Book Sale Preview: Rare, Fine, and Unusual Books on Display

Rare books, art books, and other collectibles are on display in the left glass case in the George Mason Regional Library lobby. These items will go on sale starting at 3 pm on September 28.

Lancelot-Grail, Old French
Vulgate Translation

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.

 Highlights include a 2-volume set of Paul Klee's notebooks; and a first My Home is Far Away, an autobiographical novel of prolific 20th novelist, playwright, and social satirist Dawn Powell. Also, a fine, 5-volume English translation of the Lancelot-Grail, which are 13th century manuscripts of Arthurian legend written in Old French.

NOTABLE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS

My Home Is Far Away
First Edition

My Home is Far Away  $100
Dawn Powell. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944. 1st Edition. Autobiographical novel of prolific 20th novelist, playwright, and social satirist.

Tennis  $25
Helen Wills. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928. Inscribed by author. 


The Phoenicians $40
Sabatino Moscati. Bompiani, 1988 . 1st Edition 

The Etruscans, $30
Mario Torelli, Editor. Bompiani, 2000. 1st Edition 

SETS

Paul Klee Notebooks

Paul Klee Notebooks. Volume 1: The Thinking Eye. Volume 2: The Nature
of Nature.  $250
Jurg Spiller, Editor, Ralph Manheim, Translator
Overlook Press, 1992

Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-vulgate in Translation, 5 volumes  $150
Norris J. Lacy, General Editor. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993

The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions, 3 volumes  $75
Robert Briffault. The MacMillan Company, 1927

Nimrud and Its Remains, 3 volumes    $75
M.E. Mallowan, 1966

Freer Chinese Bronzes, 2 volumes    $100

Freer Chinese Bronzes, Vol 1 & 2

John Alexander Pope, et.al. Smithsonian Institution, 1967 & 1969



20th CENTURY ART

The World of Beryl Cook  $20
Jess Wilder, Jerome Sams. Prestel, 2007

Metamorphosis: The Fiber Art of Judith Scott  $25
John M. MacGregor. Creative Growth Art Center, 1999

Hommage a Marc Chagall: Oeuvres de 1947-1967  $25
Fondation Maeght, 1967

The Course of Human History Personified  $25

Tamara de Lempicka

Marcel Dzama. David Zwirmer, New York, 2005


Tamara de Lempicka: Art Deco Icon  $25
Royal Academy of Arts, 2004

ARCHITECTURE

Inventory of Early Architecture  $15
Christopher M. Gregson. County of Henrico, Virginia, 1998

The Lost Palace of Whitehall    $20
Simon Thurley. Royal Institute of British Architects, 1998

The Lion and the Unicorn  $25
Henrietta Goodden. Unicorn Press, 2011

ASIAN ART 
Hokusai, Beyond the Great Wave  $35
Timothy Clark, Editor. Thames & Hudson, The British Museum, 2017   

Qing dais hui hua feng (Mandarin Chinese edition)  $25
Chongquing chu ban she, 1995

Chinesische Kunst  $25
Lubor Hajek. Artia, 1955

Along the Border of Heaven: Sung and Yuan Paintings from the C.C. Wang Family Collection  $25
Richard  M. Barnhart. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983

In the Western Manner, Paintings by Chinese Export Artists, Catalogue 53  $15
Martyn Gregory Gallery, 1989

Images of the Mind: Selections from the Edward L. Elliott Family  $30
Wen C. Fong, et. al. Art Museum, Princeton University, 1984

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN ART

Leading Figures in Venezuelan Painting of the Nineteenth Century  $15
Inter-American Development Bank, 1999

Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees: Reconstructing the Murals of Teotihuacan  $25
Kathleen Berrin, et. al. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988

Cuatro Siglos de Pintura
Puertorriquena

Cuatro Siglos de Pintura Puertorriquena  $25
Banco Santander. Puerto Rico, 1998

EUROPEAN ART

Antonello da Messina, Sicily’s Renaissance Master  $20
Gioacchino Barbera. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005

Heroic Deeds and Mystic Figures: A New Reading of Rubens’ Life of Maria de’Medici  $25
Millen and Wolf. Princeton University Press, 1989

Ingres and the Comtesse d’Haussonville  $30
Edgar Munhall. Frick Collection, 1998

Degas Landscapes  $30
Richard Kendall. Yale University Press, 1993

Rembrandt, Etchings    $45
Introduction & Catalogue by Yevgeny Levitan, Andrew Baratt, Translator. Aurora Art, 1973

MIDDLE EASTERN ART

Qur'ans of the Mamluks

Qur’ans of the Mamluks  $25
David James, 1988

La Alhambra Palais  $75
Owen Jones y Jules Goury. Ediciones Akal, S.A., 2001

NATURE IN ART AND SCIENCE

Flower Paintings of Ellis Rowan  $80
National Library of Australia, 1982

ABC and XYZ of
Bee Culture

ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture  $30
A.I. Root Company, 1950

Boscos Vells, Mature Forests: Artists for Nature in the Catalan Pyrenees $35
Lynx Edicions, 2003

RUSSIAN CULTURE

The Art of Soviet Palekh (37 of 39 plates; numbers 4 and 26 missing) $40
Moscow, 1958

Siberia and the Exile System, 2 volumes  $
James R. Osgood and Company, 1883

The Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin  $40
I Ya. Kachalova, et. al.Moscow Iskusstvo Publishers, 1990

COLLECTIONS

Adolphe Stoclet Collection (Part 1)    $40
J.P. van Goidsenhoven, 1956

Aspects of Art, A Painter’s Alphabet  $25
Tom Phillips. Bellew Publishing, 1997