Search Results: Titles starting with Y from River House Books

Trade Paperback 386 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First English-language edition 2019. 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 - front cover and first 10 pages are wrinkled. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Yakov Vilner (1899-1931) was one of the leading Soviet chess masters in the 1920s. He won the Ukrainian championship three times (1924, 1925 and 1928), the Odessa championship five times (1918, 1923, 1925, 1926 and 1928) and competed in five USSR championships, his highest position being sixth equal in 1924. His attacking, combinational style delivered many memorable games and he regularly played against strong contemporaries such as Bogoljubov, Romanovsky, Bogatyrchuk, Verlinsky and an upcoming teenager called Botvinnik.
Vilner was also a leading chess composer. He won the USSR composition championship for… Read More

Yankee of the Yalu: Philo Norton McGiffin in the Chinese Navy (1885-1895) by Lee McGiffin
Hardcover Cloth 160 pages. Condition Very Good mylar protected Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First edition 1968. Attractive orange 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. Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing and foxing. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Jacket is smooth, clean and brilliant is discolored with age on the spine with the usual shelf wear - a few tears, stains and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
The story of Philo Norton McGiffin, who loved his own country, but fought valiantly for China in the Battle of the Yalu in 1894. A graduate of Annapolis, Philo expected to serve the United States. Congress, however, cut back severely on spending, and many of the June graduates, including Philo Norton, found… Read More

Leatherbound Hardcover 362 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1993. Beautiful illustrated white boards with green 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.
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. The novel is about the coming of age of Jody Baxter, the son of a backwood farming family that is trying to eke a living from a bit of high land in the Florida scrub shortly after the Civil War. The book tells the story of a boy's love for a fawn, a man's love for his son, and the difficult lessons life throws in the path of a boy who lives in a world where he must become a man in order to survive.
American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived in… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 359 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First edition First printing 2023 with corresponding number line. Nice blue boards and silver 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 smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in Wednesday Books marketing letter.
A rom com about trying to have the summer of your life before everything changes - only to realize change might be exactly what you need...When Juniper Nash Abreheart kissed Graham Isham for the first time, she had no idea it would nearly be the end of their friendship.More specifically, she had no idea that the terrible, unforgivable thing she did to keep their summer fling a secret wouldn't just ruin their friendship, but also Graham's entire life. Now, months since the fallout, Junie and Graham… Read More