Search Results: Authors starting with L from River House Books

Pass of the North: Four Centuries on the Rio Grande (Two Volume Set)
by C.L. Sonnicksen
Two Volumes Hardcover Cloth 465 & 140 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Volume 1 Presumed First edition fourth printing 1980. Volume 2 Stated First printing 1980. Lovely set with light green boards dark green 1/8 buckram spine black and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Red topstain. Previous owner's address on front endsheet. Books Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Pages are lightly toned. Unclipped dust jackets are discolored with age with slight shelf wear - a few punctures, stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
A captivating exploration of the rich history and diverse cultures that have flourished along the Rio Grande in the region known as the Pass of the North. Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, Sonnicksen chronicles four centuries of human… Read More

(SIGNED) Descendants of Isaac Grant of South Carolina
by Martha Watkins Bourland & Don Lackey
Trade Paperback 236 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition Second printing 2003. Attractive 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.
Author inscribed on title page.

Hardcover Cloth 400 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition 2022. Striking light blue boards with orange 1/8 spine 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. No shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
A queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power of love to change and endure.Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shtetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young emigrants goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash… Read More

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with a few wrinkles and chips. Colors still bright. Some ex-library marks on the front flap and a sorting sticker on the spine.Protected by mylar sleeve. Not an 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.

Hardcover Cloth 156 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1988. Nice white boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight 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. A book on the building and embellishment, the rigging and armaments of the Vasa, the Swedish warship that sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor in 1628. The book includes comparative studies of Danish, English and Dutch shipbuilding methods of the time.

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.

The Secret Ledger of an Early Texas Doctor: Dr. William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence and the Base, Mean, Low-Down, Trifeling, Lying, Lazy, Hog-Thieving, Indolent, Dogon', Chisel-Fisted, Cheating...
By Egon Richard Tausch; William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence
Hardcover Cloth 2000 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Fine. Stated first edition 2000. 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. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with no shelf wear - no tears, scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles or chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Why should a respected frontier physician -- one of the few of his trade in Texas -- die in a mutually fatal Western-style shootout with his cousin?
Frontier Texas -- from its War of Independence from Mexico, to the late 1800s -- was a strictly agricultural region raising cotton and then livestock, and… Read More

The Secret Ledger of an Early Texas Doctor: Dr. William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence and the Base, Mean, Low-Down, Trifeling, Lying, Lazy, Hog-Thieving, Indolent, Dogon', Chisel-Fisted, Cheating...
By Egon Richard Tausch; William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence
Hardcover Cloth 2000 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Fine. Stated first edition 2000. 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. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with no shelf wear - no tears, scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles or chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Why should a respected frontier physician -- one of the few of his trade in Texas -- die in a mutually fatal Western-style shootout with his cousin?
Frontier Texas -- from its War of Independence from Mexico, to the late 1800s -- was a strictly agricultural region raising cotton and then livestock, and… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 620 pages. Condition Good Dust Jacket Good. Stated First edition First printing 2018 with corresponding number line. Nice blue boards and white embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's embossed seal on tip in page. Notable shelf wear; bottom of spine and dust jacket have a 1/2" vertical tear. An unclipped dust jacket with shelf wear - a few tears, stains and wrinkles. Signed copy sticker on dust jacket cover. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Flatsigned by author on tip in page.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth—the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018"Leavy's newest masterpiece…. A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling." —ForbesHe lived in the… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 578 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1896. Beautiful blue boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Dedication to previous owner on front endsheet. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear, edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with minor signs of wear and/or age. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.This is a fascinating and heavy book about the city of Chester from the perspective of a historian living in the 19th Century. A comprehensive historical guide to the English city of Chester, with plans and illustrations.

Hardcover Cloth 872 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First edition Second printing 2021. Handsome black boards with blue spine 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 scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. With unprecedented access to private papers, diaries, letters, and countless interviews with figures ranging from Felicity Kendal to John Boorman and Trevor Nunn to Steven Spielberg, Hermione Lee builds a metiucously researched portrait of one of our greatest playwrights.Drawing on several years of long, exploratory conversations with Stoppard himself, it tracks his Czech origins and childhood in India to every school and home he's ever lived in, every piece of writing he's ever done, and every play and film he's ever… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 219 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Stated First edition 1966. Attractive green boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's signature on endpapers. Book has the usual minor signs of wear and/or age. An unclipped dust jacket with a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. "Viva Max!" is a satirical comedy about what might happen if the Mexicans attempted to retake the Alamo. Following the battle in 1836, the Alamo has become an icon of American patriotism, even though the battle was technically a Mexican victory and even though the defenders were not fighting for the United States but for the long-defunct Republic of Texas. The standard patriotic version of the events of 1836 is narrated in the John Wayne epic from 1960, a film referred to several times in "Viva Max!" The Mexicans, of course, also have their own patriotic take on these events, seeing… Read More

Dust Jacket ONLY FINEAn unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with a few wrinkles. Colors still bright. No stains and rubbing. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

The Overland Journey From Utah To California: Wagon Travel From The City Of Saints To The City Of Angels
by Edward Leo Lyman
Trade Paperback with glued binding 288 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated First edition 2008. 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. Remainder stripe on bottom edge. Not an ex-library or book club copy.
The wagon trail between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles is one of the most important but least-known elements of nineteenth-century western migration, favored because it could be used for travel and freighting year-round. It was, however, arguably the most difficult route that pioneers traveled with any consistency in the entire history of the country, leapfrogging from one sometimes dubious desert watering place to the next and offering few havens for the sick, weary, or unfortunate.
This book is the first… Read More

Harcourt Three Volume Set (Main Street / Babbit / Arrowsmith)
by Sinclair Lewis
Three Volumes Hardcover Cloth 438, 340 & 428 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch Reprint editions 1948, 1950 & 1953. Handsome dark blue boards with red and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Books Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Red endpapers. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.
"Main Street" portrays the clash between small-town tradition and modernity through the experiences of Carol Kennicott, a woman seeking cultural enlightenment in Gopher Prairie.
"Babbitt" satirizes the conformist and materialistic values of the American middle class, focusing on the life of George F. Babbitt, a successful real estate broker in Zenith.
"Arrowsmith" follows the journey of… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 304 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1989. Attractive light blue illustrated boards with 1/4 leather spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in four page newsletter.
A 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden.The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is set adrift in the Bay, eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen. Larsen is the captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the Ghost. Brutal and cynical, yet also highly intelligent and intellectual, he rules over his ship and terrorizes the crew with the aid of his exceptionally great physical strength.
John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916), better known… 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 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. Colors still bright. Some stains and/or rubbing. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.