Search Results: Authors starting with U from Dark and Stormy Night Books

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963 Hard cover in green cloth, with red titling, with dust jacket in mylar, 236 pp. Mod cover art by award-winning graphic designer Lawrence Ratzkin. Chicago-born author James Michael Ullman was also a finalist for the 1964 Edgar Award for Best First Novel with this title. A classic crime thriller, it tells the story of Steve Kolshak, a civil engineer returned from a contract in Arabia in order to find his brother Ed, who disappeared without a trace from a downtown Chicago hotel. He employs a private eye, and is on the radar of police Lt. Van Doyle. The blurb dubs it "an action-filled, fast-moving story of detection and suspense which increases with every page to a thundering finish." Condition: Very Good, with a very good dust jacket. Board corners are slightly rubbed and bumped, and a small dent appears on the front board. Contents are clean but tanned. Dust jacket has wear to quite a few edges, a fold along the bottom rear, head and tail wear to spine, and a couple of… Read More

Tokyo and Berlin: Japan Scientific Societies Press and Springer Verlag, 1987 Hard cover, 8vo in green coated-paper over boards, with pictorial design, printed with black and white titles. Condition: Near Fine: foxing along top of text block, (otherwise Fine.) barcode sticker to pastedown. xvii plus 190 pp. Discusses the ethics and practices of the use of cultured mammalian cells for scientific advancements. Chapters include such topics as the culture of human Myeloma cells; characteristics and utility of human Leukemia-Lymphoma cell lines; Adenovirus cell lines; role of Epstein-Barr in immortalization of primate epithelial cells; L-factor for plasmid vector of mammalian cells; and more as shown in photos.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1910 Hard cover, 8vo. in red publisher's cloth, 196pp. , First Edition. ** Condition: Very Good. Front hinge cracked for an inch or two. **Scarce first poetry collection by John Curtis Underwood (1874 - 1949), an American poet and critic. Includes poems about technology in a section called "The God in the Machine", and other sections on "The Sea", "Woman", "Science", "The City", "The Inner Life" etc. Of interest to H.P.Lovecraft fans is the poem, "The City of Dreams", about an elusive city. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1977 219pp. Signature appears on half title page. Features the premier of Sleuth Amos McGuffin, who must solve the murder of a troubled friend in sunny Sausalito. Condition: Very Good, in a Good dustjacket. Some foxing to top and bottom of text block. Dust jacket with some small tears, plus two larger ones at head and foot of spine. D/j spine sunned. Some soiling to jacket. Otherwise interior is very clean and bright. . Signed by author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.