Search Results: Authors starting with N from River House Books

Hardcover Cloth 150 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1999. Nice 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. 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 and dated 7/27/99 on title page.These stories draw their power from the characters' yearning to imagine their lives informed by love, passion, and intimacy. Their yearning gives voice to the unconscious rituals of childhood, the craftiness of the desperate, and the mute sorrows of young women whose futures fold to a neat collapse.

Hardcover Cloth 252 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated First edition 2012. Nice illustrated boards with white embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Quarter cloth over pictorial cloth. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Signed by Jonathan Levine on title page.Widely revered as the artists' gallerist, Jonathan Levine has nourished a much needed alternative viewpoint within the stilted New York art market. In the pages of Delusional, readers will discover the fascinating backstory that brought this punk kid from Trenton to the hallowed gallery walls of Chelsea. LeVine began his career in the arts publishing a fanzine in the 1980s and then curating shows at diverse venues in the 90s. By the turn of the millennium, LeVine had opened up Tin Man Alley, his own gallery located in New Hope, and then Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Jonathan LeVine… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 313 pages. Condition Fine NO Dust Jacket. Reprint edition 1989. Beautiful teal boards with 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. No shelf wear. Gilt edges and silken book mark ribbon. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Stated 'Wolfe Library Classics Limited Edition' copy 171 of 1500.
Originally published in 1947, Practical Dope on the .22 is a complete study of the .22 caliber rifle, ammunition and shooting.

Hardcover Cloth 208 pages in slipcase. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Fine. Presumed First edition fourth printing 1987 with corresponding number line. Nice dark blue boards and dark blue embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored slipcase 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. Slipcase shows some shelf wear and fading, but has no dents or tears. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.
Inscribed and dated on first title page.
Laid in fundraising letter and six beautiful full color glossy 11" x 11" prints.
The renowned underwater photographer takes readers on a journey of incredible beauty and mystery, through the seas off Cozumel, Belize, Kona, Fiji, Palau, Truk, and the Great Barrier Reef.

(SIGNED) Distaff Diplomacy: The Empress Eugenie and the Foreign Policy of the Second Empire
by Nancy Nichols Barker
Hardcover Cloth 264 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1967. Lovely green boards with black boxing 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. An unclipped dust jacket with the usual shelf wear - tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Inscribed by author on first title page.
The Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III and one of the most beautiful women ever to grace a throne, was the victim of her own inconstant mind. A daughter of an aristocratic Spanish family, she had a natural reverence for legitimate monarchy; yet her high-spirited temperament and chivalric outlook made her admire instinctively the boldness and aura of glory that she associated with the Napoleonic empire. The… Read More

Dust Jacket ONLY Very Good. A clipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Colors still bright. Some stains and rubbing. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Hardcover Cloth unnumbered pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1999. Beautiful full-color illustrated wraps shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Frayed front and back endsheets. 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 and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Author inscribed on title page. Inscribed polaroid of the author and previous owner laid in.From Talking Pots Day, when the aunts all gather to make the biggest pot of soup in town, to gathering round Gran Lee's stove on a cold winter afternoon, to serenades and stories late at night, when the rest of the world is asleep, "seems like everything good that happens in my house happens in my momma's kitchen." A celebration of African-American families and mommas everywhere, In My Momma's Kitchen tells the story of a year's… Read More