Search Results: Authors starting with C from Mary Riversong Books

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.

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, chaperoned by one of society's matrons, who, having no children of her own, adopts the girls as her own."

VERY LARGE TEACHERS/ PRESENTERS READ- ALOUD COPY"I Can't" Said the Ant. Published by Scholastic (Scholastic Big Books), 1961 by Arrangement with Coward-McCann, Inc. Words and Pictures by Polly Cameron. Number line: 12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3 0,1,2,3,4. ISBN 9780698301979. HARD TO FIND NOVELTY BOUND ITEM. Very Good USED CONDITION. No dj as issued. Stapled binding. 15 x 18 INCHES. 40 pages. Has owners name of front cover. Will ship insured in large flat padded envelope from Oregon.

Murder on the Matterhorn (1951, F.A. Thorpe, Large Print Edition, for vision Impaired ) By Glyn Carr. ARTISAN HOUSE, ANSTEY, LEICESTERSHIRE.THIS LARGE PRINT EDITION HAS BEEN PUBLISHED BY KIND PERMISSION OF GEOFFREY BLES, LONDON. EXLIB. GOOD CONDITION /VERY GOOD ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PROTECTED BY MYLAR WRAP. Please see stock photo. Our jacket is VG with no library stickers on it. "This cleverly constructed story presents the neatest imaginable puzzle in detection". RARE/SCARCE.

Charles E. Carryl The Admiral's Caravan. Copyright 1892. The Century Company, NY. Grey cloth cover with gold titling and color illustration. Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch. Front free-endpaper is gift inscribed and dated 1899. 6 ½ X 8 5/8 140 pages. Listed in Peter Parley to Penrod, page 96. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included if originally issued. RARE. PUBLISHERS ERROR. BRIGHT ORANGE PAINT IS OFFSTRUCK ON THE PAINTED FRONT BOARD.

Charles E.O. Carter The Principles of Astrology. The Theosophical Publishing House, London. 1963, Fifth and revised edition. EXLIB 188 pages. Good Condition/ VG- original dust jacket. 5 3/8 X 8.

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.

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.

Orthogonal Town Planning In Antiquity. By Ferdinando Castagnoli.1971 The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. First English Edition. ILLUSTRATED. Originally published in Rome by De Luca Editore Under the auspices of the Institute of ancient topography of the University of Rome. English translation copyright, 1971. ISBN 026203042X. 138 pages. 7 ¼ X 10 ¼. EXLIB Textbook. VG/ NO DJ is included.

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.

Charlotte Chandler. >It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography (Applause Books) Copyright 2005 Applause Theatre and Cinema Books. Stated First Applause Printing, 2006.Illustrated with photographs. Softcover. USED. VG CONDITION. 349 pages, 6 X 9. ISBN1557836922.

Henri Charriere. Papillon. 1970 William Morrow First U.S. Edition. USED. VG/G Unclipped $8.95 Dust jacket. "An international sensation – the #1 bestseller in France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain and other countries" 434 pages 6 ½ X 9 3/8. Former owner signature on title page.

The Man Who Knew Too Much. By Gilbert K. Chesterton. 1922 Harper & Brothers First Edition. Copyright page says A-X. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. From the Golden Age of Film Noir. This suspenseful thriller is the original story that was adapted to a screenplay starring Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day and directed by the unsurpassed master of suspense, Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Rare/scarce.

Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.

Andersen, Hans Christian. The Ugly Duckling, 1945 Grossett & Dunlap. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY F. ROJANKOVSKY. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Unpaginated. Large format. 8 1/8 X 9 ½. Classic. Adapted from the original fairy tale by beloved story-teller Hans Christian Andersen.

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."

Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. RARE/SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped $34.95 DJ. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."

Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) (aka The Mousetrap). Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus Bantam Books Inc., NY, September, 1988. Number line: 0987654321. As New. Summary: "A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate." THE MOUSETRAP: Known as the "world's longest-running play," The Moustrap has been running since 1952 and celebrated 70 years in London in 2022."

The Mysterious Affair At Styles (1935 Bodley Head Half-Crown Edition) THE FIRST HERCULE POIROT TITLE EVER WRITTEN BY CHRISTIE. Mandarin Orange cloth boards with black and green stripes on front cover. Black Titling. States Bodley Head on spine. Spine may be slightly sunned. Pages are fairly bright. Foxing noted, chiefly at the title page and verso. Used. Good Condition / New fax candlestick motif dust jacket. Hardcover. BOARDS ARE VERY CLEAN. NO CORNER BUMPS.Made and printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Ltd., Frome and London.

Ten Little Indians Dodd, Mead Greenway Edition, Copyright 1967 by Agatha Christie Mallowan. States: First published in the Greenway Edition in the United States 1978. Number line starts with 2. Used. VERY GOOD/ VG Unclipped original bright orange fish motif dust jacket. ffp $8.95 A nice, crisp copy in a mylar wrap. DJ spine states 24. Our DJ spine is slightly sunned. "Ten Little Indians, aka And Then There Were None and (offensive language alert) Ten Little N*ggers, is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November, 1939 as Ten Little N-ggers, after the children's counting and minstrel song, which serves as a major plot element."