Monday, April 15, 2019

Spring Sale: Children's Books on Display


Special selections of children’s books are now on display in the George Mason Regional Library lobby.  They will go on sale at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 25.

 
This sale we are offering several 1st editions beginning in 1926 and a number of nostalgia items.  In addition, there are several spectacular pop-up books including star war characters with sabers that light up, fairies, science topics, and more.


The following 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.


Star Wars                                                     $20
A pop-up Guide to the Galaxy        Orchard Books
Matthew Reinhart                                     2007



The Secret of Wildcat Swamp                    $25
Franklin Dixon                                        1st ed.
                                              Grosset & Dunlap
                                                                                                    
All Mirrors are Magic Mirrors                      $5
Welleran Poltarnees         Green Tiger Press
                                                                      1972

The Russian Ruby                                          $10
Iain Smyth                    Pop-up, 1st Amer. ed.
                                                                Dutton

Hans Brinker                                                  $10
Mary Mapes Dodge         Charles Scribner’s Sons
                                                                      1926
                                                                                                       
Nursery Rhymes                                            $10
Matthew Reinhart                                Pop-up
                                              Little Simon, 2009
                                                                              
The Cunning Little Vixen                             $10
Rudolf Tesnohlidek                   Stated 1st ed.
Illus. Maurice Sendak             Farrar, Straus, Giroux


How to Find Flower Fairies                 $7.50
Cicely Barker                              Pop-up
                                                   Warne, 2007


The Chronicles of Narnia                               $20
C.S. Lewis                             31 compact discs
                              7 unabridged audio books

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles                    $8
Patricia Wrede                 Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt
                                                                      2015

Fairy Tales, Vol.1                                           $10
Hans Christian Andersen     World Edition
                                                               Flensted


Wooden Willie                    $10
Johnny Gruelle           P.F. Volland
                                                 1927







George Washington                                       $10
the D’aulaires                                 Doubleday
Illus. by authors

Best Stories Ever                                          $10
Richard Scarry                           Golden Press
                                                                    1971

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland               $10
Lewis Carroll                                         Barons
                                                                    2010
 
Frankenstein                                                     $5
Mary Shelly                           Portland House
                                                                      1988

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland               $12
Robert Sabuda                                      Pop-up
                                              Little Simon, 2003




Fairies and Magical Creatures                       $15
Reinhart and Sabuda                             1st ed.
                                    Candlewick Press, 2008

The Jack and Jill Book                                       $5
Children’s Annual       Amalgamated Press
                                                                      1956
The Jack and Jill Book                                       $5
Children’s Annual       Amalgamated Press
                                                                        1957

The Jack and Jill Book                                       $5
Children’s Annual       Amalgamated Press
                                                                      1958
                                                                          
The Story of Mankind                                    $10
Hendrik Van Loon                     Garden City
                                                                      1926

Kit Carson                                                      $10
Augusta Stevenson                  Bobbs-Marrill
                                                                      1945

Fairy Tales                                                      $20
Charles Perrault                              Calla 2012
Illus. Clarke                            Reprint of 1927

Child’s Own Book of                                      $10
Great Musicians                Set of 7 (1915-1917)
Thomas Tapper                  Theodore Presser

Time Cat                                                         $20
Lloyd Alexander                          1963, 1st ed.
                                Holt, Rinehart & Winston

The Log of Christopher Columbus                $10
Copied in brief by Las Casas     1938, 1st ed.
                                                       Wm. R. Scott


Dinosaurs                                                             $10
Sabuda and Reinhart                           Pop-up
                                    Candlewick Press, 2005

Famous Bridges of the World                        $10
David B. Steinman                       1953, 1st ed.
                                                  Random House

Feel the Force                                                       $10
Adams and Flintham                  2011, 1st ed.
                                                   Templar Books

Bugs: An Expedition                                     $10
through the Undergrowth               2012, 1st ed.
Jen Green                                  Silver Dolphin

Pinocchio                                                        $15
C. Collodi                                   Platt & Munk
                                                                      1940

Swiss Family Robinson                                  $10
David Wyss                          John C. Winston
                                                                      1929






Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Spring Sale: Rare, Fine, and Unique Books on Display


A selection of rare books, art and architecture books, photography and other collectibles are now on display in the George Mason Regional Library lobby.  These items will be available for sale beginning at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 25.




A few of this spring’s sale highlights include works on Soviet posters, restaurant placement drawings, emigration books from Alsace, and fine photography selections. Of note, is a limited edition of Conversation at Midnight, 1937, signed by the author Edna St. Vincent Millay.

The following 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.

ART



Icones, Grecques, Melkites, Russes               $35
Collection Privee du Liban
Editions Albert Skira                                     1993

Art & Illusion                                                 $30
A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation                                                     
E.H. Gombrich
Phaidon                                                       2003

From the Silver Age to Stalin:                       $15
Russian Children’s Book Illustration in the
Sasha Lurye Collection, 1st Ed.
Michael Patrick Hearn
Eric Carle Museum                                      2003

An Artistic Exile, A Life of Feng Zikai          $50
Geremie R. Barme
University of California Press                     2002

Getting It, A Guide to Understanding and   $10
Appreciating Art
Becky Hendrick
Houghton Mifflin Custom Publishing          2013

Isamu Noguchi, Portrait Sculpture               $30
Nancy Grove
Smithsonian Institution Press                    1989

Iznik, The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey         $125
Nurhan Atasoy & Julian Raby
Alexandria Press & Laurence King Publ.   1994




Kenojuak                   $25
Jean Blodgett
Firefly Books
Toronto                      1985









100 Views Along the Road                            $20
Watercolors by Alfred Leslie
Timken Publishers, Inc.                              1988

Peintres du XX Siecle                                   $35
Maurice Raynal 
Editions D’Art Skira                                   1947

Powers of Ten, A Flipbook                           $12
Based on the Film by Charles and Ray Eames
Eames Office & Optical Toys




Soviet Spectacular Posters,                           $75
Theater, Circus, Ballet, Movies, 1917-1987
Moscow                                                        1990

Von Reck’s Voyage, Georgia in 1736           $25
Drawings & Journal of Philip G.F. von Reck
Kristian Hvidt, Ed.
Beehive Press                                               1980
 

Waiting for Food,                                           $15
Restaurant Placemat Drawings
R. Crumb
Kitchen Sink Press                                       1995

ARCHITECTURE

Amancio Williams                                          $30
Jorge Silvetti, Editor
Rizzoli                                                          1987

The Concept of Dwelling                               $35
Christian Norberg-Schulz
Electa/Rizzoli                                               1985

Copenhagen, Architecture & Design            $15
(and guide)
Christian Datz and Christof Kullmann
Te Neues Verlag                                           2005




Along the Seaboard Side                               $60
The Architectural History of Worcester County, Maryland
Paul Baker Touart, signed by the Author
Worcester County                                        1994

Glenn Murcutt, A Singular Architectural Practice                                                           $35
Haig Beck & Jackie Cooper                                
Images Publishing Group                            2003

Glenn Murcutt, Buildings+Projects              $30
Buildings +Projects 1962-2003                         
Francoise Fromonot                                             
Thames & Hudson                                       2003

Monasteries and Monastic Orders                $30
Kristina Kruger
H.F. Ullmann                                                2008


HISTORY

The Alsace Emigration Book, Vol. I              $65
Compiled by Cornelia Schrader-Muggenthaler
Closson Press                                               1993

The Alsace Emigration Book, Vol. II            $65
Compiled by Cornelia Schrader-Muggenthaler
Closson Press                                               1991

The Baden Emigration Book                         $30
Compiled by Cornelia Schrader-Muggenthaler
Closson Press                                               1999

LITERATURE

The Book of Puka-Puka, 1st Printing             $40
Robert Dean Frisbie
Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine
The Century Company                                1929

Conversation at Midnight                            $125
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Limited Edition, Copy #110, Signed by Author
Harper and Brothers                                     1937

 



The Kingdom of the Pearl, Limited Edition $50
Leonard Rosenthal, Ill. by Edmund Dulac
Hodder and Stoughton                                 1984

The Lord of the Rings, 3 Volumes                $65
J.R.R. Tolkien
Folio Society Edition, 6th Printing              2001

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats           $20
T.S. Eliot
Early American Printing
Harcourt, Brace and Company                    1947

Sonnets from the Portuguese                         $20
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Centennial Variorum Edition
Philip C. Duschnes                                       1950

NATURAL HISTORY

Audubon                                                         $35
Stanley Clisby Arthur, signed by author
Harmanson                                                   1937

Audubon, Fifty Selections with Commentaries
By Tory Peterson                                           $20
43 of 50 Prints

PHOTOGRAPHY

Annie Leibovitz at Work, 1st Ed.                    $15
Sharon DeLano, Ed.
Random House                                             2008

Blumenfeld, Nus                                             $15
Yorick Blumenfeld
Editions de La Martiniere                            1999

Glen Canyon, Images of a Lost World          $35
Tad Nichols
Museum of New Mexico Press                   1999

  
 MDM Marszalkowska 1730-1954                 $40
Stanislaw Jankowski
Czytelnik                                                      1955

Robert Mapplethorpe, The Perfect Moment $15
Janet Kardon
Institute of Contemporary Art,
University of Pennsylvania                         1988

Memoria de Madrid,                                      $15
Fotografias de Alfonso
Lopez Mondejar
Ministerio de Cultura                                   1984

Observations                                                  $45
Photographs by Richard Avedon, Comments by
Truman Capote
Simon and Schuster                                     1959