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

New York: Time Books, 1995. First Printing, Second Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. A history of photojournalism from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through its resurgence in the 1990's. Amply illustrated with dozens of history-making photographs, this Second Edition updates the final chapter of the 1990 edition with new photos from the 1990's; 9 1/2" x 11"; back panel of dustjacket is deeply scratched several times with two scratches faintly visible on book's back cover; the jacket also shows some edgewear with small chip on back panel near spine. Not for the coffee table but very useful for study/reference.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Credited with creating the first believable African-American private detective, the Edgar Award-winning Lacy's second book features ex-cop Marty Bond, now the detective in a small New York City hotel; ink-stamped name and address of previous owner on inside front cover, text edges slightly soiled; dustjacket is worn, chipped and torn around edges but basically whole.

New York: Lancer Books, 1967. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Lancer 73-554; from the hardboiled mystery writer credited with creating the first credible African-American private detective, this sequel to his Edgar Award-winning "Room To Swing," features black private detective Toussaint Marcus Moore hunting a murderer in Mexico; First Printing of First Lancer Books Edition; text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with slight spine lean; white pictorial wrappers show minimal reading crease, other surface and edgewear. Scarce in this condition.

New York: Lancer Books, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Lancer 73-629; from the Edgar Award-winner credited with creating the first credible African-American private detective, a novel featuring a pair of New York City police detectives -- one black, one white -- working undercover in a hot, tense, 1960's summer; mass market paperback, Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, age-tanned with slight spine lean in white pictorial wrappers showing slight age-discoloration along spine and edges o/w very minimal surface and edgewear. A scarce collectable copy.

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The sixth of Edgar Award-winning Lacy's mystery/suspense novels is set in a fourth-rate, midtown Manhattan hotel where Howie Fisher runs the newstand in the lobby and becomes too interested in one of the tenants, an Egyptian belly dancer named Cleopatra Nasser; text edges soiled; dustjacket slightly worn at edges, spine ends; back panel soiled. Still a collectable copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good. Credited with creating the first credible African-American private detective, the Edgar Award-winning Lacy's third book features young New York City Police detective Dave Wintino investigating the death of an ex-cop shot down in an alley; previous owner's signature in ink on fep, boards show wear on edges, corners, top and bottom of spine; dustjacket is basically whole but back panel is wrinkled, top and bottom of spine chipped, edges worn. Makes a reasonable reading copy.

New York: Macfadden-Bartell Corp., 1965. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Macfadden 50-233; from the Edgar Award-winner credited with creating the first credible African-American private detective, a hardboiled story of Hal Darling, a New York City PI, hunting for a call girl who's inherited a fortune; First Printing of First Macfadden-Bartell Edition; text is tight, clean, square, lightly age-tanned in black pictorial wrappers showing reading crease, o/w very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce in this condition.

New York: Bantam Books, 1977. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Bantam 11149; L'Amour's story of Borden Chantry, marshall in a two-bit cowtown, faced with finding a mysterious killer who had, at last count, murdered five men in cold blood and was probably already thinking about number six. Paperback Original, True First Printing, First Edition. Pictorial wrappers show some wear including light reading creases, pair of creases across lower corner of front cover, some soiling on back. Text is age-tanned, with previous owner's name on front end page, and a slight spine lean. Overall, this copy is clean, unmarked, binding tight. First printings of this novel becoming hard to find.

New York: Bantam Books, 1965. First Edition, Second Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam J2956; One of L'Amour's western series featuring the Sackett family, this time William Tell Sackett, who found gold and a woman and then discovered there were others who wanted both; Second Printing of Paperback Original First Edition (originally published by Bantam in 1961); text is clean, tight, slightly age-browned in pictorial wrappers with a light reading crease, minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce in this condition.

New York: Bantam Books, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Fine to Very Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam H3935; L'Amour, the best-selling master craftsman of the Western, tells the story of Matt Coburn, hired to bring law and order to a mining boom town; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing almost no creasing, surface or edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

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: Bantam Books, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam N7784; The best-selling western-adventure author ever tells the story of Con Vallian, a man who minded his own business until he accepted a cup of coffee and found himself guiding a family from the east across a prairie full of Indians and bandits; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned, slight spine lean in pictorial wrappers showing very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Saturday Review Press/Dutton, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Easily the most popular and best-selling Western genre writer of the past 75 years, most of L'Amour's novels appeared first in paperback. "The Californios" is an exception, published in 1974 by Saturday Review Press, it is the story of an Irish-American family in the early 1800s settled on a ranch in Malibu in danger of being foreclosed by an unscrupulous businessman and his outlaw associates. But Eileen Mulkerin is a strong woman who refuses to sell and it becomes the mission of her son, Sean, a sea-faring adventurer like his father, to protect his mother and save his heritage. Boards and text show a slight spine lean with lower end of spine bumped, some soiling on text edges, o/w book is clean and unmarked, tight, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows some minor edgewear including a single, quarter-inch tear on lower edge of back panel, and a bit of chipping at spine… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam N7568; L'Amour's western adventure novel is set in the early 1800's, when there were still more buffalo than cattle, more trappers than cowboys, and features Ronan Chantry, an easterner with one of the first breech-loading rifles; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, square, tight, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing a minimum of creasing, surface and edgewear.

London: Severn House, 1987. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Good Plus. A collection of hardboiled mystery/detective short stories written by L'Amour for the detective pulp fiction magazines in the late 1940s and early '50s, a different genre for the author considered the most prolific, bestsellling Western writer of all time; First Printing of the First UK Hardcover Edition; text is clean, tight, square in a dustjacket showing minor scratching on back panel o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Of his well-over 200 novels, L'Amour. the western genre's all-time best-selling author, wrote only a very few with a woman as the main character. "The Cherokee Trail," with stagecoach stationmaster, Mary Breydon, is one of those rarities. Her Virginia home destroyed in the Civil War, her husband murdered on their way to Colorado, Mary Breydon and her young daughter face constant danger from outlaws and Indians and a mysterious stalker as they turn the station into an important stop on the journey west. Bookclub Edition, First Edition Thus. About 5 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches, 177 pages including one-page biographical sketch at the end, in tan paper-covered boards with red lettering on spine and a "Colorado Territory" map decorating the pastedowns and end pages. The dustjacket shows a wrap-around illustration from a painting by Louis S. Glanzman showing a woman holding a rifle flanked to her right by a man with his hand… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 2001. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. These ten previously uncollected short stories from one of the master storytellers of the 20th century run the genre gamut from adventure to spy-thriller, from detective to the westerns for which L'Amour is best known. A collectable copy in like dustjacket. Scarce.

New York: Bantam Books, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam J3098; A contemporary western-mystery, one of L'Amour's few excursions into a genre and time period outside the traditional western; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers with minor chipping top of spine, minimal other surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Bantam Books, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage paperback, Bantam A2512; The all-time, bestselling Western writer's story of Macon Fallon, a gambler who became a town builder; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; pages 85-90 have manufacturing defects that do not affect text, small stains on pages 2 and 3, o/w text is clean, tight, square, slightly age-browned in worn but whole pictorial wrappers showing small, tape-repaired tear at base of spine.

New York: Bantam Books, 1961. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback -- Bantam A2236: An early novel from L'Amour's celebrated western series featuring the Sackett family. This one is about Tell Sackett, brother of Tye Sackett, the Mora gunfighter. Tell had to leave Texas after killing a man in a gunfight and now, in "high, lonesome country" he's found a lode of gold. But there's a woman, and gold and women attract all kinds of men, not all of them good. Paperback original, True First Edition, First Printing. Mass Market Paperback, about 4 x 7 inches, 120 pages plus 2 pages of publisher's ads. Pictorial wrappers with front cover showing, against a yellow background, a lone man holding revolver looking down from hill to small town in distance. Two, small, light creases in upper corner of front cover, o/w only very minimal surface and edge wear. Text block edges dyed yellow. Text complete, clean and unmarked. No tears, no creasing or bumping. A collectable… Read More