Search Results: Banned Books from Mary Riversong Books

Blume, Judy. Are you There, God? It's Me, Margaret. 2014, Atheneum Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9781481413978. 5 3/4 X 8 5/8. USED. NEAR FINE CONDITION/NEAR FINE UNCLIPPED DJ. 169 pages. A BANNED BOOK. Summary: Deals with the role of religion in suburban United States in the mid-20th Century, and with puberty. The protagonist is an 11 year old girl.

By Oscar Wilde. Ballad of Reading Gaol (The Golden Books) Barse & Hopkins NY. Undated, circa 1910. POETRY. RARE EDITION with printed dedication related to the prison period in Wilde's biography - "In Memoriam C.T.W. Sometime trooper of the royal horse guards OBIIT H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire, July 7, 1896". USED. Good condition/ no DJ if issued. Gray paper boards with gold titling and ornamentation as shown in this stock photo. 4 ¼ X 7. 30 deckle-edge pages. Ships from United States.

Pilkey, Dav CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS AND THE BIG-BAD BATTLE OF THE BIONIC BOOGER BOY PARTS 1 AND 2. (Captain Underpants Epic Novel #6) Scholastic 2003. FEATURING FLIP-O-RAMA. Softcover. ISBN 9780439376105, ISBN 9780439376129. Publisher: Scholastic, Incorporated, 2003. Used. Part I: Captain Underpants and Big Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy: "George and Harold are in a sticky situation! Their latest prank has snotty school brainiac Melvin Sneedly seeing red, and he can't wait to get them back. Part 2. Will George and Harold dream up a way to save the world from (even more) boogers or whatever other disgusting stuff they can dream up?" BANNED BOOKS.

Caldwell, Erskine. A BANNED BOOK. GOD'S LITTLE ACRE. Copyright 1933, #51 Viking Press Modern Library Edition. Used. Very Good/ Very Good UNCLIPPED Original publisher's $1.65 Dust jacket. RARE THUS. Summary: a 20th century American story about a disfunctional farming family in Georgia, obsessed with sex and wealth. Controversial sexual themes caused this book to be banned in New York and Boston. Our copy does not include the Greenspan Judgement statement on obscenity. 5 X 7 1/4. 303 pages plus adverts. This book was made into a film by the same name in 1958 starring Robert Ryan.

The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds: The Secret Homosexual Life of a Leading Nineteenth-Century Man of Letters. Stated First Edition. 1984, Random House, New York. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD UNCLIPPED $19.95 ORIGINAL DJ. . 318 pages, Indexed. 6 3/8 X 9 ½.

Judy Blume. Illustrated by Irene Trivas. The Pain And The Great One (Permabound). Two delightful Tales by America's Greatest Storyteller. A Picture Yearling Book. Dell Publishing. 1985 1st Impression Thus. Square binding. 9 1/8 X 9 1/8. Unpaginated. Used. VG/ No DJ included. RARE in VG condition perma-bound format.

Oscar Wilde. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. 1944 Books, Inc., NY First Printing, December, 1944 in its original dust jacket. RARE THUS. Victorian Horror/Fantasy novel. USED. VG Condition/ Good- dust jacket. Jacket is missing the bottom half of its spine. Front cover illustration of a beautiful young aristocratic man and a large green face of the hideous, debauched monster he was later to become in the background. Cover art by RA. Jacket states: "A life with great possibilities that ends in disaster and tragedy – a great classic." Back panel lists "Midnite Mysteries" series titles. 220 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. Source material for the 1945 Warner Bros. horror film.

Smith, Lillian. Strange Fruit. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944 1st. Edition, Stated 23rd Printing Thus. BANNED BOOK. USED. VG/VG 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.

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.