Biography/Memoirs from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Grammercy Publishing Co., 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. Freedley was an actor, writer and best-known as curator of the New York Public Library's theater collection. He was also a cat lover and, in 1943, met Mr. Cat in a Manhattan pet shop, beginning the 16-year relationship described in this short, but delightful memoir. First edition, later printing.… Read more about this item

New York: Galahad Books, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. An omnibus edition containing the complete texts of Rooney's three bestselling books: "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney;" "And More by Andy Rooney," and "Pieces of My Mind." First Galahad Books edition. About 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 761 pages in dark blue, paper-covered boards with silver lettering… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1857. Hardcover. About Very Good. Sparks, author of this 19th century biography of Washington, was a leading educator and intellectual of his time. A president of Harvard, chaplain of Congress and author of numerous historical works on the American Revolution and early American leaders including Benjamin Franklin, Gouverneur Morris, Gen. Anthony Wayne, and… Read more about this item

Kansas City: Andrews & McMeel, Inc., 1989. Large Softcover. Very Good. Artist Gary Larson titled this collection of his cartoons a "Retrospective," and an "Exhibit." It is a a trip inside a weird mind and strange sense of humor, a glimpse into the creative process of an artist who sees the world a bit differently than the rest… Read more about this item

New York: Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Balthus was a 20th century European artist, primarily a painter, whose works were realistic but psychologically introverted, often depicting pubescent girls in erotic and voyeristic poses. His work was known and admired by other European writers and artitists including Andre Breton and Pablo Picasso. This English translation from the… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. Santmyer is best known as the author of "And Ladies of the Club," a 1982 bestseller that brought her to national attention when she was in her eighties and living in a nursing home. "Herbs And Apples" is Santmyer's first novel, originally published in 1925.… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. The Last Puritan" is philosopher George Santayana's only novel and probably much to his surprise, it became a bestseller in 1935-36. Subtitled "A Memoir in the Form of a Novel," set in New England and in England around Oxford, it sets out the life of Oliver Alden. The book,… Read more about this item

New York: Park Lane, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This large volume does justice not only to the 124 color and 116 b & w reproductions but to the multitude of family, friends, artists, critics, and historians who have written, not always kindly, about Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), and whose comments, as well as Renoir's own letters and writings… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. Ring Lardner was a legendary sports reporter and short story writer active in the first part of the 20th century. His humorous, often satirical work earned him praise from, among others, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf. This autobiography is, from the first word… Read more about this item

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. A biography of legendary Irish Nationalist Charles Parnell, leader of the Home Rule movement of the late 19th century, viewed as a hero with a single flaw in the manner of Greek Tragedy. Parnell, a Protestant politician who allied himself with the Irish Catholic public… Read more about this item

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. Exhibition Catalogue. Good Plus to Very Good. The exhibition catalogue issued for the 1976 exhibition of drawing and painting by Andrew Wyeth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The art, created by Wyeth at Chadds Ford, PA, and Olsons Farm, Cushing, ME, ranges from childhood images of… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. Marion Davies, a New York girl, met publisher Willaim Randolph Hearst while she was playing in the Ziegfeld Follies about 1915. It was the beginning of a relationship lasting more than 30 years and during which, with Hearst's help, Davies became a major Hollywood star and multi-millionaire. This book, edited… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. Today, American Gertrude Stein is a large part of the literary legend of "Paris between the wars," known for her art collection and her Paris salon, where leading modernist artists and writers such as Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Lewis, Anderson and Pound often gathered. Stein's own writing -- novels, plays,… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The award-winning Baker's fourth novel is a humorous sex story about a young man, Arno Strine, who has learned how to stop time and likes to use his discovery to undress women. He is hard at work on his autobiography which he is titling, "The Fermata." A fermata is… Read more about this item

New York: Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton, 2016. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Sorel, one of America's great caricaturists and political satirists, began his obsession with actress Mary Astor in 1965 when, in the process of ripping up the kitchen linoleum in his $97-a-month railroad flat in NY, he discovered issues of the 1936 NY Daily News and Daily Mirror headlining… Read more about this item

New York: The Penguin Press, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. As American Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner McPherson demonstrates, Abraham Lincoln, with almost no military experience, created the post of Commander In Chief during the Civil War and then, while still managing his elected office of President with all its political turmoil, became the best Commander in… Read more about this item

New York: Poseidon Press, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. McGrath's fictional forebearers are authors such as Wilde, Poe, Kafka and Stephen King. "Spider," according to Kirkus Reviews, ". is a truly unnerving and subversive narrative -- a study in madness worthy of Poe." Spider is a strange, lonely man who returns to London after a 20 year absence… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Good To Good Plus. In 1907, a young English teacher, Robert Frost, began a friendship with two of his students, John Bartlett and Margaret Abbott (later Bartlett), that endured nearly half a century, in spite of distance and personal hardships. With the Bartletts' deaths in the 1940s, their daughter,… Read more about this item

New York: Brant Art Publications, 1986. Magazine. Very Good. Volume 74, No. 2: Contents include a memoir of the making of Diego Rivera's Rockefeller Center mural; an article clarifying French photographer Eugene Atget's documentary work; recent work by Joan Snyder, Dorothea Rockburne and English artist Stephen Buckley; and Issues & Commentary by Carter Ratcliff, Review of Books and… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1957. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Good Plus. In 1957, English publisher, Michael Joseph, brought together three former bestselling books in an omnibus edition labeled "Famous Books of Today." Although two of the three were fiction and the third a humorous memoir, the books had similar starting points. All three were stories about neophytes… Read more about this item