Military History 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

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

The Land Of Mist. By A. Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes books. First edition of the third novel in the author's Professor Challenger series. 1926 Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., London. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, original publishers cloth. USED. Good- Condition/ No DJ Included. 286 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 5/8. Does not include publishers Spring flyer. Part of… 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

Hilton, James. Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Pocket Books. Softcover. 2nd Printing Thus, March, 1941. Pocket Books #93. Complete text. Used. Good Condition. Summary: "A tender and gentle story that is warming to the heart and nourishing to the spirit." 4 1/4 X 6 1/2. 112 pages plus adverts.

117AldridgeCat Aldridge, Alan. The Ship's Cat Stated First American Edition, 1977, Alfred A. Knopf. Complete title: "THE ADVENTURES AND BRAVE DEEDS OF THE SHIP'S CAT ON THE SPANISH MAINE, Together with the Most Lamentable Losse of the Alcestis and Triumphant Firing of the Port of Chagres". By artist Alan Aldridge and Richard Adams, author of… Read more about this item

Bierce, Ambrose. In The Midst Of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. 1892 Chatto & Windus. London. Printed by Spottiswoode and Co. Used. VG Condition/ No DJ Included. Navy Blue Boards with Gilt titling and blindstamped floral ornamentation at center front panel. Titling on spine is still good. Used. Short stories of the American Civil War. Documentary. War Stories.… Read more about this item

Charles E. Carryl The Admiral's Caravan. Copyright 1892. The Century Company, NY. Grey cloth cover with gold titling and color illustration. Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch. Front free-endpaper is gift inscribed and dated 1899. Listed in Peter Parley to Penrod, page 96. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included if originally issued. RARE. 6 ½ X 8 5/8 140 pages. Plot… Read more about this item

Mata Hari: Courtesan And Spy. 1930, Blue Ribbon Books Photoplay Edition featuring actress Greta Garbo. Coulson, Major Thomas, OBE. BIOGRAPHY. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 312 pages 5 ¾ X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY. Summary "Femme Fatale Mata Hari's True Story Remains a Mystery 100 Years After Her Death. Mata Hari (1876-1917), real name Gertrude Margarete Zelle. Dancer on… Read more about this item

Kipling, Rudyard: Puck Of Pook's Hill. Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co, FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING THUS. STATES OCTOBER, 1906. ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM. Used – VG/ No dj included if originally issued. Gilt topstain. 277 pages, deckle-edge. 5 ½ 8 ¼. Nice First Printing of the First American Edition, published two months prior to the English… Read more about this item

MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary:… Read more about this item

Voyageurs, Robes Noires, et Coureurs de Bois. By C.U. Clark. 1934 1st Edition Columbia University Institute of French Studies, Inc. FRENCH LANGUAGE. Stories from the French Exploration of North America, selected and edited by the venerable and renowned Charles Upson Clark, Ph.D: English title is: Travellers, Black Robes, and Wood-runners. Scarce. HARDCOVER. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included.… Read more about this item

Guedalla, Philip: "Conquistador " 1928 First Edition, Harper & Brothers. New York and London Used. VG/ No DJ included. Attractive red boards with gilt titling on front and spine. 5 7/8 X 8 7/8. 1928 First Edition Impression A-C on copyright page. 276 pages plus adverts.. HISTORICAL FICTION.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. UNCLE BERNAC: A MEMORY OF THE EMPIRE. 1897 Smith, Elder & Co. First Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ included if originally issued. Red boards with gilt titling and ornamentation. Gilting remains in good shape. Front hinge separation. Deckle edge. 300 pages + adverts. 5 1/8 X 7 7/8. Summary: "Looking for… Read more about this item

Rushdie, Salman: 2008, Random House, 1st Printing. The Enchantress Of Florence. Stated First Printing. Number Line Starts with 1. Facsimile Flatsigned author signature appears on front title page. 355 pages plus bibliography. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. As New. WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE. Combines mysticism with historical fiction. By Salman Rushdie, Author of the Satanic Verses. … Read more about this item

ZANE GREY: Desert Of Wheat (1929 G&D Reprint Ed. w/dj) Last title on the back dj panel is Wild Horse Mesa. Copyright 1919 Harper & Brothers. Used. Good-/ Good condition original DJ. Unclipped, unpriced DJ flap states "Popular copyright". Has mylar cover. Please see stock photo. Summary: A tale of the Great Plains of the American… Read more about this item

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest… Read more about this item

Rodney Stone, A Tale of the Napoleonic Wars by Arthur Conan Doyle. First Edition, copyright 1896 and published 1897 by D. Appleton And Company, New York. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. Used. Exlib. GOOD- CONDITION.Red buckram cloth boards. Gilt titling has dimmed. Black & White plates Illustrated by Sidney Paget. Frontis and 11 all additional plates are present, in nice shape,… Read more about this item