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

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Wolfe's thirteenth book is a social satire of life on campus as seen through the eyes and mind of Charlotte Simmons, a wide-eyed, bookish freshman from a strict, devout, poor and poorly educated family from North Carolina; tiny creases on two pages of text, bottom edges of covers each show a small indentation, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minor edgewear, no tears or chips; at 676 pages, book's weight may require extra postage.

New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Fine to Very Fine. The fourth novel by the author of the critically acclaimed "Billy" and "Patches Of Fire;" Advance Reading Copy - Uncorrected Proof; Very Fine in pictorial wrappers.

New York: Henry Holt, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is the ninth mystery in Grafton's justly celebrated "alphabet" mystery series featuring Kinsey Milhone, California woman private detective. Collectable.

New York: Henry Holt, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good/Good Plus. The ninth book in Grafton's bestselling and widely-praised mystery series featuring California private detective Kinsy Millhone; fep is missing o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some rubbing, light scratches. A more than decent reading copy.

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: Simon & Schuster, 2015. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A stand-alone historical mystery from the award-winning author of the Bob Lee Swagger sniper thrillers. Very well realized characters are developed through a serial killer's diary entries, a journalist's memoirs, a prostitute's letters to her mother against a carefully-researched, 1880s London backdrop in a chase to find the killer before he kills again. Signed on the title page by Hunter. First Printing, First Edition (as stated, with complete numberline). 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, 310 pages, including a Ripper bibliography, in grey paper-covered boards and red lettering on black spine. Appears unread. Two tiny dents in fore edge near top corner, o/w boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked, binding is tight and square. Not remaindered. Pictorial dustjacket shows just a touch of edgewear, no tears, no crreasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A significant contribution to the Ripper literature in a… Read More

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Michael Harrison was the pen name of English mystery and fantasy writer, Maurice Rohan, better known today as one of the great Sherlock Holmes scholars and author of several books on Conan Doyle's legendary fictional detective. This book purporting to be, "The Memoirs of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, OM, late Consulting Private Detective-in-Ordinary to Their Majesties Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, and King George V," was compiled and edited by Harrison in the form of a memoir written by Holmes himself in 1915 and covering the period 1881-91. Holmes then deposited the manuscript at the British Museum for safekeeping. 296 pages including a bibliography and index; illustrated with 26 black & white photos and drawings. Text edges show foxing, o/w text is clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a quarter-inch, closed tear on the top edge of the back panel, o/w only… Read More

New York: Random House, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/Very Good. A stand-alone, mid-career novel from master craftsman Ludlum, author of the Jason Bourne bestsellers and numerous other bestselling thrillers. "The Icarus Agenda" features Congressman Evan Kendrick, the quiet, unassuming representative of a remote Colorado Congressional district who is able to end the takeover of a U.S. mideast embassy by terrorists who threaten to slaughter embassy staff if their demands are not met. Kendrick becomes a reluctant national hero thrust by competing political interests into consideration for presidential nomination while at the same time, vengeful terrorists seek his death by whatever means and costs. First edition, first printing (as stated, with Random House complete numberline from 9 to 2). About 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 678 pages, including "About the Author" page. Bound in dark blue, cloth-covered boards with author's name stamped in lower corner of front cover and gold… Read More

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hoffman's eighteenth novel is a 'magical' story of a man and woman, both survivors of lightning strikes, which affects them in totally different ways and draws them into an obsessive love affair; a remainder mark on top edge of text and boards, o/w clean, tight, square; small ink mark near lower edge of back panel, o/w dustjacket shows only very minimal surface or edgewear.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1990. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Gold Dagger Award-winning Keating's Inspector Ghote tackles a nest of blackmailers and a murderer.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Anthony Award-winning Roberts' third novel in her mystery series featuring Philadelphia school teacher Amanda Pepper is a bibliomystery in which Pepper, sorting used books for a school fundraiser, finds a book on battered women with descriptions of violent abuse underlined and a note in the margin saying, "I know he will kill me. He says so. I believe him. He will kill me soon." The book is clean, whole and tight but inside front and back covers and the back end page have been damaged by what appears to have been removal of glued-down dustjacket flaps. The DJ currently protecting book is probably not the original since the flaps are undamaged and it shows only minimal surface and edgewear. The damage to the covers is hidden by the dj flaps so it only shows on the back endpage.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1963. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Malamud, probably best known for his award-winning novel, "The Natural," also won a National Book Award for his first short story collection, "The Magic Barrel," and what one critic said of that collection of stories, applies equally well to his second collection, "Idiots First:" "Funny and tragic and true to humanity." Bottom end of spine is lightly bumped, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the white dustjacket shows a half-inch closed tear and crease at the bottom of the spine, o/w no tears, no creasing, only very minimal soiling and minor edgewear. Not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc., 1968. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Dell 3952; a collection of Mailer's magazine essays on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Vietnam, sex, the FBI, etc.; slight spine lean, mild age-darkening, o/w text is clean, tight; pictorial wrappers show minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Warner Books, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. White's first novel and the first book in her mystery series featuring New York City true crime writer, Bailey Weggins, thirty-something, single-again, investigating the death of a nanny; text is clean, tight, with a very slight spine lean in a dustjacket showing only very minor edgewear.

New York: Warner Books, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The author's first novel and the first in her mystery series featuring New York City true crime writer Bailey Weggins; pages 203-208 show slight dent along fore edge; back panel of dustjacket slightly rubbed, with other minimal surface wear; still a Very Good copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Pocket Books, 1974. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 78418; Thomas' story of a U.S. Senator who takes a bribe and the Washington columnist who discovers political corruption, scandal and murder; text is clean, tight, slight spine lean in black pictorial wrappers showing light reading crease, minor surface and edgewear. Very Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Clark's tenth mystery and suspense novel features Meghan Collins, a New York City television news reporter who comes face to face with her own double in a Manhattan hospital ER -- a young Jane Doe stabbed to death in an alley; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The third novel in Barr's award-winning mystery series set in U.S. National Parks and featuring Park Ranger Anna Pigeon, this time investigating the death of a fellow officer in the Anasazi cliff dwellings in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park; boards shows some very slight shelf wear on bottom edges, text is clean, tight and square; the dustjacket shows only minor surface and edgewear, no tears or chipping. A collectable copy.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. the seventh novel in Pears' mystery series featuring Flavia di Stefano, head of Italy's Art Theft squad, and her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Walker's fourth mystery/thriller is the story of the murder of the leading citizen of Woodedge, Massachusetts, strangled in her Mercedes in a local lovers' lane; a remainder mark on bottom edge of test, o/w Fine in like dustjacket.