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


 

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