Search Results: Politics 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.

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: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. In 1982, Vollman traveled to Afghanistan to see firsthand the war being fought between Soviet occupation troops and Afghan guerrillas. It resulted in Vollman's first non-fiction work, a memoir of a young man coming to terms with his political naivete and confronting his own inadequacy in the face of unlimited suffering. Text shows some slight soiling on top edge, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, appears unread. Dustjacket appears near perfect, no tears, creasing or chipping, no remainder mark, not price-clipped. Scarce. Collectable.

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: Tower Publications, Inc., 1970. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Tower T-095-36; an American lawyer's carefully researched account detailing the use of torture by the right wing government in Greece in the 1960s-70s, published as part of an effort to end U.S. aid; includes case histories and other documentation; foreword by Sen. Claiborne Pell; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing minimal surface and edgewear. Very Scarce. Collectable.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The only writer to have won an Oscar, a Tony and an Edgar presents a story of political power and journalistic revenge. A collectable copy

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1967. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Fawcett Crest t1051; the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's perceptive 1966 analysis and commentary on the border skirmish that became the fourth largest war in U.S. history; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in yellow wrappers showing only very minimal surface and edgewear. Quite Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Atheneum/Reader's Digest Press, 1975. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A noted political historian traces the resignation of President Nixon from its "win-at-all-costs" roots in the 1960's to his final two years of law-breaking and deception that forced him out of office in 1974; boards show some slight edgewear, crease on spine; text is clean, tight; dustjacket somewhat edgeworn and rubbed. A decent reading/study copy.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The third novel in Orenstein's well-regarded mystery series featuring Ev Franklin, high-powered, cynical New York advertising executive, this time working as a pollster for a presidential candidate targeted by someone who doesn't mind murder; boards and text are clean, tight, square; two small closed tears on bottom edge of dustjacket's front panel, o/w DJ shows only minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Knopf, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Higgins' fourth novel leaves Boston's underworld for the political intrigue of Washington, D.C., as seen through the eyes of Hank Cavanaugh, the fixer and spin doctor for a Massachusetts congressman with presidential ambitions; boards and text are clean, tight; dustjacket shows discolored spine, some edgewear, including tears and creases to back panel.

New York: Knopf, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Higgins' fourth novel provides an insider's perspective of political life in Washington, D.C., in the post-Vietnam War years; boards and text are clean, tight; board edges slightly faded; dustjacket shows edgewear including small tear on edge between front panel and flap and a small triangular chip in upper edge of back panel. A decent reading copy of a hard-to-find novel.

New York: New York University Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Roberts provides a sober, detailed critique of the ideas and attitudes of African-American neoconservatives such as Clarence Thomas, Shelby Steele, Stephen Carter and V.S. Naipaul; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows small tear at bottom of fold between front panel and flap, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

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: Delacorte Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good/Good. The tenth novel by the author of "The Domino Principle" is a mystery/thriller featuring a new U.S. Senator investigating the death of his brother in a suspect plane crash; remainder spray on bottom edge of text, other edges slightly foxed; boards show some edgewear; dustjacket worn at edges, rubbed. A reading copy.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Didion's fourth novel evokes a twenty-year period in American politics ending with the fall of Saigon as seen through the eyes of the wife of an U.S. Senator who wants to be President; remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in pink variant dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Random House, 1987. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. One of Vidal's critically acclaimed "American Chronicle" series, this is the story, set in America's Gilded Age, of Caroline Sanford, who turns down marriage to the son of the Secretary of State to become publisher of a newspaper in Washington, D.C., and competitor of William Randolph Hearst; dustjacket shows some slight edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Random House, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Vidal's epic novel from his American Chronicle series, of politics and journalism in the U.S. at the beginning of the 20th Century when Teddy Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst wages their private war for the soul of the country. Top edge of text lightly soiled, top end of spine bumped, o/w boards and text are unmarked, tight, square; top end of dustjacket spine is bumped, some minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. the Edgar Award-winning author's fifth novel features baseball, politics and murder; First Printing of the First Edition; top edge slightly soiled, o/w text is clean, tight; dustjacket shows some wear at top of spine and at corners. A collectable copy.

New York: Warner Books, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. the Edgar Award-winning McDonald has his now-legendary gonzo journalist Fletch trying on a new job -- a presidential candidate's press secretary, dealing with bus loads of reporters and a secret mass murderer; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, with a very slight spine lean in black pictorial wrappers showing minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Vintage Books, 1989. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage Books 72237; a collection of Thompson's essays and journalism from the 1980s or, as he puts it, the "Gonzo Papers, Vol.2," detailing what he finds deeply disturbing in America: "Huge brains, small necks, weak muscles and fat wallets" as he keeps a running tally on such figures as George Bush, Ed Meese, Gary Hart and Oliver North; First Printing of the First Vintage Edition; small waters stain at bottom edge of first part of book, lower corners slightly rolled, o/w text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show minor surface and edgewear. A reading copy.