Search Results: Historical Fiction from Mary Riversong Books

Babar and Father Christmas (Babar et le Pare Noel). By Jean DeBrunhoff. Childrens Book. Random House 1st Edition, 1940 FIRST EDITION. In RARE original, unclipped dust jacket that shows price 1.00/1.00. Used. Very Good/Good. A nice clean copy. Please see our photos.

BRACEBRIDGE HALL 1887 Macmillan & Co. By Washington Irving. Ralph Caldecott Illustrated Edition. First Edition Thus. Sequel to "Old Christmas". Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included if issued. 284 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 1/2. Bright gold gilt top-stain, titling and ornamentation. 1" Dark green end-papers. Summary: "Bracebridge Hall, written by the esteemed author, Washington Irving, is a collection of location-based character sketches, detailing the lives and personalities of the occupants of a countryside manor in Yorkshire, England, owned by a squire."

H. Rider Haggard. Colonel Quaritch, V.E. Longmans, Green And Co. In 1 Volume. States New Edition , 1896, on the title page. USED. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Brown boards, silver titling. Titling is still bright. Plot summary: "After leaving active service, a decorated battlefield officer, Colonel Quaritch, VE. moves back to his ancestral village of Honham, where he unexpectedly finds more drama than he bargained for." 341 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 1/4. Handwritten inscription on first white front endpaper is dated 1898. By the author of SHE, PEOPLE OF THE MIST, and KING SOLOMON'S MINES.

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

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.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Dead-Eye Dick. 1982, DELACORTE PRESS/SEYMOUR LAWRENCE . FIRST EDITION. Used. VG/G+ Condition. Back DJ photo of author taken by Jill Krementz. Plot Summary: "Deadeye Dick is a tragic tale of "gun nuts and nukes," Vonnegut tells Miller Rudy Waltz, the protagonist, while playing around as a child in his father's upstairs gun room, fires off a round from a high-powered rifle and accidentally kills a pregnant woman as she vacuums her apartment several blocks away."

Philip Gooden. Death of Kings. A Shakespearean Murder Mystery Featuring Nick Revill. Used. First Carrol & Graf Edition. ISBN 9780786708758 Publisher: Carroll & Graf, 2001 Used Very Good. Softcover. USED. 310 pages.

Joyce, James. Exiles, A Play in Three Acts. Introduction by Padriac Colum. DRAMA. The Viking Press, 1961 Compass Books Edition. June, 1962 second printing thus. Summary: "Exiles is James Joyce's only extant play and draws on the story of " The Dead". the final short story in Joyce's story collection Dubliners". USED. Very Good Condition. 126 pages. 5 1/8 X 7 ¾.

HARD TO FIND! The Family Moskat. A Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Copyright 1950 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY. VG/VG green and orange original dust jacket is included. Translated from the Yiddish by A.H. Gross.

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.

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.

Hilaire Belloc The Girondin Thomas Nelson and Sons, London. FRENCH REVOLUTION. Copyright page states: First Published 1911. VG/ No DJ included. Used. Green boards with gold gilt titling on spine. Titles are bright but some chipping off of gilt. 372 pages plus adverts. 5 1/8 X 7 ½.

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.

MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing 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: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."

Hilton, James. Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Pocket Books. Softcover. 2nd Printing Thus, March, 1941. Pocket Books #93. Complete text. Used. Good Condition. Summary: "A tender and gentle story that is warming to the heart and nourishing to the spirit." 4 1/4 X 6 1/2. 112 pages plus adverts.

GRAND HOTEL BY VICKI BAUM. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Also published in the German language as Menchen Im Hotel. Used. Good Condition. No DJ is included. Bright pages. STATED FIRST EDITION. Copyright page states: "All rights reserved. First published 1930" Geoffrey Bles Publishers, London. Original source material for the famous film of the same name.

Gene Stratton-Porter The Harvester. Grosset & Dunlap Reprint Edition. Copyright 1921 by Doubleday, Page & Company. Illustrated by W.L. Jacobs. Dedicated to Henry David Thoreau. Lovely red floral design boards. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. 564 pages. 5 1/8 X 7 7/8.

Conan Doyle Uniform Edition (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.) THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. July, 1955. John Murray, London. USED. Good-/Good- original price-clipped dust jacket. Partial front flap only. Front flap: has been cut at odd angle. Red boards with black titling. 5 1/8 X 7 ½. 248 pages. Synopsis: Detectives "Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate as following his uncle's death, Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire." Please see our stock photo.

A. Conan Doyle. The Hound of The Baskervilles, Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. First American Edition Second Impression Thus: McClure Phillips & Co., New York. States Second Impression Thus, Published March, 1902 R. Copyright 1901, 1902 by A. Conan Doyle and George Newnes, Ltd. USED. GOOD- CONDITION. 249 pages plus adverts.

Hugo, Victor. Please excuse our group photo, but please see this item (in beige and red dust jacket) at bottom right. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Undated. Circa 1940. Books, Inc. VG/VG original Publishers price-clipped DJ. QUITE RARE THUS. Green leatherette boards. Beige dust jacket with red and yellow titling and ornamentation. Protected in a mylar wrap. 360 pages. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love.