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

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1973. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal T2658; da Cruz is probably better known for his science fiction but he also wrote this well-crafted mystery-suspense novel featuring Jock Sergeant, a convicted murderer who becomes the boss inmate. Then a beautiful woman lawyer visits with interesting information about who he really is, and gets him freed. But maybe he should have stayed in jail. It was safer. Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; dime-sized "cats paw" ink stamp on front end page, o/w text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with a very slight spine lean in red pictorial wrappers showing very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The seventeenth mystery in Daheim's cozy 'Bed & Breakfast' mystery series finds Judith McGonigle Flynn in Good Cheer Hospital for a hip replacement and an unexpected dose of mayhem and murder; it's also the first of this series in hard cover.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine to Fine. The 26th novel in Daheim's cozy mystery series set in Washington's Cascade Mountains and featuring the small town of Alpine's weekly newspaper, "The Alpine Advocate," and its editor, Emma Lord. This time in the midst of a heat wave, Emma and her staff must deal with a young woman who comes to the Advocate's office to announce her parents have been murderer; a house & home editor who won't speak to the rest of the staff and then disappears; and a man, too long dead to identify, who surfaces at the town dump. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 330 pages in black, paper-covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel shows pictorial banner across middle with a July 4th/American flag illustration on left, a skull decorated with floral design in the center and a mountain stream on the right. Lettering is red and… Read More

New York: Minotaur/St. Martin's. A stand-alone mystery-crime novel by Dahl who's also a journalist and teaches journalism at NYU. The book features Claudia Castro, a young woman with a trust fund, from a distinguished family, beginning her freshman year at NYU, who goes missing after a drunken violent night of which Claudia has only hazy memories. Claudia cuts herself off from her family and, with 2nd semester starting, goes missing. NYC is suddenly trying to find Claudia and learn what happened that night. First edition, first printing, as stated, with complete numberline. About 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 278 pages including acknowledgments, in black paper boards with red lettering on spine. The dustjacket's front panel shows a white, torn silhouette of a woman against a red background with the title in red & black letters across silhouette's shoulders. Back panel carries eight blurbs of "advance" praise for the novel. Signed by Dahl on the title page, no date, no… Read More

New York: Archway/Pocket Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. The third Finnegan Zwake novel by Dahl is a humorous bibliomystery in which Finnegan and his mystery writing uncle are off to Occo (located between Lesser Occo and Morocco). Uncle Stoppard has been nominated for the most prestigious award in mysterydom -- the Ruby Raven, an award worth a million dollars and a carved bird with rubies for eyes and a ruby pendant around its neck. Of course it could be a little dangerous if, like Finn, you're nervous about that explosion as he and Uncle left for the airport, or the cobra he found in his hotel room. Paperback Original, True First Printing, First Edition. Text is clean, tight and square; pictorial wrappers show only minor surface and edgewear.

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A stand-alone, mid-career novel from the author who introduced the contemporary western love story to the Romance genre. This story features Remy Jardin, a New Orleans heiress suffering from amnesia after being assaulted by an unknown attacker at a carnival in France, who must untangle a mysterious accident to save her family's shipping company. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 326 pages in maroon paper-covered boards with darker maroon backstrip. Dustjacket's front panel features color photo of young woman with Mardi Gras mask behind author and title in deep red letters. Back panel has color photo of author. Fore edge shows two or three tiny traces of foxing, o/w text and boards are clean, complete and unmarked. No other noticeable flaws or damage. Dustjacket shows a touch of wear at spine ends and light age-tanning along top edge of dj. No tears, creases or… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Very Good. From one of America's bestselling romance novelists, a story set in Aspen, Colorado, of a woman who must choose between her acting career and love and, if she chooses love, which man? Text edges slightly soiled including small coffee or tea stain at lower end of fore edge, o/w clean, tight, square in dustjacket with art by Robert McGinnis. A decent reading copy.

Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Issued Without Jacket. The Advance Uncorrected Proof of Daley's mystery-thriller featuring Gabe Driscoll, Internal Affairs chief for the NYPD, investigating the death of an activist Catholic priest, Frank Redmond, killed in a fall from a Harlem rooftop. Thirty years earlier, Driscoll and Redmond were members of a championship swimming relay team at a Jesuit high school. Now Driscoll and the other surviving member of the team, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrew Troy are re-united in a bizarre race to learn the facts of Redmond's death. Was it suicide or murder? The search takes them to Vietnam and Africa and back to Harlem. Lower back corner lightly bumped, o/w text and plain light card wrappers show minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable Copy.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third novel in Anthony and Agatha Award-winner D'Amato's mystery series featuring Hispanic Chicago Policewoman Suze Figueroa. A collectable copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third book in D'Amato's mystery series featuring Chicago freelance journalist Cat Marsala; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Walker & Co., 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. The first book in Agatha Award-winning Dams historical mystery series set in South Bend, Indiana, at the beginning of the 20th century and featuring young Swedish immigrant Hilda Johansson; an unread copy in near perfect dustjacket.

New York: Walker & Co., 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in the Agatha Award-winning Dams English village mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Dorothy Martin. A collectable copy.

New York: Walker & Co., 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sixth novel in Dams' cozy mystery series featuring transplanted American Dorothy Martin, looking forward to a quiet life in England when she learns an old friend in Hillsberg, Indiana, has left her a small inheritance. It's a chance to revisit the town where she spent most of her life but when she arrives, Dorothy learns that along with the money, Kevin Cassidy left her a note that suggests he's been murdered. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket is close to perfect, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Walker & Co., 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel for Dams whose first, "The Body In The Transept," won an Agatha Award for Best First Novel, and the second in this cozy mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Dorothy Martin, this time finding a corpse in the old town hall. Text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fourth novel from the widely-praised Danticat, author of "The Farming of Bones," "Krik? Krak!" and "Breath, Eyes, Memory," is an exploration into the mind of a man, an interrogator and torturer in his native Haiti, now a husband and father, making a quiet living as a barber in the U.S.; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows a penpoint-sized dent on the front panel (the dent did not break though the jacket or damage the front cover), o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Knopf, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. In his fifth novel, former award-winning journalist Darnton captures perfectly the "beginning of the end" days of a big city newspaper where an unloved but powerful editor is found murdered in the newsroom on a rainy September morning. Priscilla Bollingsworth, a young NYPD detective, teams up with Jude Hurley, a clever, rebellious reporter, to search for a killer, an effort complicated by several additional corpses. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows a touch of soiling and edgewear. Collectable.

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.

Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co., 1845. First Edition Thus. . Full-Leather. Fair To Good/No Jacket. Though not credited in this edition, the author is Richard Alfred Davenport, an early 18th century English writer who wrote poetry as well as several other "general interest" books and who died in squalid conditions of an apparent drug overdose (laudanum, an opium preparation). From Chapter I: "Incredulity has been said . to be the foundation of all wisdom . but on the other hand, to say that credulity is the foundation of all folly, is an assertion more consonant with experience . and this subject forms a curious chapter in the history of the human mind." 6 x 4 inches, 283 pages in full leather binding with gold lettering in black title label on spine. Appears to be First American Edition after two previous editions (1837 and 1840) issued in England by T. Teggs. No illustrations. Boards are worn with several small stains; corners slightly bumped; front exterior hinge cracked,… Read More

New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1973. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Ace Non-Fiction 37055; Davidson, a nationally-known investigative reporter, spent six months inside the California attorney general's office as it prosecuted a variety of cases including a sensational murder, narcotics arrests, an art fraud investigation,and a bribery indictment. Text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with a slight spine lean; blue pictorial wrappers show minor wear at base of spine, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable True Crime.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. Marion Davies, a New York girl, met publisher Willaim Randolph Hearst while she was playing in the Ziegfeld Follies about 1915. It was the beginning of a relationship lasting more than 30 years and during which, with Hearst's help, Davies became a major Hollywood star and multi-millionaire. This book, edited by Pamela Pfau and Kenneth Marx, is Davies' memoir of those years. It was withheld from publication until after Davies' death. First edition, early printing. About 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches, 275 pages bound in black & brown marbled, paper-covered boards with title centered in gold on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Illustrated with numerous b & w celebrity photos and several charts detailing aspects of Davies' life, such as an inventory of her jewelry and a listing of her movies and their revenue/losses. Also includes a foreword by Orson Welles and an index. Sorry, no dustjacket. Boards show only… Read More