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

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This memoir of artist-writer Millett's youth is a story of growing up gay in the 1950s and '60s in America's Midwest but it is also a tribute to "A.D.", Millett's Aunt Dorothy. A.D., Millett's father's sister, was wealthy, sophisticated, a leading socialite in St. Paul, Minnesota, an adored godmother bestowing gifts and attention to Kate and her sisters. She provided Kate with the money she needed to study at Oxford on the condition Kate leave her female lover behind. Kate accepted the money and took her lover with her anyway. Her aunt never forgave her. Discussing the virtual impossibility of growing up gay in a prominent Irish family in the 1950s and her later struggles as a writer and artist, the author of "Sexual Politics" and "The Politics of Cruelty," Millett to some extent lays to rest a tremendous personal conflict while tracing the quiet… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A dark, satiric comedy, Blinn's first novel features a tactical jet crewman, nicknamed Aardvark, aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier heading to the Persian Gulf War. Aardvark is a virtual warrior in the world's first virtual war, his senses and weapons electronic and digital, his reality surreal and hallucinatory; Remainder mark on top edge of text, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Dutton, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Fine. Parrish's fourth novel, set in Phoenix, Arizona, is the story of a woman who refuses to surrender, even in the face of a murder charge while fighting a wealthy family backed by a corrupt legal system.

New York: Knopf, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hyde's fourth novel is this tense account of the investigation of the murder of Dr. Diana Duprey, an outspoken abortion doctor, whose murder divides her family and the small Colorado town where she lived and died; small check mark and initial 'S' in upper corner of front end page, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Knopf, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fourth novel from the author of "Stern," "A Mother's Kisses" and "The Dick," once again zeroes in on an American male "type." This time Friedman uses his funny but sad style of satirical humor to show us Harry Towns, a middling successful screenwriter in his forties, living the life of a 1960s American playboy in the playgrounds of Hollywood and Las Vegas with cocaine and starlets in bountiful abundance. But it takes the deaths of his parents to make Harry realize he isn't really living and to get him started in the right direction. A light remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text and a smudge on the front end page, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The white dustjacket shows some light soiling and minor edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Connors' first novel is this highly-praised legal thriller featuring Martha "Marty" Nickerson an assistant district attorney for Barnstable County on Massachusetts' Cape Cod, who wins a guilty verdict in a murder case only to discover the real killer may still be at large and ready to kill again; check mark and single initial in corner of front end page and small indentation on fore edge of back cover, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows small tear at same place as indentation in cover, o/w only very minimal surface and edgewear.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The nineteenth novel from perhaps the greatest master of spy-thriller fiction is the story of Ted Munday, former British spy now a seedy Bavarian tour guide, and his friend and fellow Cold War spy, Sasha, now a sometime university lecturer who's found a billionaire backer prepared to lift them both out of poverty and provide a way to set the world back on the right path; the text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some minor rubbing. A collectable copy.

New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1965. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Anchor Books A473; a collection of essays from the mid-1950s to the early '60s from one of America's great thinkers and essayists. Edges show light soiling o/w text is clean, tight, square; white wrappers are age discolored, particularly on spine, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. A collection of essays by this well-known economics analyst and columnist, written between 1995 and 1997, many appearing in Krugman's regular column in "Slate" or the "New York Times;" text is tight, square and clean with no underlining or highlighting; pictorial wrappers show only very minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel by Proulx, whose "The Shipping News" won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize; previous owner's address sticker on inside front cover behind front flap of dustjacket; tiny chip at upper front corner of dustjacket's front panel, back panel very slightly soiled.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel from the author who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for "The Shipping News;" small sticker with previous owner's name and address on front end page o/w boards and text are clean and square in dustjacket with some slight wear at spine ends and upper corners. A nice reading copy.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The third novel and fourth book from the author whose "The Shipping News" won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize; text and boards are clean, tight, square; back panel of dustjacket is extensively wrinkled with several small stains while protecting book extremely well; also small stain on dj's back flap; front panel, flap and spine undamaged. Makes a very acceptable reading copy.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Estleman's western novel based on the legend of Wild Bill Hickok won the 1982 Golden Spur Award from the Western Writers of America; a tight, clean copy in a dustjacket showing some rubbing and very minor chipping at edges; dj's white back panel and flaps are slightly browned. Scarce and Collectable.

New York: Arch Cape Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collection of over 250 full color photographs by some of the world's best aviation photographers attempting to capture the components of modern military air power. From the tactical jet fighters and strategic bombers to the spy planes, drones and ground support helicopters, to the tankers, transports and target tugs -- here are the people and technology that combine to create the immense power of a modern air force. Introduction by Walter J. Boyne, the former Director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Simthsonian Institurtion; Oversize 10.25 x 13 inches, 174 pages; boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear, no tears or chippings. Collectable.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Walters' eighth mystery-crime novel features a young London doctor, Sophie Morrison, trapped in the apartment of a known pedophile in a decaying, crime-ridden housing project as an angry mob storms the building searching for a missing child. A collectable copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Villard Books/Random House, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in Lovett's highly-praised mystery series featuring Santa Fe forensic psychiatrist Sylvia Strange. Collectable.

New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. . Original Wraps. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. The catalogue for a 1983 exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, designed, as museum director Thomas R. Messer notes in his foreword, "as a balance sheet . of what, within a particular context, we value most and, conversely, what we at present most sorely lack." The context is post-World War II European painting and the catalogue contains the work of 27 artists born or residing in 10 different European countries. The artists include Bacon, Balthus, Burri, Dubuffet, Fahlstrom, Fontana, Hamilton, Hockney, Kitaj, Klein, Matta, Morandi, Richter, de Stael, Tapies, and Vasarely. 11 x 10 1/2 inches, 104 pages containing black & white and color reproductions on heavy stock with artist biographies and supplementary photos. The black, heavy card covers with red and white printing show minimal surface and edgewear. The text is clean and… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hemingway's first novel after "For Whom The Bell Tolls;" (First Edition, First Printing: black cloth, letter 'A' on copyright page); lower right corner bumped, inside front cover and fep very slightly foxed, edges browned, pages lightly tanned; first state dustjacket (yellow lettering on spine, not price-clipped) basically whole, though front and back panels are edgeworn with multiple tears and chips, particularly at spine ends where half-inch of dj above author's name is missing, as is inch and a half at bottom with deeper tears along edge next to front panel; flaps are browned.

New York: Pocket Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The ninth novel in Shamus Awarding-winner Healy's mystery series featuring Boston private detective John Francis Cuddy; bottom of spine of both book and dustjacket bumped, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Random House, 1976. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Shapiro's poetry from the 1960's and '70's; remainder mark on top edge of text, o/w clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some rubbing, with two tears in lower left corner of front panel; both flaps are creased and slightly age-tanned.