Search Results: Titles starting with B from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Bantam Books, 1946. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Soft cover. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage Paperback, Bantam 22; Arguably the best of the five great novels written by the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, 'Babbit' is a satirical portrait of the American businessman that still maintains its relevance sixty years after its publication; text is clean, tight, square, moderately age-tanned; the permagloss laminate on the pictorial wrappers is still nearly perfect with only very minor surface and edgewear. A very collectable copy of a high point in American literature.

New York: Arcade Publishing, Inc., 2003. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The sixth novel in Maitland's highly-praised and increasingly popular police procedural mystery series featuring Scotland Yard's unconventional detective team -- Kathy Kolla and David Brock. This time they investigate the brutal murder of a controversial university professor known for his stand against Islamic extremism but others with other motives may also have wanted him dead. A light, tiny stain at the top of the text's fore edge, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a small crease on the lower corner of the front flap and just a touch of edgewear, o/w no tears, no chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy from this very collectable author.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Wolff's third book, his second collection of short stories that have won him wide-spread praise for his lean, cool prose about ordinary people faced with moral decisions; bottom corners of boards slightly bumped, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows wear around edges and at corners, some light scratching, but still whole without significant flaws; a collectable copy of a quite scarce book.

New York: Bantam Books, 2022 A free-standing novel from the author of the best-selling series featuring Kate Martinelli and Mary Russell invites the reader to discover the secrets hidden at the Gardener Estate, one of the most storied and beloved tourist sites in California. First edition, first printing ,with complete numberline. About 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches,318 pages in black paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel shows title and author in gold lettering over a blue background featuring a palatial mansion. Signed on the title page by King. Boards and text are clean, unmarked and undamaged as is dustjacket. No tears, creases; no underlining or highligting. This is a pristine, signed copy by one of the best mystery writers working toda.

New York: Little Brown & Co., 2012. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The last of Wolfe's four novels ("Bonfire of the Vanities," "A Man in Full," "I Am Charlotte Simmons") features among others, a newly promoted Miami marine police officer, a Cuban mayor, a pair of Wasp Yale-graduate newspaper types, and a sex-addiction, sexually-addicted psychiatrist, all operating in a Miami viewed by many as the American city of the future. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 6 x 9 1/2 inches, 703 pages in red-brown paper-covered boards with Wolfe's name stamped on front cover, and title and author in gold lettering on spine. The dustjacket's front panel shows title and author in white lettering against a abstract pictorial design showing a city scape sandwiched between a brown and gold sky and two-shades-of-blue ocean. Back panel contains full-color, full-panel photo of Wolfe. There is a single, tiny, light brown stain (probably… Read More

New York: Knopf, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The fifteenth novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tyler; a Fine copy in a dustjacket showing only some very slight edgewear.

Nanticoke, PA: Knopf, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A vintage effort from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tyler, her fifteenth novel features Rebecca Davitch, a 53-year-old Baltimore grandmother, "who discovered she had turned into the wrong person." Boards and text are clean, tight, with a slight spine lean; dustjacket shows some minor rubbing and edgewear (no tears or scratches).

New York: Mysterious Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The 18th novel in Stark's noir crime series featuring Parker, a stone-cold killer and master thief and holdup man. The series came to an end in the 1970s after 16 books until Stark, aka Donald E. Westlake, revived it after a 23-year hiatus with an additional eight novels as tough as the earlier ones, with Parker as cool, smart and deadly as ever. In this one, Parker plans to rip off a gambling boat, a floating casino on the Hudson River, but some of his partners in the enterprise want more than their share and crossing Parker almost always gets you dead. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows only light surface and edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping. Not price-clipped or remaindered. A collectable copy.

New York: Dell, 1958. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Dell D238 (#18 in the Dell Great Mystery Library); originally published in 1937, this is one of the first and truly classic novels of intrigue and espionage; First Printing of First Dell Edition; text is clean, tight, slight spine lean, age-browned in pictorial wrappers with reading creases, minor surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1965. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Pyramid R-1166; A Green Door mystery featuring Stout's largely forgotten New York private detective Tecumseh Fox; First Printing of First Pyramid Edition; text is clean, tight, square, age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing some soiling along spine and on back cover o/w only minor surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1965. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. vintage paperback, Pyramid R-1166; Stout's "other" New York City private detective, Tecumseh Fox, investigates a case of industrial sabotage that becomes blackmail and murder; mass market paperback, First Edition Thus; lightly age-tanned, clean and tight, appears unread; wrappers show only minor shelfwear. A scarce title. Collectable.

New York: Simon and Schuster. Set in King's Maine landscape, this is the story of Mike Noonan, a bestselling novelist who is still grieving for his wife four years after her death; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket's back panel shows slight rubbing and soiling. . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. 1998.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. the first of Huston's suspense-thrillers features a U.S. merchant ship hijacked by terrorists hoping to spark an international incident and causing a consitutional crisis as the President refuses to use military action while Congress attempts to start its own war; small remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Becoming hard to find.

New York: Dutton, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award-winning McCrumb's fifteenth book is a mystery-suspense novel featuring North Carolina Sheriff Spencer Arrowood racing against the executioner as he re-opens a twenty-year-old murder case that has parallels with an even older one from 1833. Text is clean, tight, square in dustjacket with very minor surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Dutton/Penguin, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. the fifteenth book from the award-winning McCrumb is a mystery-suspense novel featuring Tennessee deputy sheriff Spencer Arrowood racing against time to save a man twenty years on death row from imminent execution. Inscribed, Signed and Dated by McCrumb on the title page; a collectable copy in like dustjacket.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1968. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal R1993; an early MacDonald venture into science fiction; mass market paperback, First Gold Medal Edition, later printing of novel first published in 1952; one-reader text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; pictorial wrappers show only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Tower Publications, Inc., 1970. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Tower T-095-36; an American lawyer's carefully researched account detailing the use of torture by the right wing government in Greece in the 1960s-70s, published as part of an effort to end U.S. aid; includes case histories and other documentation; foreword by Sen. Claiborne Pell; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing minimal surface and edgewear. Very Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Rinehart & Co., 1951. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Fair. Mailer's first novel after the best-selling success of his World War II book, "The Naked and the Dead," is set in New York City and narrated by Mikey, a man with amnesia, who has scars and was probably in the war but has no memory of it; boards show wear along edges and at spine ends; text is very slightly age-tanned, o/w clean, tight and square; dustjacket, though basically whole, shows considerable edgewear and is worn and chipped along spine with significant chipping at spine ends.

New York: Rinehart & Co., 1951. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Mailer's first novel after his celebrated "The Naked and the Dead;" boards show some rubbing and edgewear, with minor chipping at top of spine; dustjacket is considerably worn and chipped along edges with fold between back panel and spine worn through in places though basically whole; protected now by mylar.

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.