Sunday, April 16, 2023

SPRING HIGHLIGHTS:

RARE, FINE, AND UNIQUE BOOKS ON DISPLAY 

 


A selection of art and architecture books, literature, rare books, and other collectibles are now on display at the George Mason Regional Library lobby.  These items will be available for sale beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 27.

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 & ARCHITECTURE

2nd Taiwan 100 Artists Union Exhibition   $50

of Calligraphy and Painting                                                             

 

100 Years of Bicycle Posters, 1st Edition    $40

Jack Rennert

Harper & Row                                                                             1973

 

 

Al-Andalus, The Art of Islamic Spain                                            $30

Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Editor

The Metropolitan Museum of Art                                               1992

 

Artes de Mexico, Numero 15,                $10

     El Arte Ritual de la Muerte Nina                                                   

Primavera 1992

 

Beware Wet Paint                                 $15

Designs by Alan Fletcher

Commentary by Jeremy Myerson

Phaidon    1996

 


 

 

Cezanne in the Studio                  $25

Carol Armstrong

The J. Paul Getty Museum  2004                                              

 

 

Cruelty & Utopia, Cities and Landscapes of Latin America                                                                                $75                                                                                                                                

Eduardo Baez et. al.

Princeton Architectural Press    2003                                                

 

 

 

 

 

The Domus Aurea and the Roman                         $75

Architectural Revolution                                                              

Larry F. Ball

Cambridge University Press 2003

 

How to Draw Wild Flowers                                      $15

Vere Temple

The Studio  1943

 

The John Marin Collection at the                           $20

       Colby College Museum of Art                                                     

Ruth E. Fine

Colby College Museum of Art    2003

 


 

Las Cuatro Estaciones (The Four Seasons)                                $40

Cesar Luengo

No. 26 of limited edition of print portfolio with hexagrams by I Ching

All prints signed and numbered by the artist

Galeria Estampa, Ediciones 1980

                                                     

 


Lost Treasures of Persia                           $30

Vladimir Loukonine & Anatoli Ivanov

Mage Publishers                                                                             1996

 

 

 

 

Manet’s Modernism                                      $25

Michael Fried

University of Chicago Press 1996

 

Paper Cuts in China                                    $15

Makeup of Peking Opera

 


 

The Quranic Art of Calligraphy and Illumination      $45                                                                     

Martin Lings                                                           

World of Islam Festival Trust   1976                                                  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ramakian, Mural Paintings Along                                 $40

       the Galleries of the Temple of the

       Emerald Buddha

The Government Lottery Office of

     Thailand     1995

 

The Story of Imari, 1st Printing                                              $40

Goro Shimura

Ten Speed Press   2008

 


 The Sultan’s Garden, The Blossoming of
                                      $150

       Ottoman Art                                                                                   

Denny & Krody

The Textile Museum  2012

 

              LITERATURE               

All in the Day’s Riding, 1st edition                                                    $30

Will James, illustrated by the author

Charles Scribner’s Sons    1933

                                                                

All Quiet on the Western Front                                                        $30

Stated 1st printing

Erich Maria Remarque

Little, Brown, and Company  1929

                                                              

                                                          The Call of the Wild                $50

                                                            Jack London

                                                            Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin & Charles Livingston Bull

                                                            The Macmillan Company 1904

 


 

 

Cannery Row, 1st Edition 3rd Printing                             $25

John Steinbeck

Viking   1945

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Cranford, Illustrated                               $20

Mrs. Gaskell

Joseph Knight Company  1891

 

 


 

 

 


 

 

Don Quixote de la Mancha, 2 volumes                               $25

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Translated by Samuel Putnam

The Viking Press  1949

 

 

 

                                                                                        

 

 

The Grapes of Wrath, with a Portfolio of Photographs                 $75

John Steinbeck

The Franklin Library  1988

 

Michel de Montaigne, Essays                                                        $50

Translated by M.A. Screech

Penguin Classics    2013

                                                                                                                 

The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918                              $25

Edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch                                          

Oxford University Press  1966

 

Peril and Promise                                                                            $30

John Chancellor, signed 1st edition

Easton Press  1990

 

Rhapsody, A Dream Novel, 2nd printing                                     $40

Arthur Schnitzler

Translated by Otto P. Schinnerer

Simon and Schuster  1927

 

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam                                               $40

        In Persian, English, and French

Dr. Hossein-Ali Nouri Esfandiary, Editor

Shumposha Photo Printing Co.     1974

                                                                                                                

 


Tennyson’s Poetical Works                                                   $40

Landscape Series of Poets

E. & J.B. Young


 

 

 

 

 

 

A Piece of My Heart, stated 1st Edition                                $35

Richard Ford

Ex-library first novel

Harper & Row   1976

                                                                                          

A Piece of My Heart, Advance reading copy                       $50

Richard Ford                                                                     

Harper & Row   1976

 

 HISTORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY

 


 

 

America’s Housekeeping Book                                           $60

Compiled by NY Herald Tribute Home Institute

Charles Scribner’s Sons    1941

 

 

 

 

 

 

 American History Leaflets, No. 16                                                    $12

The Territorial Development of the U.S.,

1584-1774

Parker P. Simmons   1913

 

The Art of Wall Street Investing                                                        $50

John Moody

Moody’s Magazine   1909

 

The Great Rebellion, 2 volumes                                                    $50

A History of the Civil War in the United States

J.T. Headley

Hurlbut, Scranton & Company    1864

 


        


 

 

 

Lens on Life                              $40                                           

Stephanie Calabrese Roberts                                                         

Focal Press  2012                                                                                                           

 

Lincoln the Unknown                                                       $20

Dale Carnegie, inscribed by author

D. Appleton-Century Company   1935

 

                                 The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State         $20

                                 Frederick Engels

                                Charles H. Kerr 1902

 


 



 

                                                                                          

 

 

                                                                                          

                                                                                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                          

 

 

 

                                                                                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                          

  

 

 

 

 

 

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