Search Results: Titles starting with E from River House Books

Early Texas Oil: A Photographic History, 1866-1936 (The Montague History of Oil Series, No. 1)
by Walter Rundell Jr.
Hardcover Cloth 260 pages with Three hundred twenty-eight photographs. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Stated first edition 1977. Handsome black boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept with the usual shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with minor signs of wear and/or age. An unclipped dust jacket is discolored with age with the considerable shelf wear - tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
A captivating glimpse into the transformative impact of oil on Texas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
At the turn of the century, oil revolutionized the Texas economy, leaving indelible marks on the state's landscape and society. In this volume, Rundell presents an eyewitness record through 328 contemporary photographs of… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 370 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1999. Handsome black boards 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. 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.
The biographies of Texas' 19th Century medical doctors reveal much more than medical history; they chronicle the lives of men whose influence in Texas extended far beyond their medical practices. Here, in Early Texas Physicians are the biographies of nineteen men who played vital roles not only in the medical health of Texans but in the political and social development of the state. Following an informative introductory essay on the practice of medicine among the thinly scattered, agrarian and rural populations of frontier Texas, seventeen of Texas'… Read More

Trade Paperback 243 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reprint edition 2015. Striking 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 - bubbles on cover where plastic has delaminated. Also a few scrapes and scratches. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
The Battle of the Alamo represented for Mexico an inconsequential victory in the war against the rebellious settlers who sought the independence of Texas. For the United States, it is the cornerstone that would give new meaning to its concept of nation and the empire it would become. What really happened? Why does an unimportant battle concentrate the black heart of the American empire?
Paco Ignacio Taibo II meticulously reconstructs the facts and tells us how they lied, deceived, heroics were fabricated and weaknesses were omitted in pursuit of the legend. The Alamo aims to open the door to… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 456 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition later printing 2013 with corresponding number line. Beautiful white boards with black 1/8 spine and gilt embossing on 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.
When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 342 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 1992 with corresponding number line. Attractive teal boards with grey buckram 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. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few stains and wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
The final instalment of James Herriot's (Alfred Wight's) All Creatures Great and Small series, Every Living Thing is indeed a grand farewell for and to the author's veterinarian memoirs, not only revisiting the familiar but also introducing novel characters and scenarios.
Laughter and tears, joy and heartbreak, entertainment and thought-provoking authorial musings on life, on animals, on humanity in general, Every Living Thing is a lovely, but also somewhat saddening and sobering conclusion… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 342 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 1992 with corresponding number line. Attractive teal boards with grey buckram 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. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few stains and wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
The final instalment of James Herriot's (Alfred Wight's) All Creatures Great and Small series, Every Living Thing is indeed a grand farewell for and to the author's veterinarian memoirs, not only revisiting the familiar but also introducing novel characters and scenarios.
Laughter and tears, joy and heartbreak, entertainment and thought-provoking authorial musings on life, on animals, on humanity in general, Every Living Thing is a lovely, but also somewhat saddening and sobering conclusion… Read More

Stapled wraps 18 unnumbered pages. Condition Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1927. Stained wraps on this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Illustrated pamphlet devoted to the sculptures in the competition for a monument to THE PIONEER WOMAN to be erected on the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.