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

New York: Henry Holt, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The eighth novel in Grafton's award-winning, best-selling mystery series featuring Kinsey Milhone, California private detective, this time investigating insurance fraud and looking for the killer of a friend; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows minimal surface and edgewear; a collectable copy.

New York: Henry Holt, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Grafton's eighth novel in her celebrated mystery series featuring California female private detective Kinsey Milhone. Collectable.

Excelsior Publishing Co., 1890. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. As the title page trumpets: "From his first entrance into the Dark Continent in search of Livingstone to his last triumphal return from his search for and rescue of Emin Bey, twenty years of the most wonderful adventures the world has known." After that, the book speaks for itself. Issued in 1890 by several publishers for subscription sales, this is the Excelsior edition, First Edition Thus, First Printing. 802 pages; 6 1/2 x 9 inches, original tan cloth, pictorial boards blindstamped in black and gold; text includes a frontispiece portrait photo of Stanley, a colored fold-out map (p.33), and numerous black & white illustrations. Much of the black and gold now flaked from front cover and spine, moderate wear at edges and corners, some light soiling. End pages show light foxing and soiling, with a faint number written in center of front pastedown. Text edges are somewhat soiled, pages llightly age-tanned in margins,… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The sixth novel of the highly original Robbins features a young, ambitious, ineffectual, not entirely ethical Seattle stockbroker whose world is going up in smoke as the stock market comes crashing down on a Thursday, giving him only a long weekend to find a way out from under. Of course, he doesn't yet know about the missing 300-pound psychic, or the born-again monkey or the tattooed stranger intent on blowing his mind and most of his fuses but by the time it's all over, he completely understands what's meant by "half asleep in frog pajamas." Small dent in top edge of front cover, upper corners of both covers lightly bumped, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket's top edge shows some wear with a crease at the top of the front panel but no tears or chipping. It is not price-clipped or remaindered.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Two short novels by Theroux featuring people leading double lives. "Dr. Slaughter" was the basis for a 1986 film starring Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine. A Collectable Copy.

New York: Pocket Books, 1963. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 6133; a 1930s-era classic whodunit by Ellery Queen featuring the famed New York City writer-detective searching for the killer of the man with the double identity; cover art by Harry Bennett; thirteenth printing of First Pocket Book Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in blue pictorial wrappers showing very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Dell, 1966. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback; Dell 3388; the Laurel Shakespeare series, edited by Francis Fergusson with a commentary by Maurice Evans. Eleventh Printing of the First Laurel Edition. Text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in white pictorial wrappers showing minor soiling and age-discoloration along spine and edges, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Warner Books, 1977. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback; Sanders' fourth book is an adventure thriller featuring a CIA agent trying to prevent the detonation of a nuclear weapon in the Dominican Republic, as a warning of an even larger bomb ready to explode somewhere in the U.S.; text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers showing only light reading crease, minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. The former private detective and Edgar Award-winning Gores sets this mystery novel in San Francisco in 1928 and features another former private detective and award-winning writer -- Dashiell Hammett, the author of "The Maltese Falcon;" text is tight, clean, square in pictorial wrappers showing some rubbing damage to front cover o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Nice reading copy of scarce edition.

New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2005. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. the eighth novel in the award-winning Forrest's mystery series featuring lesbian Los Angeles homicide detective Kate Delafield finds Delafield investigating a shooting death in a secluded, old-money section of the city; text is clean, tight, square; slight crease and dogear on lower right corner of front cover, o/w wrappers show only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This unique book, issued in conjunction with the New York Public Library's enormously successful exhibition of the Berg Collection of English and American literature in 1995-96, draws the reader into the real world of the writer, especially the poet, into the ink spots, the cross-outs, the tobacco and coffee stains, by showing a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs and other memorabilia. A hundred writers from the 17th century to the 20th are represented, including John Donne, William Blake, Robert Burns, Emily Bronte, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Louise Bogan, Charles Olson, Robert Lowell, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Imamu Amiri Baraka and Julia Alvarez. Biographies and… Read More

Kansas City, Missouri: University Trustees, W.R. Nelson Trust, 1973. First Printing, Fifth Edition. . Large Softcover. Near Fine/Issued Without Jacket. A two-volume catalogue of the collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts in Kansas City. Both volumes are 8 1/2 x 11", with heavy card pictorial covers, with most pages containing 1 to 3 black & white photo reproductions of the art as well as brief descriptions of the time period and the individual works. Volume 1 is 264 pages and contains the museum's collection of Western art beginning in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome and continuing through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque, the 18th, 19th & 20th centuries, with the Starr Collection of Miniatures and American painting perhaps being areas of special interest. Volume 2, 168 pages, contains the institution's Asian collection with its emphasis on Chinese, Japanese and Indian art though Southeast Asia and… Read More

New York: Pocket Books, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 50220; an early novel in Stark's mystery-thriller series featuring Parker, the amoral but somehow admirable holdup man, this time planning the robbery of an offshore casino on a Gulf Coast island; cover art by Harry Bennett; Paperback Original, First Printing of the True First Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing only minor surface and edgewear. Very Scarce. Very Collectable.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949. Book Club. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The third novel in Kane's hardboiled mystery series featuring sophisticated, smart-mouthed NYC private eye, Peter Chambers, this time running an errand for a friend and finding a blonde with a bullet in her head. An Inner Sanctum book club edition. 237 pages in grey paper-covered boards with logo and lettering on spine in green. A slight spine lean and light age-tanning on the end pages, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Decent reading copy.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The ninth book in Rankin's award-winning mystery-thriller series featuring Scottish Police Detective John Rebus, this time hunting a gangster importing Chechen refugees into England and Scotland to be sold as prostitutes, who may also be responsible for the professional hit-and-run that injured Rebus' daughter. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight, with a slight spine lean. The dustjacket shows only some light edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. As well-known for his travel adventures, such as "Riding the Iron Rooster," and "The Great Railway Bazaar," as for his novels ("The Mosquito Coast," "Chicago Loop" and "My Secret History"), this is Theroux's story of his journey across the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to Melanesia and Polynesia, to Easter Island and Hawaii, spending much of his time in a kayak, searching perhaps for the ocean's legendary peace and happiness. Text edges slightly soiled, top edge of boards lightly faded with a tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover, o/w clean and unmarked, tight and square; dustjacket shows only very minimal edgewear, no tears, chipping or creasing. A collectable copy. (At 528 pages, this is a somewhat heavier than usual book and may require extra postage.)

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The third novel in Matera's highly-praised mystery series featuring San Francisco lawyer Laura Di Palma; a remainder dot on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third novel in Matera's highly-praised mystery-thriller series featuring San Francisco lawyer Laura Di Palma, this time investigating the mystery surrounding a young woman's suicide. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. The fourth novel in Vachss' hard-boiled mystery series featuring Burke, an unlicensed New York City private detective; front cover has a small dent, about half the width of a pencil eraser, in lower left corner; some edgewear at corners and spine ends; front panel of dustjacket has same dent, though not especially noticeable in dark area of panel, dj also slightly edgeworn, with a small crease across lower left corner of back panel.

New York: Knopf, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fourth novel in Vachss' mystery series featuring Burke, an ex-convict and unlicensed New York City private detective. Collectable.