Victorian Literature from Mary Riversong Books

Beatrix Potter. The World of Peter Rabbit & Friends Complete Story Collection. ISBN 0723245827. Copyright 1999 Frederick Warne & Co., London. 1st Impression Thus. Full Number Line. USED. VG/VG. 5 ¼ X 6 ¼. 270 pages.

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

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."

James, Henry, Jr.: Washington Square. Copyright 1922, Harper & Brothers reprint edition. (This story was also produced as a film called "the Heiress". Washington Square is a novel written in 1880 by Henry James about a father's attempts to thwart a romance between his naive daughter and the man he believes wishes to marry her for her money.… 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

Andersen, Hans Christian; Brothers Grimm. Andersen's Fairy Tales / Grimms' Fairy Tales (Companion Library)Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1963. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Two titles in one book. No Dust Jacket. illustrated hardback 311pp and 247pp. Illustrations by Leonard R Vosburgh and Adele Werber. Penmark, The Brothers 044Grimm, History of Germany, German Folklore, Fantasy, illustrated,… Read more

Through the Magic Door . An essay about exploring books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Creator of The Sherlock Holmes Series. His subject is the charisma and charm of books. Creative visualization. Doyle invites readers to enjoy the greatest minds of all times through what they have left behind and argues that, when we read, the selfishness and hopelessness of… Read more

Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's… Read more

Smith, Jessie Willcox: The Little Mother Goose (1918 Dodd, Mead & Company Stated 2nd Edition) Children's book. Nursery Tales. ILLUSTRATED BY JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH. Used. VG/ No DJ if issued. Black cloth. Gold Titling on spine is somewhat dimmed. Front Pastedown is complete and in nice condition. Twelve color plates (including frontis) . Oblong 8vo; 176 p..… Read more

The King of the Golden River, A Legend of Stiria. Publisher: Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900. Original copyright 1841. BOUND IN SUEDE LEATHER. Used - RARE. Very Good. 8vo. (22 cm.) [6]1-75[5]p. Frontispiece black and white potrait of John Ruskin. Decorated title page and decorated initial letters by Samuel Warner. Colophon reads, printed in red, as follows: SO HERE… Read more

Law West Of The Pecos: The Story of Judge Roy Bean. Text of the original manuscript. Copyright 1936,1967 Sixth Printing Thus, The Naylor Company, San Antonio. Texas. Used. Very Good/ Good unclipped original dust jacket. $2.00 price on front flap. A History of Texas. Summary: Biography. "Here for the first time all the Roy Bean stories, in addition… Read more

Nullification and Secession in the United States. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. By Edward Payson Powell. Uncommon/ rare in this 1897 FIRST EDITION+, AND IN THIS TITLE IN GENERAL. TRUE FIRST EDITION. Please see our photos. USED. VG-/ No Dust Jacket included if issued. Brown cloth boards with bright gilt titling and ornamentation. No topstain.… Read more

Used. Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child's Garden of Verses, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 1905, Charles Scribner's Sons impression BB2C-1.58[H] Used. VG/Good price-clipped original purple dust jacket. RARE THUS. a gift presentation copy. Has a purple cloth ribbon laid in. This ribbon may be original to the edition, but I don't have that information. Condition: Other than a gift label… Read more

The Woman In White (1860 Harper & Brothers 1st Edition) BY WILKIE COLLINS. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860.[2], 260, [4, ads] pp. Publisher's brown stamped heavy cardboard boards with elaborate blind stamped Harper and Brothers cartouche on front and back boards. Ads state B. Miss Mulock spelled correctly. Used. Good- Condition. Our copy lacks it's spine. Some… Read more

Stendhal: The Chartreuse of Parma. Translated from the French by The Lady Mary Loyd. Published by D. Appleton & Co., NY. 1901 First Edition, 1st Printing Thus. States 1 on the last page. Black cloth boards. Paper title label is present on spine but has darkened over time. Used. Good condition/ No DJ is included. A clean, solid copy. Green… Read more

The Woman in White. By Wilkie Collins. Published by A.L. Burt. Home Library Edition. Undated, circa 1940. Maroon cloth boards with gold gilt topstain. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice vintage copy.

THE FROZEN DEEP by Wilkie Collins, AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN WHITE" AND "THE MOONSTONE". PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM F. GILL AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1874, 1ST AMERICAN EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED FREDERICKS. USED. GOOD CONDITION. ANTIQUARIAN. 5 x 7 3/4. 237 pages. Green cloth boards with Black and gold gilt titling and ornamentation that remains fairly bright. a couple of loose… Read more

Three Partners or, The Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill. Houghton Mifflin First Edition, 1897. By Bret Harte. Used. VG/No DJ. Green boards with gilt titling and ornamentation to spine. A bright, solid copy. Gutters are intact.

H. RIDER HAGGARD: Moon of Israel, A Tale of the Exodus. Longmans, Green and Co., Copyright 1918. States 1920 on the title page. March 1920 Third Printing Thus. 1920 Used. Good- condition/ no DJ. States 1920 on title page. Blindstamped red cloth boards. Titling still visible on spine. Colour frontispiece of Merapi at a chariot. Gutter… Read more

Mr. Munchausen .Used. Noyes, Platt & Company, Boston, 1901 First Edition. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL, . artist/author of the "Hole Book" series. Used. Very Good / No DJ if originally issued. Front cover illustration in good shape. All colour plates present and affixed to the binding. No dust jacket is included if issued. Tight binding, gutters intact. Pages are fairly… Read more