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

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Udall, from a prominent western U.S. family that includes two former Congressmen -- Stewart, also a Secretary of the Interior, and Morris, a former Presidential candidate -- seems more likely to be remembered as a writer than for his politics. "The Lonely Polygamist" is his second novel. It is the tragic-comic story of Golden Richards, a hard-working family man in his 40s, with four wives, 28 children and a failing construction company. Depressed by the death of a daughter and a stillborn son, Richards fights himself to believe in himself and his religion and becomes entangled in an affair that could destroy everything he's worked for and believes in. This copy is from the Powell's Bookstore's Indiespensable limited edition, signed by Udall in black marker on the title page, protected by both a dustjacket and a slipcase. First printing, first edition (as stated, with complete number line). About 6 5/8 x 9… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The seventh novel by Edgar Award-winner Uhnak is a legal thriller that features a brutally raped television news reporter and an ambitious young woman lawyer who wants to become New York City's district attorney; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Pocket Books, 1967. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback; Pocket Books 50530; Ullman's second novel is a mystery featuring Peter Ames, a young reporter for a Chicago newspaper investigating the murder of the woman whose story he'd rejected; text is clean, tight, slight spine lean, age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Knopf, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Updike's thirteenth novel takes the form of letters and tapes 42-year-old Sara Worth sends to her husband, mother, daughter and assorted friends and neighbors after abandoning her New England home to join a commune in Arizona. Like Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," Sara has fallen in love with a religious leader; in Sara's case, a Hindu named Arhat, resulting in a religious comedy, a romance, and Updike's meditation on American womanhood. Boards and text are clean, tight, perhaps a trace of spine lean; dustjacket is close to perfect with very minimal surface and edgewear. A very collectable copy.

New York: Knopf, 1992. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. The fifteenth novel of National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Updike features historian Alfred Clayton, who answers a request for his memories of the 1970s Gerald Ford administration with his own turbulent personal history of that time as well as pages of an unpublished book on James Buchanan, president from 1857 to 1861. A Very Fine unread copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1995. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Updike's eleventh collection of short stories, his first since "Trust Me" in 1987, focuses on characters exploring the second half of life with, in a sense, eyes newly opened. The twenty-two stories, most originally published in "The New Yorker," include Updike's 1991 O. Henry Award winner, "The Sandstone Farmhouse;" boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket is close to perfect. A very collectable copy.

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: Crest Books/Fawcett World Library, 1965. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Two of Updike's early poetry collections -- The Carpentered Hen and Telephone Poles -- brought together in a mass market paperback; previous owner's name on fep o/w clean, tight, square; wrappers show edgewear, minor chipping along spine, bumped corners; Good Plus to Very Good. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1978. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The ninth novel from National Book Award and Pulitizer Prize-winning Updike tells the story of the dictator of a large, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan African nation, a departure from Updike's books about the American middle and upper classes; First Trade Edition, Later Printing; trace of edgewear, slightly soiled area on front end page; dustjacket shows shelfwear, slight yellowing on top inside edge.

New York: Crest Books/Fawcett World Library, 1965. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Fine to Very Fine. vintage paperback, Crest t787; the first collection of Updike's poetry, originally published in "The New Yorker" and several other magazines and then in a pair of hardcover volumes (The Carpentered Hens & Telephone Poles), with an original foreword in verse by Updike; Paperback Original; First Printing, First Edition Thus; text is clean, tight, square, appears unread; pictorial wrappers show very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The third book in Updike's quartet of novels chronicling the life and times of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1982; a Fine copy in a dustjacket showing light edgewear and slightly chipped at bottom of spine. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1979. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fifth collection of short stories by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Updike. A Collectable Copy.

New York: Knopf, 1990. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The fourth and final book in Updike's National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning quartet of novels chronicling the life and times of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom; previous owner's name on front end page, remainder spray on top edge, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Updike's 18th novel is a venture into near-future science fiction. The novel is set in 2020, in Massachusetts just north of Boston and in the aftermath of a recent war with China. The war has resulted in social chaos, but has left the life of Ben Turnbull, a 66-year-old, recently-retired investment counselor, relatively unchanged. Turnbull keeps a journal in which he notes both mundane daily happenings and ruminates about his personal identity and history in terms of the "many universes" hypothesis derived from quantum theory indeterminacy. His mind shifts from one universe and identity to another, and back and forth in time while his mortal, here-and-now physical self moves inexorably toward the end of its time. Small remainder dot on top edge of text, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows a bit of minor edge wear at the spine ends, no tears, creases or… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1984. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Pulitzer and National Book Award winner Updike's 14th novel, the basis for a well-received film starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer, may be his best-known work among the 97 books he published. The novel features three rather benign witches leading unremarkable (for witches) lives in a small Rhode Island village until the arrival of Darryl Van Horn, a dark, burly, apparently weatlhy stranger, who renovates an old mansion and sets up an alchemist's lab, and now, the witches' magic takes on a malignant edge and misfortune visits village inhabitants. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a nickel-sized, triangular tear in the jacket's lamination on the lower edge of the back panel, o/w no other significant damage; no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

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: Knopf, 1989. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Updike, who died Jan. 27, 2009, at age 76, divided these memoirs into six sections or chapters in which he writes of his hometown, his psoriasis, his stuttering, his discomfort during the Vietnam War, his ancestors, and his religion and sense of self, which, taken together, gives shape to the inner life of one of America's greatest modern writers; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Knopf, 1994. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The award-winning Updike's fifteenth novel is a story of youthful love between a nineteen-year-old black boy from Rio's slums and an eighteen-year-old, upper-class white girl he meets on a public beach, a love that maintains itself in the face of their class differences, parents' hate, poverty and captivity. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows almost no surface or edgewear. A very collectable copy.

New York: Knopf, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. The thirteenth novel of National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Updike features 42-year-old Sarah Worth, who leaves her family and friends in New England to join a religious commune in Arizona. A Very Fine unread copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1990. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fourth and final novel in Updike's saga of ex-high school basketball player, Harry Angstrom, now in late middle age with heart trouble and a condo in Florida, trying to find reasons to keep on living. This book won Updike his second Pulitzer Prize. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; front flap of dustjacke is creased, o/w very minimal surface or edgewear. A collectable copy.