Resultados de búsqueda: Satire from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Delacorte Press, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. One of America's most talented satirists takes a humorous look at the spy thriller genre; a light remainder spray on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1985. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Berger's thirteenth novel parodies the spy thriller genre; First Printing of the First Edition; light remainder spray on bottom edge of text o/w a Fine in like dustjacket.

New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The National Book Award winner's fifth novel is a satire of contemporary American politics and politicians. Collectable.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1965. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Dutton D160; a now classic collection of essays in which Crews utilizes the Pooh stories to brilliantly satirize a dozen varieties of fashionable literary criticism found on the college campus, a rare masterpiece of parody. Edges slightly soiled o/w text is clean, tight, square in white pictorial wrappers showing sun-browned spine and edges, minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Hyperion Books For Children, 2004. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Bob Lea. This first book of Stone's three-volume, "The Illmoor Chronicles," was a major success when published in England. It features Diek Wustapha, a normal shepherd boy under an evil spell who offers to free the ancient city of Dullitch from a plague of giant rats until the Duke of Dullitch reneges on the deal and a revengeful Diek kidnaps the city's children. All seems lost until a team of mercenaries, including a has-been sorcerer, a bucktoothed giant, and a wisecracking dwarf, set out to rescue the children. A really hilarious read. A tiny dent in the botton edge of the back cover, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows a short, light scratch on the back panel and some slight edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Ballantine U5033; Burgess' humorous satire on modern English life featuring Mr. Raj, a student from Ceylon who believes in love and sex and more sex; First Ballantine Books Edition, First Printing; one-reader text is clean, square, tight, with mild age-browning; pictorial wrappers show age-browning along edges, minimal surface and edgewear, small tear at bottom of spine. Collectable.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. the sixth novel from the National Book Award winner re-emphasizes his standing among the best writers of satire and comic fiction; First Printing of the First Edition; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dust jacket has single scratch on spine and very slight edge wear. Collectable.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Townsend's wildly comic novel, set in California's Silicon Valley, features software giant Thinksoft, which has turned its technological eye on barbecue with a meaty mailing of sirloin marinated in a special sauce to millions of Americans to be used only on Thinksoft's computerized Wholly Grill; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text; dustjacket shows minor rubbing and edgewear. Collectable Copy.

New York: Bantam Books, 1958. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam A1753; Nobel Prize winner Steinbeck's satirical take on French politics, Texas millionaires, teenage novelists, etc.; text shows some age-tanning, o/w clean, tight; pictorial wrappers show only slight surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2001. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Date's second novel is a satirical look at Florida society and politics, featuring tobacco baron Bartholomew Simons, who is not about to let his billion dollar empire go up in smoke while blackmail, kidnapping and murder are still available options; text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show almost no surface or edgewear.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1967. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Fawcett Crest R1055; a collection of 1960s columns from one of the era's great humorists. Read a few and you'll note, as he might, the more things change, the more they remain the same. Cartoons by Laszlo Matulay. Text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; pictorial wrappers show some age-tanning, minor creasing. Collectable.

New York: Dutton, 1980. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A collection of Elkin's best work excerpted from his previous books and with a foreword by Robert Coover; First Printing of the First Edition Thus; boards and text are clean and tight; dustjacket shows some soiling and a small tear upper back panel.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2013. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. In 1998, "T.C. Boyle Stories" gathered the award-winning writer's first four short story collections in a single volume. This second volume, "T.C. Boyle Stories II," pulls together the work in his three most recent collections ("After The Plague," "Tooth and Claw," and "Wild Child") as well as fourteen stories not published previously in book form. Along with the satire and tall tales, Boyle is known for, there are stories with contemporary social issues such as air rage and abortion doctors, and themes such as first love and facing one's mortatlity. First Printing, First Edition Thus (with complete numberline). About 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, 918 pages in red paper-covered boards with silver lettering on front cover and spine. The dustjacket's front panel shows color photo of Boyle with title in white lettering; a different photo of Boyle on the spine, and four… Leer más

New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. The fifth novel from the author of "A Mother's Kisses" and "The Dick," Friedman's first since the 1970s, features Mike Halsey, a mostly modern, mostly normal sort of guy who suddenly has an urge to travel and finds himself on a tumultuous tour of the "real" Japan; text is clean, tight, with a very slight spine lean. Dustjacket's lamination has begun to loosen slightly along bottom edge, o/w only minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Sagamore Press, Inc., 1957. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Sagamore Press S-16; Howells' satirical novel featuring a naive traveler on a visit to the U.S., who asks innocent questions about American culture and democracy and learns our ideals are not always ideal and our freedoms not always free for everyone. First Printing of First Sagamore Edition. Some underlining in Howard Mumford Jones' introduction, o/w text is clean, tight, square with lightly soiled edges; wrappers show very minor surface and edgewear. An decent reading copy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949. Book Club. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. This humorous locked room mystery won its author the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery in 1950. The body in question belongs to Merlin Broadstone, the health and fitness guru, shot to death about 6:30 in the morning at the brand new Broadstone luxury hotel and health resort on a remote island in the Gulf of Mexico near St. Petersburg, Florida. "What we're looking for," one of the investigating officers opined, "is a murderer who can walk on the surface of a body of water six feet deep while remaining invisible. What we are also looking for," he added, "is a murderer who would put pajamas on his victim after shooting him and walk through the walls of a locked room to do so." First book club edition. 239 pages in orange paper-covered boards and yellow lettering on spine and Inner Sanctum mystery logo on front cover. A slight spine lean, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked,… Leer más

New York: Delacorte Press, 1977. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Berger's send-up of the hard-boiled private eye genre; First Printing of the First Edition; dustjacket shows one small tear at top edge of spine. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The ninth novel from the National Book Award finalist who has been called the "contemporary American master of the love story" features Avery Jankowski, a 37-year-old New York writer scraping by as a freelancer, who's just learned his girl friend is having an affair. To cheer him up, his uncle gives Avery tickets to an all-expenses-paid international sex tour and shortly thereafter Avery, as an undercover journalist, and the reader are on the way to Scandanavia and an emotionally intense but brilliantly funny experience in a world of wealth and eroticism; Advance Review copy with publisher's news release laid in; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.