Friday, November 24, 2023

OUR NEXT BOOK SALE
 
PREVIEW SALE: $20 PER PERSON
WEDNESDAY
APRIL 17, 2024
 
5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
 
GENERAL SALE: NO FEE
THURSDAY - SUNDAY
APRIL 18-21, 2024

10:00 a.m. -  5:30 p.m. each day
 
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING FOR THE BOOK SALE PLEASE EMAIL US AT:
GeorgeMasonFriends@gmail.com 

 

Monday, October 16, 2023

 

 FALL HIGHLIGHTS

FINE ART, RARE BOOKS, COLLECTIBLES,     AND CHILDREN'S BOOKS ON DISPLAY

      Don't miss the items currently on display in the George Mason Regional Library lobby.  One display case houses fine art and architecture books, rare books, and collectibles; the other children's books, including pop-ups.  These items will be on sale beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 19th. 

ART, RARE BOOKS, COLLECTIBLE DISPLAY


CHILDREN'S BOOK DISPLAY

 Below is a list of titles and prices of the books on display. We reserve the right to correct any mistakes in the prices or description published here. Books may be removed or added without updating the list. 

Art, Rare Books, Collectible Display

At Home in the President’s Neighborhood

A Photographic Tour, 1st Printing             $20

Bruce M. White

White House Historical Association          2016

 

The Birth of Japanese Art                          $30                        

Edward Kidder, Jr.

Kenishi Ozawa, Photographer

George Allen and Unwin Ltd.                   1965

 

Byzantium                                                      $20

Cormack and Vassilaki, Editors

Royal Academy of Arts                               2008

 

Camera Lucida                                             $20

Roland Barthes

Richard Howard, Translator

Hill and Wang                                              1981

 

The Cathedral of Palermo                             $30

Giuseppe Bellafiore         

S.F. Flaccovio                                               1976

 

The Changing City as Depicted in Modern

Woodblock Prints                                            $60

Organized by Edo-Tokyo Museum

Edo-Tokyo Museum                                        1996

 

The Clouds and the Rain,                                $50

The Art of Love in China

Michel Beurdeley

Hammond, Hammond & Co.                         1969

 

Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian

Architecture                                                      $100

Yatin Pandya

Mapin Publishing                                                          2005

 

Designing for Remembrance,                          $40

An Architectural Memoir

William P. Lecky

LDS Publishing                                              2012

 

Durer                                                              $60

The Complete Engravings, Etching

And Woodcuts

Karl-Adolf Knappe

Alpine Arts Collection                                    

 

Edo, Art in Japan 1615-1868                       $30

Robert Singer

National Gallery of Art                                1998

 

The Female Image                                          $150

20th Century Prints of Japanese Beauties

Abe Publishing                                                2000

 

Fritz Scholder:  Indian not Indian                   $40

Lowery Stokes Sims, Editor          

National Museum of the American Indian

Smithsonian Institution                                  2008

 

The Gothic Revival                                        $25

Sir Kenneth Clark

Scribners                                                       1950

 

Hans Holbein                                                  $20

Portraitist of the Renaissance

Royal Cabinet of Paintings                             2003

 

The Hokusai Sketchbooks             ,                $25

Selections from the Manga

James Michener

Charles E. Tuttle Company                            1959

 

Huang Chun-Pi’s Paintings                            $20

National Museum of History, China

 

Impossible Picturesqueness                            $20

Edward Lear’s Indian Watercolors

Vidya Dehejia  (cover detached)

Mapin Publishing                                         1989

 

Louis Icart, The Complete Etchings            $20

William R. Hollland, et. al.

Schiffer Publishing Ltd.                              1990

 

The Orientalist Poster                                   $25

Abdelaziz Ghozzi

Malika                                                           1997

 

Pablo Picasso                                                  $65

Wilhelm Boeck and Jaime Sabartes

Harry N. Abrams                                           1955

 

The Paintings of Joan Mitchell                     $25

Jane Livingston

University of California Press                       2002

 

The Papercut Art of Masayo Fukuda             $30

Signed by Artist

Kokusho Kanko Kai                                     2020

 

The People of Moscow                                  $25

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Simon and Schuster                                     1955

 

Picasso: Women                                           $45

Helene Parmelin

Editions Cercle D’Art, Harry N. Abrams  

                                                                                                                                 

Printing the Word: The Art of

Wanatabe Sadao                                              $50

American Bible Society                                  2000

 

Romance of the Taj Mahal                              $35

Pratapaditya Pal, et.al.

Time Books International                              1989

 

Rosemary Feit Covey,                                     $20

The Prints 1970-1990

Catalog by Eric Lansdowne Mackenzie

e.l.m. Fairfax County                                       1991

 

Sculpture to Wear,                                            $25

The Jewelry of Marjorie Schick

Tracey Rosolowski, et. al.

Arnoldsche Art Publishers                             2007

 

The Secret Life Drawings                               $25

Kropf and Morse, Introduction

Salvador Dali Foundation                             1982

 

The Sum of all Fears                                        $25

Tom Clancy, Advance Reading Copy

G.P. Putnam’s Sons                                         1991

 

Taisho Chic,                                                    $25

Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco

Essays by Brown and Minichiello

Honolulu Academy of Arts                            2001

 

Tennyson’s Poetical Works                            $25

Landscape Series of Poets

E.&J.B. Young

 

The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji                $45

Hokusai

East-West Center Press                                  1966

 

The Tres Riches Heures of Jean,                    $25

Duke of Berry

Musee Conde, Chantilly

Jean Longnon, Introduction

George Braziller                                           1969

 

Van Gogh                                                       $40

Meyer Shapiro

Harry N. Abrams & Sons                             1969

 

Van Gogh Self Portraits                                $25

Pascal Bonafoux

The Wellfleet Press                                       1989

 

Yoshida Toshi: Nature, Art, and Peace           $40

Eugene M. Skibbe

Seascape Publications                                    1996

 

CHILDREN'S BOOK DISPLAY

 

I Am a Rainbow                 $3


Mad About Madeleine     $15      

 

Predatori (in Italian)          $5

 

The Lost Files of

Nancy Drew             $5

 

The Travels of Baber         $3

 

 

The Wizard of Oz              $7

        First Five Novels

 

 

Peter and the Wolf              $6

 

 

The Story of Ferdinand      $5

 

 

The Ultimate Bug Book       $5

 

 

Grimm’s Complete              $5

        Fairy Tales

 

 

Preistorica Squali               $8

    (in Italian)

 

 

The Hobbit                       $4

 

 

Weather                              $3

 

 

Grimm’s Fairy Tales         $3

 

 

Wizarding World                $5

     A Pop-Up Gallery of

     Curiosities

 

 

Hans Brinker                     $4

 

 

Disney’s Haunted Mansion

       Pop-Up Book              $15

 

 

Strange Animals of the Sea   $4

 

 

Fantastic Beasts and Where

     to Find Them                   $10


 

Weather, a Pop-Up Book      $8

 

 

Navi (in Italian)                    $5

 

 

The Annotated Mother

        Goose                             $4

 

 

Little Red Riding Hood        $3

 

The Honeybee and

      the Robber                      $4

 

 

Castles                                  $5

 

       

The Book about Moomin,    $3

    Mymble and Little My

 

Rejected Princesses               $5