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

New York: Walker & Co., 1983. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Fair. Babson's ninth mystery-crime novel features Wilmer Creighleigh, a seventy-year-old British professor who has just published a best-selling book on economics, and his niece, Pippa, who is determined not to let murder spoil his return to London from an American lecture tour; text edges somewhat soiled, corners of front cover bumped, page 159-160 creased; dustjacket worn at edges and corners, 3 1/2 inch "L-shaped" tear along lower spine has been tape-repaired, as has a smaller tear at top of back panel near spine. A decent reading copy.

New York: Walker & Co., 1986. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. Babson, one of the genre's longtime masters, sets this mystery in London's colorful and glamorous world of high fashion; a Very Fine, unread copy in dustjacket showing very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Dutton/Penguin, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stephen King, using his Bachman pseudonymn, presents a story of a quiet summer afternoon on Poplar Street in Wentworth, Ohio, that suddenly and irrevocably becomes a neighborhood in the grip of surreal horror; text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. Large size and weight (476 pages) may require additional postage.

New York: Dutton, 1996. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sixth thriller by Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, is a story of a midwestern suburban neighborhood suddenly and horribly in the grip of surreal terror and death. Large size and weight (476 pages) may require additional postage.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. Hardcover. About Very Good. This now classic volume covers every aspect of the violin -- its origin and evolution, its history, its music and virtuosos, its construction and manufacture -- and has become the standard reference on the instrument since originally published in 1925. This copy is a First U.S. Edition, Second Printing (with the numeral "2" found on the last page of the text). About 6 x 8 3/4 inches, 479 pages plus two pages of publisher's ads, including an introduction by Eugene Ysaye. Translated by Frederick H. Martens. Liberally illustrated, with a frontispiece of Esaye. Bound in green cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on front cover and spine and small graphic design featuring violin centered on front cover. No dustjacket. Some light foxing and age-tanning on text edges and endpapers, and it appears frontispiece page has been trimmed a fraction of an inch, o/w boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked. Book shows… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Better known as a mid-20th Century film writer and movie producer, Bachmann's mystery and crime novels and short stories are under-appreciated today. "The Ultimate Act" is his fifth novel and features Ben Clancy, a young American lawyer, brought to Paris to protect the interests of an heir to a woman killed by her husband, the CEO of a luxury hotel, in a murder-suicide pact. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight, with a slight spine lean. The dustjacket appears to have about an eighth of an inch shaved from the bottom edge, possibly to eliminate some edgewear, o/w except for a crease across the lower corner of the front flap, the dj is clean and whole, not price-clipped.

New York: Doubleday/Crime Club, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bachmann's mystery/suspense novel set in Germany and featuring Lora Miller, a young woman, seemingly a tourist on a pleasure trip, whom police hope will lead them to her boyfriend, wanted in a cafe killing; Bachman also wrote the screenplay based on the book, which became the 1959 movie, "Whirlpool;" previous owner's name on front end page, which shows a small patch of glue remnant from a book plate or sticker, o/w text is clean, tight, with a slight spine lean; dustjacket shows minor surface and edgewear at corners and spine ends. Quite Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Baden, former NY City chief medical examiner, and Kenney, civil rights attorney and guest commentator on Court TV and CNN, have combined their experience and expertise in a crime thriller that begins with the discovery of multiple corpses at a mall construction site in the Catskills near New York; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only some minor surface and edgewear.

Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday & Co., 1977. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Bagby's New York City team of homicide detective Inspector Schmidt and writer George Bagby investigate the murder of a reporter and corruption in the NYPD and FBI; top edge of text slightly foxed, spine cocked, small pieces of tape on inside covers and on dustjacket flaps; dustjacket is worn, scratched, chipped: Fair/Fair. A reading copy.

Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday & Co., 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good to Good Plus/Good Plus. A late novel in the career of this under-appreciated Mystery Grand Master, featuring New York Police Inspector Schmidt, who finds himself investigating the assault and near-murder of his friend, writer and reporter, George Bagby. Glue stains on inside covers and back end page as well as on dj's flaps (book may be ex libris but no other evidence indicating it is), o/w boards and text show only very minor edgewear and a very slight spine lean. The dustjacket shows glue stains already noted, minor chipping at spine ends and some slight edgewear. A reading copy.

Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday & Co., 1976. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A mystery from Stein's series featuring his alter ego, writer (and pseudonym) George Bagby, and Inspector Schmidt, chief of New York City Homicide. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Bagley's last novel, published posthumously, features Neil Mannix, an American troubleshooter, shepherding a massive electrical transformer on its journey through war-torn, oil-rich West Africa; a Fine copy in a slightly edgeworn o/w Near Fine dustjacket.

New York: HarperCollins, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bagshawe, a bestselling author in her own right, has, with the permission of the Sheldon Family Limited Partnership, written sequels to several of the late Sidney Sheldon's blockbuster novels. 'Mistress,' issued in 2009, is the first of these sequels and features the grandchildren of Kate Blackwell, the glamorous, scheming matriarch of America's own royal family, introduced in Sheldon's "Master of the Game." There is Lexi Templeton, ruthless and beautiful and determined to be the new 'mistress;' her handsome and crooked cousin, Max Webster, willing to kill to acquire the family holdings; and another player, a little known descendant of Kate's great-grandfather. His name is Gabriel McGregor, born into poverty in Aberdeen, Scotland, but now determined to fulfill his destiny. A tiny remainder dot on the bottom edge of the text block, o/w text and boards are clean and… Read More

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1970. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. About Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. A collection of wit and satire and mostly just good-humored fun by some of the world's foremost cartoonists at work in the mid-20th century, including Charles Addams, Ed Arno, Johnny Hart, Tony Munzlinger, Charles Schulz and George Price. Cartoons that originally appeared in publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Punch, and Look are here given full pages. 9 x 12", 140 pages. Boards bumped at lower corners, some light edgewear; top edge of text lightly foxed, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows foxing along the top edge of both panels and flaps. Also worn at the edges and corners with some tape-repaired tears and a half-inch chip missing at the top of spine. Not collectable perhaps but certainly memory-evoking.

New York: Dell, 1947. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. About Very Good. Vintage Paperback: Dell Mapback 178. A Romance novel set on an estate in Maryland and featuring Cecily Merryman, newly employed as a "companion" to the wealthy Mrs. Blair Marburg, a bitter, jealous and frightened invalid, in a houseful of people with a variety of selfish objectives. Pictorial wrappers show light creasing and edgewear with laminate beginning to loosen, o/w no tears, chipping or other significant flaws. Previous owner's name and date on fep and text lightly age-tanned. O/w clean and unmarked, binding tight and square.

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 Review of Exhibitions including de Kooning and Tony Smith. About 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 152 pages in pictorial paper wrappers showing a detail from Rivera's 1934-35 reconstruction of his destroyed Rockefeller Center mural on front cover. Lower front corner shows touch of bumping. Light reading creases, very minimal surface and edge wear. No tears, scratches, dogears or other significant flaws or damage. No address sticker. Clean, complete and unmarked. A collectable copy

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Near Fine to Fine. Volume 72, No. 8; featured articles include Bonnard's late paintings; hardship art; Morris Graves restrospective; new work from Jasper Johns and David Salle; Donald Judd on why there are so few masterpieces. Also Venice Biennale '84; Book Reviews; reviews of exhibitions by Oyvind Fahlstrom, Sidney Goodman, David Bowes, Lynda Benglis, Tom Stanton, Sue Miller; 8 1/2 x 11," 248 pages in heavy paper wrappers with cover photo of Philip Johnson's AT&T Building, 1983-84; text is clean, tight, square; wrappers show light reading crease, almost no other surface or edge wear. Collectable.

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Volume 72, No. 4: Feature articles include The Aztecs: Art & Sacrifice; Elizabeth Murray; Anne & Patrick Poirier; Beauborg's Polish Presences show; Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Polish photographer, painter, draftsman; Beverly Pepper's new sculptures. Also, Suzi Gablik on " Art Alarms: Visions of the End;" Report From Germany; Book Reviews; and Exhibition Reviews of work by Youngblood, Frink, Berard, Haas, Korman, Flack, Heilman, Liebovitz, Thorne-Thomsen, Karsh, Bender, Colville and Eggleston; 8 1/2 x 11," 256 pages in heavy paper wrappers showing Robert Morris's untitled work from his "Firestorm" series, 1983-84, on the front cover; text is clean, tight, square; some light creasing on front cover, no tears, trace of wear at spine ends.

New York: Brant Art Publications, 1986. Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Volume 74, No.3: Contents include Renoir Symposium with articles by Adams, Bochner, Crow, Fried, Nochlin, Ratcliff, Robinson, Rosenblum, Schjeldahl, and others; sculpture/constructions by Siah Armajani; new work by David Diao, and Kienholz Retrospective as well as features: Review of Books, Report from Sao Paulo, Review of Exhibitions including Sugarman, Sherrie Levine, Alan Uglow,Wesselmann, and Jane Wilson. About 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 184 pages in pictorial paper wrappers with front cover showing detail of Renoir's "Geraniums and Cats, 1881. Wrappers and text show slight bumping of lower right corner, o/w only a light reading crease and very minimal surface wear. No tears, creasing or scratching or other significant flaws or damage. A collectable copy.

New York: Brant Art Publications, 1986. Magazine. Very Good. Vol. 74, No. 5: Featured articles include Jennifer Bartlett retrospective; essay on relationship between art and corporate worlds by Suzanne Stephens; Arte Povera at P.S. 1; and Ruben Nakian retrospective. Also regular departments: Issues & Commentary by Carter Ratcliff; Review of Books; Review of Exhibitions. About 8 1/2 by 11 inches, 184 pages in glossy light card wrappers. Front cover shows detail of Joseph Beuys's "Richikrafte," 1974-75. Back cover shows ad for Ellsworth Kelly exhibition. Wrappers and text show only minor surface and edgewear. Complete, no tears, no marking, no address or other labels. Collectable.