Search Results: Bibliomystery from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Henry Holt, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Tirone Smith's fifth novel is a bibliomystery-thriller featuring Washington, D.C., true crime writer Denise Burke whose high-profile Congressman lover urges her to investigate an old murder, then begs her to drop the whole thing and finally dies in the arms of a call girl; text is clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows tiny tear at lower right corner of front panel, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007. First Edition, Second Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Clarke's fourth book is a humorous bibliomystery featuring Sam Pulsifer, an accidental teenaged arsonist who spent ten years in prison for burning down poet Emily Dickinson's house and unknowingly killing two people. Sam did his time and moved on, becoming a college graduate, husband and father and now watches helplessly as someone else is torching the houses of other famous New England authors. A bibliomystery that is also a seriously sad, funny, absurd and incredibly moving novel. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows only a small crease in the upper corner of the front flap, else Fine.

Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clarke's second novel is in a league with such classics as "Catch 22," "A Confederacy of Dunces," and "Little Big Man." A novel disguised as a memoir and a bibliomystery cloaked in humor, this book is about truth and honesty and the damage they can do. It features Sam Pulsifer, who, as a teenager, accidentally burned down poet Emily Dickinson's house, unknowingly killing two people in the fire. Sam spent ten years in prison, then started over -- he went to college, got married, fathered two children, made a brand new life. And then his past caught up with as he watched as one after another, the homes of other famous New England writers go up in flames. Sam must turn detective and find the guilty party to prove his own innocence. What he discovers and how he deals with what he finds, is both hilariously funny and heartbreakingly sad. It is… Read More

New York: Doubleday/Random House, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Smith's first novel is a mystery-thriller featuring FBI agent Sterling Bledsoe, who believes the murder of his brother, Dartmouth University Professor Wilson Bledsoe, is not the racist crime it appears to be but involves a nearly completed research paper on the mysterious deaths of hundreds of local blackbirds; the text is clean, tight, square, in a dustjacket with very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable. Scarce.

New York: Shaye Areheart Books/Random House, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author of three non-fiction books, Ginsberg's first novel is this bibliomystery, set in San Francisco and featuring Angel Robinson, who loses her bookstore job and backs into an assistant's position with a high-powered literary agent where she unexpectedly prospers. One day a mystery manuscript is submitted by an anonymous author; titled "Blind Submission" and set in the office of a New York literary agency, it is about the agency's ambitious assistant. As more chapters are emailed to the office, Angel realizes the book is about her, including some carefully hidden secrets. And then the plot turns to murder. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; dustjacket is close to perfect, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. Appears unread. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. the fifth book in MacDonald's mystery series set in London and featuring antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare; two pages (239-242) are lightly dogeared, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fifth novel in MacDonald's mystery series featuring London antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare, this time uncovering long-held secrets and murder in a visit to a childhood friend's Somerset home.

New York: Crown/Random House, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Rabb's second novel is a mystery-thriller featuring Ian Pearse, a young American priest working as a researcher at the Vatican Library, who comes into possession of an ancient scroll after the mysterious death of one priest and the disappearance of another. Translation of the scroll reveals a dormant but still live Manichaen conspiracy awaiting "the great awakening." When the Pope dies and the woman who translated the scroll is kidnapped, Father Pearse realizes the great awakening is now. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, no remainder marks. The dustjacket shows perhaps a trace of edgewear, no tears or creases, no chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2008. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. A bibliomystery in which a young Argentinian writer finds himself involved in the story of Lucianna, his former assistant, who has been until recently employed by Kloster, an older author of bestselling mysteries. Nearly all of Luciana's close family except her sister have died in unusual circumstances and she believes she or her sister could be next. She blames Kloster and the younge writer can see her story and Kloster's latest mystery mirror each other. The question for the young writer -- which came first, the murders or the novel? A remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text, and bottom edge of text and boards show some small, light stains, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows very minimal surface and edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped.

New York: HarperCollins, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Gruber's fifth book is a bibliomystery set in New York, England and Switzerland as a fire in an antiquarian bookstore reveals a 400-year-old cache of letters that thrusts Jake Mishkin, an intellectual property lawyer, into a frantic and deadly chase after a lost Shakespearean manuscript and an encrypted map leading to almost unimaginable wealth. Inside front cover shows three small and faint pen marks, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket has a small area in upper right corner of the front panel where clear coating was damaged with removal of a price sticker and a three-inch tear starting at the top edge of the back panel and running along the fold between the back panel and flap (the tear has been carefully repaired from the inside with archival-quality tape), o/w only minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Bantam Books, 1965. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback, Bantam F2903; from one of the largely-forgotten masters of the genre a bibliomystery of ancient treasure, murder and seduction as a curious American follows clues in an old manuscript to a ravaged monastery in the Balkans behind the Iron Curtain; text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with very slight spine lean; pictorial wrappers show small handwritten price in upper corner of front cover, bookseller's stamp on inside of cover, very moderate wear along edges and spine. Very Scarce and Collectable.

New York: Dutton Penguin, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The ninth novel in four-time Edgar Award winner Block's bibliomystery series featuring New York bookseller/burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. This time Bernie breaks into a literary agent's hotel room looking for the very private correspondence of a famous author and finds only a dead literary agent. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows some light scratching on back panel, o/w only minimal surface and edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped.

New York: Dutton/Penguin, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The ninth book in Edgar and Shamus Award-winner Block's bibliomystery series featuring New York bookseller-burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, this time trying to return a legendary author's private correspondence when murder intervenes. Inscribed and dated on the title page by Block. Text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Dutton Penguin, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. the sixth novel, and one of the best, in the award-winning Block's bestselling mystery series featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, New York City bookseller and burglar; light remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Dutton, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel from Edgar Award-winning Block's humorous mystery series featuring New York City bookseller/burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr; Signed by Block on the title page; remainder mark on bottom edge of text o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Dutton, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The seventh book in Edgar and Shamus Award-winning Block's humorous mystery series featuring New York City bookseller and burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. A Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Dutton/Penguin, 1995. First Printing, Second Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Originally published by Random House in 1977, this novel was the first in the award-winning Block's highly-successful and widely-praised mystery series featuring New York City bookseller/burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Now re-issued, with an afterword by Block describing how Bernie came to be, this copy of the First Printing of the Second Edition is boldly signed by Block on the title page. An excellent, collectable copy.

New York: Dutton/Penguin, 1995. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The hardcover edition of Bernie Rhodenbarr's (NYC burglar and bookshop owner) first caper, originally issued in paperback in 1977. In this one, Bernie is working on order, breakingf into a posh NYC East Side apartment, grabbing a leather-covered box and delivering it to the guy who ordered it. An easy payday. Except the leather-covered box isn't there and a dead body is. Includes an afterword by Block. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a touch of edge wear along the top edge, o/w no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third novel in Skom's well-regarded biblio-mystery series featuring English Lit professor Beth Austin.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The third and last of Skom's highly praised trio of bibliomysteries featuring Professor Beth Austin, who is leading a class through the works of Charles Dickens at Midwestern University when a woman is murdered in a hospital bed in New York City. When Austin learns her mother's life was changed by a similar murder when her mother was a college student a generation ago, she realizes there is a need to investigate the past before a present day murderer catches up with her. First Printing, First Edition (with complete numberline). Signed by Skom on the title page and signed again with an inscription to Skom's agent on the fep. About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 295 pages in boards quarter bound in red cloth over cream-colored paper with gold lettering on spine. Boards and text are clean, complete and unmarked, no bumped corners or spine ends, not remaindered. Pictorial dustjacket shows some mild rubbing on both panels,… Read More