Search Results: American History from Mary Riversong Books

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade. By Patrick Dennis. Vanguard Press 1959 First Edition, Stated Third Printing Thus. "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Used. VG/VG Unclipped $3.50 ORIGINAL DJ is now protected in a mylar wrap. Former owner names on front free endpaper. One of the funniest books ever written, this story was also a made into a play, a film, and a musical with the incomparable Rosalind Russell and Lucille Ball. Rare/quite scarce in a nice dj. Please see our photos. 280 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8.

209LewisBabbittRed Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. Copyright 1922. No other info appears on the copyright page. Harcourt Brace, NY. This is an undated Harbrace reissue edition, circa 1936 Printed from First Edition second issue plates with the correction of "Lyte" for "Purdy" on p. 49, line 4. USED. VG/Good-. Dark red boards and original maroon dust. Quite rare thus. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. 401 pages.

BABBITT. BY SINCLAIR LEWIS. Used. No Dust Jacket is included if issued. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ No DJ Included. Harcourt, Brace & Company First Edition, Stated Fourth Printing Thus, November, 1922. Please see our photos. .5 1/8 X7 1/2. 401 pages plus adverts.

Mulford,Clarence Edward: Bar-20, 1907 First Edition, The Outing Publishing Company, New York. Title page states MCMVII. HOPALONG CASSIDY #1. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and F.E. Schoonover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Red boards with Large gilt titles. Black titling on spine. Hinges cracked. N.C. Wyeth Illustration at center front shows Hopalong "Hoppy" Cassidy sitting on a barn wall. Plot summary: "In Bar-20, the first Hopalong Cassidy novel by Clarence E. Mulford, Cassidy could fan a gun like a Billy the Kid... Six rounds in three seconds was his slowest time. No one in the state of Texas could beat him. Until he met Slim Travennes, head of the Sandy Creek Vigilante Committee. Slim was snake-fast. No man could go up against him and live. No man. Hoppy could stand or die. He had no other choice. None at all".

172ScottReporter Scott, Jane: Barbara Owen: Girl Reporter. 1956, Avalon Books First Edition. WOMEN IN JOURNALISM. EXLIB. Good/Good original price-clipped blue dust jacket. 5 ¼ X 8 224 pages. A nice find. RARE.

THE BEAUTIES OF WASHINGTON IRVING. ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM TEGG, LONDON, 1866. 4 X 5/58. 373 5/8. pages, plus adverts. USED. Good condition. All gilting still visible on titling on spine. Foxed on a a few pages.

Theodore G. Vincent. Black Power and the Garvey Movement. BLACK HISTORY. GARVEYISM. 1971, Ramparts Press, Palo Alto, Ca. 299 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8. $24.95. USED. SOFTCOVER. VG CONDITION.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By The Shores Of Silver Lake,1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams Little House on the Prairie series. Used. VG-/G- unclipped $2.95 dust jacket. 1 inch loss at top of dj spine. The family moves from Minnesota and Laura and Mary take a thrilling train ride during which an attempted payroll robbery takes place.

Battaglia, Aurelius. Captain Kangaroo Storybook. Random House 1963. Used. VG/ No DJ as issued. LARGE FORMAT. 9 ½ X 13. HARD TO FIND. A clean, solid copy.

Cash: The Autobiography. By 20th Century American Singer, Composer Johnny Cash. 1997, Harper San Francisco Stated First Impression Thus. Number line begins with 1. By "The Man In Black", American country music legend Johnny Cash, and co-author Patrick Carr. Used. Very Good/ Good original dust jacket. A hard to find item.. Please See stock photo.

Jeffers, Robinson Cawdor and other poems. Copyright 1928 Horace Liveright, New York. Stated Second Printing Thus December, 1928. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Purple boards with black leather spine. Gilt titling and cartouche of nude at center on front panel is still in very nice shape but stamped titling is no longer visible on the black leather spine. Gift inscription by someone other than the author on the front endpaper makes mention of "the Crows Nest" and has dated his entry 1930. 160 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8.

QUITE RARE. A Child's Garden Of Verses (1888 Charles Scribner's Sons 1st American Edition) USED. Good+ /No dust jacket included. Leatherbound edition. Please see our photos. Title page states 1888. Former owner bookplate on inside front endpaper. We consider offers

Beebe, Lucius. Comstock Commotion: The Story of The Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News. Copyright 1954, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. Used. VG Condition/ No DJ included. A nice copy. USED. 129 pages 6 ¼ X 9 5/8. California Gold Rush, Mining, Comstock Lode, Virginia City Nevada. Journalism. History of California. 19th Century.

Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country Of the Pointed Firs .Franklin Watts, ca 1986, A Keith Jennison Book. Large-Print Edition. RARE/SCARCE. EXLIB. VG Condition/ VG clear plastic dj. 8 ¾ x 11 3/8. 247 pages. Please see stock photo. Our copy is not stamped discard on the front cover and includes the RARE original white and green dust jacket for this edition. "A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England Character."

By Lawrence A. Frost. The Custer Album. BIOGRAPHY. Used - Very Good: Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing Co, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD CONDITION DJ. "A pictorial biography of George Custer - man or legend . . . hero or fool, George Armstrong Custer from boyhood to his last battlefield are all here in pictures." First edition. 192 pages, indexed. 8 3/8 X 10 ¾

WestcottHarum E. N. Westcott's Famous Novel DAVID HARUM: A Story of American Life. Used. Copyright 1898 D. Appleton, Copyright 1926 Phillip N. Wescott. 1934 Grosset & Dunlap Photoplay Edition. VG/VG Rare Original Fox Film Will Rogers Dust Jacket. 351 pages plus adverts. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. Blue boards with black titling. Photographic still endpapers are intact at the hinge. Please excuse our batch of books photo. The Westcott book is the only one we are selling here.

Bonney, Jo. 2000 First Edition, Theater Communications Group. EXTREME EXPOSURE, AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE TEXTS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. EXLIB. Softcover. 424 pages. 6 X 9. Good Condition/ None issued. Monologues, American; American Drama; 20th Century; Performance Art; United States. ISBN1559361557.

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.

Devol, George H. Forty Years A Gambler On The Mississippi. 1926 Henry Holt First Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. 5 1/4 X 7 5/8 288 Pages. Red boards with playing card emblem at center front. Spine states "Of The Mississippi" in error. Summary: In his "Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi" Devol recounts dozens of anecdotes of how he plied his Three-Card Monte and sharp dealing skills to cheat the cheaters and/or suckers on steamboats and in river towns over more than four decades in the mid-nineteenth century American South" Please see our stock photos.

Gene Stratton-Porter Freckles. Copyright 1904, by Doubleday, Page & Company. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York. G&D reprint edition. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Green boards. 427 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾.