Search Results: Titles starting with M from Riverwood's Books

London: Star / W. H. Allen. Very Good+. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. 0352312939 . Light wear to edges and corners, interior clean and tight. 231 pages. "In 1866 the first macabre railway stories appeared, to curdle the blood of unwary travellers. These stories take the reader on a nerve-wracking journey from the eeriness of steam-filled stations to the claustrophobic depths of the London Underground....From modern macabre back to Charles Dickens' spectral warning, 'The Signalman', that has unnerved generations of readers...." (os) ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .

Mentor Publications. Very Good. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. 0968036015 . Signed/inscribed on title page by author. Very light edgewear, crease to front cover corner also affects first couple pages. Internal pages otherwise clean & tight. "...About a group of teenagers who get some new insights into some age-old questions through an entertaining combination of Jessica's narrations and Madame's "Love Stories"...." (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 8vo; Signed by Author .

William Morrow. Very Good+. 1995. Fourth Printing. Softcover. 068810312X . Very nice condition, clean, no markings, light wear to corners, a little spotting bottom edge of pages. 417 pages. Bryson's "Informal History of the English Language in the United States" is, in a word, fascinating. After reading this tour de force, it's clear that a nation's language speaks volumes about its true character: you are what you speak. Bryson traces America's history through the language of the time, then goes on to discuss words culled from everyday activities: immigration, eating, shopping, advertising, going to the movies, and others. [548]; 8vo .

New York: Villard Books. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0394544595 . Hardcover is clean & unmarked, wear is minimal. Jacket has light edgewear, a little age tanning and moderately heavy scuffing. How an outlaw gang member bridged the relationship between motorcycle gangsand the Mafia, specifically the Calabrian Mafia, a crime organization rooted in Canada and gaining in New York. ; 8vo .

Harcourt Children's Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0152509887 . Signed by author Tony Johnston on title page. Oblong 11x9". Ex-library book with usual type markings, jacket attached to book. Jacket has light scuffing & a little edge curling. Internal pages have some light wrinkling, occasional creasing, small tear to endpage, corner bumping. Wonderful colour illustrations. "The people of the pueblo like the huge maguey that grows on the land of Don César. But Miguel likes it most of all. To him it is the best plant in the world. So at Christmastime, when Don César threatens to chop down the maguey to make room for a very fine house, it is Miguel who comes up with a glittering plan to save it. " [408-osl]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages; Signed by Author .

U. K.: Armadillo. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 1843221128 . HC/DJ - fine/near fine. Hardcover is clean & unmarked. Jacket has very light edgewear, light scuffing & a little wrinkling to top edge. " As the seasons pass, fairies flit and fairies fly to take care of the creatures & plants that share their enchanted realm....Fairies love to have fun too. Parties, flying races, songs & laughter can all be found in this delightful collection of stories..." Beautifully illustrated in colour. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Australia: Rigby Opal Books. Good in Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library book with moderate edgewear to HC, light wear & curling to edge of DJ, usual lib markings, light soiling. Interior clean & tight. Colour & b/w illustrations. Haunting story of a lonely magpie on the islands off the coast of South Australia. Very compelling and typical of this fabulous author; accompanied by evocative colour illustrations by Roger Haldane. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Harper Collins. Very Good. 1991. First Edition. Softcover. 0002254182 . Cover has light wear to edges and corners, light soiling outer edge, couple small creases on cover, pages clean and unmarked. 250 pages. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Nothing much happens in Niagara Falls. It's a sleepy Canadian town full of honeymooners and tourists, and that's how Inspector Frank Corrigan likes it. He saw enough trouble as a cop in Northern Ireland and now he's happy dealing with parking offences and the odd drunk, although since his wife left him and took their daughter, 'happy' may not be quite the word. But then a reincarnated Native American princess by the name of Lelewala canoes over the Falls - and survives. Or so she says. And Frank falls in love. And finds himself confronting the greatest terrorist of the age at an international gathering of drug dealers. And that's before the music starts.. . .

Glasgow: E. J. Arnold & Son. Very Good. Hardcover. E. J. Arnold & Son, Glasgow. Early 1900's, no publication date. Book VII, Heroes of Industrial and Social History. Book is ex-college library with only a few markings, very good, light wear to cover edges and corners, laminated spine. Interior clean and intact, light age tanning. Short biograpies of famous engineers , scientists, inventors, reformers etc, such as Josiah Wedgwood, Lord Shaftesbury, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Alva Edison, Marconi, etc. . Histories of the cotton industry, steam power, electricity, prison reform, steamships & railways & others. B/W photographs and illustrations. 252 pages. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0312506783 . HC/DJ - near fine/VG+. Hardcover clean and intact, fine other than a little bumping to corners/spine ends and light age tanning to page edges. B/w & colour illus. Jacket has light edgewear, scuffing, couple tiny tears and tanning to edges. 23 projects for making classic pieces of furniture using traditional methods and materials, accompanied by clear working drawings, measured diagrams and photos where appropriate. Projects: shelves and boxes , stools, spinning chair, corner cabinet, pedestal table, chest, cradle, dining table, ladderback chair etc. Intended more for the experienced woodworker than the beginner. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; (*Note: due to heavy weight, extra postage will be required to all locations). .

Shaye Arehart. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 1400081904 . Excllent condition. Jacket has one tiny tear along a back edge (about 1/8"). 320 pages. From Publishers Weekly: When 38-year-old war correspondent Saffron Roch quits Sierra Leone, pregnant with her unfaithful lover's child, she heads to London to have baby Halla and then returns to her native California to find herself catapulted into two new, unnerving conflicts. There's that single-motherhood business, for one, and then there's the fact that she's netted a $10-million estate from her adoptive mother, Heaven, whose disinherited birth son, the tofu-eating pseudo-guru Francis, seems weirdly okay with it.....She also, through flashbacks, reveals Saff's complicated past in Sierra Leone--her troubles with Halla's father, the surgeon Oscar; her attraction to Joseph, a beautiful, mysterious African--while weaving quite a present-day plot. Back in Sierra Leone, Joseph may be put to… Read More

St. Martin's Press. Very Good. 1989. First Edition. Softcover. 0312003048 . Light edgewear, moderate corner wear, some corner curling, light soiling outer edge of pages. Pages are intactI and clean other than approx. 8 pages with underlining/highlights/writing (fairly minor). B/w illus. "focuses on global history as a history of encounters rather than separate civilizations, walking a fine line between reinforcing a Eurocentric view of history and describing earlier periods of Islamic or Chinese expansion. It uses a comparative approach and attempts to strike a balance between narrative and analysis in its coverage of the first modern societies and Europe's expansion in the Middle East, India, Asia, and Africa. Includes b&w photos and diagrams. " ; 8vo; 550 pages .

New York: Sterling. Very Good. 1991. First Edition. Softcover. 0806972483 . Oversize softcover, plastic laminated. Ex-library in excellent condition, very light wear/soiling. b/w illustrations. 40 extraordinary projects for pet homes & carriers, incl. dog castle, cat play steamboat, cat sleeping box, a-frame for large dogs, feline fun house, rabbit hutch, various bed frames, etc.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam. New. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 1585421596 . New book, small remainder mark across bottom spine end. 290 pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; "How often do we wish to pray, to meditate, or to otherwise relate to a higher power only to find ourselves stymied by confusion or doubt? In Making Peace with God, bestselling authors Harold Bloomfield and Philip Goldberg explore how the unresolved experiences of childhood and the burning complexities of adulthood frequently derail our efforts to reach a mature understanding of religion and spirituality...." .

Sterling. Very Good. 1982. Softcover. 0806976608 . Very good condition - light edgewear to covers. Pages clean and intact, light soiling to outer edge of pages. Experience the satisfaction of creating real and beautiful carvings, both working and decorative, to your own specifications. It is this satisfaction that can convert a duck hunter to a dyed-in-the-wool decoyist.....Because there is no single way to make a decoy, you'll see a wide range of tools and techniques. (395osl) ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

New York: Crown. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0517586983 . Signed by author on first endpage. Book & dustjacket in fine condition, close to like new. Booksellers stamp inside front cover, very slight soiling to outer edge of pages, slight scuffing to back cover. 314 pages. SUMMARY: "Meet Pamela Trowel, slave of New York, lone young woman inhabitant of a moldy ground-floor apt. , and the kind of woman who attracts Manhattan's wrongest men, even when she wears makeup. One evening, after she is trailed home from a pizza parlor by Abdhul, a pesky and funny young boy of indeterminate age and loud opinions, Pamela finds herself becoming the one thing she never expected; a surrogate mom. So begins the new novel by Tama Janowiz that paints a fiercely funny picture of today's male-female relationship wars, messy sex roles, and romantic expectations....Pamela finds herself unwillingly in the middle of adventures, at home and abroad..."; 8vo - over… Read More

Saskatoon, SK: Coteau Books. Near Fine. 1999. First Edition. Softcover. 1550501585 . Signed by author on title page. Winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award. Only light wear overall, slight upturning of front cover. The woman and men, in this book, portrayed with both realism and understanding, will change you view of the species forever. The tough, brilliantly crafted stories in The Maleness of God pull no punches about the rugged terrain in the emotional landscape of women. But they go far beyond merely cataloguing the difficulties in sharing the planet with the male of the species. (380noto) ; 8vo; Signed by Author .

New York: Lion Books. Good. 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Good minus condition. Moderate edge & corner wear, creasing to covers, light soiling to cover & outer edge of pages. Back cover & inside covers is affecting by a watermark type of stain, which also lightly affects a few pages. Interior pages are otherwise clean - age tanning of pages. " the story of Russia's leader Georgi Malenkov including the Russian Government, Malenkov's Presidium, the rise of anti-Semitism, the Soviet attitude on sex and the family and Malenkov's stand on war and peace. 159 pp. (*shipping will be reduced on this lighter book) ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Carroll & Graf. New. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. 0786712406 . New book, remainder marking across spine end bottom edge, slight shelfwear to cover edges. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; "This book offers an engaging survey of prophets and prophecies that will beguile believers, goad skeptics, and intrigue almost everyone else. While the prolific prophecies of the celebrated sixteenth-century French physician and astrologer Nostradamus stand at the center of this volume, they are preceded by the visions, prognostications, and revelations of the Old Testament prophets Isaiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel, of Islamic prophets, and the druidic Myrddin (who may appear in Arthurian legend as Merlin the Magician) , as well as modern day psychics..." (360-noto) .

Perseus. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0738202819 . Nice, clean copy. Ex-library with only light wear overall, mylar cover & usual stamps & stickers. Light edgewear, light scuffing of cover, interior pages clean & tight. B/w photos/illus. 242 pages. The author chronicles the recent search for the carcass of a mammoth using Soviet-era military helicopters and ground-penetrating radar, as scientists attempt to unlock the mysteries of how this ancient creature lived and died; 8vo .