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

New York: Avenel Books, 1987. First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. An omnibus edition collecting three of James' first four novels ("Cover Her Face," (1962), "A Mind To Murder," (1963), and "Shroud for a Nightingale," (1971), with an introduction by the author. First printing, first American edition. About 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 760 pages in dark blue, paper-covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Front panel of dustjacket shows woman's hand resting on a small overnight case beside an open prescription container with pills scattered on top of the case, as well as a small, decorated box and a candlestick holder, all against a blue background with white and yellow lettering. Dj's back panel is identical to the front. The front pastedown shows an rough area where an address sticker may have been carefully removed (no hole or tearing) and the back pastedown contains small name & address sticker of previous owner. O/w boards and text… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Heinemann's second book, a Vietnam War novel, won the National Book Award in 1987; a Fine copy in a slightly rubbed dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The award-winning Vachss adds another novel to his mystery-crime series featuring Burke, an "urban survivalist" and private detective without a license. Now living in Oregon while waiting to learn if it is safe to return to New York, Burke takes on a job tracking down a missing teenager and uncovers a group of fanatics dedicated to supplying drugs to people suffering chronic pain; text is clean, tight, square in dustjacket showing minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The third novel in Wilcox's mystery-crime series set in Upstate New York and featuring reporter Elias Hackshaw, this time embroiled in a scandal involving two painted ladies -- one an attractive and mysterious newcomer to town and the second a beautiful, old Victorian home the first lady plans to renovate and use as a safe house for unwed mothers. It's only a matter of time before the painted ladies embroil Hack not only in a scandal but also a murder. Inscribed by Wilcox to another lady on the half-title page. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a 3/8" tear on the upper edge of the back panel, other minor surface and edgewear. No other tears, no significant creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Fine to Very Fine. The exhibition catalogue for Mangold's 1994 retrospective at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, which also toured museums in Hartford, Houston and Boston. The catalogue includes sixty full color reproductions of work in the exhibition and an essay by Albright-Knox curator Cheryl Brutvan, as well as photographed pages from Mangold's notes and numerous other b & w photos; also a chronology, index and selected bibliography. The catalogue is 10 x 10 inches in heavy card wrappers illustrated with the artist's "Winter Writings," (detail) 1984. A collectable copy.

New York: Knopf, 2008. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The third novel in Carter's Elm Grove series of political thrillers. "Palace Council" begins in 1952 with a secret meeting on Martha's Vineyard of twenty prominent men who develop a plan to manipulate the President of the United States. A short time later one of the twenty is found murdered by young black man, Eddie Wesley, a rising literary star, in Harlem, and then Eddie's sister mysteriously disappears, beginning Eddie's 20-year search for truth about the Palace Council. Previous owner's name written neatly on fep, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. Dust jacket shows narrow crease across lower end of spine and vertical crease on the back flap, o/w only minor surface and edge wear, no tears, no chipping, not price-clipped.

New York: Knopf, 1998. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Rice's nineteenth book and the first in a new series featuring David Talbot, a vampire who becomes the historian for the Undead; a Fine, collectable copy.

New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1968. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Croft-Cooke's story of Max Toner, a robber who has helped pull off the "big score" and who is desparately guarding his suitcase full of money which has now become a dangerous burden that must be hidden and protected from both friends and enemies; text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket is worn, chipped along edges with a faint circular stain and 1 1/2" closed tear on front panel. Hard To Find.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Parker's twenty-fifth book is another addition to his highly-praised mystery series featuring Boston private detective Spenser, this time investigating the murder of the wife of a wealthy Boston aristocrat; top edge of text very lightly soiled, o/w boards and text are clean, tight; dustjacket shows only minor surface and edgewear.

New York: HarperCollins, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Koontz's second children's book is a collection of humorous poetry with numerous black and white illustrations by Phil Parks; 7 x 9 inches; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some minor wear along top edge. Collectable.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Golding, author of "The Lord of the Flies," published this short novel about two men -- a respected English novelist with a dead marriage and an alcohol problem and an American Professor of English Literature obssessed with becoming the novelist's authorized biographer -- the year after he won the Nobel Prize. The two men, with dislike turning to intense hatred, stumble across Europe, shedding wives, self-respect and illusions before their relationship comes to a sudden, violent end. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows perhaps a trace ofsurface wear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A very collectable copy.

New York: Avon Books, 1976. First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Meyer presents a sophisticated bibliomystery in which a psychiatrist reads a mystery novel that describes her office to the smallest detail, including her confidential patient files. She must then turn detective to find what it means -- blackmail? Murder? Reading crease and a small quarter-inch tear in upper corner of front cover, o/w book and pictorial wrappers are clean, tight, square.

New York: New American Library, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Jong's fourth novel, featuring an older and perhaps wiser Isadora Wing, continues the story begun in her celebrated, "Fear of Flying." Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Morrison's first novel since being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993; a Fine, collectable copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1971. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Pyramid N2592; A British scientist with the formula for a drug that turns humans into servile robots dashes across the English countryside chased by government agents and drug company killers; First Printing of First Pyramid Edition; text is tight and clean with very slight spine roll in white pictorial wrappers showing very minimal soiling, surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. A memoir of Pulitzer Prize-winning McMurtry's travel, in 1999, to Tahiti and the South Sea Islands, a three-week reprieve from his everyday responsibilities involving his writing, his bookselling business, his son and his son's family, and his mother, who was dying and who had just him his father was her second husband. McMurtry paints a portrait of his parents' marriage and life in the harsh landscape of west Texas against the lush background of McMurtry's tour of a sun-filled sensulality and easy living. Trade Paperback,First Edition, first printing. About 5 1/4 x 8 inches, 159 pages in light card wrappers. Front cover features pastel by Gaugin, "Words of the Devil." Wrappers and text are clean, complete and unmarked. No underlining or highlighting, No tears or creases or other noticeable damage or flaws. Collectable The memoir provides McMurtry the opportunity to answer… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. National Book Award winner Barthelme's thirteenth book features Simon, a middle-aged Philadelphia architect who finds himself living in a large New York City apartment with three women half his age; First Printing of the First edition. Collectable.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1928. First U.S. Edition, Early Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Poor. A gossipy memoir of Paris' legendary "between-the-wars" cafe society. Huddleston recollects and comments on celebrities such as Anatole France, Monet and Matisse, Rodin, Colette, Bernhardt, Hemingway, Isadora Duncan, James Joyce, Josephine Baker and Sherwood Anderson. Illustrated with some 50 black & white photos and drawings. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 366 pages in orange cloth-covered boards with a blue design and olive lettering. Some minor soiling; corners are slightly bumped and bottom edges and corners are worn. The text's untrimmed fore edge shows soiling. First few pages, including the frontispiece and title page, show foxing stains and text margins are lightly age-tanned, o/w book is clean and unmarked (except for a stamp-sized bookstore sticker on the inside back cover), tight and square. The dustjackets on this edition are notoriously fragile and a… Read More

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. A biography of legendary Irish Nationalist Charles Parnell, leader of the Home Rule movement of the late 19th century, viewed as a hero with a single flaw in the manner of Greek Tragedy. Parnell, a Protestant politician who allied himself with the Irish Catholic public over the home rule and British landlords issues, was able to unite Ireland for a few, short, tumultous years until his adulterous affair with the wife of another leader, William O'Shea, resulted in divorce. First edition, first printing (as stated). About 6 x 8 1/2 inches, 408 pages including bibliography and index, bound in blue cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Pictorial dustjacket shows Victorian era city-scape in white, grey and black with white lettering at top of panel. Back panel shows b & w full panel photo of Parnell. Boards show minor soiling and a touch of fading to title on spine, o/w no tearing, chipping,… Read More

New York: Random House, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The 13th spy-thriller novel of the 27 written by Ludlum himself before his death in 2006, and the first after "The Bourne Identity" bestseller in 1980. Since his death, his estate has published 27 novels by eight different writers under the Ludlum brand. "The Parsifal Mosaic" features Michael Havelock, a deep-cover U.S. government agent, who falls in love with a Soviet double agent and is forced to ovesee her murder on a desolate beach in Spain only to learn, months later, that the murder was an elaborate deception, the first of several he faces as he searches for the truth throughout Europe and the U.S., a truth that could start a third world war. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete Random House numberline ending in 2). About 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches, 630 pages followed by very brief "About the author" note. Bound in black cloth-covered boards with author's name stamped on front cover and… Read More