Search Results: Modern Novel from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A dark, satiric comedy, Blinn's first novel features a tactical jet crewman, nicknamed Aardvark, aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier heading to the Persian Gulf War. Aardvark is a virtual warrior in the world's first virtual war, his senses and weapons electronic and digital, his reality surreal and hallucinatory; Remainder mark on top edge of text, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Knopf, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fourth novel from the author of "Stern," "A Mother's Kisses" and "The Dick," once again zeroes in on an American male "type." This time Friedman uses his funny but sad style of satirical humor to show us Harry Towns, a middling successful screenwriter in his forties, living the life of a 1960s American playboy in the playgrounds of Hollywood and Las Vegas with cocaine and starlets in bountiful abundance. But it takes the deaths of his parents to make Harry realize he isn't really living and to get him started in the right direction. A light remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text and a smudge on the front end page, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The white dustjacket shows some light soiling and minor edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The third novel and fourth book from the author whose "The Shipping News" won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize; text and boards are clean, tight, square; back panel of dustjacket is extensively wrinkled with several small stains while protecting book extremely well; also small stain on dj's back flap; front panel, flap and spine undamaged. Makes a very acceptable reading copy.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel by Proulx, whose "The Shipping News" won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize; previous owner's address sticker on inside front cover behind front flap of dustjacket; tiny chip at upper front corner of dustjacket's front panel, back panel very slightly soiled.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel from the author who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for "The Shipping News;" small sticker with previous owner's name and address on front end page o/w boards and text are clean and square in dustjacket with some slight wear at spine ends and upper corners. A nice reading copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hemingway's first novel after "For Whom The Bell Tolls;" (First Edition, First Printing: black cloth, letter 'A' on copyright page); lower right corner bumped, inside front cover and fep very slightly foxed, edges browned, pages lightly tanned; first state dustjacket (yellow lettering on spine, not price-clipped) basically whole, though front and back panels are edgeworn with multiple tears and chips, particularly at spine ends where half-inch of dj above author's name is missing, as is inch and a half at bottom with deeper tears along edge next to front panel; flaps are browned.

Toronto: HarperCollins, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Wright, the award-winning Canadian author of "Clara Callan," presents us this story about Daniel Fielding, a quiet, middle-aged editor, who risks everything for a few passionate moments with a young colleague at a book fair only to see his one act of adultery explode into incomprehensible violence; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: The Viking Press, 1953. First Edition, Early Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The Nobel Prize-winning Bellow's third novel was his "breakthrough" book and won him the first of his three National Book Awards. It is the story of a young Chicago man growing up during the Great Depression. Lacking a top edge stain and with "H. Wolff, New York," the printer, this copy is not a first printing of the first editon but a second or third impression. The boards show bumped corners and spine ends and some surface wear and soiling, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Sorry, no dustjacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel of the effects of apartheid on the ordinary citizens of South Africa by the author of "Cry, the Beloved Country;" a collectable copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Knopf, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. The ninth novel from the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize features Lidie Newton, a young, independent and courageous woman and fierce abolitionist with a mission in bloody, pre-Civil War Kansas; lower corner of back cover rather badly bumped, with corresponding damage to dustjacket. Makes a fine reading copy.

New York: Knopf, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of "A Thousand Acres" chooses pre-Civil War Kansas Territory as the setting for this story of the young, strong, no-nonsense Lidie Newton; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some slight edgewear, and a single small tear on bottom edge of back panel. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Tyler, who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Breathing Lessons," continues to explore the Baltimore middle class in her sixteenth novel about a couple enduring their thirty years of marriage. Small stain along lower edge of front cover, o/w text and boards clean, tight, slight spine lean; dustjacket shows minor edgewear. A decent reading copy.

New York: Henry Holt, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. This is a book, controversial for its vividly depicted violence, that uses violence and atrocities in Vietnam to throw a spotlight on violence in America. It is the story of two American soldiers from the same unit in Vietnam who return home -- one to try to deal with his PTSD, the other to continue to kill. The LA Times called it "a brutal and scarifying book," and Nichols, himself, the author of "The Sterile Cuckoo" and "The Milagro Beanfield War," has said of "American Blood," "It's been on film option but I hope they never make the movie." Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket has a 1 1/2", closed tear on the fold on the back panel, and the top edge of the front panel shows a light, almost un-noticeable "sun line," o/w no significant flaws, no creasing, no chipping, not price-clipped. A… Read More

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1977. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fourteenth novel from Green, who is perhaps better known for "The Last Angry Man," "To Brooklyn With Love," and "The Lotus Eaters, features an unlikely hero -- Daniel D. Vormund, 80 years old, a retired professor, who stands between the creatures and land of the Sonora desert in Southwestern Arizona and the wealthy developers, builders and ranchers who care only about more wealth. Signed and inscribed by Green on the front end paper. A faint, quarter-inch line along the top edge of the front cover where the cloth has lost a bit of color, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a similar discoloration along the top edge of the front panel as well as minor edgewear and wear at spine ends and corners. No significant tears, creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Green's work, especially signed, is… Read More

New York: The Dial Press, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good/Good Plus. Mailer's fourth novel and seventh book describes thirty-two hours in the life of college professor and war hero Stephen Rojack during a 1960s existential journey on Manhattan's East Side; boards are edgeworn, top of spine bumped, front hinge beginning to loosen, previous owner's name and address on fep; dustjacket is whole but rubbed and edgeworn with small chip at top of spine and closed, small triangular tear near bottom of spine. A reading/study copy.

New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc., 1966. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Fine to Very Fine. Vintage Paperback, Dell 0129; one of Mailer's best works -- a war hero/politician/professor explores the best and worst in himself and New York City, including murder; some age-tanning, apparently read once and shelved; wrappers show slight reading crease, minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: The Dial Press, 1965. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Good/Good. Mailer's fourth novel describes a 32-hour period in the life of Stephen Rojack, war hero, professor and politician, as he undertakes an existential journey amid the good and evil of New York City in the 1960's; the basis for a film starring Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh; First Printing of the First Edition Thus (originally published as an eight-part serialization in Esquire); a refugee from a rental library, this copy shows wear and soiling on edges and spine with marks on inside covers where dustjacket was pasted down; small bookstore stamp on front inside cover; text tight and clean; dustjacket is whole with very minor wear though flaps are stained and jacket is wrinkled from previous gluing. A more than respectable reading copy.

London: The Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Mailer was a novelist, journalist, politician, celebrity and founder of "The Village Voice," among many other things. Steven Rojack, protagonist of Mailer's fourth novel, "An American Dream," is a war hero, a politician, a celebrity, and, one suspects, how Mailer imagined himself when he wrote the book in a very short time frame in 1964 for serial publication in "Esquire." Rojack murders his wife, lies to the police about his crime and then careens wildly through New York's dark under-side, challenging the Devil himself. This copy is the 1965 London Book Club edition, first edition thus. About 5 x 7 1/2 inches, 256 pages in blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering on the spine. The front panel and spine of the dustjacket show a pictorial montage featuring a beautiful woman, a gold icon with a human eye, and a snake. Title and author in white letters across the top edge. Back panel lists five other… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Momaday's eighth book, the first since his Pulitzer Prize winning "House Made Of Dawn;" front pastedown has been repaired, leaving crease and triangular chip at top with corresponding damage to fep, otherwise book is clean and tight; dustjacket shows wear at edges and corners and has a street address handwritten in ink at top of front flap. Becoming Hard to Find.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1983. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Mailer's historical novel is set in Egypt twelve hundred years before Christ and features a man reborn three times during the course of this 709-page book. Weight may require extra postage.