Essays from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

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

New York: Bantam Books, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback -- Bantam Sociology Y8266. A collection of essays covering nearly 200 years of feminist thought from classic works by Abigail Adams, de Beauvoir, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, Anthony, Goldman, Gilman, Sanger, Woolf and Mead. This collection of 32 excerpts and essays edited and introduced by Alice S. Rossi,… Read more about this item

New York: William H. Wise & Company, 1927. Original Paper Wraps. Good Plus to Very Good/Good To Good Plus. Elbert Hubbard was a reporter, writer, philosopher, publisher and artist as well as a successful businessman at the end of the 19th-beginning of the 20th century. He is most often remembered today as the founder of the Roycroft artisan… Read more about this item

New York: William H. Wise & Company, 1923. First Edition. . Large Softcover. Good Plus. Elbert Hubbard was a writer, philosopher, publisher and artist as well as a successful businessman and is best remembered today as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in western New York in the late 19th -- early 20th century. The Roycroft campus… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

New York: Brant Art Publications, 1986. Magazine. Very Good. Volume 74, No. 12: Articles include "Family Spectacles," the theater projects of Robert Wilson; a Jenny Holzer interview; recent installation by Joseph Kosuth. Also regular features: Issue & Commentary by Schjeldahl; Report from Chicago, "Realism Resurgent;" and Review of Books and Exhibitions including Sol LeWitt, John Chamberlin, Mary Hellman,… Read more about this item

Garden City: The Natural History Press, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Most books on primitive art emphasize the "art" and aesthetics. This collection of articles on art in a variety of "primitive" cultures views the artwork from an anthropological perspective, with the focus on the scientific examination of the relationship between art and culture. Some two dozen articles… Read more about this item

Evanston, IL: Clark Publishing Co., 1953. Magazine. Good Plus to Very Good. Vol. 6, No. 7, Issue # 40: An early issue of the magazine that introduced many Americans to the mysteries of the paranormal. Articles include: "Murder By A Ghost," "The Phantom Horse," "Three Dreams in the President's Family," "Telepathy In Pets," Has Atlantis Been Found?" "Dream… Read more about this item

New York: Drake Publishers, Inc., 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Ian McQueen was an Irish lawyer, who began reading Conan Doyle's stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson when he was ten though it was only later in life, after he became a solicitor, that he one day thought to imagine that Holmes and Watson were only pretending to… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1983. Hardcover. About Very Good. The Viking Portable Library edition of Mark Twain's writing, edited by Bernard De Voto, American historian, novelist, reviewer and authority on Mark Twain. De Voto's selections for this edition include the complete "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Mysterious Stranger," and selections… Read more about this item

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1859. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Jeremiah Chaplin was a 19th century Reformed Baptist theologian who became the first president of Colby College in Maine in 1817. He returned to his pastorate in Rowley, MA, in 1833 continuing to preach and to write before a final move to Hamilton, NY, where he died in 1841. His… Read more about this item

New York: Frank R. Brady, 1970. Large Softcover. Very Good. Avant-Garde," published by Ralph Ginzburg for about three years from 1968 to 1971, featured art and erotic literature and photography as did his earlier magazine, "Eros," for which Ginzburg went to prison on obscenity charges. Articles in the January, 1970, issue include: "The Dr. Who Called the A.M.A,… Read more about this item

London: Third Millennium Publishing Ltd., 2002. First Edition. . Large Softcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. In 1921, Duncan Phillips opened his home to the public, creating the first museum of modern art in the U.S. in Washington, D.C. Today, the Phillips Collection remains a monument to one man's unique vision and foresight with its carefully selected collection… Read more about this item

Chicago: Universal Book and Bible House, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. A sales sample/order book for the 509-page volume of the same title edited by Potts (1848-1942), a Methodist minister and author or editor of over 40 books, many, including this one, with an uplifting Christian spiritual theme. The title page notes," arranged for the fifty-two weeks of the… 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

Rochester, NY: Publishing Trust of George Eastman House, 1994. First Edition. . Exhibition Catalogue. Fine/Fine. The catalogue issued in conjunction with the 1995 exhibition of Dr. Edgerton's work and art. Doc Edgerton was an MIT professor and artist who invented strobe lighting and electronic flash and used his sense of color and composition to create the fine art… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collection of essays on the history of constraint in the conduct of war in the Western world from classical antiquity to the present, including not only formal treaties but unwritten conventions on what is permissable during military operations. Eminent historians discuss legal and cultural… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1953. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. Ernest Kris began his celebrated multi-disciplinary career in the 1920s in Austria where he received a doctorate from the University of Vienna in art history. He then began work with Sigmund Freud as an editor of Imago Magazine while training as a psychoanalyst,… 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