Search Results: Authors starting with Q from MLC Books

Isanti, MN: Innovative Order Press, 2012. Quaday reflects on life on a southern Minnesota farm from the Great Depression through the 1980s, compiled from his columns written for the Faribault County Register. Fine, as new condition. Signed by Quaday on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Center Ossipee, NH: Carroll County Independent, 1981. Memoir by the sister of poet e.e. cummings, 172 pages. Lightly tanned with a tiny nick to the spine heel.. Staplebound Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2004. Gently bumped with corresponding wear to the mylar covered jacket. Inscribed by Qualey on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Quercus Press, 2007. First Quercus printing. Very gently bumped. Signed by Qualey on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press of St Cloud, Inc., 2009. An alumni director at a college in small-town Minnesota is asked by his estranged wife to help her friend who is accused of murder. His inquiries uncover a complex academic controversy. Gently handled. Signed by Quam on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Monument, CO: Snowfall Press, 2012. Lower corner of the rear wrap lightly creased. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Self Published, 2011. The author's story of military service in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces to his resettlement in Minnesota as a newspaper editor. Gently rubbed, light reading crease to the front cover along the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. First Edition.. Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1971. Tough private detective Corbo's hunt for a secret cache of diamonds takes him from London to Antwerp, where stones are precious - and lives are cheap. First U.S. edition. Spine ends gently bumped, pages lightly tanned with remainder spray to the lower edge of the text block and a faint beverage ring to the front board. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, spine a bit darkened, in Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Random House, 2009. First printing of the first Inspector Darko Dawson mystery. Set in Ghana, Inspector Dawson leaves the city to investigate the death of a promising med student in a small rural village. Bumped with correspondig crimps to the Brodart covered jacket. Inscribed and signed by Quartey on the half title page, dated 2009. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. Fifty short essays about crime fiction and all things related. Gently bumped and rubbed with fraying to the head of the darkened spine. Short newspaper review of the later reprint edition laid in, leaving a tan mark on the title page. Jacket lightly rubbed with a touch of wear at the corners and spine ends, in Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. Novelization of the 1941 movie "Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery" starring Ralph Bellamy as Ellery. Spine ends gently bumped with light rubbing at the edges. Pages tanned with foxing to the upper edge of the text block. Binding square and solid. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, spine slighty sunned, light stain to the rear panel, in Brodart.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1933. A rodeo star is shot in front of twenty thousand people and the newsreels. Who did it and why is there no murder weapon? First U.S. printing, same date on the title and copyright pages. Ex-library with date stamps and a number code on the rear end papers, no othere library indications. Red boards with black imprint bumped and rubbed, spine a bit sunned, with five small drip marks to the front board. Front hinge cracked, rear loose. Residue to the pastedowns where the jacket flaps had been glued, with roughly half the rear flap intact. Occasional finger marks or small stains to the text.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1950. Ellery receives newspaper clippings, sent anonymously, of seemingly natural deaths in Wrightsville. Lightly bumped with short tears to the spine head, spine slighly cocked. Binding solid, mapped end papers, previous owner's gift inscription inside, dated June 11, 1950. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, spine and rear panel lightly toned, in Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2005. Fourteen previously unpublished scripts from The Adventures of Ellery Queen radio program which ran from 1939 through 1948. First paperback printing. Fine, as new condition.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket.

Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1999. Limited Edition, number 33 of 250. Includes the separately printed pamphlet, reproducing in reduced size original manuscript and typescript pages of "The Tragedy of Errors," also in fine condition. Jacket in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru, 1998. A radio play, first broadcast January 20, 1944. Published to recognize Ellery Queen as Ghost of Honor at Malice Domestic X on May 1-3, 1998. Staplebound chapbook, 15 pages. Fine, as new condition.. First Edition. Staplebound Wraps. Fine/No Jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1954. Eighteen short mysteries, 228 pages. Ex-library with a stamp on the front end paper and stamp pad removed from the back. Bumped and rubbed with wear at the spine heel, boards and spine unevenly sunned. Tape shadows to the boards, front hinge cracked at the half-title page but still pretty solid.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1942. A novelization of the 1941 movie "Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime" starring Ralph Bellamy as Ellery. Bumped with wear at the edges and scuffs to the spine, binding square and solid, pages tanned. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, plus a pair of longer tears and creases down the upper front panel and flap fold. Sticker scuff and small drip mark to the spine, looking better than it sounds in Brodart.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1945. Fifty detective stories by the greats of crime fiction, 995 pages. Reprint. Lightly bumped and rubbed with wear to the lower front corner and spine head. 1" tear to the rear spine fold. Binding square and solid. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, including a 1" chip to the lower front panel, in Brodart.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1946. Anthology of 21 short mysteries, including contributions by Agatha Christie, Vincent Starrett, Mignon Eberhart and others. Reprint. Bumped with the lower edge of the boards a bit sunned, binding square and solid. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, in Brodart.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.