Search Results: Fine Literature from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

Plainfield, Vermont: North Atlantic Books, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. . Original Wraps. Fine. A collection of Sanders' poetry from the 1960's and '70's; wrappers are slightly soiled wrappers, o/w a Fine, collectable copy.

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

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A dark, satiric comedy, Blinn's first novel features a tactical jet crewman, nicknamed Aardvark, aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier heading to the Persian Gulf War. Aardvark is a virtual warrior in the world's first virtual war, his senses and weapons electronic and digital, his reality surreal and hallucinatory; Remainder mark on top edge of text, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some minimal surface and edgewear.

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: Simon and Schuster, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The third novel and fourth book from the author whose "The Shipping News" won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize; text and boards are clean, tight, square; back panel of dustjacket is extensively wrinkled with several small stains while protecting book extremely well; also small stain on dj's back flap; front panel, flap and spine undamaged. Makes a very acceptable reading copy.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel by Proulx, whose "The Shipping News" won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize; previous owner's address sticker on inside front cover behind front flap of dustjacket; tiny chip at upper front corner of dustjacket's front panel, back panel very slightly soiled.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel from the author who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for "The Shipping News;" small sticker with previous owner's name and address on front end page o/w boards and text are clean and square in dustjacket with some slight wear at spine ends and upper corners. A nice reading copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hemingway's first novel after "For Whom The Bell Tolls;" (First Edition, First Printing: black cloth, letter 'A' on copyright page); lower right corner bumped, inside front cover and fep very slightly foxed, edges browned, pages lightly tanned; first state dustjacket (yellow lettering on spine, not price-clipped) basically whole, though front and back panels are edgeworn with multiple tears and chips, particularly at spine ends where half-inch of dj above author's name is missing, as is inch and a half at bottom with deeper tears along edge next to front panel; flaps are browned.

New York: Random House, 1976. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Shapiro's poetry from the 1960's and '70's; remainder mark on top edge of text, o/w clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some rubbing, with two tears in lower left corner of front panel; both flaps are creased and slightly age-tanned.

Toronto: HarperCollins, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Wright, the award-winning Canadian author of "Clara Callan," presents us this story about Daniel Fielding, a quiet, middle-aged editor, who risks everything for a few passionate moments with a young colleague at a book fair only to see his one act of adultery explode into incomprehensible violence; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: The Viking Press, 1953. First Edition, Early Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The Nobel Prize-winning Bellow's third novel was his "breakthrough" book and won him the first of his three National Book Awards. It is the story of a young Chicago man growing up during the Great Depression. Lacking a top edge stain and with "H. Wolff, New York," the printer, this copy is not a first printing of the first editon but a second or third impression. The boards show bumped corners and spine ends and some surface wear and soiling, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Sorry, no dustjacket.

New York: New American Library, 1956. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage paperback, Signet S1281; a collection of the Welsh poet's short stories and prose pieces; age-browned text is clean, tight and square; pictorial wrappers show some creasing, edge and corner wear, small 1.5 cm tear at top of spine.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The sixth collection of short stories from Boyle, who won the PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction in 1999; small remainder mark on bottom edge o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Knopf, 1995. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Updike's eleventh collection of short stories, his first since "Trust Me" in 1987, focuses on characters exploring the second half of life with, in a sense, eyes newly opened. The twenty-two stories, most originally published in "The New Yorker," include Updike's 1991 O. Henry Award winner, "The Sandstone Farmhouse;" boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket is close to perfect. A very collectable copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel of the effects of apartheid on the ordinary citizens of South Africa by the author of "Cry, the Beloved Country;" a collectable copy in like dustjacket.

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: Knopf, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. The ninth novel from the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize features Lidie Newton, a young, independent and courageous woman and fierce abolitionist with a mission in bloody, pre-Civil War Kansas; lower corner of back cover rather badly bumped, with corresponding damage to dustjacket. Makes a fine reading copy.

New York: Knopf, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of "A Thousand Acres" chooses pre-Civil War Kansas Territory as the setting for this story of the young, strong, no-nonsense Lidie Newton; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some slight edgewear, and a single small tear on bottom edge of back panel. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Tyler, who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Breathing Lessons," continues to explore the Baltimore middle class in her sixteenth novel about a couple enduring their thirty years of marriage. Small stain along lower edge of front cover, o/w text and boards clean, tight, slight spine lean; dustjacket shows minor edgewear. A decent reading copy.

New York: Henry Holt, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. This is a book, controversial for its vividly depicted violence, that uses violence and atrocities in Vietnam to throw a spotlight on violence in America. It is the story of two American soldiers from the same unit in Vietnam who return home -- one to try to deal with his PTSD, the other to continue to kill. The LA Times called it "a brutal and scarifying book," and Nichols, himself, the author of "The Sterile Cuckoo" and "The Milagro Beanfield War," has said of "American Blood," "It's been on film option but I hope they never make the movie." Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket has a 1 1/2", closed tear on the fold on the back panel, and the top edge of the front panel shows a light, almost un-noticeable "sun line," o/w no significant flaws, no creasing, no chipping, not price-clipped. A… Read More