20th Century Literature from Mary Riversong Books

Hugh Wiley. Manchu Blood. Copyright 1927 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York and London. First and Second Printings Before Publication. A tale of Chinatown. USED. GOOD CONDITION/NO DJ INCLUDED. Publishers graphic design denim Blue boards are sunned. Titles have faded out on black cloth spine. 306 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. RARE. A Detective novel By Hugh Wiley,… Read more about this item

854WigginChickens Kate Douglas Wiggin Mother Carey's Chickens. Summary "The book tells the story of a poor-but-happy family of four children who, in spite of being fatherless, make the lives of others better. Their home life becomes complicated when Julia, a snobbish cousin, comes to live with them. The Carey children suffer many disappointments (Gilbert must forgo college, for example), but… Read more about this item

Gene Stratton-Porter Keeper of the Bees. Grosset & Dunlap Reprint Edition. Copyright 1925 by Gene Stratton-Porter, Inc., Copyright 1925 by the McCall Company. Printed in the United States of America by arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Inc. USED. VG/Good price-clipped original publisher's dust jacket. Summary: "Set in the author's adopted home of California in the 1920s, this is Gene Stratton-Porter's… Read more about this item

By Marianna and Mercer Mayer. Me and My Flying Machine. Copyright 1971 , Parent's Magazine Press. NY. USED. VG CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Unpaginated. 7 ¼ X 9 ¼.

Juliana Horatia Ewing. FIRST EDITION. The Brownies, Charles Scribner's Sons Copyright 1946, Impression A. Please see stock photo. Illustrated by Katherine Milhous, author and illustrator of "the Egg Tree" RARE GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA. USED. VG CONDITION/ No DJ included. Summary: The Brownie story has been told and written in many different ways by Brownie leaders both here (in… Read more about this item

Franklin W. Dixon. While The Clock Ticked (Hardy Boys Book 11) Copyright 1932. Grosset & Dunlap. Beige Boards, brown multi-page image endpapers indicating published 1959 to 1961. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Summary: Plot Summary: " A banker named Raymond Dalrymple of Lakeside gets death threats and shows up at the Hardy house, seeking Fenton Hardy's assistance. Frank and… Read more about this item

Michael Cunningham. The Hours. Biography of Virginia Woolf. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. Stated First Edition, 1998, FSG, NY. VG/VG Unclipped dust jacket. ISBN0374172897. 229 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½.

Rev. W. Awdry Choo-Choo, Peek-A-boo (Peek-a-Board Books(TM)). A Thomas the Tank Engine Peek-A-Board Book. Based on the railway series by The. Rev. W. Awdry. Illustrated by Owain Bell. 1992 Random House. Used. Good Condition. Unpaginated. 6 ¼ X 9. ISBN0679822623

Jonathan Katz. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. 1976 First Edition, 1st Printing Thus. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. 690 pages, indexed. 6 7/8 X 10. USED. Softcover. Original cover price $9.95. Good Condition. Cover is sunned, otherwise VG.

299AlbeePenguin Edward Albee; Jack Richardson; Murray Schisgal; Arthur Miller. New American Drama: 'The American Dream', 'Gallows Humour', 'The Typists', 'Incident at Vichy' (Penguin Plays – PL66). SCARCE. Penguin, London, 1966. USED. SOFTCOVER. VG CONDITION. 203 pages. 4 ½ X 7 1/8.

297AwdryCastle Awdry, W. Rev; Stubbs, Tommy. Thomas and the Castle (Thomas and Friends) 2004, Random House, New York. Random House Books for Young Readers. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING THUS. Illustrated by Tommy Stubbs. Large Format. Unpaginated. 8 ¾ X 11 ¼. Plum cloth spine. VG Condition/ No Dust jacket included. Summary: "Percy has been telling ghost stories about Rolf's… Read more about this item

223A KeeneMap Carolyn Keene.The Quest of the Missing Map (Nancy Drew Book 19), 1942 Grosset & Dunlap 1st Edition. No other printings or titles listed on the copyright page. Used. VG/ No DJ included. Illustrated by Russell H. Tandy. Blue boards with orange titling and orange and white magnifying glass endpapers. Orange topstain. A nice copy. 213 pages plus adverts.… Read more about this item

133MillsSocio Professor C. Wright Mills. The Sociological Imagination. 1970, Pelican Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England. Social Sciences, Anthropology. Used. Softcover. VG Condition. 256 pages, Indexed. 4 3/8 X 7 1/8. "The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise".

Golos, Veronica. POETRY. VOCABULARY OF SILENCE. SIGNED, INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Red Hen Press. Winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award. About the author: Veronica Golos is founding co-editor of the Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, former poetry editor for the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and core faculty at Tupelo Press's Writers Conferences. USED. VG Condition.… Read more about this item

799BlumeGod Blume, Judy. Are you There, God? It's Me, Margaret. 2014, Atheneum Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9781481413978. 5 3/4 X 8 5/8. USED. NEAR FINE CONDITION/NEAR FINE UNCLIPPED DJ. 169 pages. A BANNED BOOK. Summary: Deals with the role of religion in suburban United States in the mid-20th Century, and with puberty. The protagonist is an 11 year old… Read more about this item

Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Copyright 1925, Harcourt, Brace And Company, Inc. Stated Second Printing [First Trade Edition] January, 1925. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ included. 1926 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. 448 Pages 5 X 7 5/8. SUMMARY: A novel treating on medical research and epidemiology.

Hirschi, Ron. Swimming With Humuhumu, A Young Snorkler's Guide To Hawaiian Sea Life. Copyright 2004, Island Heritage Publishing, Waipahu. Hawaii. First Edition, Stated 6th Printing Thus, 2010. FINE CONDITION. Illustrated by Tammy Yee. Oblong binding. HARD TO FIND. 11 1/4 X 8 3/4.

Von Boehn, Max. Dolls. 1972 Dover Publications 1st Edition. Translated by Josephine Nicoll. 227 illustrations. Used. Softcover. Good Condition. $3.00 original cover price. DOLLS, TOYS, HISTORY. Unabridged rebublication of the first portion of Dolls and Puppets, originally published as a separate book in German. 15 plates and 262 textual illustrations. 288 pages. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.

T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.

Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival. 1945, Harper & Brothers. First Edition, $4.50 dust jacket thus. Book and jacket Illustrated by the author.HUMOR. AMERICANA. Used VG/Good+ original unclipped dust jacket. Hard to find in a nice jacket like this. Grey boards with yellow spine. Pink/white/green DJ. Jacket states No. 9078A. 369 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 3/4.