The left side display case in the lobby of the Library is now full of special finds of adult books which will be for sale at the book sale starting September 22. Warning: we reserve the right to correct any mistakes we have made in the prices or descriptions being published here. We may remove a book if we detect a mistake and we may add books without updating the list.
DISPLAY CASE BOOKS---09/11
Seto and Mino Ceramics $60
Louise Allison Cort 1992, Smithsonian Institution
HB in DJ
The Freer Chinese Bronzes $50
(Volume I, Catalogue)
John Alexander Pope et al 1967, Smithsonian Institution
HB in DJ
History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 1892 $60
edited by John F. Meginness
HB, 1996 Reprint
Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1868 $40
HB; some loose pages, cover also loose
Mada’in Saleh $25
Mohammed Babelli Second Edition 2007
HB in DJ
Process: Architecture, Volume 32, $25
The Legacy of Marcel Breuer
PB, in English and Japanese
Process: Architecture, Volume 19, $15
The Heritage of Walter Gropius
PB, in English and Japanese
Firearms Identification, 3 Volumes $350
J. Howard Mathews 1962, University of Wisconsin
HB in DJ, Volume I signed by author
The Crying of Lot 49 $40
Thomas Pynchon J.B. Lippincott, First Edition
HB in DJ with small tears
The Marble Collegiate Church $75
edited by Blanche Tessaro Cleaver 1954
HB signed by Norman Vincent Peale
Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, 2 Volumes $50
Lucy Aiken 1833
HB, leather and board binding, well rubbed but intact
Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola $40
Decimoctava Edicion 1956
HB, shelfworn and binding cracked
The Judson Burmese-English Dictionary $50
Revised & Enlarged by Robert C. Stevenson 1921, Rangoon American
Baptist Mission Press
HB, title retaped on front and spine
Virginia Ancestors and Adventurers, $50
3 Volumes in One
compiled by Charles Hughes Hamlin 1975
HB
Going Rogue $25
Sarah Palin, 2009
HB in DJ, signed by author on label pasted on endpaper
The Scarlet Cockerel $20
C.M. Sublette, illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover 1931
HB with pasted-on illustration on front cover
Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln $50
to Garfield, 2 Volumes
James G. Blaine 1884 &1886
HB, spines loose
Douze Journees de la Revolution $30
Poemes par Barthelemy 1832
HB in rubbed leather and board cover, in French and German
Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America $30
Richard Harding Davis copyright 1896
HB, illustrated
A Soldier With the Arabs $45
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb 1957 HB
The Construction and Reconstruction of the Human $100
Body, A Manual of the Therapeutics of Exercise
Eugen Sandow, with Foreword by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1907
HB in red cloth badly worn and stained but intact
Official Proceedings, St. Louis Railway Club $25
Volume 17 from May 1912 through April 1913
HB in leather and decorated boards, front cover loose
Lhasa and Its Mysteries With a Record of the $60
Expedition of 1903-1904, Third and Cheaper Edition
L. Austine Waddell 1906
HB, ex-library
Cuadernos de Poesia, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena
Volume 3: Luis Pales Matos $12
illustrated by Rafael Tufino 1989
PB
Volume 4: Jose Gautier Benitez $12
illustrated by A. Marin 1960
PB
Volume 5: Lola Rodriguez de Tio $12
illustrated by S. Sanchez 1960
PB
Volume 10: Santiago Vidarte $12
illustrated by Carlos Marichal 1965
PB
Volume 13: Francisco Matos Paoli $12
illustrated by Augusto Marin 1976
PB
Washington, D.C., Celebrated Chefs, Volume 1 $35
Edited by Melissa McCart, Photographs by 2010
Angie Norwood Browne
HB
The Touch of the Artist, Master Drawings from $20
the Woodner Collections 1996
Edited by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, National Gallery of Art
PB
With Ossie & Ruby, In This Life Together $25
Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee 1998
First Edition, signed by both authors on book plate
PB
The Edna Lewis Cookbook $75
Edna Lewis & Evangeline Peterson 1972, Bobbs-Merrill
HB VG/VG First Printing
American Self-Taught, Paintings and Drawings $20
by Outsider Artists
Frank Maresca & Roger Ricco, with a Foreword by
Lanford Wilson, 1993, Alfred A. Knopf
HB NF/NF First Edition
Imogen Cunningham, Flora $25
Text by Richard Lorenz, 1996, Bullfinch Press First Edition
HB NF/VG
Aniu, From Snowflake to Iceberg $50
Bernard Voyer, Explorer, Preface by Sir Edmund Hillary,
2005, Neve Editions Signed by author
HB NF/NF
Korean Art: 100 Masterpieces $75
1995, Editions API
HB Boxed, Like New /Like New