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

New York: Henry Holt, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Grafton's seventh novel in her celebrated mystery series featuring Kinsey Milhone, female California private detective, who finds answers in her murder investigation during a search of country records and in old newspapers at the public library; this book won Shamus and Anthony Awards; a Collectable Copy.

New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1965. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Ace F-328: A late stand-alone novel from the premier Science Fiction pulp fiction writer of the 1930s and '40s. Earth's first starship, called "Pleiades," could travel instantaneously from one point in the universe to any other point no matter how many light-years distant. It had one very large flaw -- there was no way of predicting where, in the infinity of space, it would re-appear when it left the solar system and no way of knowing how to return. Its crew of two men and two women are all Psionic Primes with mind-powers previously unknown on Earth. This is the story of how they pitted their mental powers against the dangers of the universe. Cover art by Ed Valigursky. Pictorial wrappers show reading crease, only minor surface and edge wear. Slight spine lean, lightly age-tanned pages, o/w clean, complete and unmarked. A collectable copy.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1957. First Edition, Second Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. One of this mid-20th-century, military-thriller writer's best novels is this sea captain's battle with a non-human enemy. Captain Harkness' British merchant vessel flounders in tremendous seas driven by gale force winds as he struggles desperately to keep it aloat until help can arrive. The careful balance Trevor maintains between crew and passengers' personal dramas and the drama of the ship fighting the sea makes for a memorable thriller notable for lack of gunfire and warfare. Boards are slightly worn along edges, corners and at spine ends; front end page shows "shadow" of sticker since removed from dj flap, and top edge of text is foxed, o/w clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows several small tears and creases with considerable wear at edges and corners, though the jacket painting by Francis Flint, the design and lettering are not… Read More

New York: Warner Books, 1990. First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Warner Books 35893: The eighth novel in this Mystery Grand Master's now classic mystery crime series featuring California private detective Lew Archer. This time, Archer takes on the job of proving that the heir to a murder victim's fortune is a phony. Very quickly, Archer finds himself trying to straighten out a tangle of adultery, larceny and murder going back twenty years and involving the Mob. Mass Market Paperback, First Printing, First Warner Books edition. 198 pages in pictorial wrappers with cover art by Gary Kelley showing a box of bones resting on a desk. Wrappers show only minimal creasing and a touch of edge wear, no tears or chipping, no remainder marks. Text is lightly age-tanned, with slight spine lean, o/w clean, unmarked and complete. A collectable copy.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This novel from the author of "Sleepers" might be described as the biography of Angelo Vestieri, Mafia boss, from his arrival in the U.S. in 1906, his rise through the ranks of New York's organized crime to his death in 1996, and of his love for a lonely, abandoned boy named Gabe.

New York: Bantam Books, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. From the author of the highly-praised Fantasy series, "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant," is this first novel in a five-volume Science Fiction series set in the very distant future of faster-than-light travel (called crossing the gap); boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows considerable wear on edges and spine ends with half-inch-square chip missing from upper right corner of back panel, other minor chipping and tears.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel of the award-winning Dubus features April Marie Connors, a young Florida mother and stripper at the Puma Club for Men, who breaks her one ironclad rule of never bringing her daughter to work, where the girl becomes a wild card in a game of psychological suspense involving, among others, Bassam, a rich Saudi Arabian, and AJ, just thrown out of the club for being too familiar with his stripper. First Printing, First Edition. A small remainder dot on the bottom edge of the text, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows very minor edge wear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Avon Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The sixth book in Buchanan's bestselling mystery-thriller series featuring Britt Montero, Miami journalist, this time searching for and finding a female serial murderer, followed by a terrifying journey through the dark heart of Florida in the company of the killer. A faint set of initials on the front end page, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Not remaindered. The dustjacket shows some light edgewear, including a tiny nick at the top of the spine, no other tears, no chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

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: Mysterious Press, 2003. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The fourteenth novel in Mayor's continually fine, mystery-crime series featuring Vermont state police detective, Joe Gunther. Not all Vermont is maple syrup, green pastures, fall foliage and skiing. This time Gunther takes us cityside, to Brattleboro with its dark alleys, liittered streets and run-down bars and motels as he tries to slow the rising flow of drugs into his state and to halt the violence and murder that are never far behind. First Edition, First Printing. 292 pages in dark orange, paper-covered boards. Dime-sized stain on front cover (hidden by dj); small pair of wrinkles at top of inside back board caused during manufacture; previous owner's initials in upper corner of fep; and light age-tanning in page margins. O/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only a touch of shelf and surface wear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Read More

New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times editor utilized his specialized knowledge of the Soviet Union in this novel featuring the life of a Russian writer, Andrei Sokolov, beginning with the Bolshevik revolution when he was a small boy to the Cold War era, when he is condemned as a traitor and exiled to the West, his life spared by the ingenuity and skilled political manuevering of Secret Police Chief Andropov to avoid an international incident while protecting his own position and power; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minor surface and edgewear. Quite Scarce.

New York: Walker & Co., 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edgar award-winning critic Breen's second novel is a bibliomystery featuring an old Los Angeles bookstore catering to some of Hollywood's most famous writers. Rachel Hennings, who inherits the store from her uncle and decides to keep it open rather than sell, has to deal with a burglary on her first day that ignores the shop's valuable first editions. Next, she finds evidence that an early novel by a well-known Hollywood author may have been ghostwritten and learns the ghostwriter was murdered just a few days after her uncle died. Then, when murder happens on her doorstep, the new proprietor is forced to investigate a strange literary underworld peopled with a strange collection of agents, book columnists, assorted book groupies and even an aging tennis star; boards and text are clean, tight, square, slightly age-tanned; dustjacket shows just a trace of edgewear and wear at corners. A very collectable copy. Read More

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The eighteenth novel in Anthony's Xanth fantasy adventure series features Gary, a young, innocent gargoyle, disguised as a human, on a perilous journey to rescue the magical land of Xanth from an ancient evil. A book as full of high adventure and good humor as all the Xanth series novels. Boards and text are clean and unmarked except for a brief inscription to the previous owner on the half title page. The dustjacket shows only a touch of edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Warner Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The seventh novel from one of the best contemporary crime-thriller writers in a suspenseful mystery featuring Paul Brenner, a U.S. Army criminal investigator assigned the uneviable task of finding answers in the rape-murder of a General's daughter whose body has been found naked and spread-eagled, hands and feet bound, on a firing range at an army base. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows some minor surface and edgewear but no tears, creases or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Warner Books, 1992. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The best-selling DeMille's seventh mystery-thriller and one of his best, featuring Paul Brenner and Cynthia Sunhill, members of the U.S. Army CID, investigating the rape and murder of the daughter of the legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell; Signed and Inscribed in black felt pen on the half-title page: "Jan 3, 1993/For Bob,/Happy Birthday,/and best wishes,/Nelson DeMille." Lower end of spine lightly bumped; a small, square 'shadow' on the front end page where sticker was apparently removed, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket is partially price-clipped with part of price still visible, some minor wear along edges and corners, no tears, chipping or other significant flaws. Collectable.

New York: Vintage Books, 1989. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage Books 72237; a collection of Thompson's essays and journalism from the 1980s or, as he puts it, the "Gonzo Papers, Vol.2," detailing what he finds deeply disturbing in America: "Huge brains, small necks, weak muscles and fat wallets" as he keeps a running tally on such figures as George Bush, Ed Meese, Gary Hart and Oliver North; First Printing of the First Vintage Edition; small waters stain at bottom edge of first part of book, lower corners slightly rolled, o/w text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show minor surface and edgewear. A reading copy.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1968. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Better known as a prolific writer of westerns under the pseudonymns of Will Henry and Clay Fisher, Allen also authored several science fiction works, including this novel of the Cold War era in which Yuri Suntar is whisked away from the Moscow Political Academy and spirited aboard a train for Siberia to the headquarters of the top secret Genesis District Five. He knows only he is on a classified mission for the State, one which involves his twin brother, Yang, who is trainer to a mysterious pack of wolves, which is about to be used in a bizarre genetic experiment with human grotesques. The book and dustjacket show a small stain at the top of the spine. The stain shows only on the dustjacket's verso and in the corner of the back panel, not being noticeable on the dj's black outer side or the black cloth of the book's covers. O/w, the book shows light bumping at the lower corners,… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1956. First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Bantam Books A1490; Huxley's novel of a woman who was wife and soul mate to her physicist husband and mistress and teacher to his research assistant; First Bantam Books Paperback Edition, First Printing; clean, tight, slightly age-tanned, small stain on bottom edge; wrappers show slight reading crease, minimal surface wear, some wear to edge of spine, back cover somewhat soiled, creased at lower corner.

Columbia, SC: University of South Caroline Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Baldwin, an award-winning Sourthern writer, uses the violent death of a well-known Charleston, SC, newspaper editor in 1889 at the hands of his neighbor, a disreputable, womanizing doctor, as the basis for an historical novel which examines the social codes that govern the behavior of men and women, not only in the South but universally; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket's back panel shows some very light scratching and rubbing, light edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Del Rey/ Random House, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Pulitzer-Prize-winning Chabon described this fantasy novel about a pair of Jewish bandits "a swashbuckling adventure story set around the year 1000." Originally published as a 15-part serial in the New York Times from Jan. 28 to Mar 6, 2007. This copy is from the hardcover edition issued later in 2007 by Del Rey, a first edition thus, first printing with complete numberline. About 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 204 pages including a new afterword by Chabon. Black paper-covered boards with Chabon's initials in center of small diamond-shaped graphic design on front cover, gold lettering on spine. Endpapers show map by David Lindroth and b&w illustrations in text by Gary Gianni. Dustjacket's pictorial design shows pair of men silhouetted agains a mountainous landscape in lower part of dj while author and title are in a red circle surrounded by elephants in upper part. Back panel of dj has six blurbs praising Chabon's… Read More