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

New York: Henry Holt, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The sixth novel in Grafton's celebrated mystery series featuring female California private detective Kinsey Milhone; also the last of the "small format" books in the series. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The thirteenth novel in Langton's highly-praised mystery series is this bibliomystery featuring sometime detective Homer Kelly, this time coming to the aid of his niece, Annie, an illustrator of children's books who is caught up in a deadly game with a face on the wall. Collectable.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. the second novel in Gibbs' mystery-thriller series featuring Santa Barbara harbormaster Neal Donahoe and Coast Guard Lt. Tory Lennox; boards and text are tight, clean, square; dustjacket shows minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in Edgar Award winner Rosen's mystery series featuring Harvey Blissberg, former pro baseball player turned private detective, this time investigating the disappearance of a pair of NBA stars. A collectable copy.

New York: Broadway Books, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The award-winning television broadcaster and commentator's critique of baseball spares neither owners nor players but also offers common-sense solutions to the game's problems, presenting a workable strategy for restoring genuine competition; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Bantam Books, 1978. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. About Very Good. Vintage Paperback: Bantam 11967-2; New York, 1978. A change of pace for L'Amour, generally regarded as the most popular, bestselling Western genre writer of the 20th Century. This novel, a historical adventure set in the mid-17th century on the east coast of the U.S. in what would later be North Carolina, features Tatton Chantry, a shipwrecked, Irish soldier of fortune, who challenges the dangers of the New World including Indians, Spanish treasure-seekers, pirates and an unforgiving wilderness. Originally issued in hardcover, this is the First Printing of the First Paperback Edition. Pictorial covers show a slight spine lean, some surface creasing and edgewear. No significant tears. Text is lightly age-tanned in the margins but clean, unmarked, and binding tight. A decent first edition copy of one of the more scarce L'Amours.

New York: HarperCollins, 1994. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The first volume of Deighton's third spy thriller trilogy featuring British Intelligence agent Bernard Samson; First Printing of the First U.S. Edition; remainder mark on bottom edge of text, no other significant flaws.

New York: Knopf, 1977. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. National Book Award-winner Cheever's fourth novel is about Farragut, a member of the upper middle class driven by love and anger to murder, who finds real liberation in prison; First Printing of the First Edition; some slight shelfwear; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1977. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Cheever's late career novel has, since its publication, received both high praise and heavy criticism. The story of Farragut, a professor who is a heroin addict and murderer of his brother, and is now imprisoned at Falconer, has been seen as a stand-in for its author's life story of a man addicted to alcohol and tobacco, with a complex sexuality, sentenced by his solitary profession to long periods of lonliness. There are also parallels between the novel and time Cheever spent as a teacher at NY's Sing Sing prison. First Printing, First Edition (as stated). About 6 x 8 1/2 inches, 211 pages in black cloth-covered boards with title stamped in black and grey running vertically along fore edge of cover, and silver lettering on spine. Front panel of dustjacket shows title in silver, author's name in white on blue field, and full panel photo of Cheever on back. A trace of soiling on top edge of text, o/w text and boards… Read More

New York: Avon Books, 1997. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Lipinski's first novel features Pittsburgh private detective, Carroll Dorsey, investigating an epidemic of fake fall-downs, which have become a growth industry of insurance fraud scams, discovers there are some heavy hitters involved ready to help Dorsey take a big fall himself. Signed on the fep by Lipinski. Text is clean, tight, square; wrappers show some minor surface and edgewear, no tears or chipping. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The thirteenth crime-thriller novel for the Edgar Award-winning Parker features San Diego homicide detective Robbie Brownlow investigating the death of a former cop amid increasing cries of corrupt city politics; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minor edgewear, no tears or chipping. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 13th crime-thriller novel for Parker, twice an Edgar Award winner, features Robbie Brownlaw, a San Diego homicide detective, who was thrown out a sixth floor hotel window three years ago. He survived the fall but was left with a neurological disorder in which he sees people's speech in colors, a condition that amounts to a primitive lie detector. Brownlaw is assigned to investigate the death of a former cop, now an investigator for the city's Ethics Authority, and suddenly finds a lot of pressure to call the death a suicide. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket has perhaps a touch of edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. The thirteenth mystery-thriller by this two-time Edgar winner features San Diego homicide detective Robbie Brownlaw, who was just your ordinary cop until he was thrown out a sixth floor hotel window three years ago and acquired the ability to tell when people are lying to him; boards and text are clean and tight, with a very slight spine lean and a remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text; the dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Bantam Books, 1978. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. A collection of eleven Rendell short stories, most originally published in the 1970s in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, all exhibiting Rendell's special talent as a crime writer. Text is clean, unmarked, tight, with a slight spine lean and a touch of age-tanning; the pictorial wrappers show only minimal surface and edgewear, no significant flaws.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1994. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. In 1951, a quarter century before Peters captivated mystery fans with her medieval detective Brother Cadfael, she introduced English Police Inspector George Felse in a novel that quickly became a classic of the genre; this Mysterious Press edition is the book's first publication in the U.S.; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only some slight surface and edgewear, no tears or chips. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The twelfth novel in Hillerman's award-winning mystery series set in New Mexico and featuring Navaho Tribal Police Officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. The Mystery Writers Grand Master and Edgar Award-winner's thirteenth mystery sees the return of Navaho policemen Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn; text edges slightly soiled, o/w boards and text are tight, clean, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Bantam Books, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage paperback, Bantam A2512; The all-time, bestselling Western writer's story of Macon Fallon, a gambler who became a town builder; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; pages 85-90 have manufacturing defects that do not affect text, small stains on pages 2 and 3, o/w text is clean, tight, square, slightly age-browned in worn but whole pictorial wrappers showing small, tape-repaired tear at base of spine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Gold Dagger Award winner Rankin adds another mystery featuring his celebrated Scottish Police Detective John Rebus; Signed by Rankin on the title page; As New and Unread.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1992. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fifth novel in Kellerman's crime-thriller series featuring Los Angeles Homicide Sgt. Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus. This time Decker is investigating the brutal rape and robbery of the celebrity owner of the renowned Valley Canyon Spa Resort when the woman's physician brother is found murdered in his Hollywood office. First Printing, First Edition (as stated, with complete numberline). 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 367 pages quarter-bound in red cloth over pale yellow paper-covered boards. Boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered, not ex libris. A single, manufacturing-flaw crease runs vertically on the front flap of the dustjacket, o/w dj is near perfect, perhaps a touch of rubbing/surface wear. No tears or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.