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

New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Jackson's hard-to-find second mystery novel featuring Detroit Police Sgt. Mulheisen -- Sergeant Fang to his friends and enemies; lightly foxed on text edges o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered; dustjacket shows some damp staining, though it is flat and unwrinkled and neither printing nor illustration show significant damage. Also light foxing on dustjacket's verso. All that noted, DJ is whole, unmarked, no chips or tears or creasing, not price-clipped.

New York: Rinehart & Co., 1948. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good. Jackson's third novel deals with the effects of a brutal murder on the lives of people whose primary connection to the event is through the news media; text edges soiled, lower end of spine creased, o/w boards and text clean, tight; dustjacket whole but chipped at corners and along edges, spine creased and faded, back panel discolored. Scarce.

New York: Macmillan Co., 1967. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. After creating a classic portrait of an alcoholic in his celebrated bestseller, "The Lost Weekend," Jackson's sixth book describes the life of a woman with a sexual obsession; text and boards show a slight spine lean o/w clean, tight; dustjacket shows shelf wear, very minor chipping and creasing along edges. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The eighth novel in Jackson's mystery series featuring the Detroit Police Department's own Detective Sergeant Fang Mulheisen who wants to know why the poker party in a mob boss' basement ends with everyone dead. A tiny remainder mark on bottom edge, o/w Fine in like dustjacket.

New York: Random House, 1977. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Jackson's first novel marks the introduction of one of the mystery genre's unique fictional homicide detectives, Detroit Sgt. "Fang" Mulheisen; text is clean, tight, small address sticker on front end page, very slight spine lean, base of spine bumped; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. Nice reading copy or place holder.

New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. The second and hardest-to-find book in Jackson's highly-praised mystery-crime series featuring Detroit Detective Sgt. Fang Mulheisen, this time dealing with the murders of five railroad trainmen in a spectacular freight train crash and a hijacked boxcar loaded with automatic rifles as well as several distractions such as a dozen Cuban revolutionaries, a greedy mob boss and a luscious Polish housewife. Previous owner's signature at top of front end page, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. An inch and half-inch tear and crease at the bottom edge of the dustjacket's back panel with minor wear at the corners, edges and spine ends. Looks quite decent in a Brodart DJ protector.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Jackson's first and most notable book, the classic novel of alcoholism that was the basis for an equally celebrated movie which won Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actor and Screenplay; First Printing of the First Edition; Inscribed and Dated by the Author on fep: "Jan 27th '44, For George -- Old friend from home -- old and good friend for other reasons. Warmly -- Charlie." Published under WW II-era conditions, boards and text show some soiling and wear, small stain at bottom of spine; dustjacket is basically whole but price-clipped and worn and chipped along edges with one-quarter to three-eighths inch chips top and bottom of spine.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Very Good. Jackson's sixth mystery novel featuring Detroit Police Detective Mulheisen -- Fang to his friends; last page of text has small stain on top edge; end page has two long creases and tear at top edge; some damage at bottom edge of end page and on paste-down where they were apparently stuck together at some point; rest of book is without damage; dustjacket shows some rubbing, o/w no significant flaws, minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The eighth novel in Jackson's highly-praised, often darkly humorous mystery series featuring Detroit Detective Sergeant Fang Mulheisen. Small remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; yellow dustjacket shows almost no rubbing, surface or edgewear. Quite Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Thomas Dunn/St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The eighth novel in Jahn's Edgar Award-winning mystery series featuring New York Police Captain Bill Donovan and his computer expertise; a collectable copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The second annual collection of the best short crime fiction by British and American writers at the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century, edited by Maxim Jakubowski, well-known for his own crime writing as well as his science fiction, erotic and critical works. This collection includes work by authors well known in their own right, including, Reginadl Hill, Ed Gorman, Keating, Pronzini, Melville, Vachss, Maron and Lewin, and with two pieces from what Jakubowski calls his "Vintage Corner," by Ed McBain and Charles Willeford. Originally issued in the UK in 1990, this copy is from the U.S. first edition, first printing, published by Carroll & Graf in 1991. About 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches, 244 pages including an introduction by Jakubowski. Bound in blue paper-covered boards with gold lettering on the spine. Dustjacket's front panel shows a svelte, well-dressed man adjusting his tie, his polished… Read More

London: The Do Not Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. An erotic crime-suspense novel from an editor-writer best known for his erotic publications, this book features a hit woman playing private detective to locate a novel by a recently deceased author that is supposedly a thinly-veiled memoir of his many adulterous affairs. Paperback Original, True First Printing of the First Edition; Text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 2005. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. James' seventeenth novel at age 85 shows neither she nor her legendary detective, Police Commander Adam Dalgliesh, have lost so much as a step as Dalgliesh investigates the death of a distinguished visitor to Combe Island off England's Cornish coast. Collectable.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. James' ninth novel is a bibliomystery featuring Cordelia Gray, a young woman private detective working in London. This time Gray is serving as bodyguard to an aging actress who has been receiving death notes in the form of quotations from Shakespeare and whose career depends on her upcoming performance in a private production of "The Duchess of Malfi" at an island castle off the Dorset coast; text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket has one tiny chip at the top of spine. Collectable.

London: Faber & Faber, Ltd., 1989. First Printing, First UK Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. James' celebrated Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has taken a vacation but cannot escape murder on the Norfolk coast; First Printing of the First UK Edition; a small remainder dot on bottom edge, o/w a fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This is the eighth novel in James' celebrated mystery series featuring her Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard. First Printing, First U.S. Trade Edition.

New York: Knopf, 2001. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. The fifteenth novel by the award-winning, critically-acclaimed James features Police Commander Adam Dalgliesh arriving at a small theological college in East Anglia to investigate the death of a student when a sacriligious and horrifying murder occurs; boards very slightly edgeworn; dustjacket edgeworn, with small tear lower right corner of front panel, back panel lightly scratched.

New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author, a lawyer and historian, makes a diligently-researched case that the 1924 unsolved murder of Zeo Zoe Williams, a beautiful, ruthless Ohio high school dropout, who discovered marrying a series of wealthy men was an easy way to make a living, was committed by the son of outlaw legend, Jesse James. This is classic American crime: a toxix mixture of sex, lies, mystery and murder. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket is as new, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A very collectable copy.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. James' venture into True Crime details what became known as the Ratcliffe Highway Murders that resulted in seven deaths in two London families in 1811; with drawings and other line illustrations; light remainder mark on bottom edge, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minor surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. This book is James's take on the human appetite for mystery and mayhem and of the writers who have satisfied it from Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to Collin Dexter and Henning Masnkell, with more than a few words about Conan Doyle, Sayers, Christie, Tey and Hammett among others. First North American Edition. About 5 x 7 3/4 inches, 198 pages in tan paper-covered boards with red backstrip and silver lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel shows fountain pen and several drops of blood against tan background with author's name in red and title in black. Back panel shows full-panel color photo of author. Small manufacturing flaw has left front board with a less-than-square lower corner, o/w, boards, text and dj in Fine condition with no other noticeable flaws or damage. Clean copy with no markings of any kind. A book for James collectors or for anyone interested in the mystery genre.