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

New York: Knopf, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The thirteenth novel by one of America's acknowledged master writers features New Englander Sarah Worth, who has fallen in love with a Hindu religious leader and has left her husband and daughter to join a commune in Arizona; a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Updike's thirteenth novel takes the form of letters and tapes 42-year-old Sara Worth sends to her husband, mother, daughter and assorted friends and neighbors after abandoning her New England home to join a commune in Arizona. Like Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," Sara has fallen in love with a religious leader; in Sara's case, a Hindu named Arhat, resulting in a religious comedy, a romance, and Updike's meditation on American womanhood. Boards and text are clean, tight, perhaps a trace of spine lean; dustjacket is close to perfect with very minimal surface and edgewear. A very collectable copy.

New York: Knopf, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. The thirteenth novel of National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Updike features 42-year-old Sarah Worth, who leaves her family and friends in New England to join a religious commune in Arizona. A Very Fine unread copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The comic masterpiece that won Roth the 1995 National Book Award features Mickey Sabbath, a retired puppeteer, an aging but antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous 64-year-old who embarks on a strange journey into his past. A collectable copy.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. the sixth novel from the National Book Award winner re-emphasizes his standing among the best writers of satire and comic fiction; First Printing of the First Edition; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dust jacket has single scratch on spine and very slight edge wear. Collectable.

New York: Vintage Books, 1980. First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. One of the French masters of the mystery genre, Freeling brings all his skill to this story of a rich elderly widow who comes to the police for protection, claiming her life is threatened. Freeling's lengendary detective, Henri Castang, is sent to investigate what many believe to be the fantasies of a crazy old woman. Until the murder. Text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; pictorial wrappers show very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

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, 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

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. the third novel in Lehane's highly-praised mystery series featuring Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, this time hired to find the missing daughter of a dying billionaire; text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows a quarter-inch tear at lower corner of front panel, o/w very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The Mystery Writers Grand Master and Edgar Award-winner's twelfth mystery features Navaho policemen Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn investigating two seemingly unrelated murders; boards and text are clean, tight, square in price-clipped dustjacket showing minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. the twelfth novel in Edgar Award-winning Hillerman's celebrated mystery series set in the Southwest and featuring the Navaho Tribal Police; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Mysterious Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Olson's first novel, this award-winning mystery-thriller, features Annie Seymour, New Haven police reporter, investigating multiple murder and missing cows at Yale University; the text is clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some very slight edgewear, no chips or tears.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1989. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Very Good. For the latter half of the 20th century, the award-winning Westlake was known as the master of the comic crime novel and probably best remembered for his Dortmunder series, featuring a blundering burglar. He also wrote many wickedly funny stand-alone novels. "Sacred Monster," is a stand-alone, featuring Hollywood actor Jack Pine and his boyhood friend, the mysterious Buddy Pal. First edition, first printing. About 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 231 pages in light-blue, paper-covered boards with darker blue backstrip and gold lettering on spine. Pictorial dustjacket shows lone figure in blue bathrobe seated in canvas chair, arms outflung with spilled drink on floor. Back panel has b&w headshot photo of author. Book and dustjacket show a narrow, light-colored stain along the bottom edge of the back cover or panel, o/w boards show a touch of surface wear and wear at corners. Text edges show very light foxing, o/w… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1966. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good To Good Plus. This short novel is among the early work from Donleavy, whom Time Magazine once described as "the novelist who is most truly black and funny about sex and death," and whose first novel, "The Ginger Man," became a 20th century cult classic. Samuel S., a man of lonely principles and survivor of the tiny battles of the spirit waged in bedrooms around the world, is under siege in his Vienna lighthouse by Abigail, an American college girl seeking her own emancipation in the seduction of Samuel S., the last of the world's solemn failures. First Edition, First Printing. Quarter-cloth bound, red, paper-covered boards show only a touch of wear at spine ends, and top and bottom edges of text are very lightly foxed, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. Primarily white dustjacket has small chip missing at top of spine and shows age-tanning and light soiling… Read More

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1946. Hardcover. About Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. The 15th novel in Van Wyck Mason's highly popular, mid-20th century mystery-thriller series featuring U.S. Army Intelligence Maj. Hugh North, this time ordered to the far east to hunt for a young woman known only as the "Black Chrysanthemum," who had escaped Manila during recapture of the Phillipines from the Japanese by the U.S. Army in 1944. She has in her possession a dossier with the names of British and American men who betrayed their countries for huge rewards from the Japanese. Book Club edition (dustjacket states book club edition, though book itself states "first edition" on copyright page.). About 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 312 pages in maroon paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine and gold floral symbol stamped on front cover. Pictorial dustjacket's yellow front panel shows young blonde woman holding sheaf of papers with far east landscape in background. Dj's spine… Read More

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1946. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The 19th of mid-20th century craftsman Mason's long-running spy-thriller series featuring Army Intelligence Major Hugh North, recalled from the European Theater at the end of WWII to search for a beautiful young woman, who, during recapture of Manila from the Japanese, escaped the city with a dossier containing the names of British and American citizens who had betrayed their countries to the enemy. Major North follows a very faint trail towards Saigon where he finds himself in a race with some of the traitors who are intent on destroying the dossier and the woman who has it in her possession. A small bookseller's sticker in the lower corner of the front end page, a touch of fading at the top of the spine, and some age-tanning of the text, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The fragile dustjacket, while 90% complete, has a long split or tear beginning… Read More

New York: Viking Penguin, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Kesey's third novel, published 25 years after his first two, (including the classic "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)," features the residents of Kuinak, a rundown Alaskan fishing village inhabited by Deaps (Descendants of Early Aboriginal Peoples) and refugees from the Lower Forty-eight. Alice the Angry Aleut, the Bakatcha Bandit, Billy the Squid, and the Loyal Order of Underdogs watch a film studio/yacht sail into their harbor loaded with a big bucks Hollywood movie company come to film a classic children's book. It is either the village's last hope or the beginning of the end. Unpredictable confrontations and transformations become routine as haves and have-nots make love and war. Kesey, using pink, yellow, blue and orange markers and red pen, turned the front fly leaf of this copy into an elaborate full-page inscription to a member of the sales force marketing the book. A… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1991. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The twelfth novel from Pulitzer Prize-winningTyler is a story about a young man learning you have to earn forgiveness; remainder mark on top edge of text, o/w Fine in like dustjacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Oster's seventh mystery novel features federal narcotics agent Susan Van Meter, who goes undercover in New York City to track down the killer of her husband; dustjacket slightly bumped with small chip at top of spine.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oster's seventh mystery novel features Federal narcotics agent Susan Van Meter, who goes undercover to track the killer of a fellow agent -- her husband.