manuscript; First Printing of First Popular Library Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in black pictorial wrappers showing minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable. More scarce than earlier editions.

New York: Lancer Books, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Lancer 76640; the second mystery-thriller in Lancer's Troubleshooter series, written by Richard Deming using the Ellery Queen "house" pseudonymn, and featuring Mike McCall, Assistant to the Governor for Special Affairs, searching for the killer of a rightwing politician before an eruption of racial violence; Paperback Original, First Printing of True First Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in white pictorial wrappers showing slight age-discoloration along edges and spine o/w very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable. Hard To Find.

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1949. First Edition, Early Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. The 19th novel in the Ellery Queen mystery-crime series produced from the collaboration of cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee finds writer and detective Ellery Queen returning to Wrightsville, the scene of a pair of earlier books ("Calamity Town" and "The Murderer Is A Fox"). Queen has received a desperate cry for help from Howard Van Horn, a millionaire's son, who needs to know why and how he recently staggered out of a Bowery flophouse beaten bloody, robbed and concussed. Queen's investigation quickly involves him in a puzzling and bewildering maze of criminality centered on the Van Horn estate and an array of suspects ranging from Van Horn's father's young wife to a mysterious, hundred-year-old woman who sometimes seems more a ghost than a person. First Edition, Seventh Printing (all seven by February, 1949, within five months of first publication).… Read More