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

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.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Estleman's western novel based on the legend of Wild Bill Hickok won the 1982 Golden Spur Award from the Western Writers of America; a tight, clean copy in a dustjacket showing some rubbing and very minor chipping at edges; dj's white back panel and flaps are slightly browned. Scarce and Collectable.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/No Jacket. The first volume of Roosevelt's African big-game hunting memoir, subtitled: "An Account of the African Wanderings of An American Hunter-Naturalist." One of two first editions printed at the same time by Scribner's in 1910. This edition, referred to as the "Subscriber's Edition" with the W.B. Conkey Co. logo on the copyright page, contains many more photographs and illustrations than the trade edition issued at the same time. As the title page notes, "More than two hundred illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings by Philip R. Goodwin." 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches, 583 pages, including appendices and index, in olive-green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, and gilt border framing front cover illustration of herd of elephants in a forest. Boards show only minimal… Read More

New York: Avon Books, 1970. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Avon V2331; a study of guerrilla warfare around the world between 1945 and mid-1960s, including Greece, Algeria, Vietnam, Indonesia and Cuba, by a noted Newsweek correspondent; First Printing of the First Avon Edition; text is clean, tight, with a slight spine lean in black and red wrappers showing only minor surface and edgewear.

New York: National Aeronautics Council, Inc., 1942. Soft cover. Very Good. A World War II guidebook issued by the National Aeronautics Council for individuals with an interest in identifying the "leading fighting planes of the United States, Great Britain, Norway, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, France." Each war plane description includes a photograph, three position silhouettes, and general specifications including armaments. About 5 3/4 x 9 inches, 96 pages in stapled binding. Pictorial, light-card wrappers with rounded outside corners and front cover graphics showing multiple planes caught in spotlight beams above a city. Orange and blue color scheme with orange and black lettering. Back cover contains extensive list of planes included in black lettering against orange background. In addition to individual plane descriptions, contents include an index, recognition characteristics such as spinners, cockpit canopies, wing types and location. Also a page with the insignia used on planes by… 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.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback, Ridge Press; Levitas, a New York Times Magazine editor, supplies text and context for the dozens of black and white photos by Magnum photographers including Arnold, Capa, Lyon and Glinn, which illustrate the conflicts in America in the 1960s over issues such as the Vietnam War, civil rights, youth rebellion, and violent crime; 8 x 11 1/2" format; text and photos are clean, tight, square; white printed wrappers show light reading crease, some soiling and age-tanning, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce and collectable.

New York: Knickerbocker Press/G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. American War Ballads and Lyrics, Vol.2: The Civil War," is the second part of a two-volume set, containing songs and lyrics from the Civil War era. (Vol. 1 features music of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812.) Included among the 76 pieces are "John Brown's Body," "Reveille," and "Barbara Frietchie," as well as many about individual soldiers and battles. 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 278 pages plus 6 pages of ads for other Putnam's books in this "Knickerbocker Nuggets" series of pocket-sized works; 21 illustrations including the frontispiece, which still retains its tissue paper protection. This work was produced in both one and two-volume editions, and, in this book, the last ad -- unnumbered -- is for the work itself, an indication of another edition to come and that this small, 2-vol. set is the… Read More

New York: Dell, 1963. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback, Dell Laurel Leaf Library 0112. Catton, senior editor at American Heritage Publishing and the Pulitzer Prize winning author of numerous books on the Civil War, published this concise, fast-paced narrative of the Civil War during the War's centennial anniversary years as a way of providing the military and political facts of the war to readers seeking a basic knowledge and understanding of the events of 1861-65. First Printing of the First Dell Edition. 286 pages including index in blue and grey pictorial wrappers with cover illustration by Richard Powers. Very light bumping at the corners, o/w minimal surface and edge wear. Text is complete, clean and unmarked with just a touch of age-tanning. A collectable copy.

New York: Madison Books, Inc., 1961. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. Volume 1, Number Two of a quarterly hardcover magazine devoted to "guns in history and in sport." The theme in this issue is marksmanship. The authors consider the function of the gun and how it can be fully realized only in the hand of a man skilled at hitting the mark -- whether a paper target as in one article, a game animal or bird as in another, or a military enemy, an affronted gentleman, a horse opera villain, a monolithic law enforcer or a psychopathic law breaker in succeeding stories. The 10 1/4 x 13 1/2" 98-page text, lavishly illustrated with color and black & white photos, artwork and diagrams, is clean and unmarked, tight and square. The 10 1/4 x 13 1/2" covers, showing a woodcut of dueling 19th century gentlemen, is moderately worn along the spine and edges with somewhat more wear at the corners as is not unusual in an oversized format. Collectable.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Volume Two of Vance's classic study of the influence of Roman culture on American artists and writers over the past two hundred years. Drawing on the work of more than three hundred artists and writers from West and Sargent, and Emerson and Hawthorne to Cadmus and Twombly, and Vidal and Wilbur, Vance examines how Americans reacted to the reality and symbolism of Rome. 496 pages with maps, black & white illustrations, color plates and bibliography and index; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Robinson , Pratt & Co., 1841. First Edition Thus. . Full-Leather. Good to Good Plus/Issued Without Jackets. This history of the ancient nations of the Near East and Mediterranean by 18th century French educator and historian, Charles Rollin, made history interesting and entertaining to thousands of readers for well over a century until superseded by more accurate and careful works. Originally published in 12 volumes in Paris between 1730 and 1738, this 8-volume Robinson, Pratt edition is a First Edition Thus, translated from the French with a 37-page "A Life of the Author" prefixed to Vol. I. This is a complete set, all 8 volumes, which can be generally described as 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches, fully bound in calf with "Rollin's History" and the volume number in gold lettering on the spines. Each book in the set is complete and legible, though all suffer from foxing, scattered in some, heavy in others. Text block edges are moderately soiled and the feps in each book… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Alderson's book appears to be the first full-length biography of arguably the most interesting of the 19th century's "robber barons." Earlier than Carnegie's unfinished autobiography or several later more historically oriented works, Alderson's book tells the story of a young Scottish immigrant, who educated himself through reading and, through self-discipline and hard work, was one of the few true rags-to-riches millionaires of the 19th century. Selling his vast industrial holdings, the "Steel King" began a second career as a philanthropist, providing the money, for instance, to build more than 2,800 free public libraries and hold true to what he often said: "A man who dies rich, dies disgraced." Originally issued in 1902, this copy is First Edition, Later Printing (1909). 6 1/4 x 9 inches. 231 pages in green cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on front… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Andrew Wyeth is arguably the foremost and most popular realist painter of the last half of the 20th century. In 1986, it became known that for over 14 years Wyeth had drawn and painted Helga Testorf, a neighbor in Chadd's Ford, PA, in the nude without the knowledge of their spouses. In 1987, when the 247 studies of Helga were exhibited at the National Gallery and then toured nationally, there was extensive criticism of the museum and the work. First edition, first printing. About 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches. 208 pages bound in red cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on front panel and spine. 294 illustrations, 96 in full color with complete documentation of each work. Also included are a chronology of exhibitions, a selected bibliography and comments on the work by Wyeth. The dustjacket shows a reproduction of "Braids," 1979, in full color on the front panel and four pencil studies for the painting… Read More

New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A True Crime account of how in 1954 two teenaged girls in New Zealand -- Honorah Parker and Juliet Hulme (known today as crime writer Anne Perry) -- murdered Parker's mother, were arrested and confessed. Their motive, which came out at their sensational trial: Parker's mother stood in the way of the girls' plan to escape to America and become writers. Originally published in 2011 in New Zealand, this copy is the First U.S. edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 341 pages including index, illustrated with nearly 50 b & w photos. Bound in black paper-covered boards with red lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel shows photos of Hulme and Parker against a black background and above title lettering in red. Back panel shows three blurbs praising the book against a dim forest landscape in red. Boards and text show only a slight spine lean, o/w book is complete,… Read More

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

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1962. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good/Good. A history and guide to the tools and weapons used by the North and South in the American Civil War, illustrated with over 500 drawings by the author; 8 1/2 x 11 inches, spine slightly cocked; tape residue has left stain marks on inside covers, pastedowns and end pages; previous owner's bookplate and address sticker on half-title page; price-clipped dustjacket slightly worn at top of spine, small pieces of age-browned tape at corners of both flaps. Not a collectable copy but still fine for reading/reference.

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 to Near Fine. Volume 74, No.4: Contents include feature articles on Mies van der Rohe Centennial; review of Rainer's fifth feature-length film, Sidney Tillim on "the old abstraction;" Gabriel Laderman's use of Simenon's Maigret mysteries as starting point for investigating postmodern narrative space; Manny Farber's recent figurative work seen as autobiographical. Also, Review of Books, Lucy Lippard on Cuban art, Report from Paris, and Review of Exhibitions including Colette, Stephen Greene, Jerome Witkin, Li-Lan, Robert Irwin, and Richard Avedon. About 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 216 pages in paper wrappers. Reproduced on front cover is sequence of frames from Rainer's "The Man Who Envied Women," 1985, with background images of Humphrey Bogart from Ray's "In a Lonely Place." Very minimal reading crease and touch of edge wear only damage or flaws to wrappers or text. Clean, complete, unmarked. No… Read More

New York: Brant Art Publications, 1986. Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Volume 74, No.3: Contents include Renoir Symposium with articles by Adams, Bochner, Crow, Fried, Nochlin, Ratcliff, Robinson, Rosenblum, Schjeldahl, and others; sculpture/constructions by Siah Armajani; new work by David Diao, and Kienholz Retrospective as well as features: Review of Books, Report from Sao Paulo, Review of Exhibitions including Sugarman, Sherrie Levine, Alan Uglow,Wesselmann, and Jane Wilson. About 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 184 pages in pictorial paper wrappers with front cover showing detail of Renoir's "Geraniums and Cats, 1881. Wrappers and text show slight bumping of lower right corner, o/w only a light reading crease and very minimal surface wear. No tears, creasing or scratching or other significant flaws or damage. A collectable copy.