Fiction from Mary Riversong Books

H. Rider Haggard. Colonel Quaritch, V.E. Longmans, Green And Co. In 1 Volume. States New Edition , 1896, on the title page. USED. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Brown boards, silver titling. Titling is still bright. Plot summary: "After leaving active service, a decorated battlefield officer, Colonel Quaritch, VE. moves back to his ancestral village of Honham, where he… Read more about this item

794HaggardBeatrice H. Rider Haggard. Beatrice. Longmans, Green, And. Co., London. States New Edition, 1896 on the title page. A romance set in Wales. USED. Very Good Condition/ No DJ included. 312 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 3/8. Brown boards, silver titling. Titling is still bright.

Verne, Jules MICHAEL STROGOFF, THE COURIER OF THE CZAR. No info on copyright page. Grosset & Dunlap 1936 Universal-Film de France Photoplay Edition. USED. VG/AAcceptable Original charging charioteer dust jacket. Front panel and spine of jacket have some loss. Please see our photos. Apple green boards with orange titles box. Film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. Now protected by a… Read more about this item

Steig, William. 1990 Stated First Edition, Farrar, Straux Giroux. QUITE RARE IN A STATED FIRST. Used. VERY GOOD- CONDITION/ NONE AS ISSUED. Top of boards a bit sunned, priced accordingly. ISBN 0374368775. Swamp creatures back panel. Unpaginated. 8 5/8 X 10 7/8. Summary: Original source material for the beloved film of the same name. Summary: "Shrek, a horrid, ugly, little… 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.

Elliott, W. Gerald Treasure On The Broads. Herbert Jenkins, London Stated First Printing 1933. Signed and inscribed by British screenwriter Dorothy Greenhill, a co-writer of Mr. Elliott's who formerly owned the book. RARE THUS. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. Orange boards with black titling. 5 X 7 1/2. 312 pages plus adverts. Summary: A mystery story about an… Read more about this item

Bonnet, Theodore. The Mudlark. Copyright 1949. Doubleday, NY First American Edition. States 1949 on the title page. VG/Good original DJ. A clean, solid copy in a nice illustrated Ken Riley dust jacket. Price-clipped. 305 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of a surprise visit to Windsor Castle which changed the destiny of Victoria's Empire. A delightful, tongue-in-cheek… Read more about this item

Wallace, Lew. Ben-Hur, A Tale of the Christ. Copyright 1880 Harper & Brothers First Edition. Dark olive faux pebbled Ostrich with gilt titling. Used. Good- condition/ No Dust jacket included if issued. Please see stock photo. Ours has some shelf-wear at corners. RARE. Summary: "The novel intertwines the life of Jesus with that of a fictional protagonist, the young Jewish… Read more about this item

Wilde, Oscar. The Selfish Giant. 1984 First Edition, 4th Impression Thus. Neugebaur Press Publishing, London. ISBN0907234305. Fine/VG DJ. Written by Oscar Wilde. Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger. Gold emblem on the front cover states "Lisbeth Zwerger Lifetime Achievement Award." Printed in Italy.Large Format. 8 1/2 X 11 1/2. Unpaginate Summary: The message of the story is co-existence… Read more about this item

Lenski, Lois. Strawberry Girl. Copyright 1945, by Lois Lenski. Stated 15th Printing Thus. Published by J.B. Lippincott. Illustrated by the author. EXLIB. VG Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Green boards. Gold titling and ornamentation. Green and red strawberry motif endpapers. 194 pages. 6 5/8 X 8 3/4. CHILDRENS BOOK. Summary: "Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them.… Read more about this item

Keene, Carolyn. The Mystery Of The Tolling Bell. 1946 Grosset & Dunlap 1st Edition. No other printings or titles listed. on copyright page. Nancy Drew #23. *Used. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Illustrated by Russell H. Tandy. Blue boards with orange title and orange and white magnifying glass endpapers. Orange topstain. Former owner name on front endpaper. Orange topstain.… Read more about this item

Dr. Suess. THE CAT IN THE HAT COMES BACK. 1958 Random House Beginner Books Stated First Printing. Snowball 1st Printing front cover. Spine states Beginner Books, Inc. "What are Beginner Books" black board motif back cover. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ included. Front cover has a couple of light boxcutter scratches on the front cover. Please see stock photo.… Read more about this item

Deeping, Warwick. Old Pybus. Copyright page states: First Published September, 1928. Cassell And Company, Ltd., London. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ Included. Rare blue marbled faux leather boards w/ gilt titling on spine. 5 X 7 3/4. 424 pages. Made and Printed in Great Britain by Greycain Book Manufacturing, Watford. Summary: "A bookshop owner in London becomes estranged… Read more about this item

0084LewisBabbittBlue BABBITT. BY SINCLAIR LEWIS. Used. No Dust Jacket is included if issued. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ No DJ Included. Harcourt, Brace & Company First Edition, Stated Fourth Printing Thus, November, 1922. Please see our photos. .5 1/8 X7 1/2. 401 pages plus adverts.

Bemelmans, Ludwig.. Madeline's Rescue. Viking Press, New York. Copyright 1951, 1953 by Ludwig Bemelmans. SCARCE. Stated First Edition, 1953. Awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1954. USED. VG/ No DJ included. A very nice clean copy. Folio size. Grey tweed boards with red titling and ornamentation. Please see stock photos. Summary: " A brave dog saves Madeline from drowning and comes… Read more about this item

Shutterbug/Snugg & Shoe Fly Flu (A Topsy-Turvy Book) Written By Stephen Cosgrove, author of The popular Serendipity Series. Illustrated by Charles Reasoner. 1988 H.S. Stuttman Inc., Westport, Conn. To Read Aloud. VERBALIZATION. PRONUNCIATION. READING COMPREHENSION. SKILLS, CHILD EDUCATION. HARD TO FIND HARDCOVER EDITION IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. NO DJ INCLUDED AS ISSUED. Oblong Binding. 8 3/8 X… Read more about this item

209LewisBabbittRed Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. Copyright 1922. No other info appears on the copyright page. Harcourt Brace, NY. This is an undated Harbrace reprint edition, circa 1938 Printed from First Edition second issue plates with the correction of "Lyte" for "Purdy" on p. 49, line 4. USED. VG/Good-. Dark red boards and original maroon dust. Quite rare thus.… Read more about this item

Frank Norris. Blix, Copyright 1899, Doubleday & McClure Co. Published 1901 by International Association of Newspapers and Authors. McTeague, another title by this author, is misspelled as McTague on the title page. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. Blue boards with red heart wallpaper design. Former owner signature on front free endpaper. Plot summary: A… Read more about this item

Eliot,T.S. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. 25th Printing Thus. Copyright renewed 1967. ISBN0151686572. . USED. VG/VG unclipped $8.95 DJ. 46 pages 6 ½ X 8 7/8. About the author: "Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central… Read more about this item

Walker, Alice: The Temple Of My Familiar. 1990 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. By Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple". Cover design by Lambert Davis. ISBN 0896219291. USED. VG CONDITION/ No DJ if Issued. 594 pages. Summary: "A romance of the last 500,000 years which spans continents as well as centuries." 5 ¾ X 9 ¾. A square,… Read more about this item