Search Results: Religion/Mythology from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Warner Books, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Very Good. The seventh novel by the bestselling author of the Father Blackie Ryan mystery series; a remainder mark on top edge of text, top edge of text lightly foxed; dustjacket shows minor rubbing and edgewear. A reading copy.

London: Burns & Oates, Ltd., 1960. First Edition, Later Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/About Very Good. A biography of Nicolas LeClerq, known as Brother Solomon, Abbe' of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Paris, who was among the clerics murdered in 1792 by the French Revolutionary mobs. The author, Dr. W. J. Battersby, a respected author, educator and historian, as well as a modern day member of the same teaching order as Brother Solomon, is best known for his several studies of St. John Baptist de La Salle, founder of the order. The book is signed and inscribed by Battersby on the front pastedown: "To Jim, with best wishes, from W.J. Battersby/ Brother Clair. Sept. 3rd, '68." The text and boards are clean, tight, square, one corner lighlty bumped; the dustjacket shows some edgewear, especially at the spine ends, and a small tear on the upper right corner of the back panel. Quite scarce, particularly signed and inscribed.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. the second of VanLiere's 'Christmas Hope,' series, the sequel to "The Christmas Shoes;" Nathan, a young boy in the first novel is now a third-year medical student who realizes he still has lessons to learn about faith, blessings, and sacrifice; small format, 5 x 7 1/2;" book is clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows no shelf or surface wear. A nice stocking stuffer.

New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In something of a departure from his historically-based novels, the award-winning Doctorow sets this book in contemporary New York City and sets three people, a writer, the maverick rector of an Episcopal Church, and the young woman rabbi who leads the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism, the task of learning who stole a large brass cross from the church and placed it on the roof of the synagogue. The trio investigates a wide-ranging cast of suspects, including scientists, war veterans, Holocaust survivors, cabinet members, theologians, film makers and crooners in what becomes a quest for true spirituality; a collectable copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Bantam Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A novel independent of either of Edgar and Creasey Award-winner King's highly-acclaimed mystery series, this book features Anne Waverly, a university professor who has for eighteen years worked undercover for the FBI, infiltrating suspect religious cults; previous owner's initials in top corner of front end page; spine very slightly cocked; dustjacket shows minor edgewear, some light, almost invisible scratches.

New York: Bantam Books, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The first stand-alone novel by the award-winning King makes use of her studies in theology. It features Anne Waverly, a university professor and expert in alternative religious movements, who occasionally works undercover for the FBI. Waverly penetrates a religious group called "Change," which operates a school for over a hundred children in Arizona, whose students appear healhy and content but way too well-behaved. First U.S. edition, first printing (with complete number line). About 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, 385 pages, including "after verse," bound in black paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine and King's signature stamped on front cover. A very slight spine lean, a dogearred front end page, and very faint foxing on top edge, o/w boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked, with tight binding and no tears, chipping or bumped corners. Not ex-library or remaindered. Dustjacket shows a one-inch scratch… Read More

Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. Three original science fiction novellas by three outstanding SciFi writers on a single theme: Exploring the reaction of modern man to a miracle, to scientific proof of God. With a foreword by SciFi master, Lester del Rey. Science Fiction Book Club edition. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket, while basically whole, shows two tears, the longest 1 1/2 ". Other minor edge wear and light soiling to white back panel. Tears are tape-repaired on verso. DJ now protected by Brodart cover. Quite scarce addition to any SciFi library.

Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, 2014. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A True Crime story about a young, fundamentalist Pentacostal preacher with a secret second wife who stopped her from leaving him by murdering her and leaving her chopped-up body in the Arizona desert. The story is told by one of the preacher's co-workers when both were employed by a nationally-known televangelist. A review copy, First Printing/First Edition, with publisher's materials laid-in. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only a touch of edge wear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews, McMeel & Parker, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. The eighth novel in Kienzle's widely-praised mystery series featuring Detroit Catholic priest Father Robert Koesler; text edges slightly soiled, o/w boards and text are clean, tight; dustjacket's edges worn, corners chipped, small tears at lower right corner of front panel and upper right corner of back panel near spine.

New York: Pocket Books, 1965. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage Paperback, Pocket Books Cardinal Edition 75054; Levin, the award-winning author of "Compulsion," considered by many to be the most significant American Jewish writer of the first half of the 20th century, made his tenth novel the story of one man's dogged pursuit of justice during a conformist ere in the U.S. when anyone acting on their inner convictions was likely to be branded a fanatic. It is also the story of an American rabbi's struggle to understand God's relationship to the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and the story of one of the six million, a gifted young writer who left a last testament so stirring his spirit continues to survive. Previous owner's name and address written neatly on fep, o/w text is clean, tight and square; the pictorial wrappers show only a minimal amount of surface and edgewear. A collector's copy.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of folk tales from Zimbabwe and Botswana, retold by the author of "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.

New York: Random House, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Mailer's vision of Jesus of the New Testament told by Jesus himself, showing us the son of God who is wholly unlike other men yet still struggling with passion and doubt, a divinity sharing our human condition; boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. The seventeenth novel by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Updike describes the relationships to God of four generations of an American family; binding may have had some amateur repair, still clean, tight and square.

New York: Knopf, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Updike's seventeenth novel features four generations of the Wilmot family, tracing their relationship with God from Paterson, NJ, in 1910 to Lower Branch, CO, in 1990. A collectable copy.

New York: G.W. Dillingham, Publisher, 1888. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/No Jacket. A prominent, bestselling Southern novelist both before and after the Civil War, Wilson wrote "Inez" in 1850, when she was fifteen and living with her parents in San Antonio shortly after the Mexican-American War. It was first published in 1855 and many times since by many different publishers. "Inez" is a sentimental, moralistic love story of an orphan girl's religious journey from skepticism to devout faith. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, 298 pages plus 2 pages of publisher's ads in dark blue, cloth-covered boards with gilt title/author box and decorations on spine. Back cover shows faded pattern where another book or other item rested for an extended period of time, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Front hinge just beginning to loosen, not cracked. Rear hinge intact; binding firm. Text edges are somewhat foxed and soiled. Front end page shows neatly-written signatures of two previous… Read More

New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition, Later Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fifth book for Hansen, a master of the historical novel, is set in 1906 when Mariette, a beautiful, seventeen-year-old postulant, enters a convent in upstate New York. When she begins to bleed from her hands, feet and side, the convent community is thrown into confused turmoil. Is Mariette a cunning sham, a sexual hysteric, or does God stalk her like a pitiless lover? Inscribed by Hansen on the title page: "To Judy,/Ron Hansen/24 May 1992." Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Knopf, 1975. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The seventh novel from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Updike features disgraced midwestern minister Tom Marshfield, sent to a desert motel by his bishop for a month of enforced "rest and recreation;" front end page slightly soiled, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square in a price-clipped dustjacket with a creased back flap. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A major novel from the bestselling MacDonald that details the rise, corruption and downfall of a televangelism empire; a remainder mark on bottom edge of the text, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1885. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good to Good Plus. Roe, a late 19th century Presbyterian clergyman, a chaplain during the Civil War, became a bestselling novelist after retiring from the ministry in 1874. His novels, with their strong moral and religious themes, were popular with the middle class in the U.S. and England. "The Original Belle" is no exception, telling a story of a young woman during the Civil War who "was not so beautiful or so good as many of her sisters.but circumstances led her to the endeavor to be true to her own nature and conscience and to adopt a very simple scheme of life." That life sheme brought her love and happiness. First edition, early printing. About 4 x 6 1/4 inches, 447 pages bound in light blue cloth-covered boards with dark blue and white floral decoration and lettering on front cover and spine. Boards show moderate wear at the corners, edges and spine ends with some light surface soiling. Text edges somewhate… Read More

London: Panther/Granada, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Panther 04339: The sixth novel in Doc Smith"s Family d'Alembert series, this time featuring the new team of Yvette and Pias Abol, who are called upon to stop the religious zealots on planet Purity from launching a holy war with the fate of Stanley Ten's interstellar civilization hanging in the balance. Paperback Original, True First Edition. Pictorial wrappers show reading creases, other minor creasing and surface wear, no tears or other major flaws. Text is complete, clean and unmarked. Binding tight and square.