History from Mary Riversong Books

215DoyleWorks A. Conan Doyle. Collected Works of A. Conan Doyle, One Volume Edition. 1920, Walter J. Black. SHERLOCK HOLMES. USED. VG Condition/ No DJ as issued. 1020 pages. Rare in nice condition like this one. 5 ¾ X 8 3/8.

Laura Ingalls. The Little House On The Prairie. 1953 Harper & Brothers First Uniform Edition. Hardcover. Pink boards. Used. VG Condition/ No DJ Included. Pictures by Garth Williams. Little House Series. This story is about the months the Ingalls spent on the Kansas prairie around the town of Independence. 335 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 ¼. Please see stock photo… Read more

Shapiro, Harry L. The Pitcairn Islanders (aka The Heritage of the Bounty) Simon And Schuster, First Clarion Printing Thus, 1968. USED. Good condition. Softcover. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY. POLYNESIA, SOUTH SEAS, TAHITI. "An account of the colony which the nine mutineers of the H.M.S. Bounty founded on Pitcairn Island in 1790. Provides an in-depth analysis of culture contact between the English… Read more

167MarshTitanic Marsh, Ed W. James Cameron's Titanic. Stated First HarperPerennial Edition, 1st Printing thus, 1997. AS NEW. SOFTCOVER. ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS. Please see our stock photo. ISBN0060953241. Large format. 4to., 178 pages. An inside look at the making of the blockbuster film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Scarce. $41.95. Domestic US sales only, please.

Evans-Wentz, W.Y.: The Tibetan Book of the Dead (The Bardo Thodol). ISBN0195002237. RELIGION. PHILOSOPHY. Copyright 1960. Galaxy Books, Oxford University Press, NY. 3rd Edition Thus, 1981. Softcover. 249 pages. 5 ¼ X 8. "A breviary, as well as a guide to living and dying well. Unique among the sacred books of the world." USED VG.

T.S.Eliot Collected Poems 1909-1962. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970, Stated 13th Printing Thus. VG/ Good- unclipped DJ. Dark brown DJ. Original cover price $9.95. 221 pages. 6 3/8 X 9 ½. Includes The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock. About the author: "Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th… Read more

Shake Hands With The Devil. 1934, Literary Guild. Conner Rearden. Used. VG/No DJ. Shamrock Green boards with large gold gilt titling on front panel and spine. Titling remains bright and complete. INCLUDES THE RARE PROMOTIONAL FLYER BY CARL VAN DOREN, ISSUED WITH THE BOOK UPON PUBLICATION. A novel about the "Irish Rebellion", or "Easter Rising" of 1916. The Easter Rising (Irish:… Read more

129BonnettMudlark Bonnet, Theodore. The Mudlark. Copyright 1949. 1950 Doubleday, NY First American Edition. Used. Gift Inscribed. VG/VG-. 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 story."

Battaglia, Aurelius. Captain Kangaroo Storybook Random House 1963. Used. VG/ No DJ as issued. LARGE FORMAT. 9 ½ X 13. $44.95. HARD TO FIND. A clean, solid copy.

McDaniel, Ruel : Vinegarroon: The Saga of Judge Roy Bean. 1936 First Edition, Southern Publishers, Kingsport, Tenn. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Biography of Judge Roy Bean, The Law West Of the Pecos". 143 pages. A clean, solid copy. AMERICAN WEST. TRUE CRIME, JUSTICE, LAW, VIGILANTE. COWBOYS, CATTLEMEN. BIOGRAPHY. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright page states 1933, 1934. UNDATED, Circa 1951. Used. Very Good Condition/ Very Good- $4.50 Unclipped original white black and gold Charles Scribner's Dust Jacket. 315 pages. Revised edition? Black boards with gilt titling on spine. EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS DUST JACKET. Unable to find any other copies… Read more

Koegler,Horst: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet. Copyright 1977. Oxford University Press. Stated First Edition. EXLIB. VG/VG price-clipped DJ. 583 pages, indexed. A straight, clean copy. No exterior stamping appears. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Contains more than 5,000 entries covering every aspect of ballet during he past four centuries. HISTORY OF BALLET. PERFORMING ARTS, THEATRES, COMPOSERS. ISBN 0193113147.

Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

Pauli, Hertha: Her Name Was Sojourner Truth. 1962 Stated First Edition Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. Used. HARD TO FIND. A Biography of Sojourner Truth. Civil War Era. About Ms. Truth: "Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to… Read more

Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn Copyright 1936, states 1937 on the title page. Doubleday Doran & Co. QUITE RARE. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at… Read more

Micah Clarke. RARE. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Harper & Brothers First American Edition, Copyright 1894. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. A square, solid copy. Bright pages. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial cloth, engraved frontispiece. In good condition. Gilted front cover and spine ornamentation are still in nice shape. Former owner signature on front free endpaper dates our copy… Read more

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. All The President's Men Hardcover, ISBN 9780671217815 Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1974. Used – Very Good/ Good Condition Nixon DJ : New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. A nice book club edition. 6 3/8 X 9 1/2. 349 pages, indexed. JOURNALISM, LAW, AMERICAN HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SCANDAL

Up The Years From Bloomsbury. By George Arliss. 1927, Blue Ribbon Books Edition AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ Included. Used. 5 6/8 X 8 ½. 321 pages, indexed. Please see stock photo. Our copy has a dime-sized water spot on the front cover. ABOUT THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP, or Bloomsbury Set: a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists… Read more

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By The Shores Of Silver Lake,1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams Little House on the Prairie series. Used. VG-/G- unclipped $2.95 dust jacket. 1 inch loss at top of dj spine. The family moves from Minnesota and Laura and Mary take a thrilling train ride during which an attempted payroll robbery takes… Read more

Mulford,Clarence Edward: Bar-20, 1907 First Edition, The Outing Publishing Company, New York. Title page states MCMVII. HOPALONG CASSIDY #1. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and F.E. Schoonover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Red boards with Large gilt titles. Black titling on spine. Hinges cracked. N.C. Wyeth Illustration at center front shows Hopalong "Hoppy" Cassidy sitting… Read more