Search Results: Authors starting with D from River House Books

Hardcover Cloth 398 pages. Condition Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1874. Worn green illustrated boards and embossing on this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's signature on interior pages. Notable shelf wear with bumped corners and damage to headband and footband. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

"Italian Journeys" is a travelogue written by W.D. Howells, an American author, literary critic, and journalist of the late 19th century. The book was first published in 1867 and it's a collection of essays describing Howells' travels through Italy during the mid-1860s.

The book covers Howells' journey through various regions of Italy, including Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. He describes the art, architecture, and landscapes he encounters, and also provides insights into the culture and society of the time. Howells is also providing his personal thoughts and observations on the people he meets, the food he eats… Read More

Trade Paperback 213 pages. Condition Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First paperback edition. Elegant illustrated wraps on this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Notable shelf wear - cover creased, some dog-eared pages. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
A witty, tongue-in-cheek account of an Englishman trying to adapt to life in France with his French wife. A slight but amusing description of the foibles of the English and the French, as set forth by Daninos in the guise of the good-natured Major Thompson. A pleasant trifle, particularly with the mid-century illustrations by Walter Goetz.
Pierre Daninos (26 May 1913, Paris – 7 January 2005, Paris) was a French writer and humorist.Daninos wrote Les carnets du Major Thompson, which was published in 1954, and was followed by many sequels. The books in the series pretended to be the observations of a retired British officer living in France, and were witty collections of comparisons between French and… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 307 pages. Condition Very Good Mylar-protected Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated fourth edition 1970. Handsome black boards and grey embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no highlights. Previous owner was a western history fan - they decorated this book with cutouts and pictures applied to blank areas of the interior pages. Book Well kept and carefully stored. Slight shelf wear. Price clipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover is smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in photo clippings.
This book portrays the notorious gunslingers of the period and the fearless men on the other side of the law, it analyzes the socialogical forces that shaped their careers, making one man an outlaw and another a peace officer.
Gathering vital data from many sources the author gives an accurate and authentic picture of more than two hundred and fifty notorius characters who have figured… Read More

The Last King of Wales: Gruffudd ap Llywelyn c. 1013-1063
by Michael & Sean Davies
Trade Paperback with glued binding 158 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated First printing 2012. Beautiful illustrated wraps show 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.
Gruffudd ap Llywelyn was Wales' greatest king. Ambitious and battle-sure, he succeeded in doing what no Welsh king before him was capable of: he ruled all Wales as a united and independent state. He went further by turning the Viking threat to his realm into a powerful weapon and conquering border land that had been in English hands for centuries.Having emerged as a war leader, Gruffudd also proved to be much more: a patron of the arts and church, with the trappings of a king who was respected and feared on the European stage. His eventual murder at the hands of his own… 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.

Leatherbound Hardcover 196 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1993. Lovely red boards with maroon leather 1/8 spine 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. Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in four page brochure
When the delicious comic tales that make up Life with Father first appeared in the early 1930s, they played a large hand in keeping afloat a fledgling magazine called The New Yorker. Clarence Day's reminiscences of growing up in a turn-of-the-century New York household which keeps wriggling out from under the thumb of a blustering Wall Street paterfamilias are classics of American humor, lively and nostalgic sketches that still manage to evoke the enduring comedy of family life. Father's explosive encounters with horse and cook, servants and shopkeepers, wife and… Read More

Trade Paperback ??? pages. Condition New in shrink wrap Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Lovely illustrated wraps show off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition - still in shrink wrap. No shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Spanish language text.
Cadichon is a lively and intelligent donkey who wants his readers to know that although he was naughty in his youth and was punished severely, he is now reformed. His main aim is to refute the stereotypical image of donkeys as ignorant and stubborn and reveal, through his stories, the true, gentle and wise nature of donkeys.Cadichon's antics are guaranteed to make you laugh! Cadichon can also be vengeful when overworked and underfed.His retaliations and plans for revenge will have readers shaking their heads in disapproval but ultimately, as Cadichon encounters love and acceptance through his adventures, we come to admire his bravery and loyalty.… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 415 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Presumed First edition 1976 later printing. Lovely tan 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, a few small stains to edges. Edges and pages have the usual yellowing. Scribner stamp on bottom edge. An unclipped dust jacket with slight shelf wear - a few tears, wrinkles, stains and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. As White House counsel to Richard Nixon, a young John W. Dean was one of the primary players in the Watergate scandal—and ultimately became the government's key witness in the investigations that ended the Nixon presidency. After the scandal subsided, Dean rebuilt his career, first in business and then as a bestselling author and lecturer. But while the events were still fresh in his mind, he wrote this remarkable memoir about the operations of the Nixon White… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 287 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First edition 2016. Handsome black boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored. Slight shelf wear; two dog-eared pages. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Richard III is probably the House of York's best-known figure, but the other members of the family are just as intriguing as the king who fell on Bosworth Field. These include his father, the Duke of York, who held a claim to the throne that would eventually topple a king; his older brother Edward IV, a warrior cast in the mould of a true Plantagenet; and the resilient Yorkist queen Elizabeth Woodville and her daughter Elizabeth of York, the latter of whom would eventually unite the family with their longstanding rivals, the Lancastrians, and become the mother of the… 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.

Paperback with stapled binding 364 pages. Condition Good NO Dust Jacket War Department December 22, 1942 printing. Nice, tight, square copy with a small tear to the top cover and some stains on covers. Previous owner's signature on cover and title page. The usual yellowing with minor signs of wear and/or age.The M3 Stuart, officially Light Tank, M3, was an American light tank of World War II. The Light Tank M5A1 was the ultimate development of the Stuart tank family. Stuarts were the first American-crewed tanks in World War II to engage the enemy in tank versus tank combat.
This manual has two sections: Operating Instructions and Organization Instructions. First section is a detailed users manual describing how to operate the controls and armament of the M5A1 Stuart. Preventative maintenance, tools and equipment are described.
Section two contains detailed instructions for the repair of each system of the vehicle. Engine, electrical, transmission, tracks, suspension, hull and turret are covered.… 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.

Hardcover Cloth 249 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition First printing 1997 with corresponding number line. Attractive blue boards and silver 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 wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Horror films. Deanna Durbin musicals. Francis the talking mule. Ma and Pa Kettle. Ross Hunter weepies. Theme parks. ET . Apollo 13 . These are only a few of the many faces of Universal Pictures.In February 1906 Carl Laemmle, German immigrant and former clothing store manager, opened his first nickelodeon in Chicago. He quickly moved from exhibition to distribution and to film production. A master of publicity and promotions, within ten years "Uncle Carl" had moved his entire operation to southern California, founded a… 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.

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.

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.

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.