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

Kansas City, Missouri: University Trustees, W.R. Nelson Trust, 1973. First Printing, Fifth Edition. . Large Softcover. Near Fine/Issued Without Jacket. A two-volume catalogue of the collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts in Kansas City. Both volumes are 8 1/2 x 11", with heavy card pictorial covers, with most pages containing 1 to 3 black & white photo reproductions of the art as well as brief descriptions of the time period and the individual works. Volume 1 is 264 pages and contains the museum's collection of Western art beginning in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome and continuing through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque, the 18th, 19th & 20th centuries, with the Starr Collection of Miniatures and American painting perhaps being areas of special interest. Volume 2, 168 pages, contains the institution's Asian collection with its emphasis on Chinese, Japanese and Indian art though Southeast Asia and… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Group, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Tan's fifth novel features an unusual narrator: Bibi Chen, 63, San Francisco retail maven and socialite, murdered two weeks before the art tour expedition she organized left for Burma, a dozen American tourists looking forward to visiting and viewing Burma's centuries old art treasures only to disappear on a sunrise boat ride across a misty Burmese lake; Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the title page: "For Laurie, with thanks;" boards are bumped at corners and spine ends, o/w book is clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows minor edgewear (from the bumping) but no chips or tears.

New York: New American Library, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Authored by New York Assistant District Attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum, who also worked on the Kennedy assassination investigation and the Hillside Strangler case, and Peter S. Greenberg, a nationally syndicated columnist and producer,this is the True Crime account of Charles Yukl, a gifted piano teacher, sensitive and reserved, who brutally murdered an young, aspiring actress, was caught and convicted of his crime, and then, eight years later, released from prison to act out his violent sexual fantasies a second time. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only some light surface and edge wear, with minor creasing at the top of the spine, no tears or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy of this classic case of justice system failure.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Tapply's sixth novel in his highly praised mystery series featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne; top edge of text very lightly foxed, o/w Very Good in like dustjacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tapply's first novel and the first in his highly-praised mystery series featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, this time investigating the death of a school teacher insured for a million dollars. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third book in Tapply's highly praised mystery series featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, this time investigating the kidnapping of the son of a former major league baseball player. A Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The eighth book in Tapply's highly praised mystery series featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, who finds himself representing a minister's son suspected of murder. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The 23rd novel in Tapply's long-running mystery-thriller series featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne. This time an old friend of Coyne's has been badly beaten by members of the Boston mob for a gambling debt owed by the friend's son. Coyne tries to intervene and is informed the mob boss has made him personally responsible for the debt in a rapidly escalating and violent situation. First Edition, First Printing. 292 pages in black cloth-covered boards. A tiny remainder dot on the bottom edge of the text, spine ends lightlly bumped, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows only a bit of very minor wear at the corners and edges, no tears, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. the sixteenth novel in Tapply's highly-praised mystery-crime series featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, this time defending a former pro basketball player whose wife has been murdered.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The ninth book in Tapply's highly praised mystery series featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne sees Coyne trying to protect a judge from blackmail. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fourteenth novel in Tapply's highly-praised mystery series features Boston lawyer Brady Coyne investigating the disappearance and presumed death of a fellow criminal defense attorney; a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. The eighth novel in Tapply's highly-praised mystery series featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne; a small dent on bottom edge of front cover o/w clean and tight; dustjacket is slightly edgeworn and rubbed, front flap creased vertically and in upper corner, small tear on top edge of fold between back panel and back flap. Now in mylar protector; Near Fine/Good Plus.

New York: Knopf, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Tartt's second novel follows the international success of her "The Secret History," and features Harriet Cleve Dufresnes, who, as a girl growing up in a small Mississippi town, resolves to solve the murder of her brother; dustjacket shows some minor surface wear, and upper right corner of front panel is slightly creased.

New York: Thames & Hudson, Inc., 2012. First Edition, First Printing. . Very Fine/Near Fine. In the early 1930s, the legendary American surrealist, Joseph Cornell, engaged in one of his favorite pastimes of wandering through the bookstalls of lower Manhattan searching for old books, photos and other ephemera to use in his artmaking, found and bought the "Journal d' Agriculture Practique" (Vol. 21, 1911) a voluminous handbook of advice for French farmers. Over time Cornell altered and reinvented many of the Journal's pages, transforming it into a mult-faceted work of art by inserting collages, photomontages and drawings, crossing out words in the text and making French puns with others. Hand-colored engravings, cutouts and lift-ups pull the reader from one page to the next. The Journal was discovered in his studio after his death in 1972 and is now in the Philadelphia Musuem of Art. Its fragility has made it one of the least known of Cornell's major works. This boxed,… Read More

New York: Viking Penguin, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is the first novel for Tate, the second for Hanna, the director of the Columbus, Ohio, Zoo and a frequent guest on Letterman and Good Morning America; it is a mystery featuring zoo veterinarian Carlson MacIntire investigating murder at a Massachusetts zoo while trying to save the zoo's endangered wolf species; text is clean, tight, square in dustjacket showing very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Walker & Co., 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Taylor, herself an award-winning poet as well as a novelist, sets her fourth mystery at a poetry workshop at a Minnesota lake resort where clashes among the ill-matched participants inevitably leads to murder the solution of which may lie in the notes, journals and diaries even bad writers keep; a bibliomystery about a novel not yet written; remainder dot on top edge of text, o/w text is clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear; Very Good/Very Good. Hard To Find.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1958. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal 759; a novel from Telfair's Western adventure series featuring gunfighter Wyoming Jones. Paperback Original, First Printing of the True First Edition. Previous owner's initials on front end page, o/w text is clean, tight, with slight spine lean; pictorial wrappers show only minor surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The eighth novel in Temple's cooking-oriented mystery series (recipes included) featuring Kansas City restaurateur Heaven Lee. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The second of Templeton's six psychological thrillers to be published in the U.S., this novel features Detective Sergeant Tom Ward, in charge of investigating the death of an eleven-year-old girl whose skeleton has been found in a Derbyshire cave eighteen years after her murder; some very slight edgewear. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel in Teran's series of thrillers is set in the California delta area and features Dane Rudd, a man who is able to see because of corneas donated by another man, Taylor Greene, the heir to a large fortune. Greene is believed to have commited suicide by all except Rudd who feels indebted to Greene and is searching for another answer when he finds one involving diamond smuggling and money laundering. First Edition, First Printing (as stated with complete numberline). About 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 371 pages in black paper-covered boards with blue lettering on spine. The dustjacket's front panel shows white lettering against a blue-sky background with a falling man holding a pistol stretched out along the right hand edge of the dj. A remainder dot on the bottom edge of the text, o/w boards and text are clean, complete and unmarked, no bumping, creasing or chipping. The dj shows some slight surface… Read More