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Books published by publisher Charles Scribners Sons, New York

  • The Lathe of Heaven

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Nov. 1, 1971)
    George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him -- but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for George and his dreams.The Lathe of Heaven is a dark vision and a warning -- a fable of power uncontrolled and uncontrollable. It is a truly prescient and startling view of humanity, and the consequences of playing God.
  • A Farewell To Arms

    Ernest Hemingway

    Hardcover (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, March 15, 1929)
    Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield-weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion-this gripping, semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.
  • Rocket Ship Galileo

    Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Voter

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 15, 1947)
    Robert A. Heinlein's first juvenile novel for Scribner's, first published in 1947, follows the adventures of a rocket scientist and 3 young men embarking on an expedition to the Moon. The book was scientifically accurate for the time and the basis for the Academy Award-winning American film Destination Moon.
  • The Bar Sinister by Richard Harding Davis - Illustrated by E.M. Ashe

    Richard Harding Davis, E.M. Ashe

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, Jan. 1, 1903)
    1903 printing hardcover book with color front-plate and illustrated title-page.
  • David Balfour: Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad

    Robert Louis Stevenson, N. C. Wyeth

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Sept. 1, 1994)
    Ten magnificent full-color plates complement Stevenson's action-packed sequel to Kidnapped, as David Balfour struggles to exonerate James Stewart, becomes a captive, and romances Catriona Drummond.
  • Plum Pudding for Christmas

    Virginia Kahl

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 15, 1956)
    A delightful children's book for reading aloud to children with nice catchy descriptions. The story centers around the Queen wanting Plum Pudding but she has no plums.
  • The Fourth of July Story

    Alice Dalgliesh, Marie Nonnast

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Aug. 16, 1956)
    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.
  • Have Space Suit - Will Travel

    Robert A Heinlein

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 15, 1958)
    Book Club edition / Hardcover/ First Edition 1958 Glossy Cover Imagination at its best!!
  • The Columbus Story

    Alice Dalgliesh, Leo Politi

    Library Binding (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 1, 1955)
    Events in the life of Columbus, the Admiral, including his efforts to obtain ships and money to sail to the West, his first voyage, and his discovery of the New World.
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  • Christmas a Book of Stories Old and New

    Alice Dalgliesh

    Hardcover (New York Charles Scribners Sons, March 15, 1937)
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  • The Sun Also Rises

    Ernest Hemingway

    Paperback (Charles Scribner's Sons, Jan. 1, 1970)
    In the socially dislocated period after World War I, an American expatriate and a British peeress conduct a hopeless love affair
  • The View from the Oak : The Private Worlds of Other Creatures

    Judith and Herbert Kohl, Roger Bayless

    Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, May 1, 1977)
    Attempts to enable us to view the world of ticks, flies, birds, jelly fish, and other animals through their senses, not our own.