Americana from Mary Riversong Books

Frank Norris. Blix, Copyright 1899, Doubleday & McClure Co. Published 1901 by International Association of Newspapers and Authors. McTeague, another title by this author, is misspelled as McTague on the title page. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. Blue boards with red heart wallpaper design. Former owner signature on front free endpaper. Plot summary: A… Read more about this item

Walker, Alice: The Temple Of My Familiar. 1990 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. By Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple". Cover design by Lambert Davis. ISBN 0896219291. USED. VG CONDITION/ No DJ if Issued. 594 pages. Summary: "A romance of the last 500,000 years which spans continents as well as centuries." 5 ¾ X 9 ¾. A square,… Read more about this item

Wilder, Laura Ingalls: On the Banks of Plum Creek. 1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform edition. ILLUSTRATED BYGARTH WILLIAMS. Used. VG-/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. Hardcover. Apple Green Boards. Little House on the Prairie series The book tells about the family's move to Plum Creek, Laura's first time going to school, and grasshoppers that eat… Read more about this item

Laura Ingalls. The Little House On The Prairie. 1953 Harper & Brothers First Uniform Edition. Hardcover. Pink boards. Used. VG Condition/ No DJ Included. Pictures by Garth Williams. Little House Series. This story is about the months the Ingalls spent on the Kansas prairie around the town of Independence. 335 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 ¼. Please see stock photo… Read more about this item

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.

Prelutsky, Jack: Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! 1998 Alfred A. Knopf Stated First Edition, 1st Impression Thus. Full number line. A Borzoi Book. EXLIB. VG/VG. "Started by Dr. Seuss, finished by Jack Prelutsky, and illustrated by Lane Smith, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! is a joyous ode to individuality starring unsinkable teacher Miss Bonkers and the quirky Diffendoofer School of Flobbertown." A… Read more about this item

Palmer, Liza. Captain Marvel: Higher, Further, Faster. Marvel Press, February, 2019. STATED FIRST EDITION. Used. AS NEW CONDITION. SCIENCE FICTION. NOVEL. ISBN 9781368047807. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 249 pages. Summary: Student pilot Carol Danvers' life and times at The United States Air Force Academy.

Big Bird At The Beach, Sesame Street Mini-Story Books. 1989, Random House/ Children's Television Workshop. Original price $1.50. By Deborah Hautzig. Softcover. Stapled binding. 5 ½ X 5. Illustrated by Carol Nicklaus. RARE. ISBN 0679801596. USED. Good+. A nice clean copy. Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets.

Berendt, John: Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil. ISBN0679429220. 1994, Random House, NY. USED. AS NEW CONDITION. Number Line 135796420. 5 7/8 X 9 5/8. "Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the mister, early hours of may 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-Defense?" Original story the film of the same name was based upon.

Battaglia, Aurelius. Captain Kangaroo Storybook Random House 1963. Used. VG/ No DJ as issued. LARGE FORMAT. 9 ½ X 13. $44.95. HARD TO FIND. A clean, solid copy.

Plath, Sylvia: 1971 First United States Edition, Harper & Row. THE BELL JAR. BY POET SYLVIA PLATH. States impression 71 72 73 10 9 8 7 6 on page 296. 296 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 3/8. Purple Boards, mauve topstain, purple end-papers. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. VERY GOOD ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED $6.95 BLACK DUST JACKET. States SBN 06-013356-2 on… Read more about this item

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's. Douglas, Ann. Farrer First Noonday Press Edition, 1996. Softcover. Used. 6 1/8 X 9 1/8 606 pages, indexed. Summary: "Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan In The 1920's" is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a… Read more about this item

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 about this item

Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

Pauli, Hertha: Her Name Was Sojourner Truth. 1962 Stated First Edition Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. Used. HARD TO FIND. A Biography of Sojourner Truth. Civil War Era. About Ms. Truth: "Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to… Read more about this item

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. All The President's Men Hardcover, ISBN 9780671217815 Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1974. Used – Very Good/ Good Condition Nixon DJ : New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. A nice book club edition. 6 3/8 X 9 1/2. 349 pages, indexed. JOURNALISM, LAW, AMERICAN HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SCANDAL

McCloskey, Robert: MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS Publisher: The Viking Press, copyright 1941. Stated Fifth Printing Thus, May, 1944. Letterpress text and drawings in lithographic crayon on zinc, printed throughout in brown with title page lettered in green, pictorial endpapers. Beige cloth, lettered and pictorially stamped in green. Dust-jacket printed in green and brown, $2.00 price flap unclipped. Two green… Read more about this item

MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Edition 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:… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item