Search Results: Authors starting with A from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1974. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback; Gold Medal 3544; one of the spy-thriller novels in Aarons' Cold War adventure series featuring U.S. agent Sam Durell, this time on an assignment in Brazil's danger-filled Amazon jungle. Text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show minor creasing and edgewear. Collectable.

London: The Bodley Head, 1989. First Printing, First UK Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Best known for his earlier novel, "The Monkey Wrench Gang," which became a cult classic of the nation's radical environmentalists, Abbey's seventh work of fiction and his last to be published before his death in 1989, is the life story of Henry Holyoak Lightcap, told by him during a 3,500-mile journey across the U.S. from Tucson, Arizona, to Stump Creek, West Virginia; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minor surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. A biography of legendary Irish Nationalist Charles Parnell, leader of the Home Rule movement of the late 19th century, viewed as a hero with a single flaw in the manner of Greek Tragedy. Parnell, a Protestant politician who allied himself with the Irish Catholic public over the home rule and British landlords issues, was able to unite Ireland for a few, short, tumultous years until his adulterous affair with the wife of another leader, William O'Shea, resulted in divorce. First edition, first printing (as stated). About 6 x 8 1/2 inches, 408 pages including bibliography and index, bound in blue cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Pictorial dustjacket shows Victorian era city-scape in white, grey and black with white lettering at top of panel. Back panel shows b & w full panel photo of Parnell. Boards show minor soiling and a touch of fading to title on spine, o/w no tearing, chipping,… Read More

Boston: Otis, Broaders, and Company, 1839. First Edition Thus. . Full-Leather. Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. Abercrombie was an early 19th century Scottish physician, author and philosoper credited today for the first work on neuropathology as well as several other medical works. In 1830, he also published "Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth," which he followed in 1833 by a sequel, "The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings." Though neither work showed much original thought, they were quite popular in academic circles of the time and were re-issued several times. This edition of "Moral Feelings, published in 1839," with an introductory chapter "with Additions and Explanations," by Jacob Abbott, a well-known New England author as well as a minister and educator, was intended to "adapt the work to the use of schools and academies." while presenting the original treatise in its entirety "without alterations or… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ablow's fifth novel continues his mystery-suspense series featuring Boston forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger, this time probing the death of a millionaire inventor-genius. Tiny stain mark on bottom edge of text, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square in dustjacket showing very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce.

New York: Knopf, 1997. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The award-winning author's tenth novel probes the complicated relationship between a patient and her doctors; First Printing of the First Edition. A collectable copy.

New York: Harmony Books/Crown Publishers, Inc., 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fifth book in what Adams admits is the "increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Triology" finds Arthur Dent enjoying life as a sandwich maker on a remote, Bob-fearing planet when several forms of hell break loose around him, including a teenaged girl named Random, the daughter he didn't know he had; boards and text clean, tight, square; dustjacket slightly rubbed.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. About Very Good/Fine. The sixth novel in Adams' Depression era mystery series featuring Carl Wilcox, ex-convict, handyman and sometime detective in small town South Dakota, this time investigating who hated Old Man Foote enough to hang him using a length of barbed wire; boards and text are clean, tight, with a slight spine lean and a remainder mark on the top edge of the text; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Walker Publishing Co., 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The town cop in Mustard, South Dakota, is murdered and handyman/private detective Carl Wilcox begins looking for the killer in this addition to Adams' Shamus Award-winning mystery series set in the Depression Era midwest. Boards and text are clean, tight, with a very slight spine lean; dustjacket shows minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Adams' seventh novel in his highly-praised mystery series set in Depression Era South Dakota and featuring sometime handyman, sometime private detective Carl Wilcox; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

Stamford, CN: Longmeadow Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The Adams Round Table is the current counterpart to the legendary Alggonquin Round Table, the Adams Round Table was formed in 1982 by Mary Higgins Clark and Thomas Chastain. Its other members are Justin Scott, Lucy Freeman, Judith Kelman, Stanley Cohen, Warren Murphy, Mickey Friedman, Joyce Harrington and Dorothy Salisbury Davis. As in their first two collections, this group of New York City mystery writers have each contributed a short story on a specific theme. This time, something -- a body, a murder weapon, a suspect -- is missing, and can only be found in Manhattan. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket is price-clipped, o/w shows only a touch of edgewear.

New York: Scarlet/Penzler. A psychological thriller by British author Andrew Wilson, writing as "E.V. Adamson." It features disgraced journalist Jen Hunter, one of five people, all strangers to each other, who witness a brutal murder. Hunter, unlike the other four, begins to question what she saw, or thought she saw. Hunter begins to investigate and discovers a crime more twisted and terrible than she could possibly imagine. First U.S. edition, first printing (with complete numberline). About 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 347 pages including acknowledgments, with black paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine.This is an unread, as new copy with no noticeable or significant flaws or damage to text or boards or dustjacket. No highlighting or underlining or marks of any kind. Dj not price-clipped. A very collectable copy. . As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2021.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2005. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Airth follows the success of his first novel, "River Of Darkness," with the second book in his historical mystery series featuring retired Scotland Yard Inspector John Madden. A collectable copy.

New York: Random House, 2004. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The third novel in this Russian mystery-crime writer's widely-praised historical mystery series featuring Russian diplomat-detective Erast Fandorin. This time in 1878, Fandorin joins forces with French Police Commissioner Gauche to sort out which passenger aboard the giant steamship Leviathan, making its maiden voyage from England to Calcutta, is responsible for a mass murder in Paris. Originally published in Russia in 1998. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. The bottom edge of the front cover shows a tiny almost unnoticable dent, o/w the boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Not remaindered. The dustjacket shows no more than a touch of edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Random House, 2003. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The first novel in Akunin's historical mystery-thriller series set in 1870s Russia and featuring Moscow Police detective Erast Fandorin, who investigates a suspicious suicide and uncovers a terrorist conspiracy. This is the 1998 novel that was a bestselling sensation in Russia and had eleven U.S. publishers bidding for American printing rights. A touch of soiling on text edges, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only a touch of surface and edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Pocket Books, 1966. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 75120; from the author of "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" a play about faith that many critics consider his most stimulating and provocative work. Text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with a very slight spine lean; dustjacket shows reading creases, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin Group, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fifteenth book in Albert's widely-praised mystery series set in Texas and featuring China Bayles, former lawyer, current herbalist and always amateur sleuth, this time investigating one of Pecan Springs' leading citizens, the head coach of the state champion high school football team; boards and text are clean, tight, square; white dustjacket shows a trace or two of soiling, else fine. Collectable.

Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Alcorn's third novel is more than another murder-in-academia mystery. After all, when Dean Cranston Fessing of Wainscot University, dispatched to investigate the finances of the neighboring Museum of Man, is dispatched himself, his grisly remains bear evidence of cannibalism. And that's not all. Reluctant investigator Norman de Ratour also discovers creative writing in the primate pavilion and Neitzchean ambitions in the genetics lab in this satirical romp through academia. Previous owner's signature written neatly on half title page o/w text and boards are clean, tight, with a slight spine lean; dustjacket shows only minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Alderson's book appears to be the first full-length biography of arguably the most interesting of the 19th century's "robber barons." Earlier than Carnegie's unfinished autobiography or several later more historically oriented works, Alderson's book tells the story of a young Scottish immigrant, who educated himself through reading and, through self-discipline and hard work, was one of the few true rags-to-riches millionaires of the 19th century. Selling his vast industrial holdings, the "Steel King" began a second career as a philanthropist, providing the money, for instance, to build more than 2,800 free public libraries and hold true to what he often said: "A man who dies rich, dies disgraced." Originally issued in 1902, this copy is First Edition, Later Printing (1909). 6 1/4 x 9 inches. 231 pages in green cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on front… Read More

New York: Curtis Books, 1963. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Curtis 09014; top rate espionage thriller -- a Russian pilot, an English spy survive winter in the Russian Arctic only to face a greater danger. Later 70s printing of 1963 First Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing some light scratching, minor creasing and edgewear.