Search Results: Nonfiction from Mary Riversong Books

The Adventure: Ghosts of the Petit Trianon (2014 reprint, White Rabbit Press) By C. Moberly. Used. Very Good Condition. Paperback. By C. Moberly, L. Jourdain, and Tony Walker. MARIE ANTOINETTE. TIMESLIP, PARANORMAL. Summary: On 10 August, 1901, two English women walked into the past. During a visit to the Palace of Versailles, on the anniversary of the French Revolution, two ordinary women saw the French Queen, Marie Antionette sitting in the gardens in front of them, along with nobles, gardeners, houses, bridges and stones that when they went back were no longer there. Their timeslip experience has become known as the Ghosts of the Petit Trianon. Previously out of print, this is a new edition with additional timeslip type experiences at Versailles. A hard to find item.

The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding at the back of the book has never been opened. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. All The President's Men Hardcover, ISBN 9780671217815 Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1974. Used – Very Good/ Good Condition Nixon DJ : New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. A nice book club edition. 6 3/8 X 9 1/2. 349 pages, indexed. JOURNALISM, LAW, AMERICAN HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SCANDAL

Lightner, Robert Angels, Satan And Demons: Invisible Beings that Inhabit the Spiritual World. 1998, Word Publishing, Nashville. ISBN0849913713. USED. VG/VG DJ. THEOLOGY, BIBLICAL TEACHING, ANGELS, DEMONOLOGY. OCCULT, SPIRITUALISM. 6 1/4 X 9 5/8. 212 pages, Indexed.

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.

Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."… Read More

Johnny Cash. Best of Johnny Cash. Recorded Versions, Guitar. SONGBOOK. SHEET MUSIC AND LYRICS. GUITAR. Copyright 1958, Renewed 1986 by House of Cash, Inc. Published by Hal-Leonard. 154 pages 9 x 12. SOFTCOVER. VG USED CONDITION.

RARE SIGNED STATED FIRST EDITION: Gaddis, Thomas E.: Birdman Of Alcatraz, The Story of Robert Stroud .1955 Random House 1st. Ed. w/ exlib replacement 1st Ed. DJ is an original HARVEY GABOR White/black jail bars/ bird inset dust jacket protected by a mylar wrap. Unclipped Front flap states 9/55. Used. Good-/Good condition original dust jacket. Front cover states: "The fantastic true story of the prisoner with the longest record of solitary confinement in the United States – who became a leading authority on birds." The original source material for the gripping American film starring Burt Lancaster. Quite the find. Will ship from Oregon.

Gaddis, Thomas E.: Birdman Of Alcatraz, The Story of Robert Stroud .1955 Random House 1st. Edition. BIOGRAPHY. True crime, Ornithology. Stated First Printing Thus Exlib. Good- condition. Spine is a bit cocked. No Dust jacket is included. "The fantastic true story of the prisoner with the longest record of solitary confinement in the United States – who became a leading authority on birds." The original source material for the gripping American film starring Burt Lancaster. Will ship from Oregon.

Theodore G. Vincent. Black Power and the Garvey Movement. BLACK HISTORY. GARVEYISM. 1971, Ramparts Press, Palo Alto, Ca. 299 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8. $24.95. USED. SOFTCOVER. VG CONDITION.

Sinclair, Upton. Boston: A Novel. Complete in two volumes by Upton Sinclair. The Sacco & Vanzetti Case. Albert and Charles Boni, NY. 1928 1st Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust jackets included. Green, embossed Independence Hall with golden dome front boards. Pages no longer bright. Please see our photos. Based on the true story of Industrial Age Massachusetts. Per Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. site. "The trial resulted from the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, of F.A. Parmenter, paymaster of a shoe factory, and Alessandro Berardelli, the guard accompanying him, in order to secure the payroll that they were carrying. On May 5 Sacco & Vanzetti , two Italian anarchists who had immigrated to the United States in 1908, one a shoemaker and the other a fish peddler, were arrested for (and later executed for) the crime..the two men were sentenced to death on April 9, 1927."

Cash: The Autobiography. By 20th Century American Singer, Composer Johnny Cash. 1997, Harper San Francisco Stated First Impression Thus. Number line begins with 1. By "The Man In Black", American country music legend Johnny Cash, and co-author Patrick Carr. Used. Very Good/ Good original dust jacket. A hard to find item.. Please See stock photo.

Karen Sullivan. The Celts (Glorious Treasures) 1997 Stated First Edition. Published by Brockhampton Press, London. 93 pages, indexed. 6 ¾ X 9. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY.

Beebe, Lucius. Comstock Commotion: The Story of The Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News. Copyright 1954, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. Used. VG Condition/ No DJ included. A nice copy. USED. 129 pages 6 ¼ X 9 5/8. California Gold Rush, Mining, Comstock Lode, Virginia City Nevada. Journalism. History of California. 19th Century.

Koegler,Horst: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet. Copyright 1977. Oxford University Press. Stated First Edition. EXLIB. VG/VG price-clipped DJ. 583 pages, indexed. A straight, clean copy. No exterior stamping appears. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Contains more than 5,000 entries covering every aspect of ballet during he past four centuries. HISTORY OF BALLET. PERFORMING ARTS, THEATRES, COMPOSERS. ISBN 0193113147.

John Hemming. The Conquest of the Incas. Copyright 1970. First Edition Thus, Impression D. Softcover. Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, San Diego. ISBN0156223007. (stock photo of hardcover. our cover is same design but red.) History. USED. VG CONDITION. 641 pages, indexed. 5 ¼ X 8. From the personal collection of A. Richard Ellis, well-known Marine Sciences Illustrator.

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.

Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country Of the Pointed Firs .Franklin Watts, ca 1986, A Keith Jennison Book. Large-Print Edition. RARE/SCARCE. EXLIB. VG Condition/ VG clear plastic dj. 8 ¾ x 11 3/8. 247 pages. Please see stock photo. Our copy is not stamped discard on the front cover and includes the RARE original white and green dust jacket for this edition. "A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England Character."

By Lawrence A. Frost. The Custer Album. BIOGRAPHY. Used - Very Good: Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing Co, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD CONDITION DJ. "A pictorial biography of George Custer - man or legend . . . hero or fool, George Armstrong Custer from boyhood to his last battlefield are all here in pictures." First edition. 192 pages, indexed. 8 3/8 X 10 ¾

Goldman, Peter. The Death And Life Of Malcolm X. University of Illinois Second Edition, 1979. Softcover. Used. Biography/ Black Studies. Very Good Condition. 470 pages, Indexed. 5 3/8 X 8.