Search Results: New England from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Connors' first novel is this highly-praised legal thriller featuring Martha "Marty" Nickerson an assistant district attorney for Barnstable County on Massachusetts' Cape Cod, who wins a guilty verdict in a murder case only to discover the real killer may still be at large and ready to kill again; check mark and single initial in corner of front end page and small indentation on fore edge of back cover, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows small tear at same place as indentation in cover, o/w only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Pocket Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The ninth novel in Shamus Awarding-winner Healy's mystery series featuring Boston private detective John Francis Cuddy; bottom of spine of both book and dustjacket bumped, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hoffman's seventh novel details a family's and community's struggle to come to terms with AIDS when it is contracted by a twelve-year-old girl through a blood transfusion; upper corner of page 55-56 creased, o/w clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some light wear and discoloration along edges.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hoffman's seventh novel tells the story of an eleven-year-old girl who contracts AIDS and of the reaction of her family and the small New England town she lives in; dustjacket shows some very slight edgewear.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition, Second Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hoffman's seventh novel tells the story of a family in crisis and a small New England town whose sense of community is challenged when an eleven-year-old girl is diagnosed with AIDS; First Edition, Second Printing; dustjacket slightly edgeworn, no tears or chipping.

New York: Pocket Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The third book in Doolittle's mystery series featuring Boston private detective Tom Bethany; dustjacket is slightly rubbed, no chips or tears.

New York: HarperCollins, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Prose's thirteenth book, nominated for a National Book Award, is a satirical look at academia through the eyes of Swenson, professor of creative writing at a small New England college, suddenly faced with Angela Argo, a pierced and tattooed student with real talent, who is actually asking him for help; boards and text are clean, tight, with very slight spine lean; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hoffman's fifteenth book is the story of how the people in a small New England town react when a local hero and leading citizen is arrested and tried for a fifteen-year-old Boston murder. A collectable copy in like dustjacket.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hoffman's fifteenth book details how the people of a small New England town are tested when one of their own, a man thought to be an upstanding citizen and family man, is revealed as a fugitive, arrested and put on trial for murder. A collectable copy.

New York: HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The thirteenth novel in Page's Agatha Award-winning mystery series featuring Massachusetts caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. O'Connell's first novel is this prize-winning mystery-crime novel featuring Lt. Lenore Thomas, an undercover narcotics detective in a decaying New England factory town, trying to deal with a drug lord, an ex-boyfriend, and her own drug addiction while keeping an eye on her twin brother, Ike, a post office employee involved in an investigation of his own where strange things are being delivered to P.O. Box 9. Some light foxing on the top edge of the text, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only a touch of wear along the edges and at the spine ends, no tears, no chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 19th novel from the award-winning poet and novelist, creator of the Charlie Bradshaw Saratoga mystery series, features a serial killer hiding at a New Hampshire prep school; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Henry Holt, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The nineteenth novel by Dobyns, the poet and widely-praised author of the Saratoga mystery series, is set at a private school in New Hampshire that's harboring a psychopath. A collectable copy.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. The second novel in the Edgar Award-winning McDonald's mystery series featuring Francis Xavier Flynn, "one of the smartest, gentlest, most sarcastic cops you will ever meet," this time investigating the most elaborate, outrageous financial scam of the century. Paperback Original. First Printing of the True First Edition. Text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show only minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. The Edgar Award-winning McDonald produces what may be the best novel of his mystery-thriller series featuring Boston cop Francis Xavier Flynn; text is clean, tight, square in black pictorial wrappers showing light reading crease, minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: New American Library, 1969. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Signet Q3924; Crichton's first novel, an Edgar Award-winning mystery written while he was still a medical intern and using the pseudonymn Jeffrey Hudson; the book was the basis for a movie starring James Coburn and Jennifer O'Neil; one-reader text is clean, tight, square, very lightly age-tanned in almost perfect pictorial wrappers showing very minimal reading crease. Scarce in collectable condition.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The thirteenth novel in Parker's widely-praised, bestselling mystery series featuring Boston private detective Spenser; light remainder spray on bottom edge of text, o/w Fine in like dustjacket.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The 22nd book in Haddam's mystery-crime series that has quietly and without fanfare made its way to the top of the list for those readers who like inventive plots and imaginative characters and are worth the intellectual exercise they demand. This time, retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian is hired to find out what really happened on a small, exclusive island off the Massachusetts coast where the latest boy toy of an aging teen pop idol is found shot dead during one of the worst blizzards in decades. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows only a few light scratches on the back panel and very minor edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Irving's sixth novel, the basis for the movie of the same name, is the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch, obstetrician, founder and director of an orphanage in rural St. Cloud's, Maine. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells; light stain and crease on spine o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; Very Good in Fine dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1985. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Irving's sixth novel, the basis for the film starring Michael Caine and Toby Maguire, is the story of Dr. Wilber Larch, founder and director of an orphanage in St. Cloud, Maine, an ether addict and abortionist; and of Homer Wells, Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, who is never adopted. Small ink stamp on front end page, several small, light stains on text edges, o/w clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minor surface and edgewear.