Search Results: Titles starting with N from River House Books

The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Excluding Florida and The Native Orchids of Florida
by Carlyle A. Luer
Two volumes Hardcover Cloth 361 & 293 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jackets Very Good. Stated first editions 1972 & 1975. Handsome beige buckram boards 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. No shelf wear. Unclipped dust jackets are smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.
An exhaustive treatise of the species and varieties of orchids native to North America north of Mexico and Florida. Provides detailed information including copious line drawings and photographs of every taxonomy of the orchid species native to North America; and complete keys, descriptions, and distribution maps.
85 color plates in the first volume and 97 in the… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 224 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition Third printing 1981. 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. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover is smooth, clean and brilliant with no shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Traces the employment of naval fighter and attack aircraft from catapult launch to target engagement. Mersky and Polmar describe the exhilarating, exhausting and tragic dimensions of the Vietnam naval air war in episodes drawn from the personal experiences of American pilots. More than 200 photographs.

Hardcover Cloth 433 pages. Condition Good NO Dust Jacket. First American edition 1956 with W on colophon. No BOMC dot on back cover. Attractive grey boards with red blocks and gilt embossing on this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book spine worn and cut. Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 'History of the English-Speaking Peoples'. This is volume two of that set.

In "The New World" Churchill describes the discovery and colonization of the Americas by European powers, particularly England. Churchill outlines the explorations and settlements of various European nations, including Spain, Portugal, France, and the Netherlands, but focuses primarily on England's role in the New World.

Churchill describes how England's first attempt at colonization in the New World, the Roanoke Colony, ultimately failed, but how subsequent… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 287 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First edition First printing 1986 with corresponding number line. Attractive tan boards black cloth spine 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 the usual shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. With the soul of a street kid, reluctant ties to the mob, and the mind of an ivy-league sharpie, Tony Cassella is more than a private investigator. He's a man with a mission -- to stay true to himself, the people he loves, and a personal code he can't always live up to.When an old-line lawyer threatens to spill his guts to the SEC about his firm's dirty deals, Tony is hired by the top-drawer Wall Street firm to bug the secret testimony. But when the high-priced canary is found… 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