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

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/Fine. The second book in Berry's mystery series featuring Bonnie Indermill, a New York City career woman. A collectable copy.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The eighth novel by this greatly under-appreciated writer is this story of two Forham classmates whose paths re-cross 25 years after graduation. Peter Quinn, now a successful Washington lawyer and lobbyist, narrates the post-graduate lessons he receives from Edgar Lannin, a cynical, street-smart Boston newspaperman, on subjects including wives and children, booze, the Mafia, our nation's capital and power; upper corners of both boards slightly bumped, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some wear, with small tear and chip at top of spine, a small price sticker on front flap and crease and small stain on back flap; no large tears or major chipping. Looks much better than description would indicate.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1947. Book Club. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. A Dodd, Mead Prize novel by a writer perhaps under-appreciated today because, even after she became recognized as an author, stayed home in Texas and kept her job as a teacher. "The Years of the Locust" is the story of Dade Kenzie, the Kenzie family patriarch, and how his life, lived large in rural Missouri, affected other family members and friends. Book club edition, early printing. 234 pages in maroon cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on spine and prize winner logo stamped on front cover, 5 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches. Original owner's bookplate pasted on dedication page, with most recent owner's signature and date on fep, o/w text and boards are clean and complete, binding tight and square. The dustjacket shows a triangular chip missing from top edge of front panel, damaging only "10,000" in "A $10,000 Prize Novel." O/w minor surface wear and chipping at corners and… Read More

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sixth mystery by Shamus Award-winning Emerson featuring Seattle private detective Thomas Black. A good looking copy. Collectable.

New York: Warner Books, 1988. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Dorris, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Broken Cord," presents a powerfully moving story of three generations of Native American women. Text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Marshall's fourth novel and the first in his highly-praised, sometimes darkly humorous, mystery series featuring the cops of Hong Kong's Yellowthread Street Station. Boards and text are clean, tight, with a slight spine lean; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. One of Deighton's early novels of international espionage; First Printing of the First American Edition; boards and text clean, tight, square; dustjacket's back panel sunned, o/w only minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Harper & Row, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Healy's fifth novel in his widely-praised mystery series featuring Boston private detective John Francis Cuddy; a bookseller's stamp on fep; small dent in front edge of both boards with corresponding marks on dustjacket, o/w a Very Good copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clark's sixteenth mystery-suspense novel features Dr. Susan Chandler, a New York City radio talk show host, who begins a hunt for a killer who preys on lonely, insecure women, only to find herself one of the hunted; a small stain on front cover, upper corner of front cover slightly bumped o/w book is clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows a spot of sticker residue on the lower end of spine, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Perennial Library, 1973. First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Vintage Paperback. Perennial Library/Harper & Row, P314. Wolfe's last novel, arguably his greatest, completed in 1938 shortly before his death. Wolfe's story of George Webber, a writer who has written a successful novel based on his family, friends and small, Southern hometown, who finds himself ostracized by outraged family members and neighbors when he returns home. Webber leaves again, traveling to Europe's pre-WWII Paris and Berlin to try to find himself and his place in the America he used to know. Mass Market Paperback, First Perennial Library Edition, First Printing. About 4 x 7 inches in pictorial wrappers showing only a touch of edgewear, no tears, no creases, scratches or surface wear. Text shows beginnings of age-tanning, o/w complete, clean, and unmarked. A collectable copy.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1990. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Edgar Award-winning Beinhart's second mystery novel featuring New York private detective Tony Cassella investigating a rumored link between the attorney general and organized crime; text is clean, tight, square in black pictorial wrappers showing reading creases, minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1944. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good. Roden's first novel features John Alden Knight, PR man for the wealthy Reynolds family which is leading an anti-gambling crusade; Inscribed by Roden on the fep; boards and text are clean, tight, with some spine lean; covers are foxed, pages slightly age-tanned; dustjacket is worn with some chipping and foxing at edges and spine. That said, description is worse than book's actual condition: not great but certainly presentable.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The fifth novel in Perry's spy thriller series of the 1970s featuring his hard-luck English agent, Philis, who this time sees his new bride kidnapped by the KGB in an effort to pressure him to defect. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows minor surface and edgewear. Scarce.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Perry's fifth novel in his spy/thriller series features hardluck British SR(2) Agent Philis, this time six days on his honeymoon when his bride is kidnapped by the KGB; a Fine copy in a dustjacket showing only very minor wear at corners and edges.