Search Results: Authors starting with S from River House Books

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years One Volume Edition by Carl Sandburg Hardcover Cloth 762 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Stated First edition 1954. Handsome red boards and gold 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 with heavy shelf wear - tears, stains, and wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Out of his monumental six-volume work on Lincoln and his times, Carl Sandburg has written this definitive one-volume biography. The first part, "The Prairie Years," recounts Lincoln's youth and early career before he attained the presidency.
The story, of course, starts with his family settling in Kentucky, where Lincoln was born in 1809. Later, he moved with his family to Illinois. Lincoln began in New Salem and later moved to Springfield. Sandburg's depiction of his development, to becoming… Read More

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years One Volume Edition by Carl Sandburg Hardcover Cloth 762 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1954. Handsome 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; bumped corners and a few stains on edges. An unclipped dust jacket with the usual shelf wear - tears, stains, and wrinkles. Not an ex-library or remainder copy.
Out of his monumental six-volume work on Lincoln and his times, Carl Sandburg has written this definitive one-volume biography. The first part, "The Prairie Years," recounts Lincoln's youth and early career before he attained the presidency.
The story, of course, starts with his family settling in Kentucky, where Lincoln was born in 1809. Later, he moved with his family to Illinois. Lincoln began in New Salem and later moved to Springfield. Sandburg's depiction of… Read More

The Golden Free Land: The Reminiscences and Letters of Women on an American Frontier
by Crystal Sasse Ragsdale
Hardcover Cloth 198 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Stated First Edition 1976. Beautiful green 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 with slight shelf wear. Foxing on edges. Please note this volume was printed on yellow colored paper. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Dedication by author on splash page following first title page dated May 1991.
A collection of rare personal narratives by ten valiant women who helped conquer a strange and hostile American frontier. Printed in his hometown newspaper in Oldenburg, part of the German Confederation, in 1832, Friedrich Ernst's adulatory letter about moving to Texas was widely read at the time and credited for propelling the German immigration wave to prerevolution Texas, settling the "German Belt"… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 135 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Fine. Presumed First edition 2015. Lovely green 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.
Flatsigned on endpapers.
San Antonio Man Tells Tall Tale is a memoir of a south Texas boy coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century. Each tale more thrilling than the last, the book chronicles a lifetime of hunting, fishing, and traveling throughout Texas, the Gulf Coast, the Rocky Mountains, and South America. These powerful and often humorous stories of chasing white tail deer, avoiding snakes, fishing for blue marlin, and even courting his wife are based on the author's experiences in the great outdoors with close friends and… Read More

A Talent for Genius: The Life and Times of Oscar Levant
by Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger
Hardcover Cloth 512 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition Second printing 1994 with corresponding number line. Handsome black boards 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 - bumped corners. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with the usual shelf wear - a few scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Dust jacket sports original pricetags. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Oscar Levant was the Amadeus of Hollywood, the Oscar Wilde of Broadway -- and the most wildly self-destructive personality ever to become a household name. An astonishingly gifted concert pianist, composer, film and stage presence, radio and television raconteur, insult wit, and bestselling author, Levant steered a maniacally masochistic course through… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 384 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First American edition First printing 2023 with corresponding number line. Lovely brown boards and red 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. Protected by mylar cover. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in publisher marketing letter and promo card.
Hazel Sinnett is alone and half convinced the events of the year before—the immortality, Beecham's vial—were a figment of her imagination. She doesn't even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her.When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message intervenes: Hazel has been… 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 316 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Revised edition 1978. Attractive brown boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's embossed seal on front endsheet. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with shelf wear - a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
This revised catalogue of Greek coins sets out to achieve what has not been attempted; a listing with values of virtually every type of Hellenic coinage. The average collector should be able to locate in this catalogue all the types he is likely to encounter, in one denomination or another, and the historical notes provide valuable background information.
Complementing this comprehensive listing of Greek coins is a selection of contemporary Celtic coins, the designs of which are largely derived from Greek types. This… Read More

Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District (Chisholm Trail Series)
by Richard F. Selcer
Hardcover Cloth 364 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1991. Attractive illustrated wraps on this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in bookmark and clippings.
Texas is a place where legends are made, die, and are revived. Fort Worth, Texas, claims its own legend – Hell's Half Acre – a wild 'n woolly accumulation of bordellos, cribs, dance houses, saloons, and gambling parlors.Tenderloin districts were a fact of life in every major town in the American West, but Hell's Half Acre – its myth and its reality – can be said to be a microcosm of them all. The most famous and infamous westerners visited the Timothy ("Longhair Jim") Courtright, Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, Mary Porter, Etta Place, along with Butch Cassidy… Read More

The Intimate Papers of Colonel House;
Volume 1 Behind the Political Curtain, 1912-1915
Volume 2 From Neutrality to War, 1915-1917
Arranged as a narrative by Charles Seymour
Two Hardcover Cloth volumes in slipcase 469 & 508 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good Slipcase Very Good. Presumed First edition 1926. Attractive red buckram boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Beautiful gilt top edge embossing. Other edges not trimmed. Previous owner's stapled newspaper obiturary to first three pages of volume one. 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. Unclipped dust jackets are smooth and clean and brilliant but discolored with age. Dust jackets have slight shelf wear - a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Slipcase has the usual shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library,… Read More

About Face: Odyssey of an American Warrior
by Col. David H. Hackworth and Julie Sherman
Hardcover Cloth 875 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition Second printing 1989 with corresponding number line. Handsome olive green and black boards with 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 a few wrinkles and chips - the usual shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.Called "everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be" by The New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism.From age fifteen to forty David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to… Read More

Dust Jacket ONLY Good. An unclipped dust jacket with tears, wrinkles and chips. Colors still bright. Stains and rubbing.
Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Faux Leather Hardcover 176 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Stated first edition printing of 2000 copies. Handsome faux brown leather boards and embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Gift inscription on front endpapers. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Book commemorates Abner McCall's twentieth anniversiary as president of Baylor University. McCall served from 1961 to 1981.

Dust Jacket ONLY Good. An unclipped dust jacket smooth and clean with tears, wrinkles and chips. Colors still bright. Some stains and rubbing. One flap separated from the jacket, held in place by the mylar sleeve.Protected by mylar sleeve. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Laminated Hardcover unnumbered pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated first edition 1990. 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. Front endpaper stained and creased. No missing pages, crayon marks or writing. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Illustrated children's book about Ginger the dog and her evening patrol of the garden looking for fun.

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. 40th anniversary banner on spine and Special Edition sticker on cover.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 179 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated | First edition First printing 1991 with corresponding number line. Attractive tan and red boards with 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 wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Inscribed "To Veronica, friends 4 ever" on title page.A Holden Caufield with acne vulgaris, Andy is born in North Carolina too late to be a hippy and too early to be a programmer, just in time to live through the Carter administration and the era of lowered expectations. Spurned by his peers, who call him Pizza Face, Andy embarks on a wild campaign for truth and beauty, chasing idols from North Carolina to Washington, D.C.

Lost Bonanzas: Tales of the Legendary Lost Mines of the American West by Harry Sinclair Drago Hardcover Cloth 276 pages. Condition Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1966. Worn brown boards and black embossing on this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Shelf wear, front hinge cracked. An unclipped dust jacket smooth and clean is discolored with age and sports the original price tag. Slight shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Harry Drago explores the various myths and legends surrounding lost mines in the American West. The book is a collection of stories about prospectors, miners, and adventurers who sought their fortunes in the gold and silver rushes of the 19th century and the tales of their lost treasures.
The book is divided into chapters that focus on different regions and specific lost mines, such as the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine in Arizona, the Lost Blue Bucket Mine in Oregon, and… Read More

Rifle-Craft and The Shooters Guide (Firearms Classics Library) by Charles Singer Landis Hardcover full leather 174 pages with illustrations. Condition Fine in red leather. Issued with NO Dust Jacket .Palladium Press 2004 reprint edition. Lovely red leather boards with gold embossed leather shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Moiré endpapers and pastedowns. Hubbed spines, gilded designs, gold page edges, acid-free paper. Silk marker ribbon. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Book was stored in barrister case in a dark room. Has never been laid flat.

Hardcover Cloth 193 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First edition 1971. Handsome dark blue boards 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 and clean with slight shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Projecting its focus forward into the 21st century, this science-fiction novel envisions the time when a New World has been created upon the ruins of present-day society. After the "Great Death" brought about by nuclear weapons, the descendants of the survivors have finally established a global Utopia. Martin Lindley is the only member of the Old World who has miraculously been kept alive in a comatose state, and the scientists have succeeded in rejuvenating him at an age of more than 100 years.People's interest in Martin is understandably great as he… Read More