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

New York: Dutton Penguin, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. A collection of twenty-two short stories from Oates, including the prize-winning "The Goose Girl," in which a respectable suburban mother assists her son in sexually humiliating a glamorous new neighbor. A small name-and-address sticker on the inside front cover under the dustjacket flap o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows a touch of edgewear, no significant flaws, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. In what may be her most controversial work, the award-winning Oates explores the nature of ethnic hartred and the social limits on erotic desire with the creation of Joshua Siege, a celebrated but reclusive author, and Alma Busch, a sensuous, physically attractive young women whose body is covered with bizarre tattoos; boards and text are clean, tight, with some spine lean; dustjacket shows a touch of edgewear, no chipping, tears or creases.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oates' story is the first of what The Ecco Press planned as a series of imaginative collaborations between authors and works of art; in this case between Oates and the 1891 painting by Fernand Khnopff with the same title as the story and which serves as cover art on the dustjacket. The story chronicles the life of an upstate New York woman, born Edith Margaret Freilicht in 1890 and known as Calla in the small town where she lives. A beautiful, eccentric individual who is a puzzle to her husband and children and whose life becomes defined by her association with an itinerant black water diviner and the community's superstitious racism. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only the slightest surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is Oates' portrait of race relations and civil rights in the 1970s as the Vietnam War wound down. It features a white girl -- Genna Hewett-Meade -- beginning a personal inquiry into the violent, mysterious death of her roommate, a black girl named Minette Swift, fifteen years after it happened at an exclusive women's college near Philadelphia. In reconstructing the events leading to her friend's death, Genna is forced to confront her identity in the social contexts of 1975 America. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Not remaindered. The dustjacket shows no more than a slight bit of surface and edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The fifteenth novel in this now classic historic series of the English Navy in the late 18th century. Captain Jack Aubrey has been dispatched to restore order after the capture of a British whaler by a local Tonga chief at the instigation of the French. Stowed away on Aubrey's ship is a female convict escaped from an Australian penal colony. Her presence creates dangerous jealousies and tension aboard ship, including the possibility she may be a French spy. Light foxing and soiling on test edges, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a small corner crease on the dj's front flap, minor surface and edge wear, no tears, no chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The twentieth book in O'Brian's highly-praised English naval warfare series set at the beginning of the 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars and featuring British naval officers Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, this time in South America trying to help Chile break free of Spain's colonial rule; boards and text are clean, tight, with a very slight spine lean; the dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear, no tears or chips. Collectable.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The 20th novel in O'Brian's highly-praised series featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, officers in the British Navy of the late 18th-early 19th centuries, this time celebrating Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and beginning a journey to South America where everything will ride on a daring night raid against the might of the Spanish viceroy in Peru. Page 205 and the last two pages of the novel are dogeared, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows a one-inch, tape-repaired tear at the top of the fold between the front panel and front flap; the flap also has a creased lower corner, no other significant flaws, not price-clipped. Makes a very nice reading copy.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The 19th book in O'Brian's highly praised historical adventure series set in the Napoleonic Era and featuring British Naval officers Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, this time on a mission to intercept a shipment of gold from Africa intended to pay Napoleon's mercenary allies in the Balkans. Boards and text show a very slight spine lean, o/w clean, unmarked and tight. The dustjacket shows a creased lower corner on the front flap, o/w no tears or chipping. Not price-clipped.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second and final novel from the author of "Leaving Las Vegas," this work was completed and published posthumously by O'Brien's sister, Erin; text is clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Very Fine. From the widely-praised author of "Leaving Las Vegas" and "The Assault on Tony's", this third novel, published posthumously, may be O'Brien's most intense portrait of a loner, of one man's obsessive search to belong. Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing (Not to be confused with the Grove/Atlantic facsimile). Text and black pictorial wrappers are clean and unmarked, tight and square; appears unread. A collectable copy of an already scarce edition.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fair. National Book Award winner O'Brien's sixth book, about a marriage and political career built on deceit, was chosen as Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year. A collectable copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1990. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. O'Brien's fifth book is considered by many to be the best work by any writer on the Vietnam War as well as a major technical achievement combining three literary forms -- the short story, the novel and the memoir; First Printing of the First Trade Edition in First State Dustjacket (title on spine off center, no design credit on DJ flap); previous owner's last name in pencil on front pastedown, occasional underlining or marginal notes, upper corners of boards lightly bumped, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, with a slight spine lean; dustjacket shows only light surface and edgewear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. National Book Award winner O'Brien's fifth book is considered by many to be the best work written on the Vietnam War as well as a superb technical achievement spanning and combining three literary forms -- the short story, the novel and the memoir; top edge of text very slightly soiled, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; first issue dustjacket (title on spine off center, no DJ design credit on flap) shows only very slight edgewear and rubbing. A Collectable Copy.

New York: Knopf, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. National Book Award winner O'Brien's fourth novel features William Cowling, a 49-year-old family man who begins digging a hole to deal with his obsessive fear; an unread Very Fine copy.

New York: Knopf, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The National Book Award winner's fourth novel features William Cowling, driven by his nuclear age anxiety to begin digging a hole in his backyard, a hole he hopes will be big enough to hold fifty years of fear; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, edges very slightly soiled, appears unread; dustjacket shows only slight wear at edges. Collectable.

New York: Broadway Books, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. National Book Award winner O'Brien's seventh book features linguistics professor Thomas Chippering, a modern-day Don Juan who sees every co-ed as a new challenge but who most desperately wants to win back his ex-wife. Collectable.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Good. The National Book Award-winning author of the Vietnam War classics "Going After Cacciato" and "The Things They Carried," revisits that era with ten members of the Darton Hall College class of 1969 as they gather for their 30-year reunion in a story both heart-rending and hilarious; a Very Fine, unread copy in a dustjacket showing some rubbing and staining in lower right corner of front panel where price sticker was apparently removed.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third book in Ocean's mystery-thriller series featuring Jersey Barnes, recently retired government security specialist, this time looking forward to taking her D-cup boobs and the rest of her body on a tropical vacation when a long-time friend asks her help in finding out why her brother is in imminent danger of being murdered. Signed, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Ocean on the title page. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket is in equally excellent condtion, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy from an author who is being called the "South's answer to Janet Evanovich.

New York: HarperCollins, 2007. Trade Paperback. About Very Good. O'Connell's debut mystery features newly widowed and close-to-broke Pauline Cook, who's just discovered the body of her friend, Ethan Campbell, a writer who chronicled the lives and loves of the elegant ladies of Chicago's Gold Coast. Apparently a suicide and without relatives, Ethan has left his bills and body for Pauline to dispose of. But something's not quite right -- the ratty boxer shorts Ethan died in, for instance, or the multiple birth certificates found in his apartment. Pauline begins to investigate. First edition. Trade paperback with pictorial wrappers. About 5 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches, 335 pages plus acknowledgments. Signed and inscribed by O'Connell ("Well Bred and Well Read! Best Wishes") on the title page. Front cover shows small circular mark where price sticker was removed, o/w very minor wear along edges and spine ends. No tears or creased corners. Text is clean and complete and without… Read More

New York: Mysterious Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. O'Connell's first novel is this prize-winning mystery-crime novel featuring Lt. Lenore Thomas, an undercover narcotics detective in a decaying New England factory town, trying to deal with a drug lord, an ex-boyfriend, and her own drug addiction while keeping an eye on her twin brother, Ike, a post office employee involved in an investigation of his own where strange things are being delivered to P.O. Box 9. Some light foxing on the top edge of the text, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only a touch of wear along the edges and at the spine ends, no tears, no chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.