Recent Arrivals from Mary Riversong Books

1951, F.A. THORPE, ARTISAN HOUSE, ANSTEY, LEICESTERSHIRE.THIS LARGE PRINT EDITION HAS BEEN PUBLISHED BY KIND PERMISSION OF GEOFFREY BLES, LONDON. EXLIB. GOOD CONDITION /VERY GOOD ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PROTECTED BY MYLAR WRAP. Please see stock photo. Our jacket is VG with no library stickers on it. "This cleverly constructed story presents the neatest imaginable puzzle in detection". RARE/SCARCE.

EXLIB. ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOK. NURSERY RHYMES. STATED FIRST EDITION THUS IN AN ORIGINAL, UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. Original cover price $7.95. COMPILED AND ILLUSTRATED BY WALLACE TRIPP. Summary: "What has brilliant colors, ninety-six leaves and hundreds of rib-ticklers? This book!!! Here you will find many favorite verses as well as less familiar ones to delight you." A clean, solid copy. Will… Read more

EXLIB. RARE/SCARCE. First published in French, by Editions Fleuris, Paris, 1987 under title "Kitou Scrogneuneu". Text and pictures copyright Atomium Books 1990. Printed and bound in Belgium by Color Print Graphix. English Translation by Kathy O'Donnell and Serge Ryer. STATED FIRST US EDITION. 2 4 6 8 1 0 9 7 5 3 1. Oblong format. Summary: Hobee, a… Read more

RARE SIGNED STATED FIRST EDITION: Gaddis, Thomas E.: Birdman Of Alcatraz, The Story of Robert Stroud .1955 Random House 1st. Ed. w/Dj. Photo of jacket is a stock photo. Ours is in nicer shape. True crime, Ornithology. Stated First Printing Thus in an original HARVEY GABOR White/black jail bars/ bird inset exlib dust jacket protected by a mylar wrap. … Read more

RARE. Used. Not an exlib item. VG-/New Facsimile DJ. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? 1960, Rinehart, Inc. Has Circled "R" on copyright page which indicates First Printing Thus. Pages are toning as is typical of this edition. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR BLOCKBUSTER 1962 BETTE DAVIS/ JOAN CRAWFORD HORROR/THRILLER FILM OF THE SAME NAME, DIRECTED BY ROBERT ALDRICH Summary:… Read more

EXLIB. RARE/SCARCE. LARGE PRINT EDITION. "This special large print edition is made and printed in England for F.A. Thorpe, Ulverscroft, Leicestershire." Originally published by Dodd, Mead. FIRST EDITION THUS. MISS MARPLE. Please see our accompanying stock photo which depicts a different title from this series but shows the same style binding. AGATHA CHRISTIE. 4.50 FROM PADDINGTON, AKA "WHAT MRS.… Read more

SCARCE. Please see our stock photo. EXLIB. ADULT CONTENT. "In Cold Blood" A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences. By author Truman Capote & CO-AUTHORED BY HARPER LEE, AUTHOR OF "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" Good condition/ Good- original dust jacket. A good reading copy. Book is protected in mylar wrap. Please Note: Front flap of dj… Read more

USED. VERY GOOD- CONDITION/ VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. The beloved children's story of how a little toy rabbit became a real animal through the love of a child. Delightful. SCARCE IN A NICE JACKET. A nice find for Christmas.

USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION, NEARLY AS NEW. BIOGRAPHY. HISTORY OF ENGLAND. "After the mutiny aboard the Bounty, Captain William Blight and few loyal crewman crossed most of the Pacific in an open boat, an epic feat in any age. Author JohnToohey brings this tragic, doomed man and his desperate voyage vividly to life in this fascinating new book."

USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ. 1943 LITTLE, BROWN FIRST EDITION. Please see our stock photos. Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand's North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel. It was a horrible death -- Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to… Read more

USED. CHILDREN'S BOOK. ILLUSTRATED BY NORMAN POMERANTZ. RARE ORIGINAL, PRICE-CLIPPED YELLOW FLYING SWAN DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. SORRY, NO DJ PHOTO SHOWN. SHORT STORIES. PLEASE SEE OUR STOCK PHOTOS. SIGNED BY AUTHOR BELLE MCFALL BARNETT. 21 fairyland fantasy stories are included here.

HISTORY OF ALASKA. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.

Please see our stock photos. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Spine is tanned. Summary: Laughing Boy is a 1929 novel by Oliver La Farge about the struggles of the Navajo in Southwestern United States to reconcile their culture with that of the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930. It was adapted as a film of… Read more

USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. QUITE A NICE FIND.

Used. Good Condition/ No Dust jacket. Not an exlib item. A nice clean copy. See stock photo. Summary: "The Berenstain Bears discover the true meaning of Christmas in this delightful tale. SCARCE.

ILLUSTRATED. EXLIB. Warner Books 1988 Stated First Printing Thus, November, 1988. Written by 20th Century Black-American tennis great, Arthur Ashe, Jr. HISTORY OF BLACK SPORT IN AMERICA. Used. Good Condition/ Good condition original unclipped black silver and gold $29.95 original dust jacket. 194 pages, indexed. A nice copy. Has the usual library markings. We ship from Oregon

THE WITH-DRAWING ROOM, A MYSTERY BY FAMED CANADIAN AUTHOR CHARLOTTE MACLEOD. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1980.Used. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. First or early printing thus. Good Condition/ Includes good condition unclipped $8.95 dust jacket. Features young Sarah Kelling. Will ship from United States.

WRACK AND RUNE - A PETER SHANDY MYSTERY BY FAMED CANADIAN AUTHOR CHARLOTTE MACLEOD. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1982. Used First printing SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author on title page.. Good Condition/ Good condition unclipped Dust Jacket, $10.95 original price. Will ship from United States.

SOMETHING THE CAT DRAGGED IN - A PETER SHANDY MYSTERY BY FAMED CANADIAN AUTHOR CHARLOTTE MACLEOD. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1983. Used First printing. Flat-signed by author on card affixed to title page. Dark-grey textured paper boards with light-grey imprinting on spine Price intact: $11.95. Good Condition/ Includes good condition unclipped $11.95 Blue and white… Read more

Publisher: New York Harper and Row 1972. Used. Good/Good unclipped original dust jacket. Original cover price $5.95. Jacket shows some wear. 8vo, publisher's original quarter gray cloth over boards in the dust jacket. 64 pp. Description: "These poems were all written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life and are part of the batch from which the… Read more