Search Results: Titles starting with U from River House Books

US Army Psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare (Textbooks of Military Medicine)
by Norman M Camp M.D.
Laminated Hardcover 558 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 2015. Handsome laminated black boards and white lettring 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 and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.
During Vietnam War (1965-1973), the US Army suffered a severe breakdown in soldier morale and discipline in Vietnam -- matters that are not only at the heart of military leadership, but also ones that overlap with the mission of Army psychiatry. The psychosocial strain on deployed soldiers and their leaders in Vietnam, especially during the second half… Read More

Trade Paperback 815 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reprint edition 2002. Attractive illustrated wraps on this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored. Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series."The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space."The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat."Life, the Universe and Everything"The unhappy inhabitants… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 472 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Stated First American edition First printing 1980 with corresponding number line. Nice pale green boards with green and silver embossing shows off this tight copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Orange topstain. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with the considerable shelf wear - tears, stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Fold out map of The West of Middle Earth at the back endpapers.Classic hardback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, featuring Tolkien's own painting of the dragon Glaurung on the cover, which continues the tales of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin.Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and… Read More

United States Destroyer Operations in World War 2
by Theodore Roscoe
Hardcover Cloth 581 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition third printing 1960. Striking cream buckram boards with blue blocking and blue 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. Edges have the usual yellowing and a few marks. An unclipped dust jacket smooth and clean with shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Oversized edition is heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.
A detailed account of the operations of U.S. destroyers in the Second World War, prepared from personal narratives and official records.
Theodore Roscoe (1906–1992) was an American biographer and writer of adventure, fantasy novels and stories. Roscoe's stories appeared in pulp magazines including Argosy, Wings, Flying… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 228 pages. Book Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Stated First edition Second printing 1945. Nice tan colored boards with green embossing shows off the Willie and Joe characters on this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks or highlights. Previous owner's name written on inside endpaper. Book has Slight shelf wear with the usual yellowing to edges and pages. Remains of the original dust jacket included in a plastic bag. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Classic book by the 23-year-old Maudlin of WWII cartoons that meant so much to GIs. Mauldin won a Pulitzer Prize for his wartime body of work. The first civilian compilation of his work, Up Front, a collection of his cartoons interwoven with his observations of war, topped the best-seller list in 1945.
During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors,… Read More