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

New York: Knopf, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The historic story of the nine-day flight of Voyager, the first plane to circumnavigate the globe nonstop without refueling, told by the man and woman who made their dream become reality; boards and text show very minor edgewear, o/w clean and tight; dustjacket is slightly soiled, lightly edgeworn, corner of back flap creased.

Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday & Co., 1977. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good/Fair. The first book in York's mystery series featuring Colonel James Munroe Tallant, police commissioner on a small West Indies island; boards slightly edgeworn, top edge of text lightly foxed, inside covers and dustjacket flaps each have two small pieces of clear tape; jacket is edgeworn and slightly chipped at top and bottom of spine, lower front panel slightly wrinkled from water stain (not particularly noticeable). A decent reading copy.

New York: McKay-Washburn, 1976. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The fifth book in the award-winning Creasey's crime-thriller series featuring Scotland Yard's Superintendent Folly. (Creasey used 28 different pseudonyms while publishing 562 books over a 40-year career.) Originally published in 1948, the book was revised by Creasey in 1973. This copy is the First Printing of the First U.S. Revised Edition; boards and text are clean, tight, square; price-clipped dust jacket shows minor wear at top end of spine, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1995. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. One of the masters of domestic crime and suspense, Yorke's "Almost The Truth" reveals how an ordinary man, Derek Jarvis, and his family are destroyed by a home invasion in which his daughter is raped and how Derek plans a revenge for the rapist far beyond his British prison sentence. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; book appears unread in a dustjacket showing almost no surface or edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1996. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. One of England's masters of psychological suspense, Yorke presents a study of two families full of conflict and tension, close to the point of explosion and murder. Scarce.

New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1894. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. Andrew Young (1802 - 1877) was something of a 19th-century, western NY prodigy, largely self-taught and a teacher himself by age 13. Young's teaching career ended at 21 when he became a merchant, then shortly later, an editor and publisher of local newspapers in Warsaw and Batavia, NY, before editing an abolitionist paper in Warsaw. In 1835, he self-published his first book, "Science of Government," which was widely read in New York and neighboring states. It led to several other history books as well as terms as a state legislator. This volume, "The Government Class Book," was Young's attempt to improve the classroom education of young U.S. citizens. As Young noted in the preface, " In the U.S. the people elect their own lawmakers and rulers, establish their own constitutions.The danger of entrusting such power to the ignorant has not failed of illustration in our… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine. A monograph on the great 17th and 18th Century Spanish artist Goya, perhaps best known for his series of etchings, "The Disasters Of War," done in response to French atrocities during the 1808-14 War of Independence, but represented here by a fine selection of 40 of his paintings in full color with accompanying notes. 8 x 11", unpaginated; wrappers are light card stock illustrated with a detail from Goya's "The Third Of May, 1808." An advance review copy with publisher's card laid-in. Wrappers and text show slightly bumped upper front corner, o/w a clean, unmarked, tight and square copy.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Group, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Young's first novel (his second book) is this highly-praised Afghanistan war story. A U.S. transport plane, carrying an important Taliban prisoner of war, is shot down in a blizzard over the Hindu Kush. There are three survivors -- the POW, a woman Army intrepreter and the plane's navigator. With the storm making air rescue impossible the two Americans begin an odds-against battle for survival in some of the most unforgiving terrain on earth and against two very cruel enemies -- nature and man. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows perhaps a touch of edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.