Search Results: Authors starting with A from River House Books

Hardcover Cloth 331 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. Viking Press edition 1986. Handsome black boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Price clipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Albert Barnett Facey was born in 1894 in Maidstone, Victoria & grew up on the Kalgoorlie goldfields & in the wheat-belt of Western Australia. His father died before he was two. He was deserted by his mother soon afterwards. He was looked after by his grandmother until he was eight, when he went out to work.
His many jobs included droving, hammering spikes on the railway line from Merredin to Wickepin & boxing in a travelling troupe.
He was in the 11th Battalion at the Gallipoli landing. After the war, he became a farmer under the Soldier Settlement Scheme but was forced off the… Read More

Trade Paperback with glued binding 348 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated First paperback edition 1998. Beautiful illustrated wraps shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear; stains on back cover. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
This book brings alive what one man feels about his childhood home. The place is West Texas, seen across a long vista in which today's events and people merge with the author's boyhood and young manhood. It is a harsh, remote country, where the weather is always very close and the horizon far away.
The Brazos country of long-ago Fourth of July fishing expeditions; the grass-grown remains of a way station of the Butterfield Stage Line; the streets of Abilene; the sparse grazing lands under infinite skies—all are made resonant by a native son's affection and understanding. It is a way of life—resilient and… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 328 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated revised edition second printing 1979. Attractive grey buckram boards with black and red embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Price clipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Jacket is smooth with the usual shelf wear - a few stains, scratches and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
This book brings alive what one man feels about his childhood home. The place is West Texas, seen across a long vista in which today's events and people merge with the author's boyhood and young manhood. It is a harsh, remote country, where the weather is always very close and the horizon far away.
The Brazos country of long-ago Fourth of July fishing expeditions; the grass-grown remains of a way station of the Butterfield Stage Line; the streets of Abilene; the sparse grazing lands under infinite… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 304 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1860. Worn red boards and gold embossing on this tight copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's names written on endpapers and interior page. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Some shelf wear - stains, rubs and bumped corners. Edges and pages have the usual yellowing. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
"The History of Madame Roland" is a historical biography, part of Abbott's "Rollo Books" series, a set of historical biographies aimed at young readers. Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. The book covers the life of Madame Roland, whose birth name was Marie-Jeanne Phlippon. She was a French writer and political figure during the French Revolution, and is known for her role in the Girondist movement. The book covers… Read More

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Colors still bright. Some stains and/or rubbing.
Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Colors still bright. Some stains and/or rubbing.
Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Trade Paperback 815 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reprint edition 2002. Attractive illustrated wraps on this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored. Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series."The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space."The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat."Life, the Universe and Everything"The unhappy inhabitants… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 276 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition First printing 1967. Lovely maroon boards and white embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth and clean is discolored with age with slight shelf wear - a few tears, wrinkles and chips. "Signed by Author" sticker on front cover. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Inscribed and dated November 2, 1967 by author on endpaperBiography of Houston native A.L. Ward, a pioneering Texas agricultural leader.

Trade Paperback with glued binding 256 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated first paperback edition 2008. Beautiful illustrated wraps shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear - wrinkled lower right corner. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Whether exploring the reclusive communities of the Amish and Hutterites, probing the gritty existence of the American cowboy, or revealing the quiet beauty of the Minnesota lakes, William Albert Allard has helped define America in all its diversity. From rodeos to blues singers, from William Faulkner's Mississippi to minor league baseball, Allard has turned his camera toward parts of our heritage that are often overlooked. His other award-winning books include The Vanishing Breed and A Time We Knew.Portraits of America features 165 of Allard's finest photographs. Presented in chronological order, with incisive… Read More

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Colors still bright. Some stains and/or rubbing.
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Hardcover Cloth 120 pages. Condition Good NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1930. Nice blue boards and red embossing shows off this tight, square copy with no highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's marks on title pages, aircraft on pages 76 and 77 colored in and a chunk torn from non-text bottom of page 77. Book covers are worn with some stains and bumped corners. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with minor signs of wear and/or age. Numerous color and B&W illustrations. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. If the author rings a bell for you, it might be that you remember Alexander Key from Walt Disney's 1961's Escape to Witch Mountain.Brothers Ned and Richard Jemeson, smitten by the aviation bug after having heard about Charles Lindbergh's epic 1927 journey, get a visit from Uncle Jim who owns a plane called the Red Eagle. When he visits he just lands the plane on their farmland. After they've cleared an area for a runway for him of course. Both boys really… Read More

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Colors still bright. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Trade Paperback 683 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 2019. Attractive illustrated wraps show off this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book has slight shelf wear - a few scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
When her mother dies, Katja Schachinger is alone and completely destitute. Although her father and her brother Franzi are still in Austria on the farm after their parents' divorce, there has been no contact with them for many years, and they did not respond to Katja's letter about their mother's death. No wonder the lonely girl falls in love with Gerhard, her boss's nephew. Deeply hurt, however, Katja abruptly leaves the city after learning that Gerhard is supposed to be engaged. Finally, she receives a message from her father that she is welcome at the Schachinger farm - but happiness is short-lived...
Dieses Buch enthält folgende Mü Marie - von allen Die Liebe kam späterFranz… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 312 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1944. Striking orange illustrated boards with black embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. A clipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Colors still bright. Some stains and rubbing. Protected by mylar sleeve. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Hardcover Cloth 489 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 1995 with corresponding number line. Handsome black boards and white embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few scrapes & wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Draws on material entered by Allen Ginsberg in twelve notebooks and related separated pages from June 1954 through mid-July 1958. Dreambook, travelogue, generational chronicle, laboratory for the concocting of poems like "Howl" and "Kaddish," and searingly honest psycho-sexual excavation. Many pages detailing the emotional and sexual agonies he experienced in his relationships with Neal Cassady and Peter Orlovsky.
It's a chaotic treasure trove of this, that and the kitchen sink. Warts and all, this is a key part of… Read More

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Colors still bright. Some stains and/or rubbing.
Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with a few wrinkles and chips - slight shelf wear. Colors unfaded. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Colors still bright. Some stains and rubbing. Protected by mylar sleeve. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. An unclipped dust jacket smooth and clean with a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Some stains and rubbing. Protected by mylar sleeve. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.