Search Results: Authors starting with R from River House Books

Hardcover Cloth 472 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Stated First American edition First printing 1980 with corresponding number line. Nice pale green boards with green and silver embossing shows off this tight copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Orange topstain. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with the considerable shelf wear - tears, stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Fold out map of The West of Middle Earth at the back endpapers.Classic hardback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, featuring Tolkien's own painting of the dragon Glaurung on the cover, which continues the tales of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin.Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and… Read More

Laminated Hardcover 765 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated Replica Books First edition 1999. Nice rust colored with gold embossing boards show off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book has slight shelf wear in unread condition. One dogeared page. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Oversized book; S&H will be adjusted.
Inscribed on first title page.
Lone Star traces Texas from the dinosaurs, through the Texas Revolution, its short-lived status as a Republic, and its history as an independent-minded state. Lone Star is seven hundred sixty-five pages of fascinating stories about Texas. It's all here---the original peoples, the Spanish explorers, the Mexican settlers, the American settlers, the wars, and Texas as part of Mexico, Texas as an independent nation, and Texas as part of the United States.
Theodore Reed Fehrenbach, Jr. was an American historian, columnist, and the former head of the Texas Historical Commission… Read More

(SIGNED) Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
by T. R. Fehrenbach
Hardcover Cloth 761 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Poor. Stated Stated First edition First printing with corresponding number line 1968. Nice tan boards with gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book has slight shelf wear in unread condition. An unclipped dust jacket with the usual shelf wear - a few tears, stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Oversized book; S&H will be adjusted.
Inscribed on first title page
From prehistory right up to the present-a classic, comprehensive, and superbly readable guide to the panoramic saga of Texas history Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Fehrenbach re-creates the… Read More

Hardcover Library Binding 198 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated First edition 2014. 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. Slight shelf wear - a few scrapes. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Author inscribed on title page.The second in a series of popular historical fiction novels for young adults. It is a well researched ghost story centered around true events in Texas history. Illustrated.Henry's mother has fallen in love with Orozimbo, a dilapidated eight-year-old cottage that is nothing more than a pile of rubble! Or is it? When Henry's parents purchase the old Texas cotton plantation, they get a lot more than just the property. Ghosts are everywhere! They threaten Henry, his cousin Emily and the two are caught up in a web of unresolved problems from centuries past. The only way for Henry to find peace is to solve the mysteries… Read More

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

(SIGNED) They Call Me Ranger Ray: From the UT Tower Sniper to Corruption in South Texas
by Ramiro "Ray" Martinez
Laminated Hardcover 266 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated first edition Fifth printing 2005 with corresponding number line. Handsome illustrated wraps show 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.
Signed by author on title page. Also inscribed on front endpapers.
On a hot summer day in 1966, fate and bravery dramatically altered the life of Ramiro "Ray" Martinez, then a young officer with the Austin Police Department. Martinez, another officer and a civilian made their way to the observation deck of the University of Texas Tower on Aug. 1, 1966 and ended the carnage by infamous sniper Charles J. Whitman. Before being killed by Martinez and Officer Houston McCoy, Whitman's gunfire from atop the UT Tower left 14 dead… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 235 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition 2007. Handsome blue 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 stains and wrinkles. HPB pricetag on cover of dust jacket. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Could the British have stopped Manifest Destiny in its tracks in 1836?A Scottish doctor named James Grant was the agent who tried to make it happen, and Texas was the stage on which the secret battle was fought.On the eve of the Texas uprising, only two things stood in the way of American ambitions to reach the Pacific Ocean: the British claim to the Oregon country and the vast but sparsely populated Mexican province of Texas. Britain was therefore almost as concerned with the outcome of the Texians' war as Mexico was.At 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.
Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

DUST JACKET for On Education: Two Classics Reprinted in One Volumeby Sir Richard LivingstoneDust 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.

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

Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1889 Hardcover Tauchnitz Copyright Edition. Condition: Very Good. Issued with No dust jacket. This carefully stored book has minor chips and slight shelf wear. Bound in 1/8 contemporary leather, gilt ruled bands, green faux leather boards, gilt titles, marbled edges. Book in unread condition. Previous owners bookplate. Size 6 3/4" x 4 3/4".
The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of Ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis (the living descendant of the pharaoh's bloodline) is charged by the Priesthood to overthrow the supposed impostor Cleopatra, drive out the Greeks and Romans and restore Egypt to its golden era.
As is the case with the majority of Haggard's works, the story draws heavily upon adventure and exotic concepts. The story, told from the point of view of the Egyptian priest Harmachis, is recounted in biblical language, being in the form of papyrus scrolls… Read More

Full leather Hardcover 224 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1994. Attractive illustrated full leather green boards with 1/4 black 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. No shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in four page brochure.
International adult best seller of the year 1890 and still a thumping good read. This is the book that invented the "African Adventure" novel.
Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa in search of a lost friend-and a lost treasure, the fabled mines of King Solomon. Led by the English adventurer and fortune hunter Allan Quartermain, they survive untold dangers in remote mountains and deserts and encounter the merciless King Twala en route to a legendary hoard of diamonds.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE… Read More

Longmans, Green, And Co., 1899 Condition: Very Good. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Beveled edges. No dust jacket. Black endpapers. Black and white frontispiece and plates. Previous owner bookplate. Book Well kept and carefully stored with slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with the usual signs of wear and/or age.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925), author of "King Solomon's Mines", combines romance and exotic adventure in this novel of the Voortrekkers of 1836: Swallow is a Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a brother entering her life . . . and soon finds herself face-to-face with a shipwrecked waif cast ashore by the storm. Swallow grows to love the English boy Ralph Kenzie. He returns her love -- but must face the murderous Swart Piet, who is intent on taking Swallow for himself -- and equally set on bringing war to the region. Torn from… Read More

Full leather Hardcover 224 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1994. Attractive illustrated full leather green boards with 1/4 black 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. No shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in four page brochure.
International adult best seller of the year 1890 and still a thumping good read. This is the book that invented the "African Adventure" novel.
Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa in search of a lost friend-and a lost treasure, the fabled mines of King Solomon. Led by the English adventurer and fortune hunter Allan Quartermain, they survive untold dangers in remote mountains and deserts and encounter the merciless King Twala en route to a legendary hoard of diamonds.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE… 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.
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Six Hardcover leather bound volumes 489, 473, 501, 507, 362, 335 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated second edition 1805. Lovely decorated leather over marbled boards with red boxes and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Books Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Marbled edges discolored with age. Pages are lightly toned with spotting and minor signs of wear and/or age. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
The biographical account of Pope Leo X and his pontificate in six extensive volumes by William Roscoe. Born into the prominent political Italian family of Medici of Florence, he was the second son of Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent), and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1489. Pope Leo X was Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521. He was not only the head of the Christian Church, but also the temporal ruler of the Papal States and head of the Medici family… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 268 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition First printing 2014 with corresponding number line. Elegant grey 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 and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America.
In With Sails Whitening Every Sea , Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic.… Read More

Harry Potter 8 Volume HARDCOVER Set (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince / Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows / Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)By J.K. Rowling
Seven mixed volumes Hardcover Cloth 309, 341, 435, 734, 870, 652, 759 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jackets Very Good. Scholastic Press editions 1997, 1999, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007. All stated First American Editions later printings. Lovely quilted pattern boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Vol 2, 6 have embossed seal on front endsheet and/or title page. Books Well kept with slight shelf wear. Unclipped dust jackets are smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles. Vols 1, 5, 6 have clipped dust jackets. Volume 2 Good Condtion with Good… 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 339 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 2002. Beautiful maroon boards and gold 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; bumped corners. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Dedication from the author on first title pageMindy Solomon absolutely has to leave Miami. Florida is bad for her head and her hair. She dreams of a dancing career on Broadway and moves to New York, but after a string of failures and mishaps, she realizes that she needs to rethink her grand plan. Finding herself spending way too much time in the comedy club where her future ex-boyfriend works, she nervously goes up onstage one night. People laugh. Not in the places where Mindy thought they'd laugh, but hey, it's a start.Mindy and her friend Ursula… Read More