Authors beginning with E from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (93 items)

New York: Viking Press, 1977. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Eastlake's seventh book is a humorous look at Boston and its inhabitants at the start of the Revolutionary War; First Printing of the First Edition. Collectable.

New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fourth of Westlake's novels featuring the conflict between modern white America and the Native American and arguably his most accomplished in which the cunning savage has at long last decided to fight back against the Four Corners Power Plant and the nearly finished Atlas Dam. Aided by a rancher's daughter who takes over the learning hogan and teaches the Navaho some very unorthodox lessons and by Tom Charlie, an Indian who went to university, studied science and is building a "gift" from the red man to the white man, there may yet be a chance before all is surrounded and swallowed up by the Great White Reservation. Remainder mark on bottom edge of text, minor soiling on other text edges, some mild fading to lettering on lower spine, o/w only normal edge and surface wear. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Dustjacket shows only light wear at edges and… Read more

New York: The Viking Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Eastlake's seventh book is a novel providing a humorous look at life and times in Boston in the year before the start of the Revolutionary War; bookseller's stamp on fep; dustjacket is slightly rubbed, with a touch of edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The setting for Eberhart's 46th mystery/suspense novel is a ranch in the Southwest rather than her usual East Coast setting; the spine is slightly cocked, o/w boards and text are clean, tight; dustjacket shows only minor surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. This novel from the award-winning Eberhart, a mystery grand master from the 1960s and'70s, features Meade Havlock, who is the chief suspect when her wealthy husband is found murdered at his Long Island summer home after a gathering of friends and family; a pair of light, half-inch pen marks on front end page, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows a tiny, closed tear on top edge of front panel, creases on dj flaps, o/w very minor surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Random House, 1963. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Murder thrusts itself into the final days of an East Coast gubernatorial campaign; First Printing of the First Edition; light edgewear, o/w boards and text are clean, tight; dustjacket shows very minor surface and edge wear. Scarce. Collectable.

London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1980. First Printing, First UK Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A late historical mystery by this mid-20th century American Grand Master, "Casa Madrone" is set in New York and later in San Francisco at the time of the 1906 earthquake, which reavaged the city. The book features Mallory Bookever, a debutante about to wed a wealthy San Franciscan, when, in the midst of the quake-caused chaos, she discovers a death that might be murder and is involved in a near fatal accident herself. Signed and inscribed on the front pastedown by Eberhart. Front cover has small dent in lower edge; lower corners lightly bumped as is top of spine, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight, with a slight spine lean. Collectable.

New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The 58th and next-to-last novel in Eberhart's long career as a Grand Master of mystery features James Wingate, accused of murder and forced to flee on the eve of his wedding but returning five years later hoping to find a killer. A pair of tiny initials on front end page, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows minor surface wear but no chips or tears. Hard To Find. Collectable.

New York: Random House, 1959. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. From one of the genre's masters, a mystery-suspense novel featuring murder among members of New York City's wealthy upper class; First Printing of the First Edition; previous owner's name on fep, slight spine lean, o/w text and boards are clean, tight; dustjacket is whole but shows some surface and edgewear including tear and crease in lower right corner of front panel.

New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. One of the Grand Masters of the Mystery Writers of America presents a story involving a world famous financier, blackmail and murder; remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w boards and text are clean, tight with slight gap top of spine; dustjacket shows almost no surface and edgewear; Very Good/Fine. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. the tenth book in Eccles' series of classic British mysteries featuring Detective Sergeant Gil Mayo and his assistant, Abigail Moon, this time finding even the most respected families can have their unsavory secrets. Becoming scarce.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2002. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author of the bestselling "The Name of the Rose" returns to 12th century Europe where he is at his storytelling best with this work that mixes history and myth in the person of Baudolino, a poor Italian peasant boy who meets and charms an emperor. The emperor sends Baudolino to university in Paris where he meets a number of adventurous friends and together they set out to find Prester John, a legendary priest-king who rules over an eastern kingdom filled with fantastic creatures and lovely maidens. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket is close to perfect, perhaps a touch of edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. from the author of "The Name of The Rose" an historical mystery/romance of navigation and science in the mid-seventeenth century; translated from the Italian by William Weaver; First Printing of the First U.S. Edition.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The second of Eco's bestselling novels, following "The Name of The Rose" by eight years. It begins in Milan, where Colonel Ardenti tells three editors about a coded message he's found about a centuries-old Templar plan to tap a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy. The editors take the Colonel for a crackpot and decide to have some fun. Randomly, they begin tossing into the Colonel's manuscript pages of hermetic thought -- everything from Satanic initiation rites to Brazilian voodoo. It makes a terrific joke, the editors think, until people begin mysteriously disappearing, starting with the Colonel. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows only some light edge and surface wear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable. (This is a large, 641-page bookand may, depending on… Read more

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Edghill's first novel presents a hard-to-forget portrait of a woman behind the throne, biblical Queen Michal, daughter of King Saul, wife of King David, who became the spiritual foundation for the Kingdom of Israel; First Printing of the First St. Martin's Edition; previous owner's name on front end page, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minimal surface and edgewear.

San Francisco: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, 2011. First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is a San Francisco-based literary magazine publishing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, comics and other interesting material. Founded in 1998, it is considered one of America's leading literary periodicals with work by well-known authors as well as still-to-be-recognized artists. Each issue is designed individually; there have been hardcovers and softcovers, an issue with a magnetic binding, one containing nothing but comics, another looking like a pile of junk mail. So 39 is a First Printing, First Edition Thus. About 6 x 8 inches, 283 pages (2 full-page ads at back) in pictorial paper-covered boards. Front cover shows photo illustration of person running in a hilly landscape above a body of water. Photo is by Tabitha Soren, who has a series of "Running" photos of people at speed in various dress and locales in two sets of… Read more

San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2012. First Edition. . Decorative Cloth. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. The award-winning Eggers' National Book Award finalist, this is the story of a nearly bankrupt American businessman's last-ditch attempt to ward off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition and finally do something "great" by setting up and selling a holographic teleconference system to a Saudi Arabian king in the middle of the desert. Issued without a dustjacket, the brown-cloth-covered boards display a rich, decorative, middle-eastern design with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. The sticker on the back cover, providing the information usually found on the dust jacket flaps, is removable. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The original price, found on the back-cover sticker, has not been clipped. This is a very collectab;e book by a very collectable author.

San Francisco: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, 2011. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is a San Francisco-based literary magazine publishing contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, comics and other interesting literary material. Founded in 1988, it is considered one of America's leading literary periodicals with work by well-known authors as well as by still-to-be-recognized artists. Each issue is designed individually; there have been hard covers and soft covers; an issue with magnetic binding; one containing nothing but comics and another that looked like junk mail. This issue, "Thirty-Seven," is hard cover with the upper left and lower right corners of the covers and text block "clipped" to create a six-sided, six-cornered shape that works as part of the geometic design of the cover and interior paintings by Jonathan Runcio. Also, the spine of the book is about a quarter-inch wider than the text block… Read more

San Francisco: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, 2009. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is a San Francisco-based literary magazine publishing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, comics and other interesting literary material. Founded in 1988, it is considered one of America's leading literary periodicals with work by well-known authors as well as by still-to-be-recognized artists. Each issue is designed individually; there have been hard covers and soft covers; an issue with magnetic binding; one containing nothing but comics and another that looked like junk mail. This issue, "32," began with an editorial request to about a dozen writers to travel some place in the world -- big city or small, sleepy town -- and send back a story set in that spot fifteen years in the future in 2024 AD. Ten writers sent back stories pretty grim on a municipal level but with ordinary men and women persistently carving out a life. Robyn O'Neil created… Read more

New York: Knickerbocker Press/G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. American War Ballads and Lyrics, Vol.2: The Civil War," is the second part of a two-volume set, containing songs and lyrics from the Civil War era. (Vol. 1 features music of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812.) Included among the 76 pieces are "John Brown's Body," "Reveille," and "Barbara Frietchie," as well as many about individual soldiers and battles. 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 278 pages plus 6 pages of ads for other Putnam's books in this "Knickerbocker Nuggets" series of pocket-sized works; 21 illustrations including the frontispiece, which still retains its tissue paper protection. This work was produced in both one and two-volume editions, and, in this book, the last ad -- unnumbered -- is for the work itself, an indication of another edition to come and that this small, 2-vol. set is the… Read more