Search Results: Short Stories from Mary Riversong Books

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.

The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: John Murray, 1929 Cheaper Edition. Short story anthology. Detective fiction. Used. Clean and square. Protected in a mylar wrap. Good Condition/Good- ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrated by J. Abby. Blue blind-stamped cloth. Toning as is typical of this edition. RARE original, White, blue and red pictorial dust-wrapper. Priced at 2/- net to the bottom right of the front panel. Back panel of the jacket lists "New volumes in Murray's Fiction Library. The 12 Titles listed there are from Beau Geste to The Black Flemings. 320pp. 4 5/8 X 7. A great find. Adventures included here are: The illustrious Client; The Blanched Soldier, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables, The Sussex Vampire, The Three Garridebs, The Problem of Thor Bridge, The Creeping Man, The Lion's Mane, The Veiled Lodger, Shoscombe Old Place, The Retired Colourman.

RUDYARD KIPLING: COLLECTED DOG STORIES. SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY. Stated First Edition after the printing of a Limited Edition of 450 copies. 1934, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. ILLUSTRATED BY MARGUERITE KIRMSE. Short Story Anthology. Used. Good- Condition/ no DJ. . Tight binding, gutters are intact. Bright pages. Cherry Red cloth boards with gold gilt titling and ornamentation. Red topstain. Cherry red and white drawings of dogs on end-papers. Has suffered a small coffee spill. Please see our photos.

215DoyleWorks A. Conan Doyle. Collected Works of A. Conan Doyle, One Volume Edition. 1920, Walter J. Black. SHERLOCK HOLMES. USED. VG Condition/ No DJ as issued. 1020 pages. Rare in nice condition like this one. 5 ¾ X 8 3/8.

Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2

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.

Bierce, Ambrose. In The Midst Of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. Copyrright 1891 Chatto & Windus. London. States only: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co.' on the copyright page. 1892 on title page. Used. VG Condition/ No DJ Included. Navy Blue Boards with Gilt titling and blindstamped floral ornamentation at center front panel. Titling on spine is still good. Used. Documentary Anthology. Short stories of the American Civil War. Documentary. War Stories. Military History. About Ambrose Bierce: "The fate of this author is unknown. In 1913, Bierce told reporters that he was travelling to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He disappeared and was never seen again." 5 X 7 3/4 244 pages plus LOTS of adverts. RARE.

Rudyard Kipling. JUST SO STORIES. Illustrated by Dorothy Lothrop, First Edition Thus. Copyright 1907, Doubleday & Co. Inc., NY. EXLIB. VG/G condition Unclipped $3.50 dust jacket. 249 pages, 5 ¼ X 8 ½.

And Life Goes On. 1932 1st Ed. Doubleday, Doran, 1932. By Vicki Baum author of GRAND HOTEL. Used. Very Good Condition/ Good-original unclipped Bernhard art dust jacket. Front flap price $2.50. "The vivid tale of Elizabeth, the divine drudge, is Vicki Baum's first new book since Grand Hotel". Bright orange boards and topstain. Not sunned. Will ship from Oregon.

771HigginsJuggler Higgins, Violet Moore. THE LITTLE JUGGLER and Other French Tales Retold. Story-Time Tales. 1917, Whitman Publishing Company Racine and Chicago. USED. VG CONDITION/ No DJ included if issued. 70 pages 6 ½ X 8 5/8. A nice copy.

Patrick R. Chalmers. The Little Pagan Faun and Other Fancies. Illustrated with scissor- cuts by by Lisl Hummel. Jonathan Cape, London. States First published in MCMXXVII (1927). Short Story anthology. Stories reprinted from Punch. USED. Good Condition/No DJ Included. Spine is a bit darkened. Illustrated children's book. Used. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. 196 pages. 5 1/8 X 7 5/8. Blue boards with gold titling and ornamentation.

Duriez, Colin. The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle. BIOGRAPHY. Lion Books, Oxford, England. 2015. ISBN 9780745956343. USED. VG CONDITION. Summary: "THE OXFORD INKLINGS tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings – the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. " 287 pages, indexed. 5 1/8 X 7 7/8.

Poirot Investigates (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus, Bantam Books Inc., NY, April, 1985. Number line: 0987654321. USED. As New. Summary: "Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, famed eccentric detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge."

Poirot's Early Cases. By Agatha Christie. Ulverscroft December 1990 First Large-Print Edition. Short story Anthology. Complete and unabridged. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 5 ½ X 8 ¾. 470 pages. Summary: In this collection of eighteen stories Hercule Poirot begins his celebrated career in crime. Includes The Double Clue, The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley, and How Does Your Garden Grow, 15 others. A HARD TO FIND ITEM IN THE UNITED STATES.

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.

Russell, Bertrand. Satan in the Suburbs, and Other Stories. Bertrand Russell's First Book Of Fiction. Copyright 1953, Simon and Schuster Stated Second Printing Thus. Illustrated by Asgeir Scott. Used. Very good/ Good price-clipped original grey and yellow DJ. Short Story Anthology. Stories Included Here: Satan in the suburbs or horrors manufactured here, The Corsican ordeal of Miss X, The Infra-Redioscope; The guardians of Parnassus, and Benefit of Clergy. 148 pages plus author bio. RARE IN THIS NICE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET.

Wharton, Edith et al. Stories from Scribner: Stories of New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, Copyright 1893. Authors and stories included in this book are: From Four to Six, Annie Elliot; The commonest possible Story, Bliss Perry; The End of the Beginning, George A. Hibbard; A Puritan Ingenue, John S. Wood; Mrs. Manstey's View, Edith Wharton. Used. Black, leather-bound pocket-size edition. Pink closure ribbon has gone. Good condition. Binding is a little loose. RARE.

Blackwood, Algernon. Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural. Short story anthology. Stated Fourth Printing Thus, April 1952, Peter Nevill Limited, London. USED. VG/ No DJ included. Green boards with gold gilt titling on spine. Titling has dimmed somewhat. 426 pages. 5 ½ X 8 1/8.

Aleichem, Sholem. Tevye the Dairyman -and- The Railroad Stories. Translated and with an introduction by Hillel Halkin. First Schocken Books Edition, 1987. Library of Yiddish Classics. Original source material for "Fiddler on the Roof". HISTORICAL FICTION. USED. Softcover. Good Condition. Small spot of sticker damage on front cover. 309 pages. 6 1/8 X 9 ¼.

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.