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Books published by publisher Charles Scribners Sons

  • Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students

    Carroll Moulton

    Hardcover (Charles Scribners & Sons, May 20, 1998)
    Presents a history of ancient Greece and Rome as well as information about the literature and daily life of these early civilizations.
  • Starman Jones

    Robert A. Heinlein

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Jan. 1, 1953)
    Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy who wants to go to the stars. It was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons as a part of the Heinlein juvenile series.
  • Smoky: The Cow Horse

    Will James

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 15, 1929)
    Smoky the Cow Horse by Will James. Illustrated by the author. 1929 hardcover published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Illustrated with black-and-white and color plates.
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  • Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

    Margaret Hodges, Stephen Marchesi

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Sept. 30, 1992)
    Episodes from the masterpiece of Spanish literature chronicle the hilarious adventures of Don Quizote and his squire, Sancho Panza, including the classic battle with the windmills and Sancho Panza's eventful term as "governor" of his island.
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  • The Saga of the Comstock Lode: Boom Days in Virginia City

    George D Lyman

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 15, 1934)
    The author's rollicking style captures well the history of mining the Comstock lode and the state-making of Nevada. Illustrated with some old photos & paintings. Notes and index. 407 pages.
  • A Woggle of Witches

    Adrienne Adams

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Aug. 1, 1971)
    A group of witches eat bat stew and venture out on broomsticks for an evening of frolicking
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  • Everyday Life in New Testament Times

    A. C. Bouquet

    Hardcover (Charles Scribners Sons, March 15, 1953)
    Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.
  • The Yearling

    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, N. C. Wyeth

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Jan. 1, 1967)
    Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Classic story of the Baxter family of inland Florida and their wild, hard, satisfyinh life. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1938.
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  • Moy Moy

    Leo Politi

    Library Binding (Charles Scribner's Sons, June 1, 1960)
    A little Chinese girl in Los Angeles participates in the celebration of the Chinese New Year.
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  • Christmas Eve on Lonesome "Hell Fer Sartain" and Other Stories

    John Fox Jr

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 15, 1914)
    John Fox Jr. was the novelist that brought Appalachia, the wilderness, and the new frontiers to readers in the East, romanticizing life in the back woods, and the homey side of life. Here is a collection of stories that includes the classics Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Hell for Satan (Sairtin and other spellings), and also includes the Army of the Callahan, The Last Stetson, The Pardon of Becky Day, A Crisis for the Guard, and Christmas Eve with Satan. Color frontispiece with tissue depicts little girl in store with Satan, "only a woolly little black dog, and surely no dog was ever more absurdly misnamed" (p. 203).
  • The Yearling

    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, N. C. Wyeth

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Oct. 1, 1985)
    In this classic story of the Baxter family of inland Florida and their wild, hard, satisfying life, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has written one of the great novels of our times. A rich and varied story - tender in its understanding of boyhood, crowded with the excitement of the backwoods hunt, with vivid descriptions of the primitive, beautiful hammock country, with humor and earthy philosophy - The Yearling is a novel for readers of all tastes and ages.Its glowing picture of life that is far and refreshingly removed from modern patterns of living becomes universal in its revelation of simple courageous people and the abiding beliefs they live by. Winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1938, The Yearling was made available the following year in a special edition illustrated by the distinguished American artist, N.C. Wyeth.The original paintings have been re-photographed and new plates made for this handsome volume.
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  • Smoky, the cow horse, by Will James, illustrated by the author

    Will James

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Jan. 1, 1929)
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