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

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fourth novel in Hornsby's mystery series featuring independent Los Angeles filmmaker Maggie MacGowen. A collectable copy.

New York: Knopf, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fourth novel from the author of "Stern," "A Mother's Kisses" and "The Dick," once again zeroes in on an American male "type." This time Friedman uses his funny but sad style of satirical humor to show us Harry Towns, a middling successful screenwriter in his forties, living the life of a 1960s American playboy in the playgrounds of Hollywood and Las Vegas with cocaine and starlets in bountiful abundance. But it takes the deaths of his parents to make Harry realize he isn't really living and to get him started in the right direction. A light remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text and a smudge on the front end page, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The white dustjacket shows some light soiling and minor edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Brant Art Publications, 1986. Magazine. Very Good. Volume 74, No. 12: Articles include "Family Spectacles," the theater projects of Robert Wilson; a Jenny Holzer interview; recent installation by Joseph Kosuth. Also regular features: Issue & Commentary by Schjeldahl; Report from Chicago, "Realism Resurgent;" and Review of Books and Exhibitions including Sol LeWitt, John Chamberlin, Mary Hellman, Neil Winokur, Nicolas Wilder. About 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 160 pages in glossy, light card wrappers with front cover showing Holzer's "Protect Me From What I Want," 1986, signpost at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas. Back cover contains BlumHelman ad for inaugural exhibition at Los Angeles gallery with new work by Johns, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Stella and Sultan. Wrappers and text show lightly bumped lower corner, very minor edge and surface wear, o/w no tears, creases, scratches. Complete, clean, unmarked. No address or other labels. A collectable copy.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lyons' seventh novel in his mystery series featuring California private detective Jacob Asch. A collectable copy.

New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2013. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The 21st novel in Kellerman's long-running and best-selling crime-thriller series featuring Los Angeles Police detective, Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus. This time, Decker and his detective team of Marge Dunn and Scott Oliver are searching for the murderer of a reclusive elderly billionaire in a case involving kinky sex as well as homicide. First Printing, First Edition. A small remainder dot on the bottom edge of the text and a slightly bumped bottom end of the spine, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only a touch of edgewear with a tiny tear at the bottom of the spine, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Knopf, 1998. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Updike's third book featuring his well-known, Jewish-American writer-celebrity, Henry Bech, details five more chapters in Bech's life, taking him from Czechoslavakia to California among other stops; text is clean, unmarked, tight, square in dustjacket showing only very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Ellroy's eighth novel is a noir mystery-thriller of crime and politics in Los Angeles in Cold War 1950. Becoming hard to find. Collectable.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The second of the four novels of Ellroy's acclaimed "LA Quartet." Set in 1950s Los Angeles, it features three men caught up in a net of ambition, perversion and deceit. Sheriff's Deputy Upshaw is stuck with a bunch of dead bodies and cases no one cares about but that may make his name. Considine is one of the top brass in the DA's office, climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon as the quick way to get to the top of the career ladder; and Meeks, bagman, ex-narco goon and pimp for Howard Hughes, is fighting Communism for the money. All three have bought in to a nightmare in this crime noir novel. First Printing, First Edition. Text edges are lightly foxed, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only a touch of edge and surface wear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Kellerman's fourteenth mystery-thriller features Petra Connor, an LAPD homicide detective, with psychologist Alex Delaware, Kellerman's usual protagonist, in a supporting role as Connor searches for a street kid who may have witnessed a murder; boards' top edges dented as are top edges of dustjacket, o/w both book and jacket are clean and tight. A nice reading copy

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Mosley's fourth novel in his award-winning mystery series featuring African-American private detective Easy Rawlins in 1960s Los Angeles; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket's back flap is creased, o/w only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Pocket Books, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fourth novel in Mercer's series of mystery-thrillers featuring Los Angeles television newsmagazine producer Ariel Gold; bottom corner of front cover slightly bumped, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some minor edgewear.

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: HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in McMahon's mystery-thriller series featuring San Francisco emergency medical physician Carroll Monks, this time investigating the disappearance of a computer tech billionaire. Collectable.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A departure from the award-winning Rankin's Inspector Rebus mystery series, this crime-thriller features Gordon Reeve, a retired SAS killer, traveling to California to begin his own investigation into the death of his journalist brother only to become the killer's next target. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows only very minor surface and edgewear. A collectable copy of this book first published in the UK in 1995 under the pseudonymn, Jack Harvey.

New York: Atheneum, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The second novel in Kellerman's bestselling mystery/crime series featuring Los Angeles child psychologist Alex Delaware; front edge of text slightly soiled, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Connelly's seventh mystery-thriller features ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb searching for the killer of the woman whose transplanted heart saved McCaleb's life.

New York: HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The sixth book in Ford's bestselling crime-thriller series featuring rogue journalist, Frank Corso, finds Corso and research assistant Chris Andriatta investigating a series of vicious bank robbery-bombings in the Los Angles area. Law enforcement sees a bomb-throwing lunatic but Corso sees something more and something many times more deadly. A remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket may show just a touch of edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

Boston: Hill and Co., 1987. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Originally published in 1947, Millar's third book and the last before he began using the pen name he made famous, features a returning Army veteran, Johnny Weather, who comes home to find his father murdered and then starts a crusade to clean up a corrupt city; introduction by Robert B. Parker. Boards' bottom corners slightly bumped, o/w text is clean, tight, square; dustjacket worn with minor chipping and tearing at spine ends, corners and edges, a partially visible damp ring on front panel, other minor surface wear.

New York: Knopf, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. MacDonald's final novel in his classic mystery series featuring Southern California private detective Lew Archer; blue boards fading slightly at edges, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket missing one small chip in lower left edge of front panel, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good/Good. MacDonald's last novel featuring his celebrated California private detective Lew Archer; book's covers faded and stained though text block is tight and clean; dustjacket is whole but soiled and stained with one inch tear in upper right corner of front panel. A reading copy.