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A portion of the books on display for the Fall Book Sale. |
Rare books, art books, and other collectibles are on display in the lower half of the right glass case in the George Mason Regional Library lobby. These items will go on sale starting at 3 pm on September 29.
Below is a list of titles and prices. We reserve the right to correct any mistakes in the prices or descriptions published here. Books may be removed or added without updating the list.
Fine Antiquarian Books
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Fourth edition, Don Quixote, 1766. |
Villette, 3 Volumes ― $500
Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte)
Smith, Elder & Co., 1853
(More details available
here)
Don Quixote de la Mancha, 4 Volumes ― $400
Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra,
Translated by Charles Jarvis
J. and R. Tonson 1766
4th Edition
The Pilgrim’s Progress (Elstow Edition) ― $50
John Bunyan
John Walker and Co. 1881
Travels in Alaska ― $75
John Muir
Houghton Mifflin, 1915
Song of Hiawatha ― $30
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Frederic Remington, illustrator
Houghton, Mifflin, 1890
Signed by the Author
Abundant Living ― $50
E. Stanley Jones
Abingdon Press, 1942
Autographed
Singerie Songerie, a Masque on the Subject of Lyric Mode ― $45
Eugene Walter, Illustrations by ZEV
Willoughby Inst., 1958 Willoughby Inst., 1958
Numbered, Signed by Author and Illustrator
The Fall of America ― $30
Allen Ginsberg
Autographed
El Arte Y Los Toros ― $20
Fernando Berckemeyer y Pazos
Museo Taurino de Arte de Lima, 1966
Autographed
Limited Editions
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Boxed set of Interpretacion del Codice Selden, with facsimile of complete codex. | |
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Interpretacion del Codice Selden, 3135(A.2) ― $400
Alfonso Caso
Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia
Mexico, 1964
The History of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the
Debateable Land ― $150
Robert Bruce Armstrong
David Douglas, 1883
No. 33 of 105 copies
The Return of the Native ― $75
Thomas Hardy, Clare Leighton, woodcuts
Macmillan & Co., 1929
Limited edition
History
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The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912. |
The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters ― $40
Logan Marshall, Editor
L.T. Myers, 1912
Siberia and the Exile System, 2 volumes ― $35
George Kennan
The Century Company, 1891
Metrical Chronicle of Scotland, Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, 3 vols. ― $45
William B. Turnbull, ed.
Longman, Brown, Green, 1858
The Russo-Turkish War: Including an Account of the Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Power, and the History of the Eastern Question ― $30
Captain H.M. Hozier, Ed.
Mackenzie, London
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African Game Trails, by Theodore Roosevelt. |
African Game Trails ― $45
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910
Rank and File: True Stories of the Great War ― $40
Theodore Roosevelt, Illustrated by Captain John W. Thomason, Jr.
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928
Eastern Art
Between Heaven and Earth: Secular and Divine Figural Images in Chinese Paintings and Objects ― $17.50
Moss, 1988
Crow Collection of Asian Art ― $25
Robert R. Belinger, Editor
Trammell & Margaret Collection of Asian Art, 2008
Homage to Heaven, Homage to Earth: Chinese Treasures of the Royal Ontario Museum ― $30
Doris Dohrenwend, et. al.
University of Toronto Press, 1992
Freer Chinese Bronzes, 2 volumes ― $100
John Alexander Pope, et. al.
Smithsonian Institution: 1967, 1969
Middle Eastern Art
Nimrud and its Remains, 3 volumes ― $100
M.E.L. Mallowan
Collins, 1966
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La Alhambra Palais. |
La Alhambra Palais; Planos, alzados, secciones y detalles de la Alhambra ― $75
Owen Jones and Jules Gourg
Ediciones Aka, 2001
Qur’rans of the Mamluks ― $70
David James
Alexandria Press, London, 1988
Art of the Ancient Near East ― $40
Pierre Amiet, John Shepley & Claude Choquet, Translators
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1980
American and European Art
Rembrandt, Etchings ― $75
Introduction & Catalogue by Yevgeny Levitan, Andrew Baratt, Translator
Aurora Art , 1973
Rembrandt, Etchings and Drawings ― $25
Prof. V.V. Stech, translated by Alice Denesova
Paul Hamlyn, 1968
Painting Photography Film ― $35
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
MIT Press, 1967
Parkett No. 8 ― $25
In Collaboration with Markus Raetz
Parkett-Zurich, 1986
Chefs-d’oeuvre du Musee National des Beaux-Arts d’Alger ― $25
Mahammed-Orfali Dalila, 1999
Felix Valloton, Prints and Preparatory Drawings ― $35
Visual Arts Gallery, 1993
The Posters of Picasso ― $20
Joseph K. Foster
Grosset & Dunlap, 1964
Indian Art in Pipestone, George Catlin’s Portfolio in the British Museum ― $25
John C. Ewers, Ed.
Smithsonian Inst., 1979
Music
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 4 vols. ― $50
Sir Walter Scott
Adam and Charles Black
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 1787, Faksimile ― $40
W.A. Mozart
Barenreiter Kassel, 1955
The Sacred Oratorios, 1799 ― 40
George F. Handel
T. Hepinstall