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

New York: Mysterious Press, 1998. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Ellroy's three early novels ("Blood On The Moon," "Because The Night" and "Suicide Hill") featuring Los Angles homicide detective, Lloyd Hopkins, collected in one volume; a fine first in like dustjacket.

New York: Dutton/Penguin, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. The fifteenth mystery-thriller from this multiple Edgar Award winner, features a modern day Robin Hood who calls herself Allison Murietta and gives a large share of her booty to charity. No one gets hurt until a job ends with ten Los Angeles gangsters slaughtered and a half-million in diamonds missing; This copy, signed by Parker on the title page, is unread and unblemished. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Woods' tenth novel is a thriller featuring a Mafia hoodlum who manages to turn his Tinseltown dreams of Hollywood into reality but can't escape his criminal past. A collectable copy.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Woods' tenth novel features Vinnie Calabrese, an East Coast mafia enforcer, who goes west to seek fame and fortune in the film industry only to find he can't leave his old life behind; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Henry Holt, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Grafton's eleventh novel in her highly-praised "alphabet" mystery series featuring Kinsey Milhone, California woman private detective; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows a single hairline inch-and-a-half scratch on rear panel, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The eighth novel in Jackson's mystery series featuring the Detroit Police Department's own Detective Sergeant Fang Mulheisen who wants to know why the poker party in a mob boss' basement ends with everyone dead. A tiny remainder mark on bottom edge, o/w Fine in like dustjacket.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The eighth novel in Jackson's highly-praised, often darkly humorous mystery series featuring Detroit Detective Sergeant Fang Mulheisen. Small remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; yellow dustjacket shows almost no rubbing, surface or edgewear. Quite Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1995. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pulitzer Prize-winning Tyler's thirteenth novel tells the story of 43-year-old Delia Grinstead, wife of a physician, mother of three almost-grown children, who, on impulse, walks away from it all, hitches a ride, finds a new town and starts a new life. Text is clean, tight, with a slight spine lean and light bumping at spine ends; dustjacket shows only minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Knopf, 1995. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Very Good. The thirteenth novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tyler is about the wife of a Baltimore physician who suddenly walks away from marriage, children and home to start a new life; boards and text slightly cocked, previous owner's name on fep, lower end of spine bumped, o/w whole, clean and tight; dustjacket shows minimal surface and edgewear. A nice reading copy.

New York: Knopf, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Tryon's third novel, "Lady," like his bestselling, "The Other," combines elements of mystery and gothic horror in a story about the relationship between an eight-year-old boy and the charming widow with-a-dark-secret who is the leading citizen of a small, 1930s New England town. Book club edition. About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 278 pages in black paper-covered boards and gold lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel features drawing of woman wearing a broad-brimmed hat that hides her eyes with author's name in black above and title below. Back panel has full-panel, b&w photo of Tryon with cigarette in left hand. Boards and text are clean, complete and unmarked, without noticeable flaws or damage beyond lightly soiled text edges and slight spine lean. Dj shows minor wear along edges and at spine ends but no significant tears, creases or chipping. A very decent reading copy of this work from an individual who… Read More

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A copy of the first American edition of this now classic novel by British author, D.H. Lawrence. Originally published in Italy in 1928 and the following year in Australia and France, the book was banned in the U.S. until it was ruled not obscene by the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1959 along with "Fanny Hill" and "Tropic of Cancer" in an opinion that established the concept of "redeeming social value." While it is an erotic romance novel, it is also a story of English class conflict. First American edition. About 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 368 pages including a bibliographical note and with a letter/preface to the publisher by Archibald MacLeish and an introduction by Mark Schorer. Bound in cream-color cloth boards with title and author in black letters on spine. The dustjacket's graphic design by Bruce Barton shows a light green front panel with author and title in black lettering and "in its original… Read More

New York: Pocket Books, 1959. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Pocket Cardinal C-344; one of the novels that cemented Chandler's reputation as a grand master of the hardboiled mystery, features Los Angeles private detective, Philip Marlowe; First Printing of First Cardinal Edition; text is clean, tight, age-tanned with a very slight spine lean in whole but slightly worn pictorial wrappers showing minor creasing, surface and edgewear. Collectable.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Shamus Award-winning Estleman's seventh mystery featuring Detroit private detective Amos Walker; boards and text are clean, tight, square; price on dustjacket's front flap has been crossed out and new price neatly penned in above it, o/w DJ shows only very minimal surface and edgewear.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1969. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal R2035; so far the New York City Police Commissioner has received two packages in the mail, each containing a woman's finger; Detective Sgt. Pablo Sanchez is given the task of finding the rest of the lady, preferably alive; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers with light crease across lower left corner of back cover o/w very minor surface and edgewear. Scarce and collectable.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The bestselling author of "Coast Road" and "Three Wishes," Delinsky tells the story of Lily Blake, a talented singer wrongly accused of an an affair with a religious leader and hounded by the media, who tries to escape by returning to her hometown in New Hampshire only to find additional problems waiting for her there; text is clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The fourth of Percy's novels is this study of the son of a distinguished Southern family, famous college football player, Rhodes scholar, disenchanted liberal lawyer and master of Belle Isle, a New Orleans showplace and tourist attraction, whose world begins to fall apart when he accidentally learns his younger daughter is not his. Lancelot is determined to get proof of his wife's continuing infidelity on film even as a hurricane nears the Louisiana coast and Belle Isle; small price sticker on inside front cover, o/w bright orange boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows one-inch closed tear in top edge of back panel, o/w only minor surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Lancer Books, 1964. First Edition, Second Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage paperback, Lancer 73-431; a love story set in England during World War II from the author of "On The Beach;" text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers with minor edgewear, a light horizontal crease across front cover, bottom front corner bumped. A nice reading copy.

New York: Bantam Books, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam A2494; an early L'Amour western adventure featuring, Lando, a member of the Tennessee Sackett clan, hunting buried treasure in Mexico; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, square, tight, age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing reading crease, other minor surface and edgewear, no tears or chips. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1981. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Fine/Good Plus. David Finn. A photographic essay on English sculptor Henry Moore's "Large Two Forms," a monumental work created in 1966-69 and now installed at the Gould Center, Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Photographer David Finn photographed the work over several seasons from a wide variety of perspectives and lighting conditions, resulting in a fascinating visual study of one of Moore's most important works. Text includes a brief comment by Moore and a preface by Kenneth Clark, pre-eminent British art historian and critic. 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches; 79 pages with 44 black & white and color photographs on heavy, glossy stock, including three-page panoramic foldout of the work against a background of trees and rectilinear buildings and 14 two-page spreads. Dark blue, cloth-covered boards and text block are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The pictorial dustjacket shows a nickel-sized scratched and rubbed are on… Read More

New York: Mysterious Press, 1996. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sixth book in Davis' award-winning mystery series set in 1st Century Imperial Rome and featuring private investigator Marcus Didius Falco; a collectable copy.