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






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