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

New York: Viking Penguin, 2013. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. In 1998, "T.C. Boyle Stories" gathered the award-winning writer's first four short story collections in a single volume. This second volume, "T.C. Boyle Stories II," pulls together the work in his three most recent collections ("After The Plague," "Tooth and Claw," and "Wild Child") as well as fourteen stories not published previously in book form. Along with the satire and tall tales, Boyle is known for, there are stories with contemporary social issues such as air rage and abortion doctors, and themes such as first love and facing one's mortatlity. First Printing, First Edition Thus (with complete numberline). About 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 918 pages in red paper-covered boards with silver lettering on front cover and spine. The dustjacket's front panel shows color photo of Boyle with title in white lettering; a different photo of Boyle on the spine, and four… Read More

New York: Putnam/Penguin. The 20th novel in Grafton's mystery series featuring California woman private detective Kinsey Milhone, who is pitted against a terrifying sociopath named Solana Rojas First edition, first printiing (with complete numberline). About 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 387 pages in grey paper-covered boards with black backstrip and large letter "T" in gold on front cover with gold lettering on spine. The front panel of dustjacket shows large gold "T" centered against black background with title and author in white letters. Back panel has large color photo of author. Book has slight spine lean, o/w is clean, complete and unmarked, with no significant damage or flaws except a short, four-letter name in ink on front end page. Dustjacket shows only touch of bumping at upper end of spine. A collectable copy . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2007.

New York: Knopf, 1996. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Le Carre's fifteenth spy thriller features Harry Pendel of Pendel & Braithwaite Co. Limitada, tailors to royalty, formerly of London, now of Panama City, an agent of British Intelligence, whose occupation brings him in contact with Panama's VIP's; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket has stain along top edge of back panel, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Wainwright's classic story of justice miscarried with the conviction of a policeman for the murders of two prostitutes, then a third is murdered in the same manner as the first two; dustjacket's bottom left corner on back panel shows crease and rubbing.

New York: Knopf, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fourth volume of Rice's celebrated Vampire Chronicles; base of spine slightly bumped; dustjacket shows minor wear at corners and along edges.

Chester, CN: The Pequot Press, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of short stories and sketches based on life in rural New England in the late 19th century from a poet/historian who lived what he writes about. Signed by Hale on the title page. Scarce. Collectable.

Garden City: Hanover House/Doubleday, 1953. Hardcover. Good Plus. Most people today know Joseph Conrad, a Polish native and British emigre, as the writer of great novels in English, works now classics of adventure and sailing, such as "Lord Jim" and "Nostromo." Fewer are aware of the large number of equally fine short stories he created. "Tales of Land and Sea" is a collection of some of Conrad's shorter works, including "Youth," "Brute," "The Secret Sharer," and "The Duel." This Hanover House edition, published nearly 30 years after Conrad's death, collects 12 stories and testifies to his great abilities in the shorter form. It includes an introduction by William McFee and illustrations by Richard M. Powers. First edition thus. About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 695 pages in black paper-covered boards with cream backstrip and blue lettering on spine. Top edge of text dyed blue-green. Sorry, no dustjacket. Boards show minor… Read More

New York: Stonehill Publishing Co., 1975. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Poet and novelist Sanders, author of "The Family," the true crime classic about Charles Manson and his followers, writes from a very personal perspective in this series of short stories about members of the Beat Generation inhabiting New York City's Greenwich Village during the 1950s and early '60s; top edge of text very lightly foxed, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; back panel of dustjacket shows some rubbing and minor surface wear, and jacket's reverse side shows some staining, though it did not leak through or damage the book itself. Scarce and collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. National Book Award winner Erdrich's fifth novel is set in a field next to a highway outside Fargo, North Dakota, where the former wives of a man named Jack Mauser are stranded during a blizzard, and where each of them tells the story of her relationship with Jack. Other than a touch of shelfwear, the boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only some light edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1944. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/,. A collection of Harte's short stories of the California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century, including "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat. A collector's book club edition, with copper-toned, marbled paper over oatmeal-colored cloth boards, this edition was issued in a slipcase rather than a dustjacket though the slipcase for this copy is missing. Illustrated by the artist Fletcher Martin, with a foreword by Oscar Lewis. Boards and text show just a touch of wear and soiling.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1969. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good. A limited edition collection of 28 short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, including "Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Purloined Letter," "The Fall of The House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "William Wilson," and "The Pit and the Pendulum." Illustrated with 16 full-page photogravures of the original acquatints by William Sharp. Includes an introduction by Vincent Starrett. First Edition Thus (Reprinted from the 1941 Limited Editions Club issue.). 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches, 366 pages in marbeled paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Protected by blue, heavy-card slipcase. Dark blue spine has faded considerably though gilt lettering remains intact and legible. O/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The slipcase shows some wear and fading at edges and corners but remains sturdy with no structural flaws or damage. Given… Read More

New York: Viking Penguin, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The award-winning Boyle's eleventh novel features Dana, a young deaf woman, the victim of identify theft, who ends up in court accused of assault, auto theft and forgery, and then, with her boyfriend, begins a search for the man who has stolen her identity; a fine, unread copy of an unusual crime story.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The versatile, award-winning Boyle's eleventh novel is an unusual love and crime story featuring Dana, a young deaf woman. Dana has become the victim of identity theft and charged with crimes that include assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft and forgery commited by one William "Peck" Wilson using her name and identity. Dana and her new boy friend, Bridger, begin a cross-country chase after Wilson that tests the limits of their love and relationship. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket is near perfect, perhaps a touch of edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Harper & Row, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The tenth novel in Hillerman's award-winning mystery series featuring Navaho tribal police officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn this time investigating a Smithsonian conservator who sends a co-worker the bones of her famous ancestor and is wanted for more than just grave-robbing; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows light rubbing, minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Knopf, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. This book is James's take on the human appetite for mystery and mayhem and of the writers who have satisfied it from Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to Collin Dexter and Henning Masnkell, with more than a few words about Conan Doyle, Sayers, Christie, Tey and Hammett among others. First North American Edition. About 5 x 7 3/4 inches, 198 pages in tan paper-covered boards with red backstrip and silver lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel shows fountain pen and several drops of blood against tan background with author's name in red and title in black. Back panel shows full-panel color photo of author. Small manufacturing flaw has left front board with a less-than-square lower corner, o/w, boards, text and dj in Fine condition with no other noticeable flaws or damage. Clean copy with no markings of any kind. A book for James collectors or for anyone interested in the mystery genre.

New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1968. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal D1996; L'Amour's western about a wagon train that discovered the guide they were depending on to protect them from Indians and renegades was a killer from Wyoming; the basis for a movie starring Joel McCrae; Fifth Printing of Paperback Original first published by Gold Medal in 1957; text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with a very slight spine lean in pictorial wrappers with light reading crease, very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday & Co., 1977. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good/Fair. The first book in York's mystery series featuring Colonel James Munroe Tallant, police commissioner on a small West Indies island; boards slightly edgeworn, top edge of text lightly foxed, inside covers and dustjacket flaps each have two small pieces of clear tape; jacket is edgeworn and slightly chipped at top and bottom of spine, lower front panel slightly wrinkled from water stain (not particularly noticeable). A decent reading copy.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The fourteenth novel in Parker's highly-praised, bestselling mystery series featuring Boston private detective Spenser; remainder spray on bottom edge of text, o/w Fine in like dustjacket.

New York: Smithmark Publishers, Inc., 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An oversize history of the American west from about 1840 to 1900 with an emphasis on the exploits (and crimes) of the lawmen and outlaws of that period, including the Earps, Mastersons, Wild Bill Hickock, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, etc. Lavishly illustrated with full color reproductions of artifacts from the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center including artwork by N.C. Wyeth as well as rare photographs. Includes a bibliography and index. First edition, third printing. About 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches, 192 pages bound in red paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. End pages decorated with full color photos of western ghost town. Glossy dustjacket shows hand-tinted reproduction of 1858 tintype of Wild Bill Hickock. Back panel shows pair of weapons exhibits and two blurbs praising book. Boards and text of this copy are "as new" with no noticeable flaws or damage. Not… Read More

New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1977. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback; from the author of 'The First Deadly Sin,' a novel set in an Africa brimming with greed, corruption and murder, and featuring a man named Peter Tangent; Third Printing of the First Paperback Edition; text is clean, tight, square in black pictorial wrappers with light reading crease, minimal surface and edgewear.