Spring 2012 - Adult Display Case

The left side display case in the lobby of the Library is now full of special finds of adult books which will be for sale at the book sale starting April 19. Warning: we reserve the right to correct any mistakes we have made in the prices or descriptions being published here. We may remove a book if we detect a mistake and we may add books without updating the list.

Mexico, Los Proyectos,      $ 60

de una Nacion, 1821-1888                                              

Guadalupe Jimenez Codinach 

2001

The Correspondence of Honore de Balzac      $ 60

 2 volumes, translated by C. Lamb Kenney    1878                                                             

Rails Along the Chesapeake,      $ 60

A History of Railroading on
the Delmarva Peninsula, 1827-1978

John C. Hayman                                                   1979                                                                                        

 

The Artilleryman, The Experiences and     $ 40

Impressions of an American Artillery
Regiment in the World War,  
129th F.A. 1917-1919

Jay M. Lee 

1920    
                

Japanese-American and Aleutian Wartime       $ 50

Relocation, Hearings before the Subcommittee
on Administrative  Law and Governmental
Relations, June 20, 21, 27, and September 12, 1984                  

 

A French Chef Cooks at Home        $ 30

Jacques Pepin  (signed by author)                     1975                                                                                       

Still Life and Special Effects Photography   $ 25

Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz                      2002                                                                                                                            

Paris 1937-1957, creations en france,   $ 35

centre georges pompidou

28 mai – 2 novembre 1981       

The Walls of Jericho $ 75

Rudolph Fisher
Alfred A. Knopf,
1928   
                    

Atlas of Creation, Volume 1    $ 20

Harun Yahya 
2007                                                                                                        

Joined Colors, Decoration and     $ 25

 Meaning in Chinese Porcelain

Louise Allison Cort and Jan Stuart                    1993                                                                                                

Portret, 1989-2009 $ 30

Stephan Vanfleteren
Lannwoo,
2009

Francis Gazeau, photographies        $ 15

L’art du metissage                                                                  

The Ladies of the White House   $ 75

Laura C. Holloway 

2 volumes
1886

The Ugly Dachshund      $ 30

G. B. Stern    

1938                                                                                                

Cotswold Characters                     $ 20

John Drinkwater

5 engravings by Paul Nash                                 1921                                                                                                      

Report of the Commissioner of    $ 30

Patents for the Year 1859
volume 2                                  
1860

Grandeza y Decadencia de Roma                                    

Guglielmo Ferrero 

·        III, Fin de una Aristocracia     $ 25      

      IV, Antonio y Cleopatra      

                                                               

        V, La Republica de Augusto     $ 25    

      VI, Augusto ye el Gran Imperio 

    Ediciones Siglo Veinte 1959      

  

Japanese Pictures of Japanese Life $ 50

Takejiro Hasegawa

Frederic A. Sharf
1994

    Thunder Dragon Textiles from Bhutan $ 30

The Bartholomew Collection
1985  

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan $100

John L. Stephens

Harper and Brothers
1843
2 volumes                      

Complete Practical Railroading                               

Locomotives, Their Operation,     $ 80 

Care, and Management                                                        

Practical Repairing of Everyday    $ 75

Breakdowns                                                                         

Practical Electricity for Enginemen     $ 15                                  

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Year Progressive     $ 50

Examinations with Answers   $ 50                                          

Westinghouse Air Brake Practice                                                                                                National Institute of Practical Mechanics, Chicago, 1911

Asian Traditions in Clay       $ 20   

The Hauge Gifts

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur  M. Sackler Gallery, 2000                                                      

Japanese Indigo Design             $ 25

The collection of Sadako Fukui

 Kyoto  Shoin                                  
First Edition, 1992                                                                                            

Janis Rozentals, Reprodukciju albums   $ 20

   Riga Liesma                                      

Mormonism: Its Rise, Progress, and             $ 100

Present Condition [The Expose of
Mormons and Mormonism]

N.W. Green                                                              1870                                                                                                               

Complete Practical Railroading,    $ 90

Portfolio of Colored Charts

International School of Engineering
1911

Geschichte der Franzohlchen        $ 50

Revolution von 1848

von Louis Heritier

The Marble Collegiate Church      $ 25

autographed by Norman Vincent Peale

© 1954

The Freer Chinese Bronzes, Volume 1    $ 30

Catalogue
1967  

                                                                                            

My Last Expedition to the Antarctic 1936-1937 $ 60

Lars Christensen
autographed
© 1938

Korean Art, 100 Masterpieces      $ 40

Editions AP International                                 1995                                                                                            

Beyond the Silk Road   $ 20

from the Powerhouse Museum Collection    
1999     

Foreign Relations of the United States      $ 60

1961-1963, Volume III, Vietnam
Jan-Aug 1963

John P. Glennon, Editor in Chief                         
1991                                    

Russian Avant-garde Art    $ 30

The George Costakis Collection

Angelica Zander Rudenstine
1981

The Sun     $ 20

C.A. Young                       
New and Revised Ed,1898        

The Art of Hans Heysen $ 20

David Dridan
1966

Chambres d’amis    $ 30

Gent 21 juni-21 september 1986,

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst,

   Inscribed by Jan Hoet                                                       

Pool Light     $ 35 

Photographs by Howard Schatz   
1998                              

Miami Beach Deco       $ 10

Miniature Models of Miami Beach’s
Historic Art Deco District, 
Alan Rose                                                                                       1997                                            

Rails to Paradise: The History of the      $60

Tacoma Eastern Railroad 1890 – 1919

Russell H. Holter and Jesse Clark McAbee
Gorham Printing 2005, 1^st printing

Sketches of Suffolk County, Historical     $ 75

and Descriptive

Richard M. Bayles,

Published by the author, 1874     
                                                           

Douze Journees de la Revolution,    $ 30

Poemes par Barthelemy, in French and German

   Stuttgart, 1832                                                                                                                 

The Pursuit of Leviathan              $ 25

Lance E. Davis, et al,

University of Chicago Press, 1997

Bodyscapes       $ 20

Allan I. Teger

Shade Tree Press, 1995                      
signed by artist                         

Fuchs uber Ernst Fuchs        $ 45

Bilder und Zeichnungen von 1945-1976

Eugene Onegin,  A Novel in Verse    $ 50

Aleksander Pushkin

Translated by Vladimir Nabakov            
4 volumes

French Art Treasures at the Hermitage     $ 25

Albert Kostenevich,

Harry N. Abrams

1999