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

New York: Wings Books, 1994. First Edition, Second Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An omnibus containing all the stories and drawings from three previous collections of this legendary "The New Yorker" writer and illustrator's work. The good-humored wit and wisdom Thurber brought to both his writing and drawing are still fresh more than 40 years after his death and waiting to be enjoyed by a new generation. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the white dustjacket shows only some very minor soiling and surface wear, no tears or chipping, no creasing.

New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1965. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Anchor Books A473; a collection of essays from the mid-1950s to the early '60s from one of America's great thinkers and essayists. Edges show light soiling o/w text is clean, tight, square; white wrappers are age discolored, particularly on spine, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. A collection of essays by this well-known economics analyst and columnist, written between 1995 and 1997, many appearing in Krugman's regular column in "Slate" or the "New York Times;" text is tight, square and clean with no underlining or highlighting; pictorial wrappers show only very minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Dell, 1969. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Fine to Very Fine. Vintage paperback, Dell Laurel 0083; the late Susan Sontag's first book after her novel, "The Benefactor," is this collection of essays from the 1960s on literature, film, philosophy and society in which she advanced the concept that art is understood first through intuition rather than analysis and criticism; text is clean, tight, square, very lightly age-tanned, appears unread; white pictorial wrappers with photo of Sontag on front cover show some slight tanning at edges, o/w very minimal surface and edgewear. Very Scarce in this edition with cover photo of the author. Collectable.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The award-winning novelist and short story writer's first book of non-fiction is this leap to the visual arts with her long essay on painter Alex Katz and his work, particularly his portraits. Beattie focuses her text on a personal selection of 26 paintings, most from the 1980s, some of his contemporaries such as Jennifer Bartlett and Rackstraw Downes, as well as Katz's favorite subject, his wife, Ada. Beattie also interviewed Katz and some of his subjects, learning what it is like to pose for the artist and revealing the sometimes surprising stories they enact in the paintings. The result is a personalized and engaging portrait of Katz and an original and provocative interpretation of his work. 91 pages, 9 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches, with 26 full-color, full-page photo reproductions. Pink cloth-covered boards show only a slight bumping of the upper corners, and boards and text are… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1968. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam Q3811; The Nobel Prize-winning novelist offers his opinions on America and Americans in the 1960's; illustrated with photos by some of the country's best-known photographers; one-reader text is clean, tight and square; wrappers show only very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

Garden City: The Natural History Press, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Most books on primitive art emphasize the "art" and aesthetics. This collection of articles on art in a variety of "primitive" cultures views the artwork from an anthropological perspective, with the focus on the scientific examination of the relationship between art and culture. Some two dozen articles with center section of b & w photos, as well as bibliography and index. First edition, first printing (as stated). About 6 x 8 1/2 inches, 440 pages in brown cloth-covered boards with black backstrip and gold lettering on spine. The dustjacket's front panel shows a primitive sculpture against a black background with lettering in yellow and white with yellow and white lettering on spine. Back panel contains description of contents. Boards' color has faded at edges and where strong light has penetrated white title on dj at top of front cover, o/w boards and text show only previous owner's… Read More

London: Third Millennium Publishing Ltd., 2002. First Edition. . Large Softcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. In 1921, Duncan Phillips opened his home to the public, creating the first museum of modern art in the U.S. in Washington, D.C. Today, the Phillips Collection remains a monument to one man's unique vision and foresight with its carefully selected collection of work where visitors could see "beautifully as true artists see." This book accompanied a 2002 traveling exhibition by the same title to six U.S. museums. It features over sixty of the most important works by European artists in the Phillips Collection, including Cezanne, Renoir, Klee, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Modigliani. An essay on Duncan Phillips, the collector by Eliza Rathbone, the Collections curator and narratives accompanying the full color illustrations of the exhibition by Johanna Halford-MacLeod. Also an exhibition checklist, a chronology and a list of references. First Edition, First Printing. About 8 1/4… Read More

New York: Brant Art Publications, 1986. Magazine. Very Good. Vol. 74, No. 5: Featured articles include Jennifer Bartlett retrospective; essay on relationship between art and corporate worlds by Suzanne Stephens; Arte Povera at P.S. 1; and Ruben Nakian retrospective. Also regular departments: Issues & Commentary by Carter Ratcliff; Review of Books; Review of Exhibitions. About 8 1/2 by 11 inches, 184 pages in glossy light card wrappers. Front cover shows detail of Joseph Beuys's "Richikrafte," 1974-75. Back cover shows ad for Ellsworth Kelly exhibition. Wrappers and text show only minor surface and edgewear. Complete, no tears, no marking, no address or other labels. 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: Random House, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The sixth collection of essays from a fine novelist who was also among the best essayists of his time; witty and provocative writing on subjects ranging from Henry James to Nancy Reagan, Oscar Wilde to Oliver North, Hollywood to Mongolia; text is clean, tight, square; bottom of back cover has nearly unnoticeable stain, o/w boards show no significant flaws, little wear; dustjacket has slight crease along spine, inside back panel and flap show same slight stain as back cover; overall, a decent copy of an increasingly hard-to-find book .

New York: Frank R. Brady, 1970. Large Softcover. Very Good. Avant-Garde," published by Ralph Ginzburg for about three years from 1968 to 1971, featured art and erotic literature and photography as did his earlier magazine, "Eros," for which Ginzburg went to prison on obscenity charges. Articles in the January, 1970, issue include: "The Dr. Who Called the A.M.A, the "American Murder Assn;" "The Virgin Forest," a photo essay featuring trees and nudes; "The Handwriting on the Wall," an article on separation of church and state; "Israel Captured," a selection of photos from an exhibition then at the Jewish Museum in New York showing everyday life in Israel; a collection of paintings by the Austrian artist, Friedrich Hundertwasser, titled, "Postcards From Pandemonium;" and "The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall: The Memoirs of a Fat Girls' Casanova." First Edition. About 10 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches, 64 pages, bound in light… Read More

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1928. First Edition, Second Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/No Jacket. The fifth book of essays on book-collecting by Newton, one of the great collectors of the first half of the 20th century, whose collection of American and English literature numbered over 10,000 volumes at the time of his death in 1940. First trade edition, published in the same month and year as a limited, signed first. 410 pages, over 130 illustrations and an index. Dark blue cloth spine with grey cloth boards showing bumped and frayed corners, wear along edges and spine ends. Paper spine label worn but all lettering complete and legible. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover; owner's name, address and 1929 date on front pastedown. Text edges show some soiling; gilt on top edge a bit of light scratching. Flaws noted, book is clean and unmarked, binding tight and square. A quite decent reading/study copy.

New York: The Dial Press, 1966. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/Good To Good Plus. Norman Mailer was a bestselling novelist who, in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s, became a journalist, biographer, actor and political activist, among his many roles. Along with Truman Capote and Tom Wolfe, Mailer was one of the early innovators of creative non-fiction, also known as new journalism, and probably did his best work in this area, winning two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award. "Cannibals and Christians" is a collection of short writings from 1960 to 1966 on topics such as politics, poetry, literary criticism, and sex and society. First Printing, First Edition. About 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 400 pages in dark-blue cloth-covered boards with gold and silver lettering on spine. Text includes a tipped-in frontispiece photo of a ten-foot model construction of about 20,000 pieces representing a city of the future with some 15,000 apartments for 50,000 people. The photo is also… Read More

New York: Dell, 1967. First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback: Dell 1058 -- Mailer is probably best known for his novels, from his best-selling 1948 war novel, "The Naked and the Dead," to his final work in 2007, "The Castle In The Forest," but, arguably, was at his best in his non-fiction and first-person reporting, such as "The Armies of the Night," "The Fight," and his essays, written originally for various national magazines and eventually brought together in four different collections. "Cannibals and Christians" is the third collection of these essays, pulling together work from the early to mid-1960s on politics, the Kennedys, Vietnam, sex, other authors, etc., and even including some poetry. First Printing, First Paperback Edition as stated. Originally issued in hardcover by The Dial Press. Mass Market Paperback, about 4 x 7 inches, 400 pages in white wrappers with blue and black lettering and… Read More

New York: New American Library, 1964. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Signet P2475; one of America's great men of letters in the mid-20th Century, a 1963 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wilson here launches a slashing attack on the Federal income tax, the Federal bureaucracy, Federal spending and the major Federal expense, the Cold War, protesting what he views as the government's betrayal of civil liberty. Text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; wrappers show some minor surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: The Noonday Press, 1964. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, N 260; the first collection of literary and social criticism by "Commentary's" editor-at-large (then editor-in-chief) and the first of his ten books, is a selection of essays largely on American literature in the 1950s and early '60s; text is clean, tight, square, very slightly rolled, lightly age-tanned; wrappers show only minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce in paperback.

New York: William H. Wise & Company, 1923. First Edition. . Large Softcover. Good Plus. Elbert Hubbard was a writer, philosopher, publisher and artist as well as a successful businessman and is best remembered today as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in western New York in the late 19th -- early 20th century. The Roycroft campus in E. Aurora, NY, has been restored and is now a National Historic site. One of Hubbard's lifelong habits was jotting notes to himself about things he read or heard or saw. After Hubbard and his wife died in 1915 when the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine, the Roycrofters community, including his sons, gathered and edited many of his notes and published them in scrapbook form. First edition. About 8 1/4 x 11 inches, 228 pages plus 12 pages of indices of subjects, authors and poetry. Includes a fronrtispiece b & w photo of Hubbard and on the front pastedown, a photo of Hubbard clipped from the NY Times. The book, printed and bound by the… Read More

New York: Ramparts/Random House, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Cleaver, a radical political activist and Black Muslim leader, spent most of the 1960s in prison, where he wrote his revolutionary, "Soul On Ice." The writings, speeches and interview collected in this volume are after his release from prison while he struggled to deal with the limits of his probation and what he saw as his duties as a black political leader. The work was collected and edited by Robert Scheer, who worked with Cleaver at Ramparts Magazine during this period. Aside from some light soiling on text edges, text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a two-inch tear in the top edge of the front panel near the spine, as well as a couple of smaller edge tears and minor creasing. The large tear has been tape-repaired on the obverse by a previous owner. While torn, the dj is whole -- not tattered or with missing chips. It is not… Read More

New York: Vintage Books, 1957. First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback; Vintage Caravelle V-503; a collection of essays on Constitutional law by widely-recognized legal scholars and authorities; originally published in academic journals and university law reviews and selected for this volume by Harvard University's McCloskey, the issues discussed in these essays remain as pertinent and appropriate today as when they were written. Text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show some minor soiling, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Very Scarce.