Search Results: Authors starting with P from River House Books

Dust Jacket ONLY Good. A clipped dust jacket with tears, wrinkles and chips. Some stains and rubbing. Protected by mylar sleeve. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Hardcover Cloth 255 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1947. Handsome tan boards and red embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored with Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned. 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.
French language hardcover.
The port of Marseille, in the twenties. Marius, César's son, owner of the Bar de la Marine, is torn between his love for Fanny, the little shellfish merchant, and his desire to take the rush, to travel the world... When Marcel Pagnol, in 1929, had Marius performed on a Parisian stage, he probably had no idea that his characters would become as famous as Harpagon or Monsieur Jourdain.
Two years later, Pagnol and Alexander Korda made a film out of it, Raimu, Charpin, Orane Demazis, Pierre… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 208 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First American edition First printing 1988 with corresponding number line. Lovely white boards with red 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 protected by mylar cover with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Julia has left home. She has gone to Italy. She has left her lover, her job, her flat, the closely-knit group of friends who meant so much to her. Why? And the motley group of ex-pats she finds in Verona, the Oxbridge brigade, the revolutionary Scot, the cool Canadian, the feminist Flossy - why do they find it so impossible to return home, as if their very identities depend somehow on this thousand-mile displacement? Centered around a love story full of twists, turns and… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 477 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition First printing 2019 with corresponding number line. Beautiful purple boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. slight shelf wear. Previous owner's embossed seal on first title page. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear - Purple stained edges have a few bumps and scratches. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in printed note to reader with world map.
Flatsigned on tip in page.
I had a sister, once…In a world ruled by fierce warrior queens, a grand empire was built upon the backs of Phoenix Riders—legendary heroes who soared through the sky on wings of fire—until a war between two sisters ripped it all apart.I promised her the throne would not come between us.Sixteen years later, Veronyka is a… Read More

Texas as I See It: An Intentionally, But Only Slightly, Twisted View of The Lone Star State by Warren Paul Harris
Oversized Hardcover Cloth 159 page coffee table book. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. First edition First printing 2011 with corresponding number line. 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 in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with the usual shelf wear - a few scrapes, scratches and wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Warren Paul Harris portrays the great state of Texas in a detailed and vibrant style. From the majestic beauty of a Texas sunrise to the soaring drama of an abandoned grain elevator, his camera lens reveals to us varied and wondrous landscapes.

Trade Paperback 380 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition First printing 2004 with corresponding number line. Nice illustrated wraps shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Some shelf wear; a dent to the top edge and some scratches on the back cover. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Signed on title page 'For Veronica, Welcome to the "CLUB"'A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.Words can bleed.In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields—are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable… Read More

Paperback 310 pages. Condition Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated First edition First printing June 1982. Handsome leather styled paper cover on this Clean copy. Previous owner's name written in ballpoint on cover.Book has Slight shelf wear with minor signs of wear and/or age. Coffee stains on front cover. Pages are lightly toned. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. A photographic history of Boerne, Texas 1849 to 1982. A complication of pictures and stories dealing with people and the different phases of growth and development in Boerne and Kendall County.

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 402 pages. Condition Fine Mylar-protected Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First edition First printing 2021 with corresponding number line. Lovely purple 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 protected by mylar cover is smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
In the conclusion to the Greystone Secrets series, the Greystones and their doubles, the Gustanos, must team up to save the alternate world—before both worlds are lost.As book three of the Greystone Secrets series opens, the Greystone kids have their mother back from the evil alternate world, and so does their friend Natalie. But no one believes the danger is past.Then mysterious coins begin falling from unexpected places. They are inscribed with codes that look just like what the… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 383 pages. Condition Fair Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1915. Handsome teal boards with white spine and gold embossing on this tight copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book worn with bumped corners, decayed spine and significant shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are toned with minor signs of wear and/or age. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Steger was born in Moscow, Tennessee, in 1883. After attending public schools there he entered the University of Texas. Following his graduation, he attended the Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and later went to Johns Hopkins. Harry Steger worked as a journalist both in England and in America. He was also a literary adviser to Doubleday, Page & Co., literary executor of O. Henry, and editor of Short Stories Magazine. When Porter died in 1910, Steger was executor of his estate as well as his literary executor. During research for an O. Henry biography, Steger uncovered an… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 530 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First edition First printing with corresponding number line 1987. Nice tan boards with blue 1/8 spine shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Well kept with slight shelf wear in unread condition. Bumped corner. 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.
Set in London and Cornwall from World War II to the present, Rosamunde Pilcher tells the story of the Keeling family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The family centers around Penelope, and it is her love, courage, and sense of values that determine the course of all their lives,One of Penelope's most treasured possessions is The Shell Seekers, which her father painted and left her as a remembrance and a legacy. It is this painting that symbolizes to Penelope the ties… Read More

Trade Paperback 201 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1998. Attractive 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.
Authors Lyman and Karen Platt, both descendants of Grafton pioneers, have painstakingly researched the extraordinary story of one of the West's most picturesque ghost towns. Set beneath Zio Canyon's towers of stone, the townscape of Grafton has been immortalized in such movie classics as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, yet the true stories of its actual inhabitants are more compelling and heartrending than any dramatic production. In these pages you will learn the names and experience the triumphs and tragedies of the remarkable Mormon settlers and native Piutes who built a community on the banks of the Virgin River

George C. Marshall: Education of a General, 1880-1939 (GCM #1)
By Forrest C. Pogue
Hardcover Cloth 421 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Reprint edition later printing 1986. Attractive cream colored boards with tan buckram 1/8 spine shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well shows some shelf wear; chips, bumped corners, stains to bottom of back cover, stains to front edge. An unclipped dust jacket shows remainders of price tag and the usual shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
One of a series of biographical books on George C. Marshall sponsored by the George C. Marshall Foundation. This volume covers the time from his birth in 1880 thru his training at the Virginia Military Institute and his army career until he was sworn in as a general in 1939. Appendices include bibliography and extensive notes.
Forrest Carlisle Pogue Jr. was an official United… Read More

George C. Marshall: Statesman 1945-1959 (GCM #4)
By Forrest C. Pogue
Hardcover Cloth 603 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Reprint edition 1987. Attractive cream colored boards with tan buckram 1/8 spine shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book shows some shelf wear; chips, bumped corners, stains to covers, stains to bottom edge. An unclipped dust jacket shows remainders of price tag and considerable shelf wear - a tears, scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
In Statesman 1945-1949, the fourth and final volume of the authorized biography of George C. Marshall, Forrest C. Pogue gives us a unique view of the years immediately following World War II and a portrait of a man who, after a distinguished military career, went on to serve his country in even more indispensable ways as a statesman.On November 26, 1945, George C. Marshall retired after six years as U.S. Army Chief of Staff. one day… Read More

George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory 1943-1945 (GCM #3)
By Forrest C. Pogue
Hardcover Cloth 683 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Reprint edition later printing 1986. Attractive cream colored boards with tan buckram 1/8 spine shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book shows some shelf wear; chips, bumped corners, stains to covers. An unclipped dust jacket (featuring amateur repairs with scotch tape) shows remainders of price tag and considerable shelf wear - a tears, scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
From the Casablanca Conference in January 1943 and the Allied decision to sift to the offensive in all theaters of the Second World War, to the surrender of Germany in May 1945 - the span of this enthralling third volume in the official biography of George C. Marshall - the Allies and the Axis troops fought flat out. It was during this period that the indomitable Army Chief of Staff's… 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.

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 276 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition Second printing 1975 with corresponding number line. Handsome black boards and silver embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Foxing on top edge, otherwise 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. Inscribed by author on title page.Laid in photo of author at Jung's Stone in Bollingen."The fascination of Jung is inescapable and van der Post has given us an excellent book--eloquent, learned and most impressive in its evocation of a devilishly provocative man."--The NationThat Laurens van der Post should have chosen to write about Jung will come as no surprise to the millions of people who saw the three television programs that he devoted to the story of Jung's life and work.… 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.

Laminated SPANISH LANGUAGE Hardcover 120 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition. Beautiful illustrated boards 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. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
SPANISH LANGUAGE book. The traditional Mexican cuisine of Oxaca, Puebla and Yucutan is presented with 60 of the most famous recipes. Full color recipes and instructions.