Historical Fiction from Mary Riversong Books

Alice Walker. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR. Copyright 1989 by Alice Walker. Thorndyke, Maine. Hardcover, ISBN 9780896219298. Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1990. USED. VG CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Large print. 595 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ¾.

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… Read more about this item

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.

Somewhere in Red Gap. By Harry Leon Russell, the author of Ruggles of Red Gap. Grosset & Dunlap Reprint. Doubleday, Page copyright, 1916. WESTERN. USED. VG Condition/ No DJ included. By the author of "Ruggles of Red Gap". Illustrated by John R. Neill (illustrator of the Oz Series) , F.R. Gruger, and Henry Raleigh. 408 pages, 5 1/8 X 7… Read more about this item

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.

Hugh Wiley. Manchu Blood. Copyright 1927 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York and London. First and Second Printings Before Publication. A tale of Chinatown. USED. GOOD CONDITION/NO DJ INCLUDED. Publishers graphic design denim Blue boards are sunned. Titles have faded out on black cloth spine. 306 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. RARE. A Detective novel By Hugh Wiley,… Read more about this item

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.

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.

Laxness, Halldor Independent People: An Epic. Copyright 1946, Alfred A. Knopf.Translated from he Icelandic by J A Thompson. RARE/SCARCE. Very Good Condition/ Good original blue dust jacket. USED. BCE. 470 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 5/8

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.

Donald Richie. The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated. ISBN0520200268. 271 pages. 10 X 10. Very Good Condition. Used. Oblong binding. Softcover.

Jack London. Young Wolf: The Early Adventure Stories of Jack London. Edited by Howard Lachtman. 1994 Capra Press. Softcover. ISBN0884962105. 258 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ½. Short Story Anthology. Summary: "As a footloose adventurer, London sought gold and tall tales in the Klondike, where many of these stories were born."USED. Good Condition. Softcover.

Du Bose Heyward. Mamba's Daughters, A Novel of Charleston. Grosset & Dunlap Reprint Edition. Copyright 1929 Du Bose Heyward. States 1929 on the title page. USED. Very Good Condition/ Very Good G&D dust jacket. 311 Pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾.

Anatole France. Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library Edition. No date or statement on copyright page. Circa 1929. USED. VERY GOOD/GOOD ORIGINAL UNIVERSAL LIBRARY DUST JACKET. QUITE RARE THUS. Dust jacket has a bit of loss at top of spine. Glossy black boards with silver, green and black titling and ornamentation. Lime green endpapers. No frontispiece or any other photos appear… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.

James Hilton. Good-bye Mr. Chips. For your Holiday reading. Little, Brown 10th Impression Thus, 1934. USED. VG/Good Condition original white, red and green Holiday motif price-clipped dust jacket. 126 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. Written by James Hilton, author of "Lost Horizon".

Margaret Mitchell. Lost Laysen. 1996, Scribner. First Edition, 1st impression Thus. By Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With The Wind". BIOGRAPHICAL FICTION. Summary: "A spirited tale of love and honor on a doomed South Pacific Island called Laysen". Used. VG Condition/VG unclipped dust jacket. ISBN0684824280. 125 pages. 5 ¾ X 9 ½.

The Three Miss Kings By Australian author Ada Cambridge. Penguin Books – Virago Press 1987. USED. Very Good- Condition. Softcover. Printed in Great Britain. ISBN0140161643. New introduction by Audrey Tate. Summary: "The Three Miss Kings of the title are Elizabeth, Patty and Eleanor, three young women from provincial Victoria, Australia. After their parents die, the three sisters move to Melbourne,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item