Search Results: Books from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Sagamore Press, Inc., 1957. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Sagamore Press S-16; Howells' satirical novel featuring a naive traveler on a visit to the U.S., who asks innocent questions about American culture and democracy and learns our ideals are not always ideal and our freedoms not always free for everyone. First Printing of First Sagamore Edition. Some underlining in Howard Mumford Jones' introduction, o/w text is clean, tight, square with lightly soiled edges; wrappers show very minor surface and edgewear. An decent reading copy.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1962. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. The tragi-comic play many consider the best work by perhaps Germany's greatest modern playwright; translated by Patrick Bowles. Ninth Printing of the First Evergreen Edition; text is clean, tight, square; back cover shows some age-discoloration and staining, o/w pictorial wrappers have minimal surface and edgewear. A decent reading/study copy.

New York: Pocket Books, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Fair To Good. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 4801; a novel from Prather's over-the-top mystery series featuring Los Angeles private detective Shell Scott. Cover art by Barye Phillips; Paperback Original; First Printing of the True First Edition. Text is clean, tight, age-tanned, with slight spine lean and light water-stain along lower margin and fore edge; worn pictorial wrappers show rubbing, other surface and edgewear. A reading copy.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1980. Mass Market Paperback. Fair To Good. Berkley 04271; from the bestselling author of "The First Deadly Sin," a mystery-thriller featuring Samuel Todd, an investigator for a charitable foundation about to award a major grant to an Upstate New York, Nobel Prize-winning doctor and murderer; text is clean, tight, square in black pictorial wrappers showing considerable surface and edgewear. A reading copy.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Good Plus/Very Good. the nineteenth novel from the team of Latsis and Henissart, known as the "Agatha Christie of Wall Street", and featuring their now famous banker, John Putnam Thatcher; a slightly bumped corner and light foxing on top edge, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minor wear at edges. A nice reading copy.

New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1982. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. an adventure-thriller set in the Canadian oil fields by the author of "The Guns of Navarone," and "Where Eagles Dare;" mass market paperback; First Printing of the First Fawcett Crest Edition; text is clean, tight, square; pictorial dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear; Very Good to Near Fine.

New York: Dell, 1966. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback; Dell 3388; the Laurel Shakespeare series, edited by Francis Fergusson with a commentary by Maurice Evans. Eleventh Printing of the First Laurel Edition. Text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in white pictorial wrappers showing minor soiling and age-discoloration along spine and edges, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

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: Pocket Books, 1955. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Fair To Good. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 2283; Ellery Queen, America's most famous amateur sleuth is in Wrightsville, three people are dead and Queen himself is the focal point in a sensational trial splitting the town into raging factions and making him a murderer's target; Seventh Printing of First Paperback Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned with store and date stamp on front end paper; pictorial wrappers are whole but worn, with small, tape-repaired tear at bottom of spine, some light staining, creasing, edgewear. A reading copy of a good classic mystery.

New York: Washington Square Press, 1964. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback; the Folger Library General Reader's Shakespeare, W-106. "As You Like It" is a romantic fantasy that became, and has remained, one of Shakespeare's most popular plays; mass market paperback; Fifth Printing of the First Edition Thus; Previous owner's name on the front end page, slightly age-tanned, o/w text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1982. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. An adventure-thriller from the author of "The Guns of Navarone," "Fear Is The Key," and "Where Eagles Dare." First Printing of the First Fawcett Crest Edition. Text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Bantam Books, 1973. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Fair To Good. Vintage paperback, Bantam Q2291; L'Amour's story of Crispin Mayo, an Irish immigrant come to the West seeking his fortune and finding a pretty lady and a band of Confederate renegades; Seventh Printing of First Paperback Edition; text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers with crease across top of front cover; small crease, scratch on back cover. Decent reading copy.

New York: Dell, 1967. First Printing, Second Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Another case for Halliday's famed Miami private detective Mike Shayne, who handled the Florida cases in the '50s and '60s, long before all the other PI's were sniffing around; cover art by Robert McGinnis; Second Dell Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; pictorial wrappers show reading crease, other minor creasing, minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Bantam Books, 1993. First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. L'Amour originally published this novel early in his career under the name Tex Burns, one of several authors writing Hopalong Cassiday stories; a hardcover edition was issued in1992 after L'Amour's death; this is the First Printing of the First Paperback Edition; probably unread, the text is clean, tight, square; the pictorial dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Dell, 1983. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. No. 60 in Dell's "Scene of the Crime" mystery series, this Barnard work features Inspector Perry Trethowan given the task of investigating his father's embarrassing death and trying to determine which of his addled aunts, crackpot cousins or sinister siblings has committed a nearly perfect crime; First Printing of the First Dell Paperback Edition; text is clean, tight, age-tanned, with some spine lean; pictorial wrappers show creased lower corner of front cover, minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2001. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Date's second novel is a satirical look at Florida society and politics, featuring tobacco baron Bartholomew Simons, who is not about to let his billion dollar empire go up in smoke while blackmail, kidnapping and murder are still available options; text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show almost no surface or edgewear.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1995. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. the third novel in Beck's humorous mystery series featuring Jane DaSilva, former lounge singer, now chief (and only) investigator for Seattle's Foundation For Righting Wrongs; text is clean, tight, with very slight spine lean; pictorial wrappers show only very minimal surface and edgewear.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc.. First Paperback Edition, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Fine to Very Fine. Vintage Paperback, Fawcett Crest R1177; Updike's first novel, a critical success, shows the promise Updike has delivered on in a long and celebrated career; the text is clean, tight, square, with a touch of age-tanning along the edges; the pictorial wrappers show a very light reading crease and almost no surface or edgewear. Very nice reading copy.

New York: Penguin Books, 1990. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. The first novel in Canadian author Gough's mystery series featuring Vancouver detectives Jack Willow and Claire Parker, this time searching for an elusive sniper; text shows a very slight spine lean, o/w clean and tight; pictorial wrappers show reading crease, very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Pocket Books, 1966. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Fair. vintage paperback, Pocket Books 50374; Gardner's world-famous California defense attorney Perry Mason defends a woman framed on narcotics charges; First Printing of First Pocket Books Edition; clean, tight, square in whole but worn, badly-creased wrappers. A reading copy.