Literature/criticism from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Knopf, 2002. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The third of Ford's six collections of short fiction. Ford has won the Pen/Malamud Award for his short stories as well as the Pulitzer Prize for his 1996 novel, "Independence Day." First printing, first U.S. edition (as stated). About 6 x 9 1/2 inches, 286 pages in pale green paper-covered… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Press, 1942. Hardcover. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. This classic of Victorian era romantic literature was Hardy's sixth novel (his seventh counting his unpublished first work). There was some difficulty at first finding a publisher since social and sexual conflict was not openly discussed in late 19th century England. The title refers to Clym Yeobright, a… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The eighth collection of short stories by this mid-20th century American who became widely popular for his short fiction before his novels, such as "Butterfield 8," "Appointment in Samarra," and "Pal Joey," became best sellers. This copy of "The Hat on the Bed" is first edition, first printing (as stated). About… 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: Pocket Books, 1963. 1st Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback: Pocket Books, Inc., Giant Cardinal Edition, GC-169. With a single novel -- "Catcher In The Rye," published in 1951 -- and a couple of short story collections, J.D. Salinger became, within a dozen years, a controversial writer and reclusive legend,… Read more about this item

New York: Dell, 1967. First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback: Dell 1058 -- Mailer is probably best known for his novels, from his best-selling 1948 war novel, "The Naked and the Dead," to his final work in 2007, "The Castle In The Forest," but, arguably, was at his best in… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1977. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Cheever's late career novel has, since its publication, received both high praise and heavy criticism. The story of Farragut, a professor who is a heroin addict and murderer of his brother, and is now imprisoned at Falconer, has been seen as a stand-in for its author's life story… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. One of Faulkner's masterworks, in which characters such as Joe Christmas and the Rev. Gail Hightower not only address issues of race, sex, religion and class in 1930s Mississippi but, through the author's talent and genius, live them. Introduction by Richard Rovere. The Modern Library No. 88, 1950… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co., 1845. First Edition Thus. . Full-Leather. Fair To Good/No Jacket. Though not credited in this edition, the author is Richard Alfred Davenport, an early 18th century English writer who wrote poetry as well as several other "general interest" books and who died in squalid conditions of an apparent drug overdose (laudanum, an opium… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This second posthumous collection of Barthelme's shorter work focuses on his non-fiction comments on art, literature, film and city life as well as bringing together several interviews from the last 18 years of this master short story writer's life that help understand this very… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1982. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/About Very Good. A collection of Mailer's work in the 1970s in basically two parts: "Pieces" of his favorite short writing on film, art, litereature, television, espionage; and "Pontifications" or interviews he gave ranging on topics as diverse as sex, God, rock, science, magic, violence… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, Ltd., 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The ninth collection of essays from this noted and often controversial critic of everything and everyone from George Washington to the CIA, from Mark Twain to Bill Clinton, is full of some of the best writing and thinking of one of the 20th century's most… Read more about this item

New York: Trident Press, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. John Faulkner's recollections about his Nobel Prize-winning brother, take us past the legendary writer's public personna to an intimate portrait, etched with humor, of a very private man fiercely loyal to his family and friends, who both loved and hated his native Mississippi because… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Volume Two of Vance's classic study of the influence of Roman culture on American artists and writers over the past two hundred years. Drawing on the work of more than three hundred artists and writers from West and Sargent, and Emerson and Hawthorne to Cadmus… Read more about this item

London, 1974. Near Fine to Fine. A one-page letter, typewritten on a 5 3/4" x 8 1/4" sheet of stationery with printed letterhead: "37 Albert Bridge Road London SWII/01-622 3981." Dated "1 January 1974" and addressed to "Dear Mike," the first sentence reads: "No offense taken, just a few comments made." There follows four short paragraphs containing comments… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The sequel to the Goldstones' first book on book collecting and collectors, "Used and Rare," this second volume of lightly humorous explorations into the curious world of bibliophiles sees them get hooked on the writing, correspondence and couplings of the Bloomsbury group as… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1971. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/About Very Good. The author and social critic, who assaulted the American establishment, mom, pop, the military, religion, American sex roles and national hypocrisy in "The Generation Of Vipers," excoriates the U.S. educational system and the entire population -- teachers, students, liberals, conservatives, parents, offspring… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Baker's third book is this humorous but still serious attempt to explain his relationship with John Updike, whom Baker met a single time in front of a plate of cold cuts at a Harvard Lampoon party in 1984. Baker has read all or nearly all of… Read more about this item

London: Souvenir Press Ltd., 1972. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/About Very Good. Poet and author Long bases his fictional narrative on the true story of a Spanish survivor of a shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico in 1528, who, with three other men, completed an eight-year odyssey across the North American continent. The second story… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collection of Wolfe's essays on topics ranging from teenage sex to modern art to genetics and neuroscience as well as his novella about sting TV, "Ambush At Fort Bragg;" text and boards are clean, tight, square; bright yellow dustjacket shows very minor edgewear… Read more about this item