Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Adult Case - October 3 - 6, 2013 Sale





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 October 3, 2013 at 5 pm. 

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.

We have pictures of many, but not all, of the books in the case:



Frost signature on A Boy's Will
A Boy's Will, Robert Frost, First Printing

A Boy’s Will      $800

Robert Frost 
Signed and dated by author 
1st printing, 1915 
Henry Holt & Co      









In Cold Blood                  $25

Truman Capote  
1st British Edition, 1966






Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, The Texas   $25
Ranger and Hunter

John C. Duval                          1871




The Future is Now, George Allen        $25

Gildea & Kenneth Turan,  1972 
Signed by George Allen  
1st edition



Borte Med Blaesten              $25 
(Gone with the Wind in Danish)

Margaret Mitchell        1937
Leather bound

 


Sergeant Ted Cole, United States Marines          $25

Everett T. Tomlinson          1919





Works of Nash Buckingham                 $80

Second Restricted Edition, #2248
Seven Volumes, Buckingham Mint, Inc.



Shuttle-Craft Book of American           $20
Hand-Weaving  
Mary Meigs Atwater                                        
Macmillan Company, 1935





Heartburn                $30

Nora Ephron   
Signed by the author
2nd Printing before publication, 1983




  
Igbo Arts, Community and Cosmos        $35

Herbert Cole and Chike C. Aniakor
Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1984








Bridge Aesthetics Around the World           $30

Committee on General Structures Transportation Research Board, 1991






American Viewing Stones       $25

James L. Greaves
First Printing, 2008






The Radiant City               $40

Le Corbusier
Orion Press, Re-published 1964






Works on Paper       $35
Sigmar Polke                      
Museum of Modern Art, 1999






The Graphic Work               $65

Robert Kipniss
Signed by the Artist
Abaris Books, First Edition, 1980





Picasso: Women              $50
Cannes and Mougins, 1954-1963

Editions Cercle D’Art, S.A. & Harry Abrams






Pontificale Romanum,        $30

Editio Typica 1961-1962
Citta del Vaticano, 2008



Rituale Romanum,              $50

Editio Typica 1952
Citta del Vaticano, 2008



Missale Romanum,        $50

Editio Typica 1962
Citta del Vaticano, 2007


 
Drawn and Quartered           $10

Charles Addams
Forward by Boris Karloff
Bantam Books, 1946



 


Paradoxes of Art,            $25
A Phenomenological Investigation

Alan Paskow
Cambridge University Press, 2004





The Buccaneers            $50

Edith Wharton
D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938



Practical of Book Oriental Rugs            $30

G. Griffin Lewis
J.B. Lippincott, 1911



Lana, the Lady, the Legend, the Truth           $40

Lana Turner
Signed by the Author
E.P. Dutton, 1982





Lone Cowboy, My Life Story        $25

Will James
Scribner’s, 1947






Anansi Boys                   $45

Neil Gaiman
Limited and Signed First Edition
William Morrow, 2005

 

Art Treasures in China            $35

Mary Tregear & Shelagh Vainker
Harry Abrams, 1994

 
 



 My American Journey   $25

Colin Powell     
Signed by Colin Powell
Random House, 1995  
numberline starts 2


 
Handbook of Nuclear Weapon Effects          $200

John Northrop, editor
1st edition, September 1996      No CD





The Fateful Journey: The Expedition             
Of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin 
in Sudan (1863 – 1864) 
$40

Rober Joost Willink                                            
Amsterdam Press, 2011






America’s Women in the Revolutionary         $75
Era 1760 – 1790

3 volumes
Eric G. Grundset        DAR

 
The Paintings of Henry Wo Yue-Kee       $30

Artland Press, 1992



A Mirror of Princes, The Mughals and the Medici $30

Edited by Dalu Jones                                       
Marg Publications, 1987

The Kariye Djami     $75

Paul A. Underwood
3 Volumes
Pantheon Books, 1966



Indian Pictorial Education    $20
Times of India Press, 1930



ADDED to the case September 25, 2013:


Finden’s Illustrations of the Life and Works          $80
of Lord Byron, Vol. 1      
W. Brockedon   John Murray, 1837


Discovery of the Circle     $10

Bruno Munari
George Wittenborn, Inc., 1970



Discovery of the Square  $10

Bruno Munari
George Wittenborn, Inc., 1970



The Thomas Jefferson Building,
The Library of Congress             $10

Blaine Marshall & Alexander Hovan

Library of Congress, 2003



Guatemala Rainbow       $30

Photographs by Gianni Vecchiato

Pomegranate Art Books, 1989



Morris’s Human Anatomy, 5 Volumes    $50

A Complete Systematic Treatise by English

And American Authors

Edited by C.M. Jackson

P. Blakiston’s Son & Co., copyright 1914



Silver Certificates face value $1 selling for $2 each

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