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

New York: Knopf, 1990. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fourth and final novel in Updike's saga of ex-high school basketball player, Harry Angstrom, now in late middle age with heart trouble and a condo in Florida, trying to find reasons to keep on living. This book won Updike his second Pulitzer Prize. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; front flap of dustjacke is creased, o/w very minimal surface or edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Knopf, 1990. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The fourth and final book in Updike's National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning quartet of novels chronicling the life and times of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom; previous owner's name on front end page, remainder spray on top edge, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1990. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The fourth novel in National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Updike's celebrated series of novels featuring Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. A bit of light foxing to fore edge, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The third book in Updike's quartet of novels chronicling the life and times of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1982; a Fine copy in a dustjacket showing light edgewear and slightly chipped at bottom of spine. Collectable.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1972. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Fawcett Crest Q1753; the second book in Pulitzer Prize-winning Updike's quartet of novels featuring his celebrated character Rabbit Angstrom; spine somewhat cocked, creased, text clean, tight, mild age-tanning; white pictorial wrappers show slight age-tanning at edges and on spine, reading crease, minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Fawcett World Library, 1962. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Crest R538; the first novel of Pulitzer Prize-winning Updike's quartet of books featuring his celebrated character Rabbit Angstrom; slight spine lean, text is clean and tight, mildly age-browned; wrappers show some minor creases and surface wear, upper front corner slightly bumped, edges and spine age-browned. A collectable copy.

New York: Bantam Books, 1972. Second Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage paperback, Bantam S7013; L'Amour's story of a rancher fighting to protect his land from a rich, ambitious woman's hired gunfighters; Fifth Printing of Second Edition (originally published in 1958); text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers with reading crease, dogeared crease in lower right corner of front cover, other minor edgewear. Decent reading copy.

New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. A lighthearted social satire of America in the early years of the 20th century, later the basis for a movie that served as a comeback vehicle for James Cagney; First Printing of the First Trade Edition; remnants of small address label on fep, some soiling on edges; a very nice copy in a first issue dustjacket.

New York: Random House, 1975. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Doctorow's fourth book, which brought him national recognition when it won the National Book Critics Circle Award; First Trade Edition in first issue dustjacket; edges of boards and spine faded, slight spine lean; text is clean and tight; dustjacket worn at edges and slightly chipped at spine ends, light rubbing and scratches.

New York: Summit Books, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From the author of the classic, "The Detective;" a first rate police procedural set in Los Angeles; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text o/w boards and text are clean, tight; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Summit Books, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Very Good. From the author of the classic, "The Detective," a novel about corruption, cover-up and multiple murder in Los Angeles; text edges slightly soiled, boards bumped at corners, o/w clean, tight and square; dustjacket shows only minor surface and edgewear. Decent reading copy.

New York: Villard Books, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sixth book in Simon's award-winning mystery series featuring Los Angeles private detective Moses Wine. This time Wine, investigating the terrorist murder of a prominent Arab leader, follows leads from L.A. back to his own roots in Israel.

Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1977. First Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. The second novel in Pope's highly-praised 18-book series of historical sea warfare fiction set in the late 17th-early 18th century and featuring British Lt. Nicholas Ramage and his tiny cutter, "HMS Kathleen." The cutter is assigned as courier to British forces at Gibralter in the days before the naval battle of Cape St. Vincent between the English and Spanish fleets. First printing, first paperback edition, a first edition thus. Mass market paperback, 253 pages, wrap-around pictorial covers showing 17th century naval warfare scene with title in blue, author in black lettering. Wrappers show only light reading crease, minimal spine lean. No tears, scratches or bumped corners. Text shows age-tanned margins, o/w complete, clean and unmarked. Not ex-library, not remaindered. A collectable first edition copy from an author who, after surviving a German torpedo attack during WWII, spent most of his writing life at sea. Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oster's fifth mystery novel is set in Southern California's Rancho Maria de la Luz, an exclusive community where the average income is in the high six figures and the police drive BMW's. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A stand-alone novel from this award-winning crime writer that, while it has crime genre elements also has more than a touch of science fiction and fantasy. It might be considered a contemporary fable. It begins in Oregon where a man named Guthrie decides to take a walk without knowing where he's going, or how far, or for how long. His only luggage is a small backpack. Wonderful things begin to happen as he walks and he begins to draw people to him, people who join the walk. There are problems to confront during the walk and decisions to be made. About Mark, for instance, who is a killer. A previous owner pasted the flaps of the dustjacket to the inside covers. However, the glue has dried out, releasing the flaps with no damage except light brown stains on the inside covers, the front end page, and the obverse side of the dj. O/w, text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square,… Read More

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of essays from Pulitzer Prize winner and history of law scholar Levy that begins with the Ranters, a group of defiant radicals who confronted the state and repudiated moral law in 17th Century England, followed by anecdotes about Supreme Court justices; and a behind-the-scenes acount of the deliberations over Pulitzer Prizes in History. Also included are his long debate with Harvard University Press over publication of his book on blasphemy and essays on the origin of the Fourth Amendment and on the critics of his prize-winning study of the Fifth Amendment. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket is without significant flaws, showing perhaps a touch of edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Hyperion Books For Children, 2004. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Bob Lea. This first book of Stone's three-volume, "The Illmoor Chronicles," was a major success when published in England. It features Diek Wustapha, a normal shepherd boy under an evil spell who offers to free the ancient city of Dullitch from a plague of giant rats until the Duke of Dullitch reneges on the deal and a revengeful Diek kidnaps the city's children. All seems lost until a team of mercenaries, including a has-been sorcerer, a bucktoothed giant, and a wisecracking dwarf, set out to rescue the children. A really hilarious read. A tiny dent in the botton edge of the back cover, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows a short, light scratch on the back panel and some slight edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped.

New York: Silver, Burdett & Company, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. In the 19th century, as well as today, a major issue in education was the best method for teaching children how to read. Several different ways were tried in various parts of the country starting in the 1820s and employing both sight (recognizing whole words instead of letters) and sound (phonics) as well as revised and even new alphabets. Ward, former superintendent of schools in Brooklyn, NY, created a series of four readers that utilized diacritical marks in the text to help beginning students with pronunciation. This is the third in that series. First edition. About 6 x 7 1/4 inches, 174 pages including index, with numerous b&w illustrations and full-color frontispiece. Bound in light brown cloth-covered boards with graphic design and front cover lettering in darker brown. Boards show light to moderate soiling and light wear and bumping at corners. No significant flaws or damage. Text edges show small stains and… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The tenth book in van de Wetering's highly-regarded mystery series featuring Amsterdam police detectives Grijpstra and de Gier; top edge of text lightly foxed, o/w Very Good in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Avon Books, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The sixth novel in award-winning Jance's contemporary western mystery series featuring Arizona Sheriff Joanna Brady; text and boards are clean, tight, and square in dustjacket showing only very minor edgewear. A collectable copy.