Search Results: Authors starting with B from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Walker & Co., 1986. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. Babson, one of the genre's longtime masters, sets this mystery in London's colorful and glamorous world of high fashion; a Very Fine, unread copy in dustjacket showing very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Walker & Co., 1983. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Fair. Babson's ninth mystery-crime novel features Wilmer Creighleigh, a seventy-year-old British professor who has just published a best-selling book on economics, and his niece, Pippa, who is determined not to let murder spoil his return to London from an American lecture tour; text edges somewhat soiled, corners of front cover bumped, page 159-160 creased; dustjacket worn at edges and corners, 3 1/2 inch "L-shaped" tear along lower spine has been tape-repaired, as has a smaller tear at top of back panel near spine. A decent reading copy.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. Hardcover. About Very Good. This now classic volume covers every aspect of the violin -- its origin and evolution, its history, its music and virtuosos, its construction and manufacture -- and has become the standard reference on the instrument since originally published in 1925. This copy is a First U.S. Edition, Second Printing (with the numeral "2" found on the last page of the text). About 6 x 8 3/4 inches, 479 pages plus two pages of publisher's ads, including an introduction by Eugene Ysaye. Translated by Frederick H. Martens. Liberally illustrated, with a frontispiece of Esaye. Bound in green cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on front cover and spine and small graphic design featuring violin centered on front cover. No dustjacket. Some light foxing and age-tanning on text edges and endpapers, and it appears frontispiece page has been trimmed a fraction of an inch, o/w boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked. Book shows… Read More

New York: Dutton/Penguin, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stephen King, using his Bachman pseudonymn, presents a story of a quiet summer afternoon on Poplar Street in Wentworth, Ohio, that suddenly and irrevocably becomes a neighborhood in the grip of surreal horror; text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. Large size and weight (476 pages) may require additional postage.

New York: Dutton, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sixth thriller by Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, is a story of a midwestern suburban neighborhood suddenly and horribly in the grip of surreal terror and death. Large size and weight (476 pages) may require additional postage.

New York: Atheneum, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Better known as a mid-20th Century film writer and movie producer, Bachmann's mystery and crime novels and short stories are under-appreciated today. "The Ultimate Act" is his fifth novel and features Ben Clancy, a young American lawyer, brought to Paris to protect the interests of an heir to a woman killed by her husband, the CEO of a luxury hotel, in a murder-suicide pact. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight, with a slight spine lean. The dustjacket appears to have about an eighth of an inch shaved from the bottom edge, possibly to eliminate some edgewear, o/w except for a crease across the lower corner of the front flap, the dj is clean and whole, not price-clipped.

New York: Doubleday/Crime Club, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bachmann's mystery/suspense novel set in Germany and featuring Lora Miller, a young woman, seemingly a tourist on a pleasure trip, whom police hope will lead them to her boyfriend, wanted in a cafe killing; Bachman also wrote the screenplay based on the book, which became the 1959 movie, "Whirlpool;" previous owner's name on front end page, which shows a small patch of glue remnant from a book plate or sticker, o/w text is clean, tight, with a slight spine lean; dustjacket shows minor surface and edgewear at corners and spine ends. Quite Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Baden, former NY City chief medical examiner, and Kenney, civil rights attorney and guest commentator on Court TV and CNN, have combined their experience and expertise in a crime thriller that begins with the discovery of multiple corpses at a mall construction site in the Catskills near New York; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only some minor surface and edgewear.

Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday & Co., 1976. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A mystery from Stein's series featuring his alter ego, writer (and pseudonym) George Bagby, and Inspector Schmidt, chief of New York City Homicide. Collectable.

Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday & Co., 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good to Good Plus/Good Plus. A late novel in the career of this under-appreciated Mystery Grand Master, featuring New York Police Inspector Schmidt, who finds himself investigating the assault and near-murder of his friend, writer and reporter, George Bagby. Glue stains on inside covers and back end page as well as on dj's flaps (book may be ex libris but no other evidence indicating it is), o/w boards and text show only very minor edgewear and a very slight spine lean. The dustjacket shows glue stains already noted, minor chipping at spine ends and some slight edgewear. A reading copy.

Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday & Co., 1977. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Bagby's New York City team of homicide detective Inspector Schmidt and writer George Bagby investigate the murder of a reporter and corruption in the NYPD and FBI; top edge of text slightly foxed, spine cocked, small pieces of tape on inside covers and on dustjacket flaps; dustjacket is worn, scratched, chipped: Fair/Fair. A reading copy.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Bagley's last novel, published posthumously, features Neil Mannix, an American troubleshooter, shepherding a massive electrical transformer on its journey through war-torn, oil-rich West Africa; a Fine copy in a slightly edgeworn o/w Near Fine dustjacket.

New York: HarperCollins, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bagshawe, a bestselling author in her own right, has, with the permission of the Sheldon Family Limited Partnership, written sequels to several of the late Sidney Sheldon's blockbuster novels. 'Mistress,' issued in 2009, is the first of these sequels and features the grandchildren of Kate Blackwell, the glamorous, scheming matriarch of America's own royal family, introduced in Sheldon's "Master of the Game." There is Lexi Templeton, ruthless and beautiful and determined to be the new 'mistress;' her handsome and crooked cousin, Max Webster, willing to kill to acquire the family holdings; and another player, a little known descendant of Kate's great-grandfather. His name is Gabriel McGregor, born into poverty in Aberdeen, Scotland, but now determined to fulfill his destiny. A tiny remainder dot on the bottom edge of the text block, o/w text and boards are clean and… Read More

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1970. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. About Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. A collection of wit and satire and mostly just good-humored fun by some of the world's foremost cartoonists at work in the mid-20th century, including Charles Addams, Ed Arno, Johnny Hart, Tony Munzlinger, Charles Schulz and George Price. Cartoons that originally appeared in publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Punch, and Look are here given full pages. 9 x 12", 140 pages. Boards bumped at lower corners, some light edgewear; top edge of text lightly foxed, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows foxing along the top edge of both panels and flaps. Also worn at the edges and corners with some tape-repaired tears and a half-inch chip missing at the top of spine. Not collectable perhaps but certainly memory-evoking.

New York: Dell, 1947. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. About Very Good. Vintage Paperback: Dell Mapback 178. A Romance novel set on an estate in Maryland and featuring Cecily Merryman, newly employed as a "companion" to the wealthy Mrs. Blair Marburg, a bitter, jealous and frightened invalid, in a houseful of people with a variety of selfish objectives. Pictorial wrappers show light creasing and edgewear with laminate beginning to loosen, o/w no tears, chipping or other significant flaws. Previous owner's name and date on fep and text lightly age-tanned. O/w clean and unmarked, binding tight and square.

New York: Brant Art Publications, 2003. Magazine. Near Fine. Art In America" magazine, March 2003, issue. About 9 x 10 3/4 inches, 152 pages in glossy light card wrappers featuring Picabia's "Portrait of a Couple," 1942-43 on front cover; Gagosian Gallery ad for Ed Ruscha photo exhibition, Beverly Hills, CA, on back. Articles include Brooks Adams on Picabia, Karen Wilkin on Degas, Carter Ratcliff on Doug Ohlson's abstractions. Two pieces on Duchamp as well as review of abstractionist prints, other exhibition reviews. Magazine is complete, clean and unmarked. Covers and text show single tiny tear at bottom of spine, o/w no tears, creases, address labels, other flaws. A collectable copy.

New York: Brant Art Publications, 1986. Magazine. Very Good. Volume 74, No. 12: Articles include "Family Spectacles," the theater projects of Robert Wilson; a Jenny Holzer interview; recent installation by Joseph Kosuth. Also regular features: Issue & Commentary by Schjeldahl; Report from Chicago, "Realism Resurgent;" and Review of Books and Exhibitions including Sol LeWitt, John Chamberlin, Mary Hellman, Neil Winokur, Nicolas Wilder. About 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 160 pages in glossy, light card wrappers with front cover showing Holzer's "Protect Me From What I Want," 1986, signpost at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas. Back cover contains BlumHelman ad for inaugural exhibition at Los Angeles gallery with new work by Johns, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Stella and Sultan. Wrappers and text show lightly bumped lower corner, very minor edge and surface wear, o/w no tears, creases, scratches. Complete, clean, unmarked. No address or other labels. A collectable copy.

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Volume 73, No. 5; featured articles include: Abstract Naturalism: Arthur Dove three-gallery retrospective; New Work from Arneson and Matta; 1950s sculpture in New York; Metzker's Photographs: Elegant & Existential; Robert Mangold Retrospective. Also Kirk Varnedoe on the Claims and Critics of the MOMA "Primitivism" show; Reports from Paris and Moscow and Reviews of Exhibitions by John Torreano, Susan Smith, Larry Rivers, Theodoros Stamos, Jonathan Lasker, Chuck Close, Agnes Martin, and Bernard Faucon. 8 1/2 x 11", 208 pages in heavy paper wrappers with front cover showing Mangold's "Four Color Frame Painting #1," 1983; text is clean, tight, square; a small closed tear near lower end of spine extending a half-inch onto front cover; some minor soiling and wear along edges.

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Near Fine to Fine. Volume 73, No. 12; featured articles: Photographers At War; Recent Work by Sigmar Polke, Wayne Thiebaud Retrospective; Tom Otterness's Cast-Bronze Sculptures; and Abstractions by Joan Thorne. Also, Review of Books, Report from Germany and Review of Exhibitions by James Lee Byars, Rhonda Zwillinger, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Paula Rego, Michele Zalopany and Avigdor Arikha. 8 1/2 x 11", 152 pages in heavy paper wrappers showing Thiebaud's "Sunset Streets," 1985 on front cover; wrappers and text clean, tight, square, in near-perfect condition. Collectable.

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