Historical Novel from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. Hardcover. About Very Good/Good Plus. This is a late novel from the award-winning Western genre writer, Lutz. It is the story of a war between the rich and powerful Rock Island Railroad and the people of Enid, OK, who refused to give up their independence and become a company town. It features Jason Keeler,… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Books, 2002. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. This is the Steinbeck Centennial Edition of the novel its Nobel Prize-winning author considered his greatest work. Set primarily in the Salinas valley in central California at the beginning of the 20th century, this is the interwoven story of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, over… Read more about this item

New York: Signet/New American Library, 1971. Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Signet P4491: Patten's 71st western genre novel in a prolific mid-20th century career features Frank Kaily's return to the New Mexico town that hanged his father to learn the town's secret before he became a victim. Paperback original, true first edition, first… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. This is the fourth and probably the best-known of Kingsolver's novels. It is the story of a Southern Baptist missionary family, the Prices, who move from Georgia to the Belgian Congo in 1959 during the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium. The story is told in turns… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. The Glory" is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wouk's sequel to "The Hope," which was set over the first 20 years of Israel's existence. With "The Glory," Wouk continues the first 40 years of Israeli history through the Yom Kippur War, the Entebbe rescue and the Camp… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Sex Wars" is the sixteenth novel from poet, novelist and social activist, Piercy. Set in New York City in the years immediately after the Civil War, the book features Freydeh, a young Jewish woman living in an NYC tenement apartment with eight others while she saves money to bring the rest… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The eleventh and next-to-last of Doctorow's novels is this fictional account of New York City's notorious eccentrics, the Collyer brothers. Homer, a lawyer, and Langley, a professional concert pianist, sons of a wealthy NYC physician, began, after the death of their mother, to withdraw from society and eventually barricaded themselves… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book is Buckley's attempt to present a portrait of Joe McCarthy as a fallible, indeed, failed human rather than the icon of political greed and ambition he has come to symbolize. In this book, Buckley, the 20th century's preminent conservative, a public intellectual and writer, founder and… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, 1984. Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus. Paperback Original : A mid-career Western from the bestselling L'Amour. Bantam 244574. The story of Mike Bastian, raised by his outlaw father, Ben Curry, and trained by his father with all the deadly skills required to lead a criminal gang. Now it is time for Mike to take… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Hardcover. Good to Good Plus/No Jackets. Three mid-career novels by bestselling western genre author, Raine: "The Big-Town Round-Up," 1920; "The Black Tolts," 1932, and "Moran Beats Back," 1939. All three books are Grosset & Dunlap reprints with minor flaws and suface wear. However, all are clean, complete and in readable condition. This… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Paperback Original -- Bantam 202707: As L'Amour says in an author's note, Milo Talon's mother was a Sackett, so this novel can be considered one of the Sackett series, though L'Amour preferred to see it as the first of a new series on the Talon… Read more about this item

New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. McGrath's fiction is often compared to works by Poe, Wilde, Kafka, and King and other writers of Gothic horror. Joyce Carol Oates noted his stories are "the nightmares of shattered personalties . bold, original and disquieting tales. told by narrators who are themselves… Read more about this item

New York: Avon Books, 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback - Avon F-189: Western writer Fox's story of a rich, empire-builiding, ranch owner's attempt to drive an upstart homesteader off unused and unusable land and the stubborn, solitary homesteader, who was a former rancher and town marshall. Mass market paperback. First printing, first… Read more about this item

New York: Jove Publications, Inc., 1978. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Jove M4437: This is an early work by Freemantle, a former British journalist whose spy novels has been compared to LeCarre. The story begins when a team of six Israeli agents is ambushed on the shore of a European lake where they have just recovered… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Nicholas Barker, one of the authors of "Red Ice," commanded the British Navy's ice patrol ship, Endurance, before and during the Falklands War with Argentina. He is perhaps best known for his repeated warnings to the British government of Argentine intentions to invade the Falklands before the actual… Read more about this item

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hicks, a historical fiction writer, chose the post-Civil War life of Confederate Gen. John B. Hood as the focus of his second novel. Hood, considered one of the South's best generals, if sometimes overly aggresive to the point of recklessness, finished the war with a… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. McKenna, who died about a year after publication of "The Sand Pebbles," used his own experience on a naval gunboat as the basis for this novel about the crew of an antique U.S. Navy gunboat patroling China's Yangtze River in the 1920s. Completed in 1962 after McKenna's retirement… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1901. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/No Jacket. Largely forgotton now, Mathews was a novelist and playwright at the beginning of the 20th century, with much of her work in the historical romance genre. "My Lady Peggy," issued in 1901, was a bestseller and Mathews adapted it for Broadway in 1903… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. First Edition. . Hardcover. About Very Good. Francis Hopkinson Smith was an accomplished artist and successful engineer before he turned to writing fiction in his 50's. Colonel George Fairfax Carter, an ex-officer of the Confederate Army, a gentleman of the old South, left in poverty at the end of the war, was… Read more about this item

New York: Riverhead/Penguin, 2012. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A spy-thriller from Mathews, the promising author of the Merry Folger mystery/suspense series. This stand-alone historical novel is set just before World War II and features a 21-year-old Jack Kennedy, on a European tour to research his senior thesis, becoming President Roosevelt's personal spy trying to learn Hitler's… Read more about this item