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

New York: Random House, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The fourth book in Kallen's intelligent, humorous mystery series featuring reporter Maggie Rome and her boss, C. B. Greenfield. This time Maggie's on vacation on Sannibel-Captiva when she discovers the body of a murder victim and needs Greenfield's special genius. An ink-stamped price on the front end page, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows almost no surface or edgewear. A fine, collectable copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Pocket Books, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. the fifth novel from the award-winning author and former writer for 'Hill Street Blues' and 'Miami Vice' features DEA Agent Jack Walker; a collectable copy.

New York: Hyperion, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Good Plus. A novel from the award-winning Burke's mystery-thriller series featuring Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux, this time investigating whether a small-time, backwoods criminal, convicted of assassinating a black civil rights leader 28 years ago, is truly guilty or has been used by those in power as a scapegoat for an entire generation. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; price-clipped dustjacket shows series of light, thin scratches on both panels and flaps, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. A decent reading copy.

New York: Hyperion, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel from Burke's award-winning and bestselling mystery series featuring Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux, this time investigating claims of innocence from a racist killer convicted of murdering a civil rights leader; a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Hyperion, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel from Burke's award-winning mystery series featuring Louisiana law officer Dave Robicheaux in a case that takes him from New Orleans to a ranch in Mexico; a collectable copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Bantam Books, 1972. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Bantam Q7407; Kyle's suspense thriller set in Arctic wastelands begins with a misaddressed package from a dead Soviet scientist and results in sudden violence from spy agencies around the world; one-reader text is clean, tight, square in white pictorial wrappers showing minor wear at spine ends, lower right corner of front cover slightly bumped.

New York: Knopf, 1969. Book Club. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. An omnibus edition bringing together the three Cain novels that have become crime noir classics: "The Postman Always Rings Twice," "Mildred Pierce," and "Double Indemnity." All three of these novels have also been the basis for successful films and both books and films have become staples of any mystery-crime library or film collection. This copy is the book club edition, First Printing, First Edition Thus. 400 pages in black, paper-covered boards with gold lettering. Boards and text show only a touch of foxing on the top edge of the text block, o/w clean and unmarked, tight and square. Primarily white dustjacket shows very minor edge wear, light soiling and age-tanning, one tiny tear at bottom of spine, no creasing or chipping. Very decent copy of three of Cain's best.

New York: Pocket Books, 1955. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Fair To Good. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 2283; Ellery Queen, America's most famous amateur sleuth is in Wrightsville, three people are dead and Queen himself is the focal point in a sensational trial splitting the town into raging factions and making him a murderer's target; Seventh Printing of First Paperback Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned with store and date stamp on front end paper; pictorial wrappers are whole but worn, with small, tape-repaired tear at bottom of spine, some light staining, creasing, edgewear. A reading copy of a good classic mystery.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1942. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/No Jacket. the fifteenth mystery by Dannay and Lee in their highly-acclaimed, now classic, 'whodunit' series featuring writer-detective-genius Ellery Queen, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, often considered the authors' masterpiece; text edges are slightly soiled, boards show slightly bumped corners, wear at edges and spine ends; small tape residue marks on lower inside edge of both covers; book is still clean, tight, square, not ex libris. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Henry Holt, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Wilcox's celebrated San Francisco homicide detective Lt. Frank Hastings returns in this complex novel involving politics, wealth, AIDS, and blackmail. Collectable.

New York: Saturday Review Press/Dutton, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Easily the most popular and best-selling Western genre writer of the past 75 years, most of L'Amour's novels appeared first in paperback. "The Californios" is an exception, published in 1974 by Saturday Review Press, it is the story of an Irish-American family in the early 1800s settled on a ranch in Malibu in danger of being foreclosed by an unscrupulous businessman and his outlaw associates. But Eileen Mulkerin is a strong woman who refuses to sell and it becomes the mission of her son, Sean, a sea-faring adventurer like his father, to protect his mother and save his heritage. Boards and text show a slight spine lean with lower end of spine bumped, some soiling on text edges, o/w book is clean and unmarked, tight, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows some minor edgewear including a single, quarter-inch tear on lower edge of back panel, and a bit of chipping at spine… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1974. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback: Bantam N8082. A mid-career Western from the bestselling L'Amour, arguably the most popular western writer in the history of the genre. "The Californios" features the Mulkerin family, which needs money to pay off the debt on their Malibu ranch and are desperate enough to follow an old Indian mystic and his stories of a gold treasure. Right behind them are a band of outlaws, who liked gold almost as much as killing. First Printing, First Paperback Edition, now more scarce than the Saturday Review Press hardcover edition. 188 pages in pictorial wrappers with an author biographical note and three pages of publisher's ads. Wrappers show moderate surface and edge wear with reading crease and some other light creasing. No tears, no chipping. Text is clean, complete and unmarked. Collectable.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 2004. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Parker's 12th mystery-thriller and his second to win an Edgar Award (Best Novel - 2005) is set in California in the 1960s and features the three Becker brothers, one a minister, one a journalist and one a homicide detective. All three are shocked by the savage murder of a young woman from their past and all three, each in his own way, set out to find the killer. First Edition, First Printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches, 370 pages quarter bound in brown cloth over blue paper-covered boards. The dustjacket shows author's name in blue and title in white against a blue and yellow background on both front panel and spine. Full panel photo of Parker on back panel. Boards and text are clean, complete and unmarked, no bumping, no chipping or creasing, not remaindered. Dustjacket shows only touch of edgewear at spine ends, o/w no tears, no creasing, not price-clipped. A… Read More

New York: HarperCollins, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Parker's twelfth mystery-crime novel and his second to win an Edgar Award. The book is set in California in the 1960s and features the three Becker brothers, just starting their careers as a homicide cop, a reporter and a minister in 1968, when the body of a young woman they've known all their lives is found in an abandoned orange-packing plant, beginning a decades-long search for the killer, each brother hunting in his own way. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows a one-inch tear (tape-repaired on the verso) at the top edge of the back panel near the spine, o/w very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Knopf, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Pulitzer Prize-winning Hersey's twentieth book is an epic novel about China in the first half of the 20th century and David Treadup, a farm boy from upstate New York, who is struck with a sudden evangelical fervor to bring Christianity to China's struggling millions. Hersey, himself born in China and the son of a missionary family, is able to marry his life experience to his writing skill to create a work of more than a little significance. Upper corners of both boards are slightly bumped and text edges show a touch of soiling, o/w text and boards are clean and undmaged, tight and square; the dustjacket shows a tiny tear at the top of the spine, o/w only minor surface and edgewear. A collectable copy of an under-appreciated book. (With over 700 pages, this book is heavier than average and may require additional postage depending on destination.)

New York: Dell, 1964. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage Paperback, Dell 0972; a novel from Halliday's long-running mystery series featuring Michael Shayne, redheaded Miami private detective, this time trying to help a man who can't remember the past twelve days of his life, including a strange woman who claims to be his wife and a strange man who can't claim anything because he's dead; First Printing of the 1964 New Dell Edition; cover art by Robert McGinnis; text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show minor edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. a novel from one of the spy-thriller genre's acknowledged masters and featuring his now legendary British intelligence agent, George Smiley; Fourth Printing of First Bantam Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers with very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The Nobel Prize-winning Grass, controversial for his socialist political activisim and his late-life confession of service in the Waffen-SS as a teenager in WWII, was an extremely versatile writer -- publishing as a novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist, as well as being a talented visual artist. "The Call of The Toad," set in Grass' native Danzig, is a humorous romantic story about a man and woman in their fifties who set out to make a fortune by selling burial plots to Germans who were exiled from Danzig, their birthplace, after WWII. It is capitalism taken to absurdity as Grass skewers both German and Polish stereotypes and was the basis for a 2005 film directed by Robert Glinski. First Printing, First U.S. Edition (with an A to E letterline), translated by Ralph Mannheim. About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 248 pages quarter bound in white cloth over white paper-covered boards. White… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Wilhelm's novel about a group of travelers stranded by a California mudslide explores the fine line between fact and fiction, truth and legend; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. The Alta Edition of this mid-19th century book by historian Henry C. Watson describing some 40 battles fought by Napoleon and the French during the first half of the century from the battle of Toulon in 1793 to Waterloo in 1815. About 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, 448 pages plus 16 pages of publisher's ads bound in light blue paper-covered boards with stamped floral graphic designs on front cover and spine. Illustrated with numerous black & white prints. Copyright stated as 1854, no indication of edition or printing. Boards show soiling, edgewear and wear at spine ends and light bumping at corners. Text block edges are somewhat soiled and there is light foxing and occasional stains thoughout text. On the other hand, text is complete and free of underlining/highlighting except several initials on end pages. Book is complete, without tears or other significant flaws or damage. Overall, a very decent copy of this early edition. . Good. Hardcover. 1854.