Search Results: Authors starting with R from Elk River Books

Kessinger Legacy . Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 170. Undated reproduction of Dodd, Mead & Co. book from 1919. Glossy pictorial cover. Some light corner bumping. No dust jacket.

New Riders, 2010. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo (23 x 23 cm), pp. 210. Signed by author and inscribed to the landscape painter Clyde Aspevig, "Thank you for the inspiration!" Pictorial wraps, includes index and HDR tutorial. Association copy. Color photographs throughout.

Bethesda, MD: The Wildlife Society, 1982. Paperback. Very good. Dean Rocky Barrick. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. 1,328. Unknown edition. Pictorial wraps. Covers have light edge wear, former owner's name on half title page and on text block. Sticker on spine.

Sitka, AK: Comet Publishing, 2012. Paperback. Near fine. Signed and inscribed by author on title page: "For Pat & Vesper - Since you asked, hope you like this book. Ron Rau" Octavo (23 cm), pp. 290. Pictorial wrappers with artwork that matches a photo laid in, of the author embracng a salmon. The back of the photo reads, "Bookmark / 54 lbs dressed caught in Ernest Sound, Southwest Cove in '78 or '79. Hand-trolling a hoochie & flasher. Still the biggest..." Wrappers with slight edgewear.

Columbia, MO: Gaylord Memorial Laboratory -- University of Missouri, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Quarto (27.5 cm), pp. [ii], iii - xxii, [1], 2 - 180. Stiff white wraps with black text and illustration of Canada Geese. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos, maps and charts. Extensive works cited list. Raveling served as Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Biology at the University of California, Davis from 1971-1991. His papers are held at the Special Collections Library at UC Davis. OCLC only lists 5 library copies worldwide, currently no other copies are listed for sale online. Light smudging to wraps, else fine.

Helena, MT: Riverbend, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. 124. Signed by author on title page. Black boards, pictorial jacket. Illustrated throughout with Reece's humorous wildlife art. Includes essays by Montana Quarterly editor Scott McMillion, adventure writer Tim Cahill, and Reece's son Myers.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (24 cm), pp. 259. Signed by author on title page. Black boards with black quarter paper and silver spine titling. Black endpapers. White jacket with photo a a football player's hand. Minor bumping to corners and rubbing to jacket. The first novel by the author of What Salmon Know and Midnight Sun, If I Don't Six examines the seedy underbelly of college football. Reid, who attended the University of Michigan on a football scholarship, wrote truthfully and eloquently about the dark aspects of the game. Currently, he writes and produces for television, notably The Bridge, Hawaii Five-O and Cold Case.

New York: Pocket Books, 1988. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Very good. Signed by author on title page. 12mo (17 cm), pp. 256. Blue illustrated wraps. Minor wear to wraps, else fine. A Montana murder mystery by a former Missoula police detective.

Helena, MT: Farcountry Press, 2008. First edition. Paperback. New. Quarto (11"), pp. 108. Pictoral wraps, signed by author on dedication page. Color photos throughout by Jeff Henry and the staff of the Billings Gazette.

Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 304. Dark gray cloth boards with red spine text. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper: "To my old friend ---, with all good wishes. Dick O'Malley." Bumping to spine edges. Jacket, with original $6.95 price, shows moderate to heavy edge wear, small closed tears and chipping. The classic memoir of growing up in the mining world of Butte, of which publisher Russell Chatham (in his 2004 Clark City Press reprint) wrote, "If you want to read only one book, hoping to finish it with a fairly comprehensive understanding of Butte, Montana, you are holding it now."

Scappoose, OR: Flying Pencil Publications, 1993. Paperback. Fine. Octavo (23cm), pp. 173. Signed by author on full title page. Cover has slight corner wear.

Barcelona: Ediciones Omega, 1986. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 858. Pictorial boards and endpapers, no jacket. Includes more than 3,000 illustrations, 163 in color, along with 98 maps. Former owner's name on bottom edge of text block, stamp stamped on title page. Light edge wear.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (24cm), pp. 312. Tan speckled boards with gilt text on spine and "LB" stamped on front board. Spine slightly cocked, back of dust jacket shows some rubbing.

New York: Review of Reviews Company, 1908-1921. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo (19 cm). Full faux-leather with decorative tooling and gilt embossed titling. Deckle edge. One volume (The Amazing Interlude) with frontispiece portrait of the author with her facsimile signature. Published by arrangement with George H. Doran Company. Two of the volumes with previous owner's name on inside front board. Bumping to corners, light foxing and edge wear.The unnumbered volumes include: The Circular Staircase (1908), The Man in Lower Ten (1909), When a Man Marries (1909), Bab, a Sub-Deb (1917), The Amazing Interlude (1918), Dangerous Days (1919), Love Stories (1919), Affinities (1920), A Poor Wise Man (1920), More Tish and 23 1/2 Hours Leave (1921), Sight Unseen and The Confession (1921). "Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the 'American Agatha Christie,' although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel.… Read More

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisana State University Press, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 201. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page: "To ____, With great thanks for a most memorable day at a most memorable place, Yellowstone. I hope we see you soon again, in Montana or Santa Barbara. David W. Rintels Sept. 2011." Pictorial wraps, black and white photos throughout. Wraps have light edge wear.

Berne: Herbert Lang & Co., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 12mo (18 cm), pp. 148, [3] figures. Blue cloth, gilt titling, pictorial jacket with blue dove/ocean motif. Contributors include Thor Heyerdahl, Arthur Miller and Rene Dupuy, among others. Boards and jacket have edge wear, with the latter showing small chips and tears, top edge of text block is darkened with smudges, former owner's name on free front endpaper.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 262. Navy blue boards, pictorial jacket. Includes bibliography and index. Jacket with a little bit of dampstaining, boards with slight edge wear. Address for the former governor of Montana written on the free rear endpaper.

Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 135. Brown cloth with gilt and silver titling. Includes three maps, notes, selected bibliography and index. Boards have slight wear at corners, head and tail of spine. No jacket.

New York: Pantheon, 1968. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Small octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 240. Red cloth with silver and gilt spine titling and author's initials on front board. Blue jacket with $5.95 original price. Translated from the French by Michael Perl. "A brilliant analysis of an enduring conflict written, for once, with concern for the Arab point of view." Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Minor bumping to spine ends and creasing to jacket flap, else fine.

Santiago de Chile: best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise, 2010. Paperback. Fine. Quarto (29.5 cm), pp. 305. Pictorial wrappers, richly illustated with notes, references and indices. Gift inscription to actor and social justice activist Margot Kidder. Printed for the bicentennial of the Chilean Republic.