Search Results: African American from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Poseidon Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Erickson's fifth book is a historical mystery-thriller beginning in 18th century Virginia and featuring Sally, a fourteen-year-old slave girl and her many incarnations through the next two hundred years; dustjacket shows small tear at lower corner of the front panel, very minor shelfwear, o/w a Fine, unread, collectable copy.

New York: Little Brown & Co., 2012. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The last of Wolfe's four novels ("Bonfire of the Vanities," "A Man in Full," "I Am Charlotte Simmons") features among others, a newly promoted Miami marine police officer, a Cuban mayor, a pair of Wasp Yale-graduate newspaper types, and a sex-addiction, sexually-addicted psychiatrist, all operating in a Miami viewed by many as the American city of the future. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 6 x 9 1/2 inches, 703 pages in red-brown paper-covered boards with Wolfe's name stamped on front cover, and title and author in gold lettering on spine. The dustjacket's front panel shows title and author in white lettering against a abstract pictorial design showing a city scape sandwiched between a brown and gold sky and two-shades-of-blue ocean. Back panel contains full-color, full-panel photo of Wolfe. There is a single, tiny, light brown stain (probably… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Mosley's fourth novel in his award-winning mystery series featuring African-American private detective Easy Rawlins in 1960s Los Angeles; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket's back flap is creased, o/w only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is Oates' portrait of race relations and civil rights in the 1970s as the Vietnam War wound down. It features a white girl -- Genna Hewett-Meade -- beginning a personal inquiry into the violent, mysterious death of her roommate, a black girl named Minette Swift, fifteen years after it happened at an exclusive women's college near Philadelphia. In reconstructing the events leading to her friend's death, Genna is forced to confront her identity in the social contexts of 1975 America. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Not remaindered. The dustjacket shows no more than a slight bit of surface and edgewear, no tears, no chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Doubleday/Random House, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Smith's first novel is a mystery-thriller featuring FBI agent Sterling Bledsoe, who believes the murder of his brother, Dartmouth University Professor Wilson Bledsoe, is not the racist crime it appears to be but involves a nearly completed research paper on the mysterious deaths of hundreds of local blackbirds; the text is clean, tight, square, in a dustjacket with very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable. Scarce.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2007. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The tenth novel in the award-winning Mosley's mystery-thriller series featuring African-American private detective Easy Rawlins in 1960s Los Angeles. Rawlins, having just learned his longtime lover is about to marry another man, must still find a missing friend and save another friend from sudden death. Boards and text are clean, unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows only a touch of edgewear. Collectable.

New York: The Dial Press, 1966. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/Good To Good Plus. Norman Mailer was a bestselling novelist who, in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s, became a journalist, biographer, actor and political activist, among his many roles. Along with Truman Capote and Tom Wolfe, Mailer was one of the early innovators of creative non-fiction, also known as new journalism, and probably did his best work in this area, winning two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award. "Cannibals and Christians" is a collection of short writings from 1960 to 1966 on topics such as politics, poetry, literary criticism, and sex and society. First Printing, First Edition. About 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 400 pages in dark-blue cloth-covered boards with gold and silver lettering on spine. Text includes a tipped-in frontispiece photo of a ten-foot model construction of about 20,000 pieces representing a city of the future with some 15,000 apartments for 50,000 people. The photo is also… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. From the two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner a novel about racism and ideology spanning three continents and two hundred years; three small check marks next to book titles on reverse side of the half-title page o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: New York University Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Roberts provides a sober, detailed critique of the ideas and attitudes of African-American neoconservatives such as Clarence Thomas, Shelby Steele, Stephen Carter and V.S. Naipaul; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows small tear at bottom of fold between front panel and flap, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1966. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Berkley Medallion F1261; One of Himes' mystery series set in New York's Harlem and featuring African-American police detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones; cover art by Harry Bennett; mass market paperback, First Printing of First Berkley Edition; text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with very slight spine lean; white pictorial wrappers are slightly discolorred around edges, show reading creases, minor surface wear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The Edgar Award-winning Franklin received extraordinary praise for this novel from his fellow authors, including Richard Russo, Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos. "Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter" features a pair of boyhood friends -- one black, one white -- who find themselves on opposite sides of a murder investigation. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a touch of rubbing, a bit of edgewear at lower end of spine, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Collectable.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Greer's second novel and second in his mystery series set largely in Denver and featuring African-American C.J. Floyd, bail bondsman, bounty hunter and private detective; front cover of this unread copy has an almost unnoticeable nick and scratch on fore edge; and a 2.5 cm scratch midway on front panel of dustjacket along fore edge.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1974. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Tidyman, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter of 'The French Connection' and author of the "Shaft" novels, wrote this True Crime account of one of the most unusual murder cases in the history of the U.S. criminal justice system. In 1965, Donald Lang, a young African American, was arrested for the murder of a Chicago prostitute. He was later accused of a second murder and thought to be responsible for other deaths as well. Lang was poor; he was also illiterate, deaf and dumb and could not understand sign language. He presented the criminal justice system with a defendant who was unable to communicate and could not, therefore, defend himself. A lawyer named Lowell Myers, who was also deaf, was appointed to defend Lang. Tidyman has written the story of two men's years of confrontation with a legal system unprepared to handle the case of a man whose disabilities put him outside the… Read More

New York: Ramparts/Random House, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Cleaver, a radical political activist and Black Muslim leader, spent most of the 1960s in prison, where he wrote his revolutionary, "Soul On Ice." The writings, speeches and interview collected in this volume are after his release from prison while he struggled to deal with the limits of his probation and what he saw as his duties as a black political leader. The work was collected and edited by Robert Scheer, who worked with Cleaver at Ramparts Magazine during this period. Aside from some light soiling on text edges, text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a two-inch tear in the top edge of the front panel near the spine, as well as a couple of smaller edge tears and minor creasing. The large tear has been tape-repaired on the obverse by a previous owner. While torn, the dj is whole -- not tattered or with missing chips. It is not… Read More

New York: Knopf, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Carter's first novel is set in two worlds of privilege -- the upper crust African-American society of the U.S. east coast and the inner circle faculty of an Ivy League law school. A young African-American law professor attempts to learn the meaning of the chess-related clues left by his father, a judge and former Supreme Court nominee, who has died suddenly and who may have been murdered. The clues unlock previously unknown areas of the Judge's life and career but seemingly result in two more deaths and put the son and his family in mortal danger. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. This is a large 657-page work and may require additional postage.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The third novel in the award-winning Mosley's second crime-thriller series set in 1950s Los Angeles and featuring bookseller Paris Minton and his friend, Fearless Jones; previous owner's name and date on fep, o/w a fine copy in like dustjacket.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In his first mystery-thriller in five years, the author of the award-winning Easy Rawlins novels, introduces Fearless Jones, a black World War II veteran who refuses to duck his head and disappear into the background in racist 1950s Los Angeles, and his friend, Paris Minton, who is minding his own business in his small used bookstore when Elana Love walks in. In the next 24 hours Paris is beaten up, shot at, robbed and the bookstore burned to the ground. A remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square in a dustjacket showing minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The award-winning Mosley's first mystery-crime novel in five years is set in 1950s Los Angeles and features a pair of African-Americans, bookstore owner Paris Minton, who, in a 24-hour-period, is beaten up, shot at and has his store burned to the ground, and his sometimes violent friend, WWII veteran Fearless Jones; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some minor surface and edgewear on front panel; Fine/Very Good.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Perhaps better known for his mystery series featuring private detective Thomas Black, Emerson is also author of a group of award-winning crime-thrillers featuring firemen and arson investigation. The lead character in "Firetrap" is Trey Brown, a captain in the Seattle Fire Department whose skin color keeps him on the outside looking into a largely white department. Brown is trapped in the political firestorm that erupts after a fire in an illegal nightclub kills 14 people. A scapegoat is needed and it may be him. A group of six pages show an almost unnoticeable crease in their upper corners, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows perhaps a trace of rubbing on the backpanel. No tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Another book in Peleanos' crime-thriller series set in Washington, D.C., and featuring African-American detective Derek Strange. This novel is a prequell to the earlier books beginning with 12-year-old Derek in 1959, then focusing on Strange as a rookie cop in 1968, trying to watch out for his brother, who's been hanging out with a local hustler and killer, just before a shooting in Memphis is about to ignite rioting all across the country, including Strange's Washington. Signed by Pelecanos on the title page. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket is close to perfect with no tears, chipping or creasing; not price-clipped. A very collectable copy.