Search Results: Authors starting with W from River House Books

Full leather Hardcover 558 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1992. Beautiful illustrated full leather silver boards with 1/4 red 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.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th century American novels. First published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880, and it is considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century".The story recounts in descriptive detail the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince from Jerusalem who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian.Running in parallel with Judah's narrative is the unfolding story of Jesus, from the… Read More

Full leather Hardcover 558 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1992. Beautiful illustrated full leather silver boards with 1/4 red 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.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th century American novels. First published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880, and it is considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century".The story recounts in descriptive detail the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince from Jerusalem who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian.Running in parallel with Judah's narrative is the unfolding story of Jesus, from the… Read More

Hardcover green faux leather with leather corners and spine, six compartments with five raised bands, gilt titling. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Centenary edition 1871. Tight, square copies with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Marbled end papers and edges. Books Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Pages are lightly toned with the usual minor signs of wear and/or age. Volumes 2, 4, 5, 12, 20, 21 & 24 have small spine cracks. Illustrated frontispiece for each novel. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.
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"Waverley Novels Centenary Edition" is a collection of novels written by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Centenary Edition was published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his first novel "Waverley"… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 321 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1948. Nice red boards and black 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. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned. A smooth unclipped dust jacket is discolored with age with the usual shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

John Walton Caughey explores the history of the California Gold Rush of 1849 and its impact on American society. The book is divided into three parts, each focusing on a different aspect of the Gold Rush.

The first part of the book provides a detailed account of the discovery of gold in California and the subsequent rush of fortune seekers to the region. Caughey describes the various groups of people who came to California during this time, including miners, merchants, and immigrants… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 427 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 1973. Handsome black boards with blue, red and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Red topstain. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover is smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
"The Onion Field" is a true crime book by Joseph Wambaugh, published in 1973. It tells the harrowing and tragic story of a notorious crime that took place in Los Angeles in 1963. Wambaugh, a former LAPD detective, brings his insider knowledge to this gripping account of a police officer's murder and its aftermath.
The book focuses on the events of March 9, 1963, when two LAPD officers, Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger, made a routine traffic stop in Hollywood. The… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 427 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 1973. Handsome black boards with blue, red and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Red topstain. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover is smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
"The Onion Field" is a true crime book by Joseph Wambaugh, published in 1973. It tells the harrowing and tragic story of a notorious crime that took place in Los Angeles in 1963. Wambaugh, a former LAPD detective, brings his insider knowledge to this gripping account of a police officer's murder and its aftermath.
The book focuses on the events of March 9, 1963, when two LAPD officers, Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger, made a routine traffic stop in Hollywood. The… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 427 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 1973. Handsome black boards with blue, red and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Red topstain. 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 tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
"The Onion Field" is a true crime book by Joseph Wambaugh, published in 1973. It tells the harrowing and tragic story of a notorious crime that took place in Los Angeles in 1963. Wambaugh, a former LAPD detective, brings his insider knowledge to this gripping account of a police officer's murder and its aftermath.
The book focuses on the events of March 9, 1963, when two LAPD officers, Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger, made a routine traffic stop in Hollywood. The officers pulled over two suspects,… Read More

Trade Paperback 45 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 2008. Lovely 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. Author inscribed on title pageSean Ward's poems are dense with closely observed details, whether they occur in nature or the guts of an engine, in the human psyche or the intricacies of cat behavior. From a very male perspective, Ward delights in precise terminologies, in the physicality of labor, in the fantasy life that so often underpins the mundane, as when tearing down a shed becomes the act of a Viking berserker, or the assembly of a lawnmower becomes a Zen meditation. Ward's appreciation of craftsmanship reminds one of Eric Gill, his lanky rhythms of Whitman. -- Bryce Milligan

Long Live the King: The Mysterious Fate of Edward II
by Kathryn Warner
Hardcover Cloth 303 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 2017. Beautiful red 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. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few tears and wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
History tells us that Edward II died at Berkeley Castle in 1327 in agony, with a red-hot poker inserted inside him. This is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? Much evidence exists to suggest that Edward did not die at Berkeley Castle at all, but was still alive years after his supposed death. Many influential people believed that he was alive and acted on their belief, including several earls, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop and Mayor of… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 527 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1959. Attractive tan buckram boards with leatherette 1/4 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. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
"General Bill" Sterling, as his friends called him, was a Texas Ranger of the old tradition—hard-riding and fearless but not a killer. Rising through the ranks, he became commander of the famed Rangers in the 1930s, when he served as adjutant general of Texas. His own story, told with warmth and vigor, is filled with adventures in the South Texas cattle country, the remote Ranger camps on the Río Grande, and the early Texas oil fields.
As captain of Company D, the last horseback ranger company, he scouted on practically all the large ranches in Texas, pursuing bandits,… Read More

(SIGNED) Yankee from the West: The candid, turbulent life story of the Yankee-born U.S. Senator from Montana
by Burton K. Wheeler
Hardcover Cloth 436 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1962. Attractive blue boards and black buckram spine with 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 and clean is discolored with age with slight shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, with refreshing candor and characteristic courage inherited from his New England forebearers, traces his life from birth to retirement.
Inscribed on front and back endpapers by Burton K. Wheeler.
As a freshman senator, Wheeler played a crucial role in exposing the Harding administration's unwillingness to prosecute people involved in the… Read More

Trade Paperback 128 pages. Condition Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1990. Attractive illustrated wraps on this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept with Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Inscribed by author on title page.
Stories from a pilot who began his career at Meacham Field in Fort Worth, Texas. He worked in East Texas as a flight instructor and spent many years in the Air Force.

Leatherbound Hardcover Cloth 148 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Franklin Library Reprint edition 1976. Beautiful dark brown leather boards with gold and green 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. Moire endpapers and sewn in ribbon. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into… Read More

Trade Paperback 217 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated Crooked Cat first edition 2018. 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. Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
With over three thousand burials and memorials, including seventeen monarchs, life for the ghostly community of Westminster Abbey was never going to be a quiet one. Add in some fiery Tudor tempers, and several centuries-old feuds, and things can only go one way: chaotic.Against the backdrop of England's most important church, though, it isn't all tempers and tantrums. Poets' Corner hosts poetry battles and writing workshops, and close friendships form across the ages.With the arrival of Mary Queen of Scots, however, battle ensues. Will Queens Mary I and Elizabeth I ever find their common ground, and lasting peace?The bestselling Kindred Spirits series continues… 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.
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Trade Paperback with glued binding 322 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated First edition 2011. 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. There were many living in the 1800's who made important contributions to Kansas City, Missouri. They used their abilities, talents and money to improve the city and make it a better place to live. This is about the lives of fifty of those good men.

Trade Paperback 496 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated First paperback edition 2010. Elegant 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 with a few scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Shattering longstanding myths, this new biography reveals the robust and positive life of one of the nineteenth century's greatest composersThis candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness.
John Worthen's scrupulous attention to the original sources reveals Schumann to have been an astute, witty, articulate, and immensely determined individual, who—with little support from his family and friends in provincial Saxony—painstakingly… Read More

Leatherbound Hardcover 555 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1992. Handsome grey illustrated boards with dark blue 1/4 leather 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.
The novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutiny and the hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has become a perennial favorite of readers young and old, has… Read More

Laminated Hardcover 270 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated first edition 2020. Attractive illustrated boards 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.
He faked his own death to keep his loved ones safe. Now he's working in the shadows as the CIA's deadliest agent . . . and free to use lethal force. London. Alexander King has endured a year living dark. Believed dead by those who knew him, the elite American counterterrorism operative doesn't flinch when hunting down dangerous targets. But when he saves a young woman from a car bomb, he finds himself juggling the rapidly moving pieces of an alarming conspiracy that reaches all the way to the White House. With a U.S. presidential candidate ensnared in the sinister plot, King fights to protect himself and his mysterious companion as they're pursued by traitors intent on… Read More