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Alice Dunnigan autobiography on 2016 Amelia Bloomer list
We’d like to share some exciting news for local writer Carol McCabe Booker. The autobiography Booker edited, Alone Atop The Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press, was recently named part of the 2016 Amelia Bloomer List. The Amelia Bloomer List annually recognizes books ideal for young readers through age 18 with significant […]
February 10, 2016 / riverbybooksdc / Comments Off on Alice Dunnigan autobiography on 2016 Amelia Bloomer list
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Gift Guide & Holiday hours for December
We’ll be open every day this week from 11am to 7:30pm through Dec. 23. On Dec. 24 we will be open from 11am to 3pm and we will be closed on Dec. 25 & 26. Need help checking off your Christmas list? Here are a few ideas… from grand gestures to small tokens of affection: Signed […]
December 20, 2015 / riverbybooksdc / Comments Off on Gift Guide & Holiday hours for December
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Signed Jackie Kennedy biography available
We’ve got a new rare book on our shelves, just in time for the holidays — “Jacqueline Kennedy: A Biography” signed by the former First Lady on the front free endpaper. Published in 1964 by Frederick Fell Inc. in New York. 275 pages illustrated with 18 black & white images. It would make a lovely gift. $750. SOLD […]
December 10, 2015 / riverbybooksdc / Comments Off on Signed Jackie Kennedy biography available
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A radio pioneer’s copy of Browning’s Poetical Works
This copy of Elizabeth Browning’s Poetical Works belonged to Lee de Forest, a pioneer in radio. De Forest achieved the first ship-to-shore radio transmission and held nearly 200 patents for his inventions.
November 11, 2015 / riverbybooksdc / Comments Off on A radio pioneer’s copy of Browning’s Poetical Works
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$50 for a ‘plot’ of land in the Bronx
We like books with a story and these books have a funny one. This handsome set was once owned by a man named Thomas H. Raywood Jr. Raywood made it into The New York Times in 1903 when he purchased an extremely small plot of land in the Bronx for $50. “The ‘plot,’ which is a […]
November 5, 2015 / riverbybooksdc / Comments Off on $50 for a ‘plot’ of land in the Bronx
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