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

New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. a Cold War era spy-thriller about one-man's attempt to help a major league baseball player and his girl friend escape from Castro's Cuba with the help of the CIA; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Park Lane, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This large volume does justice not only to the 124 color and 116 b & w reproductions but to the multitude of family, friends, artists, critics, and historians who have written, not always kindly, about Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), and whose comments, as well as Renoir's own letters and writings have all been represented here. First Park Lane Edition, first printing (with complete letter line). About 10 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches, 386 pages including index. Bound in blue cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Contents include a bibliographical index, chronology, over 130 letters, essays, reviews, articles written over 120 years as well as the art works, many in full-page, full-color plates. Dustjacket's front panel shows a detail from "By The Sea Shore (1883), which overlaps spine and part of dj's back panel. Boards and binding clean and tight with some wear along bottom edges, not uncommon in large books. Text… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/About Very Good. Waer's debut mystery-thriller features Jim Fowler, an honest man in the somewhat dubious profession of gambling casino manager. Fowler accepts a position at a Mexico City casino and almost immediately finds that honesty tested by a bewitched roulette wheel; assorted beautiful women, most far from innocent or honest; an international crime ring; and a pair of murders. First Printing, First Edition. About 5 3/4 x 8 inches, 241 pages quarter bound in orange cloth over green paper-covered boards. Front cover has black graphic design denoting a roulette wheel, black lettering on spine. DJ's front panel repeats the cover graphic in lower right corner in black, white, green & orange; title and author in white. Back panel has b & w photo of author and brief bio. Boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked; binding tight and square. Not remaindered, not ex-library. DJ shows wear along edges, at… Read More

New York: Pocket Books, 1971. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 77414; Wager's mystery-thriller featuring a team of former OSS agents who come out of retirement to avenge the death of a friend killed in a mob bombing in the southern U.S.; text is clean, tight, square in white pictorial wrappers showing very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce and collectable.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Wager's tenth novel is a crime-thriller featuring an international team of criminals that has used sophisticated technologies to explode a series of bombs in New York City, claiming to be a terrorist group and demanding a huge ransom. They create a huge diversion by blocking both ends of Lincoln Tunnel with deliberately crashed cars loaded with poison gas and explosives, trapping thousands of people in the tunnel. How will law enforcement respond? A fine, collectable copy of this first-rate thriller.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. One of Britain's best police procedural writers crafts the story of a local druggist who, after hours of interrogation, admits he poisoned his wife and describes why and how he did it, only to have the police reject his confession; dustjacket shows only a tiny chip in upper corner of front panel, light edge and corner wear.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Wainwright's classic story of justice miscarried with the conviction of a policeman for the murders of two prostitutes, then a third is murdered in the same manner as the first two; dustjacket's bottom left corner on back panel shows crease and rubbing.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. the first novel in Wait's well-received mystery series featuring antique prints dealer and amateur sleuth, Maggie Summer; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Scarce.

New York: Pocket Books, 1964. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. vintage paperback, Pocket Books M 5080; Wakeman's novel of a U.S. Intelligence agent, betrayed while on a dangerous mission to Africa during the Cold War, then confronted with evidence the informer was his wife; cover art by Harry Bennett; text is lightly age-tanned, clean, tight, seller's stamp on fep; pictorial wrappers show reading crease, minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Walbert's first novel, based on her Pushcart and O. Henry Prize-winning short story, features Ellen, a young woman coming of age in Maryland at the end of World War II, her cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima, and Henry, about to leave the U.S. for the war in Korea. Collectable.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of erotic short stories with a sexual content leaning to S&M and BDSM, described on the dustjacket as "stories about mastery, slavery, and the darker side of desire;" boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

Orlando: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple" comes a novel about a woman's struggle against madness after voluntarily undergoing genital mutilation in an act of misguided loyalty to tribal custom; a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The poet and novelist's fourth novel, the first after her Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Color Purple," deals with the highly controversial topic of female circumcision as the book spans thousands of years in Africa, Europe and America; boards and text are clean, tight, with a slight spine lean; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. The second novel in Walker's award-winning mystery-thriller series featuring Molly Cates, a Texas-based crime reporter whose recently published book described the crimes of serial killer, Louie Bronk, now on death row. But Molly has begun to receive hints that she's being strongly discouraged from following up that Bronk may not have committed the one murder he's been charged with that's actually a capital offense. And then there's another murder. Advance Uncorrected Proof, which precedes the first printing of the first edition; text has some spine lean; wrappers show some creasing and other minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Walker's Edgar Award-winning second mystery introduces Texan Molly Cates, a true crime writer investigating the murders of a serial killer who may not be guilty of all the murders for which he was convicted; a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edgar and Agatha Award-winning Walker's fourth novel features true crime writer Molly Cates investigating two mysteries: the supposed suicide of her father 25 years ago and a plot to kill the members of the Texas legistature; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fourth crime-thriller from Walker, whose first three novels won Edgar, Anthony, Hammet, Agatha and Macavity Awards, features Texas true crime reporter Molly Cates re-opening the investigation of her father's 25-year-old suicide to face an unexpected moral dilemma and to discover a homeless woman's story about a plot to destroy the state legislature is true. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The mostly black dustjacket shows a touch of surface and edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Walker's third novel is a mystery featuring Chris Cage, a young San Francisco lawyer, who gives up his comfortable, middle-of-the-road existence to defend a friend he knows is guilty; top edge of text is foxed, trace of foxing on fore edge; dustjacket shows some slight wear and rubbing.

New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Walker's third mystery-thriller, set in San Francisco's Bay Area, features a bizarre murder followed by a suspense-filled trial; text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket's front panel slightly wrinkled along bottom edge, o/w only minimal surface and edgewear; Fine/Very Good.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Walker's fourth mystery/thriller is the story of the murder of the leading citizen of Woodedge, Massachusetts, strangled in her Mercedes in a local lovers' lane; a remainder mark on bottom edge of test, o/w Fine in like dustjacket.