Search Results: Romance from Mary Riversong Books

ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.

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.

Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).

Proulx, Annie. Brokeback Mountain. ISBN . USED. As New BCE, 1997 Scribner NY "In 1963, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre as sheep herders in Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, Jack makes a drunken pass at Ennis that is eventually reciprocated. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart, Alma , and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, the two men keep up their tortured and sporadic affair over the course of 20 years."

Lewis, Sinclair: Dodsworth. Harcourt Brace. Stated 1st Ed. 1st. Impression, March, 1929. Used. VG/ No DJ. A nice, solid copy Plot Summary: "Samuel ('Sam') Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer, who builds his fortunes in fictional Zenith, Winnemac. In addition to his success in the business world, he had also succeeded as a young man in winning the hand of Frances 'Fran' Voelker, a beautiful young socialite..."

Thirkell, Angela: Double Affair. 1957 Hamish Hamilton Ltd. First Edition. Used. VG/ Good Unclipped dust jacket. Original price 15s. Net. Biography. A story of the community of Barsetshire (England) in the 1950's. "A Double Affair opens with the wedding of Vicar Choyce to family retainer Miss Dorothea ('Merry') Merriman. It closes with the double weddings of George Halliday and John Crosse to Jane and Grace Crawley, of suitable age, having suddenly made their appearance. Fortunately the young men promptly and obligingly fall in love. " 303 pages. 5 X 7 ½. .

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Flappers and Philosphers, Undated, circa 1958 Charles Scribner's Revised Edition. 189 pages. Short stories. Fitzgerald's first collection thus. Copyright page States G-5.70[H]. VG/VG Price-clipped original white and green Scribner's dust jacket with gold back panel. Turquoise cloth boards. USED. VG/VG. 5 5/8 X 8 1/4. 189 pages. HARD TO FIND.

MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing 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: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."

GRAND HOTEL BY VICKI BAUM. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Also published in the German language as Menchen Im Hotel. Used. Good Condition. No DJ is included. Bright pages. STATED FIRST EDITION. Copyright page states: "All rights reserved. First published 1930" Geoffrey Bles Publishers, London. Original source material for the famous film of the same name.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson A LADY OF QUALITY. Charles Scribner's copyright 1896. Grosset & Dunlap Universal Jewel Photoplay, Edition, 1924. USED. VG/Good Original RARE Virginia Valli as film character Clorinda Wildairs dust jacket. Protected in a mylar wrap. Green boards, red titling with grey ornamentation. 363 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 ¾. Please excuse our stack of books photos. A Lady Of Quality is the only title available here.

Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.

Smith, Lillian. Strange Fruit. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944 1st. Edition, Stated 13th Printing Thus. BANNED BOOK. USED. VG/Good Unclipped Dust jacket. Author photo back panel. Now protected in a mylar wrap. About this book: Strange Fruit is a 1944 bestselling novel debut by American author Lillian Smith that dealt with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. The title was originally "Jordan is so Chilly", with Smith later changing the title to Strange Fruit.

Williams, Tennessee. SUMMER AND SMOKE. PLAY. DRAMA. New American Library Signet Books Movie Tie-In Edition, First Printing Thus, October, 1961. Movie Tie-In. Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page front cover. Very Good Condition. 127 pages. 7 1/8 X 4 ¼. RARE. Summary: Tragic drama of two-ill starred lovers.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons Revised Edition. Copyright page states 1933, 1934 L-2.67 [Col]. UNDATED, Circa 1958. With $4.50 Unclipped original white black and gold Charles Scribner's unclipped dust jacket. ALSO page count is just 315 pages, shorter than the First Edition. Used. Very Good Condition/ Very Good- Black boards with gilt titling on spine. EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS DUST JACKET. Unable to find any other copies on the net whatsoever. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼.