Young Adult Literature from Mary Riversong Books

Juliana Horatia Ewing. FIRST EDITION. The Brownies, Charles Scribner's Sons Copyright 1946, Impression A. Please see stock photo. Illustrated by Katherine Milhous, author and illustrator of "the Egg Tree" RARE GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA. USED. VG CONDITION/ No DJ included. Summary: The Brownie story has been told and written in many different ways by Brownie leaders both here (in… Read more about this item

Franklin W. Dixon. While The Clock Ticked (Hardy Boys Book 11) Copyright 1932. Grosset & Dunlap. Beige Boards, brown multi-page image endpapers indicating published 1959 to 1961. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Summary: Plot Summary: " A banker named Raymond Dalrymple of Lakeside gets death threats and shows up at the Hardy house, seeking Fenton Hardy's assistance. Frank and… Read more about this item

223A KeeneMap Carolyn Keene.The Quest of the Missing Map (Nancy Drew Book 19), 1942 Grosset & Dunlap 1st Edition. No other printings or titles listed on the copyright page. Used. VG/ No DJ included. Illustrated by Russell H. Tandy. Blue boards with orange titling and orange and white magnifying glass endpapers. Orange topstain. A nice copy. 213 pages plus adverts.… Read more about this item

799BlumeGod 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… Read more about this item

Sutton, Margaret. The Invisible Chimes,(Judy Bolton Mystery #3). . 1932, Grosset & Dunlap. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Green Boards with brown titling and ornamentation. Summary: "When Judy Bolton meets a strange girl who cannot seem to remember her own name, Judy is determined to find out her identity. At first, she wants to help the girl she has… Read more about this item

Pasternak, Boris. The Adolescence of Zhenya Luvers. 1961, The Citadel Press. Softcover. 87 pages. 4 7/8 X 7 3/8. Please see our stock photo. "An enthralling novelette by the author of Dr. Zhivago. How a thirteen-year old girl ceases to be a child and becomes a woman in Russia just before the Communist Revolution." USED. Good Condition.

Double Star. By Robert A. Heinlein. Doubleday & Company, Inc. BCE. 1956, Doubleday Science Fiction. CLASSIC SCI-FI. Used. VG/Good-. Summary: Lorenzo Smythe, an out-of-work actor, finds himself shanghaied on a spaceship bound for Mars and big trouble. 190 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. Used. VG/Good- original dust jacket.

THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD. By Clair Huchet Bishop. RARE/SCARCE. ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT MC CLOSKEY, author, Illustrator of the beloved "Make Way For Ducklings". EXLIB. GOOD/ NO DJ INCLUDED. LIBRARY BOUND. Green geometric patterned boards. Copyright October, 1942. STATED SEPTEMBER, 1955 5TH PRINTING THUS. SUMMARY: "It's bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you've lost… Read more about this item

Franklin W. Dixon: While The Clock Ticked (1932, Grosset & Dunlap Hardy Boys), 1948 Printing Thus. BROWN BOARDS, ORANGE ENDPAPERS. QUITE RARE IN THE ORIGINAL RED DUST JACKET. HARDY BOYS #11. GROSSET & DUNLAP. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD- ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED GRETTA DUST JACKET. DESCRIPTION: The book is in an original red kidnap jacket. That jacket is original, has… Read more about this item

Jones, Raymond F.: This Island Earth (1952, Shasta Publishers BCE) Please see stock photos. Used. Good-/ No dust jacket is included. Shows some wear to spine. CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION. BOOKS INTO FILM. Summary: "Scientist Cal Meacham solves a mysterious puzzle that allows him access to a highly secretive program -- led by the mysterious Exeter -- that has assembled the… Read more about this item

Peel, H.M: Pilot The Hunter. Franklin Watts, Inc., NY. First American Edition, 1962. Used. VG/VG original dust jacket. YOUNG ADULT. EQUESTRIAN. A clean, solid copy.

The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap.… Read more about this item

THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD. Ex-lib. Library-bound. oblong format. Good Condition/ No DJ included. The Viking Press. First Published October, 1942. This is the stated Ninth Printing Thus, December, 1959. Glossy finish decorated blue and white boards with Black titling. A solid copy. Both gutters are intact. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Mr. Munchausen .Used. Noyes, Platt & Company, Boston, 1901 First Edition. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL, . artist/author of the "Hole Book" series. Used. Very Good / No DJ if originally issued. Front cover illustration in good shape. All colour plates present and affixed to the binding. No dust jacket is included if issued. Tight binding, gutters intact. Pages are fairly… Read more about this item

Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket.

Five against the Odds. RARE/SCARCE. Used. Good/ No DJ included. A bright, clean ex-library copy. Library-bound. STATED FIRST EDITION, HARCOURT, BRACE 1955. A tough journey: "Tim, an Indiana teenager, learns that he can still be an asset to his high school basketball team after he is struck down by polio." Not an easy find.