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

New York: Crown/Random House, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Rabb's second novel is a mystery-thriller featuring Ian Pearse, a young American priest working as a researcher at the Vatican Library, who comes into possession of an ancient scroll after the mysterious death of one priest and the disappearance of another. Translation of the scroll reveals a dormant but still live Manichaen conspiracy awaiting "the great awakening." When the Pope dies and the woman who translated the scroll is kidnapped, Father Pearse realizes the great awakening is now. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, no remainder marks. The dustjacket shows perhaps a trace of edgewear, no tears or creases, no chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1965. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal k1540; a novel of art and international intrigue in Rabe's mystery-thriller series featuring New York lawyer Manny deWitt; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, slight spine slant, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers with minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce and collectable.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1967. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal d1830; a tongue-in-cheek spy-thriller featuring New York lawyer Manny deWitt, written by a very underrated genre craftsman; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing only minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Hardcover. Good to Good Plus/No Jackets. Three mid-career novels by bestselling western genre author, Raine: "The Big-Town Round-Up," 1920; "The Black Tolts," 1932, and "Moran Beats Back," 1939. All three books are Grosset & Dunlap reprints with minor flaws and suface wear. However, all are clean, complete and in readable condition. This is a chance for western fans to pick up a lot of good reading cheaply with an added saving on shipping. Sorry, no priority/express orders or orders outside the U.S.

New York: Walker & Co., 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fourth novel in Randisi's mystery series featuring ex-boxer turned NY private detective, Miles Jacoby. This time Jacoby's hired to find a missing prostitute named Two-John Wheeler, who may be able to provide an alibi for a mob boss accused of murdering his wife. At the same time, Jacoby becomes involved with a female PI who's looking for a serial killer. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows just a touch of edgewear, o/w no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Little Brown & Co., 2010. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This stand-alone crime-thriller from the award-winning author of the Inspector Rebus series features three friends -- a software mogul, a banker and an art professor -- who realize, while visiting an art auction, they have the ways and the means for a record-setting theft of paintings from Scotland's National Gallery. But once set in motion their plan involves others such as forgers, crime bosses, a Hell's Angel, even girl friends, all with plans of their own. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. Dustjacket is equally free of significant flaws -- no creasing, no tearing, no chipping or bumping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A departure from the award-winning Rankin's Inspector Rebus mystery series, this crime-thriller features Gordon Reeve, a retired SAS killer, traveling to California to begin his own investigation into the death of his journalist brother only to become the killer's next target. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows only very minor surface and edgewear. A collectable copy of this book first published in the UK in 1995 under the pseudonymn, Jack Harvey.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2007. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sixteenth novel in the award-winning Rankin's mystery-crime series featuring Scottish Police Inspector John Rebus, this time being his usual thorn-in-the-side self to his superiors as the leaders of the free world descend on Edinburgh for an international conference and the delegate who falls to his death at a pre-conference dinner may just have a connection with the murder of a paroled rapist; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear, no tears or chips. A nice copy of a good novel.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2002. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Rankin's fifteenth book in his award-winning mystery-suspense series set in Scotland and featuring Police Inspector John Rebus; text is clean, tight, square, lightly bumped at base of spine; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The ninth book in Rankin's award-winning mystery-thriller series featuring Scottish Police Detective John Rebus, this time hunting a gangster importing Chechen refugees into England and Scotland to be sold as prostitutes, who may also be responsible for the professional hit-and-run that injured Rebus' daughter. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight, with a slight spine lean. The dustjacket shows only some light edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. Collectable.

London: Orion Books, Ltd., 2005. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Rankin's first published novel, a coming-of-age story featuring Mary Miller, a social outcast who, as a young girl, fell into the "hot burn" chemical runoff from a Scottish coal mine and came to be regarded with suspicion by the community. Still an outcast but now an unmarried woman with a son, she must come to terms with her past and with a long-held secret. Not a crime story but with many of the elements that have made Rankin's Inspector Rebus series an international success, a few hundred copies of "The Flood" was originally published by Polygon in 1986. This Orion edition contains an introduction by Rankin that provides history and background for this early work. Black cloth-covered boards with silver lettering and text block are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows some light wear at the corners and along the edges but no… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Gold Dagger Award winner Rankin adds another mystery featuring his celebrated Scottish Police Detective John Rebus; Signed by Rankin on the title page; As New and Unread.

New York: Walker & Co., 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. The third novel in this critic-turned-writer's satiric mystery series featuring Nick Hoffman, amateur sleuth and professor at the State University of Michigan, a place where the Borgias and the Marx brothers would equally be at home; Signed by Raphael on the title page; unread and very collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The second novel in Raphael's satiric mystery series featuring Nick Hoffman, University of Michigan English professor and Edith Wharton scholar, who's trying to organize a quiet, non-controversial conference on Wharton only to have a couple of his colleagues turn into murder victims with Wharton's novels the key to the killings; text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket is price-clipped, o/w only very minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1983. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Rathbone's third mystery-thriller featuring Police Commissioner Jan Argand of the fictional European country of Brabt, who, as head of Brabt's internal affairs office, investigates complaints against the police and discovers a series of cases of police brutality, racism and gay harassment that deepens to become a government-wide conspiracy. Text is clean, tight, square in dustjacket showing only minimal surface and edgewear. A thinking man's thriller by a currently under-appreciated writer.

London: Third Millennium Publishing Ltd., 2002. First Edition. . Large Softcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. In 1921, Duncan Phillips opened his home to the public, creating the first museum of modern art in the U.S. in Washington, D.C. Today, the Phillips Collection remains a monument to one man's unique vision and foresight with its carefully selected collection of work where visitors could see "beautifully as true artists see." This book accompanied a 2002 traveling exhibition by the same title to six U.S. museums. It features over sixty of the most important works by European artists in the Phillips Collection, including Cezanne, Renoir, Klee, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Modigliani. An essay on Duncan Phillips, the collector by Eliza Rathbone, the Collections curator and narratives accompanying the full color illustrations of the exhibition by Johanna Halford-MacLeod. Also an exhibition checklist, a chronology and a list of references. First Edition, First Printing. About 8 1/4… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The fifth book in Ray's mystery series featuring Southern California private detective Matt Murdock, this time traveling to Seattle to investigate the murder of a poor chemistry student who'd lived a rich life manufacturing street drugs; a Fine copy in very slightly edgeworn dustjacket.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The sixth novel in Ray's mystery-thriller series featuring California private detective Matt Murdock, this time making connections on a near-miss accident that almost kills a senator's daughter and a missing father from a very wealthy and powerful family, which puts Murdock in a very dangerous spot among Orange County's moneyed elite. Top edge of text slightly soiled, a couple of pages with tiny dogears, o/w boards and text are clean, unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows a small, tape-repaired tear on the fold between the top of the front panel and the flap, other minor edgewear.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The second novel in Ray's mystery series featuring Southern California private detective Matt Murdock; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some slight edgewear, small tear in upper corner of back panel. A collectable copy.

New York: Union Square Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A True Crime account of the 1880 shooting death of Charles de Young, the founder of the San Francisco Chronicle, the leading newspaper in the western U.S. from the 1870s until well into the 1990s. In 1879, de Young and the Chronicle began a bitter feud with Isaac Kalloch, a prominent city preacher running for mayor, with a headline which called Kalloch an "unclean leper." The preacher retaliated from his pulpit labeling de Young and his brother "bastards of progeny of a whore born in the slums and nursed in the lap of prositution." De Young, enraged by the insult to his family, escalated the feud by shooting Kalloch in the chest and leg. Kalloch survived the attack, and in 1880, Kalloch's son, Milton, shot de Young in the neck, killing him instantly. Read's account of this particular bit of California history captures the violent and riotous time of late 19th century San… Read More