Rare books from Mary Riversong Books

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. By Wanda Ga'g. 1938. Coward-McCann, Inc. First Edition, 18th Impression Thus. EXLIB. Good- Condition/ Good- Condition DJ. A clean, solid copy. Summary: "The beloved tale as the Grimm Brothers set it down, accompanied by perfect pictures." Translated and illustrated with woodcuts by author Wanda Ga'g. DJ flaps have been trimmed by library. DJ protected by mylar. (Please see our photos.) Back panel of the green, red and white dust jacket is a book list of Wanda Gag titles.

Three Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Translated and illustrated with woodcuts by Wanda Ga'g, author of "Millions of Cats". 1943 Coward-McCann, Inc. First Edition, Stated Fifth Printing Thus. RARE in the original dust jacket. Exlib. Good+/Good- DJ protected in mylar wrap. Green decorated library binding. A solid, clean copy in a Rare/Scarce original unclipped $2.00 dust jacket. BRIGHT RED jacket is not sunned. The dj spine is missing 1 inch of the top of its spine, otherwise very nice. Back panel states: Books By Wanda Gag list from Millions of Cats through More Tales From Grimm. Coward-McCann, Inc.

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.

Freddy And The Clockwork Twin. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Copyright 1937. A Borzoi Book. Doesn't state 1st. USED. From private owner. Bright Yellow Gibraltar Binding. Good+ Condition/ No DJ included. A clean, bright solid copy.

Maud Humphrey: Treasury of Stories, Jingles, and Rhymes. Frederick A. Stokes, NY. FIRST EDITION. Undated. Circa 1894. Illustrated by renowned American Children's Illustrator Maud Humphrey. Children's Literature. Written by Mary Rice Miller and Elisabeth S. Tucker. SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY. 242 pages. Maroon boards with gold titling and ornamentation. Good condition front paper paste-down label of a little girl wearing a red feather in her blue hat. Please see our photos of our actual item. Used. Good/ No DJ. A solid copy with intact gutters. "Humphrey was one of the first great American women illustrators paving the way for Jessie Willcox Smith, Grace Drayton and the many other women illustrators of the early 20th century during The Golden of Illustration.

By Crockett Johnson. A Picture For Harold's Room, A Purple Crayon Adventure. USED. Harper Crest Library bound but from private owners. First Edition, Harper and Brothers 1960. Used. Good Plus Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Rare/scarce. A nice find!

P.D. Eastman: Are You My Mother? Beginner Books Copyright 1960, Random House First Edition. Little Black, A Pony is latest title listed. Used. VG-/VG- Original unclipped blue dust jacket with 100 word vocabulary emblem and front flap price of 195/195.

The Woman In White (1860 Harper & Brothers First Edition Second Printing Thus. BY WILKIE COLLINS. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, States 1860 on the title page. In-text illustrations by John McLenan. Publisher's dk. brown stamped heavy cardboard boards with H&B cartouche on front and back boards. Ads are 2nd state. Miss Mulock spelled correctly. News lists page is dated August, 1860. Ads list eleven titles, and verso advertising The Mill on the Floss [Gasson p. 160.] Used. Good- Condition: Our copy lacks its spine, otherwise in good condition and a good candidate for rebinding. Chocolate brown endpapers are in good shape. 260 pages. 6 X 9 1/2. Please see our photos.

WILLIAM FAULKNER! Stated Second Issue, 2nd Printing Thus. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Faulkner, William: PYLON. Stated 2nd Issue, 2nd Printing 1935, Smith & Haas, NY. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BLUE DUST JACKET. RARE SASCHA MAURER COVER ART. ART DECO. Used. Very Good-/ Very Good- Blue cloth, \ The second printing (stated). In second issue dust jacket (blank rear panel and flap. Faulkner's tale of the exciting, dangerous, and short-lived, sport of airplane "barnstorming". Set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Original source material for the 1958 film "Tarnished Angels" Starring Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, and Jack Carson and directed by Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987)."

By Marjorie Flack: THE STORY ABOUT PING (1933 Viking Press 1st. Ed. W Junior Viking Coupon). ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. FIRST EDITION 1933 VIKING PRESS. 3 lines of copyright information. HARDCOVER. BACK DJ FLAP INCLUDES JUNIOR VIKING COUPON. Matching blue floating duck back board and dust jacket panels do not bear weekly reader logo. PLEASE SEE OUR PHOTO OF DJ BACK PANEL. Unclipped Front DJ flap priced at $1.00 . QUITE THE FIND. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD CONDITION UNCLIPPED DJ. Unpaginated. 7 X 9 1/4. A CLEAN SOLID COPY.

Franklin W. Dixon: While The Clock Ticked (1932, Grosset & Dunlap Hardy Boys), 1948 Printing Thus. BROWN BOARDS, ORANGE ENDPAPERS. QUITE RARE IN THE ORIGINAL RED DUST JACKET. HARDY BOYS #11. GROSSET & DUNLAP. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD- ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. DESCRIPTION: The book is in an original red kidnap jacket. That jacket is original, has an orange spine. Loss to top and bottom of spine. with a triangular divot out of the letter H in the word the. The front panel of the dust jacket is unclipped and has a 7575 priced front flap. Back flap a blurb for "Touchdown Pass", dating this copy to 1948. Back panel of the dust jacket states ADVENTURE STORIES FOR BOYS BY ZANE GREY. BOOK: Brown boards with two boys in 30's period clothing at center. One wears a hat and scarf. Two sets of orange and white endpapers that show the boy with the hat up a tree with binoculars gazing at a cabin on a bluff across the way. Pages and endpapers are clean and bright. Black topstain. Copyright 1932… Read More

DUST JACKET ONLY. NO BOOK IS INCLUDED The Aesop For Children Rand McNally & Company copyright 1919. MILO WINTER 27 X 11 7/8 Orange/Red First Edition unclipped DUST JACKET ONLY. This dust jacket (fits a volume 9 3/4 X 11 7/8) Original price $2.00. USED. Good condition.

Ten Little Indians Dodd, Mead Greenway Edition, Copyright 1967 by Agatha Christie Mallowan. States: First published in the Greenway Edition in the United States 1978. Number line starts with 2. Used. VERY GOOD/ VG Unclipped original bright orange fish motif dust jacket. ffp $8.95 A nice, crisp copy in a mylar wrap. DJ spine states 24. Our DJ spine is slightly sunned. "Ten Little Indians, aka And Then There Were None and (offensive language alert) Ten Little N*ggers, is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November, 1939 as Ten Little N-ggers, after the children's counting and minstrel song, which serves as a major plot element."

Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Author of the Sherlock Holmes Series. First American Edition. D. Appleton & Co. Copyright 1894. A collection of medical and detective stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective series. VG condition/ no DJ included if originally issued. A square, solid copy with bright pages. A rare find in nice condition like this one. 5 x 7 ¾. 307 pages plus adverts.

Agatha Christie. Evil Under The Sun (A Hercule Poirot Detective Novel). WITH NEW FAX JACKET. Copyright 1940,1941 by Agatha Christie Mallowan. Dodd, Mead First American Edition. USED. Good-Condition. Light Blue cloth cover. Fabric is split at spine. 260 pages. 5 ½ X 8 Inches. "Synopsis. A quiet holiday at a secluded hotel in Devon is all that Hercule Poirot wants, but among his fellow guests is a beautiful and vain woman who, seemingly oblivious to her own husband, revels in the attention of another woman's husband." YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!