Search Results: Authors starting with E from River House Books

Trade Paperback 351 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 2006. Attractive illustrated wraps 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. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Flatsigned by the author on first title page #127"A Girl From Texas" is the true story of a small town Texas girl who from poverty became one of America's most successful commercial artists. Illustrated with a treasure house of Conerly art memorabilia – WWII, high fashion, Christmas, Death of Alamo Commander William B. Travis – it traces epic moments of advertising history, interwoven with Conerly's heart-stirring struggle to the top echelons of commercial art. An epic tale for people torn between a dream and the struggle to make a living today, set against the nostalgia of a romantic yesterday and a bone-chilling genetic mystery.

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

Hardcover Cloth 370 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1999. 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. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
The biographies of Texas' 19th Century medical doctors reveal much more than medical history; they chronicle the lives of men whose influence in Texas extended far beyond their medical practices. Here, in Early Texas Physicians are the biographies of nineteen men who played vital roles not only in the medical health of Texans but in the political and social development of the state. Following an informative introductory essay on the practice of medicine among the thinly scattered, agrarian and rural populations of frontier Texas, seventeen of Texas'… Read More

DUST JACKET for John Knox's History of the Reformation in Scotland Volume 2by William Croft Dickinson (editor)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 for John Knox's History of the Reformation in Scotland Volume 1by William Croft Dickinson (editor)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.

Guns of the Old West (Firearms Classics Library)
by Charles Edward Chapel

Hardcover full leather 306 pages with illustrations. Condition Fine in red leather. Issued with NO Dust Jacket . Odysseus Editions 1995 reprint edition. Lovely red leather boards with gold embossed leather shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Moiré endpapers and pastedowns. Hubbed spines, gilded designs, gold page edges, acid-free paper. Silk marker ribbon. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Book was stored in barrister case in a dark room. Has never been laid flat.

Charles Edward Chapel was a very prolific writer during his lifetime. He wrote dozens of books and hundreds of articles on firearms, aviation, and the forensic sciences. He also served from 1950 - 1967 as a state assemblyman for California's 46th District in the California state legislature. Chapel attended Annapolis and then was an… Read More

Texan Emigrant: Being a Narration of the Adventures of the Author in Texas, and a Description of the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, Towns, Bays, Harbors, Rivers, Institutions, and Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of that Country: Together with the Principal Incidents of Fifteen Years Revolution in Mexico: and Embracing A Condensed Statement of Interesting Events in Texas, from the First European Settlement in 1692, Down to the Year 1840.
Hardcover Cloth 368 pages. Condition Fine Mylar-protected Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First Texian Press edition 1968. Attractive maroon 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. An unclipped dust jacket with mylar cover smooth, clean and brilliant with the usual shelf wear - a few scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in facisimile map of Texas land grants c1840 by George… Read More

Trade Paperback with glued binding 310 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 2005. Nice 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. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Journey through the lives of Emily and Skylar Mathis. These two sisters are coming of age in a world that takes no prisoners and has no loyalties. A world where life's little trials and tribulations can change the course of your entire life in the blink of an eye.

Padded Leatherbound 486 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Trident Press International Reprint edition 2000. Lovely illustrated padded full leather boards and gilt embossing with full gilt edges 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.
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?'Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family's worst enemy, and a charismatic… Read More

History of the United States Naval Operations in World War 2 (15 Volume Set)
by Samuel Eliot Morison
Fifteen Volumes Hardcover Cloth. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Mixed set of reprint editions see below for dates. Handsome blue boards and gilt embossing on this tight and sound set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Faded blue topstains. Previous owner's address stamp on title pages. Books Well kept with Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with signs of wear and/or age. Some bumped corners, stains on boards and stains to edges. Some endpaper pages have stains - possibly paste marks. Books have a musty odor. Dust jackets are discolored with age and have the usual shelf wear - tears, scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Some dust jackets mended on back side with tape or have tape stains. Some dust jackets clipped (Volumes 3 & 10). Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.
A good… Read More

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

Jamie Wyeth
by Elliot Bostwick Davis (Contributor), Jamie Wyeth (Artist), David Houston (Contributor)
Hardcover Cloth 207 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 2014. Lovely green 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. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Inscribed by Jamie Wyeth on title page.
As famous, and sometimes famously controversial, as the three generations of Wyeth artists have been, the artistic vision of Jamie Wyeth (born 1946), considered separate from the context of his family, remains surprisingly little known. This book offers a retrospective presenting a full range of work from his earliest virtuoso portraits to his most current mysteriously symbolic seascapes.
Jamie Wyeth's early exposure to… Read More

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. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.