Search Results: Titles starting with W from Riverwood's Books

The Winnipeg Art Gallery. Very Good+. 1978. First Edition. Softcover. 0889150672 . Very scarce title. Clean, tight condition, only light wear overall. Library binding with sturdy laminated cover and usual ex-lib type markings. Pages are clean & tight, light glue residue inside rear cover. Cover has light wear to laminate edges and a little spotting to outer edge of pages. A collection of photographs originally displayed at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1978. Includes portraits of Ivan Eyre, Joe Fafard, and Paul Hiebert, as well as many non-artists. [545]; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Australia: University of Queensland Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 070221566X . Hardcover & jacket very good, ex-library with usual stamps & stickers, DJ attached to book. Very light wear/scuffing to DJ, light soiling/library markings outer edge of pages, back pocket. Interior pages clean & tight, couple earmarks. 238 pages. SUMMARY: This is a brilliant & moving novel of village life during the struggle for independence in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and in the ensuing years of political and social disruption. It is a panoramic novel, portraying the life of Kalutantirige Surabiel, the eldest son of a typical tea-estate, up-country village family...Photo available. (*shipping will be reduced to some locations); 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Abacus. Very Good+. 1987. Softcover. 0349135975 . Very nice, tight copy. Laminated cover, light wear to corners/spine ends, a little soiling outer edge of pages. Internal pages clean & tight other than small stamp on endpage. " Walker combines the recent academic analyses of the Soviet Union with sharp journalistic pictures of what motivates everyone from army generals to black market criminals. A convincing and raedable account of Gorbachev's desire for reform and the massive potential of the Soviet Union to improve the quality of life of its citizens. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Macmillan. Very Good. 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Macmillan 1962 printing, 12mo (7" tall) paperback. Light edgewear, light creasing, light soiling, small rough area on top edge. Interior pages clean & unmarked. 320 pages. "This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. " (180-noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

DAW. Very Good+. 1976. First Edition. Softcover. 0879972734 . Very nice. Interior pages clean, tight and unmarked, light age tanning. Cover has very light edge & corner wear. "....the time had come when one of the sky walkers was going to do the incredible - fall through. And when that happened, all hell was going to break loose. And did! " ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; (*shipping will be reduced after checkout) [122-osl] .

Ontario: Ecw Press. Very Good+. 1994. First Edition. Softcover. 1550222090 . Clean, tight condition, only light wear overall. Ex-library with sturdy laminated cover and usual type markings. Interior unmarked, slight soiling to outer edges. From the third volume of George Woodcock's autobiography: “Like many people who grew old and have not cast off from the past, I feel the urgency that makes me want to write even of the recent past before it is too late, and also, to see at times my life in panoramic recession. For I realize now, looking back over my eight completed decades, that from the days I left school in 1929 up to 1977, I was involved in institutions, or something very like institutions, and depended on them largely for my living. I began with the eleven years working for the Great Western Railway. When I left that in 1949, I involved myself for almost a decade in the anarchist movement, which, though apparently lightly structured and voluntary in its operations, in fact… Read More

Berkley Books. New. 2002. First Edition. Softcover. 0425186113 . New book - has small remainder mark across spine end bottom. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Reviews: Someday we will return to a place of unfathomable beauty, where we live amongst all the beings we have ever loved, promises George Anderson author of Walking in the Garden of Souls. "It is a place we will see again only after our lifetime of struggle, hardship and hurt has earned us the reward of true and final peace. " Our task is not to simply muddle through, waiting for our ticket to Eden, cautions Anderson. Rather, we must set out to create "a Garden on earth while we are here, " meaning we must cultivate the same life we yearn for in the hereafter.... (400noto) .

Ontario: Paideia Press. Very Good. 1981. First Edition. Softcover. 0888157886 . Very good condition. Cover has light edge wear, light scuffing and two light creases on front. Pages are clean and intact, fairly heavy age tanning to pages and inside covers. B/w illus. Saved by Hassewiets and nursed back to health at the mission, Wambu learns more about Jesus. But the mystersy and magic of the old witchcraft die hard in the boy's heart. Wambu feels caught between the compassion of the new religion and the tyranny of the old. In the meantime, a language barrier keeps him from explaining about the captives back in Kitoe. Playing on Wambu's lingering superstition and fear, some distant relative cannibals try to force Wambu to guide an attack on the mission. Just in time he escapes to help frustrate the assault. At last he can ask for help for the captive children. A small but well-armed police squad makes a lighning dash to Kitoe, with Wambu as guide. (os149) ; 8vo 8" - 9"… Read More

Ballantine Books. Good. 1964. First Edition. Softcover. Ballantine 1964 paperback. Moderate wear to cover edges, light creasing on front, some spotting on outer page edges. Pages clean with fairly heavy age tanning to pages and inside covers, last couple pages have a light stain along edge. 318 pages." It began so quietly that nobody except a few frightened scientists even suspected what might be happening....Then suddenly one day it was there....a phenomenon which reduced this planet to the size of an anthill pushed out of the way by a bulldozer. Men called it the Wanderer." (130-osl) ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .

Jove. Very Good+. 1994. First Edition. Softcover. 0515114472 . Very nice condition, clean and unmarked, age tanning inside covers. Cover has light edge/corner wear, no creases. ; Movie Tie-in; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 1 pages; A Southern family comes of age in the wake of the Vietnam War and their soldier father's absence, and come to terms with the changes in him and in themselves upon his return. Movie tie-in. (115-osl) .

Pyramid Books. Very Good+. 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Pages are clean & tight, age tanning to edges. Cover has light edge & corner wear, tiny tear upper spine. The guts and glory of the brave men who fought the silent war in the depths of the sea. [ 95-osl]; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Thomas Dunne Books. Fine. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. 031231633X . Excellent condition, clean and unmarked, light corner wear, a little scuffing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Review: " British journalist Anton La Guardia, diplomatic editor for the Daily Telegraph and for eight years its Middle East correspondent, offers an informed and objective history of the Middle East battles in War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land. Tracing the Zionist movement back to its 19th-century roots, as well as the birth of national identity of the Palestinians among whom the Zionists settled, La Guardia offers general readers a balanced background to what many fear may well be a war without end. " [545] .

Atheneum. Good in Good dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0689117566 . Atheneum 1987, first edition. Book itself is actually in very good condition, however there is a large amount of yellow highlighting within the book. Pages are otherwise clean . First blank endpage has been clipped at top, I assume to remove personal info. Jacket has been lined and laminated front and back making it very sturdy. Whoever did this trimmed the jacket edge in a wavy pattern so the lining can be seen top and bottom, and then laminated over top of this. Overall wear is fairly light. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 260 pages; "Wareham ( Secrets of a Corporate Headhunter ) believes that by better understanding various "business personalities" executive recruiters will be less likely to make errors in hiring. Here he identifies 20 common business personality types and describes their backgrounds, emotional traits, and management styles. His writing style is succinct and often humorous and… Read More

Ballantine Books. Very Good+. 1979. Softcover. 0345278364 . Very light edge & corner wear, creasing to one back corner, light soiling inside front cover. Interior pages unmarked. 158 pages. "Graveyard of Faith: Far to the north, in the frozen wastes of Polar Mars, lay the home of the Holy therns, sacred and inviolate. Only John Carter dared to go there to find his lost Dejah Thoris. But between him and his goal lay the bones of all who had gone before. " (*shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Ballantine Books. Near Fine. 1979. Thirteenth Printing. Softcover. 0345278364 . Slight corner wear, slight crease along one side of spine, very slight edgewear. Interior pages unmarked. 158 pages. "Graveyard of Faith: Far to the north, in the frozen wastes of Polar Mars, lay the home of the Holy therns, sacred and inviolate. Only John Carter dared to go there to find his lost Dejah Thoris. But between him and his goal lay the bones of all who had gone before. " (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations). ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Penguin Books. Fair. 1988. Softcover. 0140123407 . Pages are clean however the first section of book has a stain (watermark? ) & light wrinkling which affects upper corner of first section of pages. Pages are otherwise unmarked. Cover has moderately heavy edge/corner wear, creasing & one edge tear to front. [235os]; 8vo .

Vintage Crime / Black Lizard. New. 2004. First Edition. Softcover. 140003048X . New book, no markings - light creases to one upper corner of cover. ; 8vo; Review: "Dan Fesperson's captivating third novel, The Warlord's Son, begins cinematically with a dusty sunrise in Peshawar, Pakistan, the clamorous calls of competing muezzins, and the buzz of a scooter. In a classic premise worthy of John Le Carre, an aging American war correspondent named Skelly has been sent on what he fears will be--one way or another--his final assignment: the war zone of Afghanistan during the American bombings after 9/11...." (400-noto) .

Puffin Books. Good. 1995. First Edition. Softcover. 0140379568 . Cover has moderate edge and corner wear, small tear spine bottom, some creasing. Interior of book clean other than a couple teddy bear stamps, some paper peeling and tape residue inside back cover. When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street-smart chameleon, a runaway boy, and all the magical powers of the animal world to return to "the warm place" that is home. (os) ; 8vo .

ALLEN LANE. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 0713996994 . Hardcover is clean and intact, no markings. Wear is minimal other than one very bottom edge has some roughness and minor paper loss and minor edge bumping. Jacket has light edge crinkling, one small edge tear and a couple tiny edge tears, price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 512 pages; The universe has its secrets. It may even hide extra dimensions, different from anything ever imagined. A whole raft of remarkable concepts now rides atop the scientific firmament, including parallel universes, warped geometry, and threedimensional sink-holes. We understand far more about the world than we did just a few short years ago -- and yet we are more uncertain about the true nature of the universe than ever before. Have we reached a point of scientific discovery so advanced that the laws of physics as we know them are simply not sufficient? Will we all soon have to accept explanations that… Read More

Warrior Publishing. New. 1995. First Edition. Softcover. 0963344501 . New book, no markings. From the Rear Cover: "The Great Spirit has anointed me for bind up the brokenhearted. I am a warrior of the Spirit. I did not write this book to please Metaphysicians, nor born-again Christians. ; I wrote it to free those that are imprisoned in the jail of the physical senses....This is a book about healing. I have searched for healing for myself for most of my life. I wish to share my experiences with you. Perhaps my story will produce a shift of consciousness for you; and you can learn to heal yourself and others. " (350os) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .