Search Results: Titles starting with O from River House Books

Hardcover rebound in fine brown leather with gold embossing. Crosshatched on spine. 126 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Stated Third edition 1842. Beautiful smooth brown leather boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no highlights or bookplates. Some notes in text. Book Well kept and carefully stored. Slight shelf wear - edges have the usual yellowing, corners bumped. Pages are lightly toned with minor signs of wear and/or age. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Laid in are the receipt and business card from the Henry Pordes bookshop on Charing Cross London where purchased. Also the (somewhat worn) original shopping bag.Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is arguably one of the best plays of all time that inspired a large portion of the modern train of thought, and literary critics gave the play the epithet "Mona Lisa" of drama. It was certainly Aristotle's favorite play as he stated in Poetics, naming Oedipus the perfect tragic hero. The core of the play is… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 203 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 2007 with corresponding number line. Lovely brown boards with blue 1/8 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.
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 287 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First edition 2016. Handsome black boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored. Slight shelf wear; two dog-eared pages. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Richard III is probably the House of York's best-known figure, but the other members of the family are just as intriguing as the king who fell on Bosworth Field. These include his father, the Duke of York, who held a claim to the throne that would eventually topple a king; his older brother Edward IV, a warrior cast in the mould of a true Plantagenet; and the resilient Yorkist queen Elizabeth Woodville and her daughter Elizabeth of York, the latter of whom would eventually unite the family with their longstanding rivals, the Lancastrians, and become the mother of the… Read More

On to Kilimanjaro: The Bizarre Story of the First World War in East Africa by Brian Gardner Hardcover Cloth 284 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1963. Handsome black 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. Edges have the usual yellowing with foxing on top edge. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket is discolored with age and shows the usual shelf wear - a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Brian Gardner explores the little-known military campaign that took place in East Africa during World War I. The book provides a detailed account of the battles fought between the British, German, and African forces, as well as the political and social context of the conflict. It also delves into the strange and unconventional tactics used by both sides, such as using camels and elephants… 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

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

Trade Paperback with glued binding 107 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 2010. Handsome 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. 150 years ago our forefathers declared war against themselves. Six hundred and forty thousand would die. Nowhere was this more tragic than in the Texas Hill Country where a group of young German emigrants, new citizens, chose confrontation rather than concede to the Confederacy. It cost many of them their lives. It is a little known story of courage and heroism detailed in a genealogy book, THE ORPHAN: THE CASPAR FRITZ STORY. An orphaned German emigrant, Caspar Fritz survived the perils of emigration, mob lynching, murders and conflict during the Civil War. His ancestors now number in the thousands.His story is told by his namesake and great grandson,… Read More

Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization Volume I) by Will and Ariel Durant Hardcover Cloth 1049 pages. Condition Good NO Dust Jacket. Presumed first edition 1954. BOMC dot on back cover. Nice red buckram boards and gold embossing. Red topstain. Book Well in unread condition with notable shelf wear. Bumped corners, stains to boards, some spotting. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
In the first volume of their Story of Civilization, the Durants make an extensive exploration of the cultural, intellectual, and historical achievements of civilizations in the Eastern world. With scholarly depth and engaging prose, the Durants chronicles the rise and development of societies across Asia, from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to the great civilizations of India, China, and Japan, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the diverse cultures and traditions that have shaped human history in the East.

The Outline of History: Being A Plain History of Life and Mankind
by H.G. Wells
New Enlarged Edition, revised and brought up to the end of the Second World War by Raymond Postgate
Hardcover Cloth 1029 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Book Club edition 1961. Attractive red boards and black embossing shows off this Clean, tight, copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Red topstain. Books Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned. Unclipped dust jackets are smooth and clean but discolored with age with slight shelf wear - a few tears, stains, wrinkles and chips. Protected by mylar cover. Not an ex-library or remainder copy.
The books appeared in an illustrated version of 24 fortnightly installments beginning on 22 November 1919 and was published as a single volume in 1920. It sold more than two million copies, was translated into many languages, and had a considerable impact on the teaching of… Read More

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