Search Results: Titles starting with H from River House Books

Trade Paperback 258 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated first edition First printing 2008 with corresponding number line. Nice 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. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Until the age of nine, Samuel Harcorne Jr. lived with his family on the edge of Indian Country in Arkansas and northern Texas. In a time when Indian raids are commonplace, Sam sets out to go West and commences a life-changing journey into the world of the Quahada Comanche.
With a quiet confidence empowering him to deaql with whatever life hands him, Sam adjusts to his adoption by White Rump, a great Quahada warrior. Within a few years, Sam, now known as Sun Hawk, can no more identify with the white settlers - or his birth parents - than his adoptive family can. And now Sun Hawk sees the white man as an enemy to be vanquished.

Hardcover Cloth 254 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated limited edition 1986. Handsome black embossed boards and black 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. Black endpapers and sewn in ribbon. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.
A book paying homage to the designs of Philip J. Handel, whose vision for The Handel Company of Meriden, Connecticut, was to combine individual craftsmanship with creative accomplishment.
"Handel Lamps Painted Shades and Glassware" is a comprehensive guide to the artistic creations of the Handel Company, particularly focusing on their painted lamp shades and glassware.
The book provides a detailed exploration into the exquisite world of Handel lamps, renowned… Read More

Harcourt Three Volume Set (Main Street / Babbit / Arrowsmith)
by Sinclair Lewis
Three Volumes Hardcover Cloth 438, 340 & 428 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch Reprint editions 1948, 1950 & 1953. Handsome dark blue boards with red and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Books Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Red endpapers. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.
"Main Street" portrays the clash between small-town tradition and modernity through the experiences of Carol Kennicott, a woman seeking cultural enlightenment in Gopher Prairie.
"Babbitt" satirizes the conformist and materialistic values of the American middle class, focusing on the life of George F. Babbitt, a successful real estate broker in Zenith.
"Arrowsmith" follows the journey of… Read More

Trade Paperback with glued binding 126 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1994. 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; back cover has a stain. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Teen cyclist dreams to compete in long distance race. Prepares physically and mentally as a pro. Although not given a real position, he races alongside the entrants. Gets press coverage. Grueling physical and emotional strain. Learns making dreams come true carries responsibilities, and although he dropped out he did his best.

Harry Potter 8 Volume HARDCOVER Set (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince / Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows / Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)By J.K. Rowling
Seven mixed volumes Hardcover Cloth 309, 341, 435, 734, 870, 652, 759 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jackets Very Good. Scholastic Press editions 1997, 1999, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007. All stated First American Editions later printings. Lovely quilted pattern boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Vol 2, 6 have embossed seal on front endsheet and/or title page. Books Well kept with slight shelf wear. Unclipped dust jackets are smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles. Vols 1, 5, 6 have clipped dust jackets. Volume 2 Good Condtion with Good… Read More

Leatherbound Hardcover 245 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1993. Handsome brown boards with brown leather 1/8 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. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in four page brochure
O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter. This is a collection of his short stories. O. Henry was known for his clever use of wordplay, ironic twists, and memorable characters, and "Heart of the West" is a compilation of his Western-themed stories. These stories often incorporate humor, wit, and a touch of sentimentality, making them distinctive within the genre.
The stories in "Heart of the West" typically revolve around characters living in the American West during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. O. Henry's stories often focus on the lives… 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

Paperback 16 pages, staple bound brochure. Approx. Size: 8 1/4 x 11 inches. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition First printing 1968. Beautiful blue and white wraps show off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Hemisfair 1968 United States Pavilion brochure. Features multi-colored printing and attractive images of the Confluence building.United States Confluence Theater, was part of the two-building Federal Exhibit at HemisFair '68. It was a 70-foot high structure which housed a one-of-a-kind theater and the largest curvilinear motion picture screen in the world. In it, fairgoers were shown the Francis Thompson film, "Confluence, U.S.A."

Hardcover Cloth Vol 4 published 1950 1000 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. First edition BOMC printing from The Riverside Press. Beautiful clean, tight, square copy with no marks or highlights. Slight shelf wear with minor signs of wear and/or age. Spine is not sunned, stained or frayed. BOMC dot on right corner of back covers. Unclipped dust jacket with the usual fading, scuffs, tears and chips. Protected by a mylar cover. Not an ex-library or remainder copy. Are you collecting Churchill? Then check the UK first edition copy of this set in my store. 'The Second World War' is one of my best selling titles, for a reason! It's a superbly written, carefully researched set with deep insights into the conduct of WW2. The definitive, Nobel Prize–winning history of World War II, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literatureSeldom, if ever, has history endowed a statesman with both singular ability to make history, and singular ability to… 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.

History of the United States Naval Operations in World War 2 (15 Volume Set)
by Samuel Eliot Morison
Fifteen Volumes Hardcover Cloth. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Mixed set of reprint editions see below for dates. Handsome blue boards and gilt embossing on this tight and sound set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Faded blue topstains. Previous owner's address stamp on title pages. Books Well kept with Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with signs of wear and/or age. Some bumped corners, stains on boards and stains to edges. Some endpaper pages have stains - possibly paste marks. Books have a musty odor. Dust jackets are discolored with age and have the usual shelf wear - tears, scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Some dust jackets mended on back side with tape or have tape stains. Some dust jackets clipped (Volumes 3 & 10). Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.
A good… Read More

Volume Four - The Great Democracies - 403 pages - 1958 - VERY GOOD - DJ VERY GOODFirst edition. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Book is clean and tight with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Volume has grey boards and black spine with red text blocks, gold embossing. Colophon with "W". BOMC dot on right corner of back cover. Minor signs of wear and/or age. An unclipped dust jacket faded on the spine. A few wrinkles, small tears and chips - the usual shelf wear. Protected by a mylar cover. Not an ex-library or remainder copy. This is volume four of the work for which Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.Volume Four: The Great Democracies describes how the defeat of Napoleon established England as the unrivaled master of a large part of the world. Insights to the growth of the Empire following Napoleon's death and the end of the Boer War, influence of America's Civil War.

Volume Four - The Great Democracies - 403 pages - 1958 - VERY GOOD - DJ VERY GOODFirst edition. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Book is clean, tight and square with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Volume has grey boards and black spine with red text blocks, gold embossing. Colophon with "W". BOMC dot on right corner of back cover. Minor signs of wear and/or age. An unclipped dust jacket clean, smooth and brilliant with A few wrinkles, small tears and chips - the usual shelf wear. Protected by mylar cover. Not an ex-library or remainder copy.This is volume four of the work for which Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.Volume Four:- The Great Democracies. The fourth of Churchill's grandly ambitious four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples begins with the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars-and ends with the Boer War of 1902. In it, Churchill makes an impassioned argument for the crucial role played by the English-speaking people in exporting not just economic… Read More

Staple bound paper covers 117 pages. No colophon in this book. Presumed First edition c1996. Striking 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. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Illustrated history of aviation and the air bases in the San Antonio area.

The History of US Electronic Warfare: Volume 1: The Years of Innovation - Beginnings to 1946
By Alfred Price
Hardcover Cloth 312 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Stated First edition First printing 1984. Attractive blue 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. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could afford to lose. The result was a continual series of thrusts, parries and counter-thrusts, as first one side then the other sought to wrest the initiative in the struggle to control the other.
This was a battle fought with strange-sounding weapons: 'Freya', 'Mandrel', 'Boozer' and 'Window'. It was a battle characterised by the bravery, self-sacrifice and… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 578 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1896. Beautiful blue boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Dedication to previous owner on front endsheet. 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. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.This is a fascinating and heavy book about the city of Chester from the perspective of a historian living in the 19th Century. A comprehensive historical guide to the English city of Chester, with plans and illustrations.

Hardcover Cloth 780 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket Slipcase Very Good. Heritage Press Reprint edition 1952. Beautiful faux marbled boards with tan 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. Slipcase smooth with the usual shelf wear - a few scrapes, stains and scratches. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

Laid in Sandglass Number IX:30

Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel and is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book "Great Novelists and Their Novels" among the ten best novels of the world.

A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 304 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1860. Worn red boards and gold embossing on this tight copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's names written on endpapers and interior page. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Some shelf wear - stains, rubs and bumped corners. Edges and pages have the usual yellowing. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
"The History of Madame Roland" is a historical biography, part of Abbott's "Rollo Books" series, a set of historical biographies aimed at young readers. Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. The book covers the life of Madame Roland, whose birth name was Marie-Jeanne Phlippon. She was a French writer and political figure during the French Revolution, and is known for her role in the Girondist movement. The book covers… 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

Faux Leather bound Hardcover 287 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1985. Attractive green boards with leather 1/8 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. Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
"The House of the Seven Gables" is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1851. It is a Gothic novel set in New England, and it explores themes of guilt, redemption, fate, and the impact of the past on the present. The story is known for its intricate and mysterious atmosphere, as well as its exploration of the darker aspects of human nature.
The plot revolves around the Pyncheon family, who live in a gloomy and old mansion known as the House of the Seven Gables. The house itself is a central character in the story, representing the family's history, secrets, and the… Read More