Search Results: Advance Reading/Review Copy from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This memoir of artist-writer Millett's youth is a story of growing up gay in the 1950s and '60s in America's Midwest but it is also a tribute to "A.D.", Millett's Aunt Dorothy. A.D., Millett's father's sister, was wealthy, sophisticated, a leading socialite in St. Paul, Minnesota, an adored godmother bestowing gifts and attention to Kate and her sisters. She provided Kate with the money she needed to study at Oxford on the condition Kate leave her female lover behind. Kate accepted the money and took her lover with her anyway. Her aunt never forgave her. Discussing the virtual impossibility of growing up gay in a prominent Irish family in the 1950s and her later struggles as a writer and artist, the author of "Sexual Politics" and "The Politics of Cruelty," Millett to some extent lays to rest a tremendous personal conflict while tracing the quiet… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1983. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Thomas' fourth novel, his first after the highly praised "The White Hotel;" Advance Review Copy with photograph and promotional materials laid in. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. Malamud's scarce second novel features Morris Bober, neighborhood grocer, his family and customers, and Frank Alpine, the assistant he hires after being robbed who steals from him and falls in love with his daughter; Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip requesting two copies of the critic's review laid in (the reviewer or previous owner glued the slip to the fep but over the years the glue dried out and the slip came free, leaving stains on fep and back of slip); bottom of spine and lower edge of the boards show minimal shelf wear, with a small, hard-to-spot stain at the bottom of spine; also a dime-sized, light brown stain at the top edge of pages 27-29, just barely noticeable on 30 and 31, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket is somewhat edgeworn, with minor chipping at corners and chipping and small tears at the spine ends; about two inches… Read More

New York: Two Palms/Prestel Publishing, 2016. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. Dunham is a well-known contemporary American painter and printmarker currently based in the NYC area with recent exhibitions in Europe. This book is a compilation of Dunham's monotype prints from 2005 - 2016 with accompanying text by Asmund Thorkildsen, Norwegian art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art and professor of art theory at Oslo National Academy of Arts. Dunham's eclectic style combines elements of surrealism, psycheldelics, and cartooning in complex images that are often erotic and sexually explicit. First Printing, First Edition. Issued without dustjacket. About 8 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches; unpaginated except for essay text; white cloth-covered boards with title in black lettering on spine and back cover. Front cover features centered, pasted-on reproduction of "Untitled," #145, 2010, in watercolor and pencil, a full-color, 6 x 8 inch, semi-abstract image of… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sixth book in Cunningham's widely praised mystery series featuring Beverly Hills homicide detective Masao Masuto; Advance Review Copy with publisher's news release laid-in. Collectable.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. The twelfth and last book in Hansen's celebrated Dave Brandstetter mystery series; an Advance Review Copy with Viking PR materials laid-in; lower front edge of text is slightly soiled, o/w clean, tight and square in a Fine dustjacket.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Issued Without Jacket. Best known for her Inspector Wexford mystery series, this stand-alone thriller is one of the very best works of a writer whose awards include three Edgars and four Gold Daggers and who is acknowledged to be perhaps the greatest current writer of psychological thrillers. This novel is the story of an obsessive love between a mother and daughter living in a remote English manor, and of the men who came to the manor and never left alive. An uncorrected proof and "special advance complimentary copy," Signed by Rendell on a laid-in plate pasted to the front end page. The text is clean and unmarked, tight and square; the pictorial wrappers show only very minor shelfwear. A very collectable copy.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in Geagley's well-received mystery series featuring Semerket, Egyptian Clerk of Investigations and Secrets for the Pharoah, this time trying to find and rescue his ex-wife, who has been sold into slavery in Babylon. A Review Copy with the publisher's press release laid in. Collectable.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Very Fine. The second book in Horansky's mystery series featuring Brooklyn homicide detective Nikki Trakos, this time investigating the shooting death of a city councilman; Uncorrected Advance Proof; a Very Fine, unread copy in plain red wrappers. Scarce. Collectable.

Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, 2014. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A True Crime story about a young, fundamentalist Pentacostal preacher with a secret second wife who stopped her from leaving him by murdering her and leaving her chopped-up body in the Arizona desert. The story is told by one of the preacher's co-workers when both were employed by a nationally-known televangelist. A review copy, First Printing/First Edition, with publisher's materials laid-in. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only a touch of edge wear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third novel in Dentinger's series of mysteries with theatrical settings featuring actress/director Jocelyn O'Roarke; Review Copy with photo of author laid in. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Scribner's, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Soft cover. Fine. Winner of the Ellis Award for best first novel and the first book in Reichs' mystery series featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan; this is the Advance Reading Copy/Uncorrected Proof issued before the full printing of the first edition. A fine copy in the original wraps. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Soft cover. Near Fine to Fine. Simons' third novel features Didi Woods, a young, nine-months pregnant woman kidnapped at a Dallas shopping mall and forced into a terrifying ride across Texas with a madman while police search desparately for clues to his identity and destination; Uncorrected Page Proofs of the First Edition; pictorial wrappers show a pair of light creases to outside top corner of back cover; Near Fine to Fine. Collectable.

Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Issued Without Jacket. The Advance Uncorrected Proof of Daley's mystery-thriller featuring Gabe Driscoll, Internal Affairs chief for the NYPD, investigating the death of an activist Catholic priest, Frank Redmond, killed in a fall from a Harlem rooftop. Thirty years earlier, Driscoll and Redmond were members of a championship swimming relay team at a Jesuit high school. Now Driscoll and the other surviving member of the team, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrew Troy are re-united in a bizarre race to learn the facts of Redmond's death. Was it suicide or murder? The search takes them to Vietnam and Africa and back to Harlem. Lower back corner lightly bumped, o/w text and plain light card wrappers show minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable Copy.

New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Vachss' first novel and the first book in his mystery series featuring Burke, an unlicensed New York City private detective and ex-convict; Advance Reader's Copy; very lightly foxed upper edge; Very Good in Very Good dustjacket.

New York: Fawcett/Ballantine, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. from the author of "Fade To Black," a second mystery for lovers of movies and Hollywood, this one featuring Gilda Liberty, who inherited and is trying to restore Eden, Ohio's old Paradise Theater while her niece, a student movie maker, begins work on a cheerleading documentary and catches the wrong person on film, and that means murder; Uncorrected Proof of the Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, with slight spine lean; pictorial wrappers show reading crease o/w only very minor surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. Savan's second novel and first after the bestselling success of "White Palace;" Advance Reading Copy; top corners very slightly bumped, slight curl to front cover.

New York: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Fine to Very Fine. Savan's second novel, following "White Palace," features Arnie, Redso and Billy in a tragicomic love triangle in which Billy, until recently sheltered from the real world by her eccentric rabbi father, must choose between physically impaired Arnie and Redso, emotionally out of control; Advance Reading Copy; Fine and unread in wraps. Scarce. Collectable.

Chicago: Universal Book and Bible House, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. A sales sample/order book for the 509-page volume of the same title edited by Potts (1848-1942), a Methodist minister and author or editor of over 40 books, many, including this one, with an uplifting Christian spiritual theme. The title page notes," arranged for the fifty-two weeks of the year, " A well-spring of Inspiration, Hope, Encouragement, Courage, Opportunity, Contentment, Joy and Happiness." This sales/order book contains a series of excerpts from the original, which is organized into the months of year and into the weeks of each month. The sections contain poetry, songs, inspirational message, etc. and are illustrated with full color photo reproductions, including the frontispiece of a bible reading titled, "Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled." The sales sample is about 6 1/4 x 9 inches, 120 pages bound in red cloth-covered boards with gold-stamped lettering on front and back covers. Front cover… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The twentieth book in Haddam's accomplished but under-appreciated mystery series featuring retired FBI agent, Gregor Demarkian, this time investigating the death of a homeless man who had sued a Philadelphia right-wing radio talk show host; Advance Reading Copy with publisher's news release laid in; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.