Rare books, art books, and other collectibles are on display in the left glass case in the George Mason Regional Library lobby. These items will go on sale starting at 3 pm on September 28.
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Lancelot-Grail, Old French
Vulgate Translation |
Below 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.
Highlights include a 2-volume set of Paul Klee's notebooks; and a first
My Home is Far Away, an autobiographical novel of prolific 20th novelist, playwright, and social satirist Dawn Powell. Also, a fine, 5-volume English translation of the Lancelot-Grail, which are 13th century manuscripts of Arthurian legend written in Old French.
NOTABLE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS
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My Home Is Far Away
First Edition |
My Home is Far Away $100
Dawn Powell. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944. 1st Edition.
Autobiographical novel of prolific 20th novelist, playwright, and social satirist.
Tennis $25
Helen Wills. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928. Inscribed by author.
The Phoenicians $40
Sabatino Moscati. Bompiani, 1988 . 1st Edition
The Etruscans, $30
Mario Torelli, Editor. Bompiani, 2000. 1st Edition
SETS
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| Paul Klee Notebooks |
Paul Klee Notebooks. Volume 1: The Thinking Eye. Volume 2: The Nature
of Nature. $250
Jurg Spiller, Editor, Ralph Manheim, Translator
Overlook Press, 1992
Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-vulgate in Translation, 5 volumes $150
Norris J. Lacy, General Editor. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993
The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions, 3 volumes $75
Robert Briffault. The MacMillan Company, 1927
Nimrud and Its Remains, 3 volumes $75
M.E. Mallowan, 1966
Freer Chinese Bronzes, 2 volumes $100
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| Freer Chinese Bronzes, Vol 1 & 2 |
John Alexander Pope, et.al. Smithsonian Institution, 1967 & 1969
20th CENTURY ART
The World of Beryl Cook $20
Jess Wilder, Jerome Sams. Prestel, 2007
Metamorphosis: The Fiber Art of Judith Scott $25
John M. MacGregor. Creative Growth Art Center, 1999
Hommage a Marc Chagall: Oeuvres de 1947-1967 $25
Fondation Maeght, 1967
The Course of Human History Personified $25
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| Tamara de Lempicka |
Marcel Dzama. David Zwirmer, New York, 2005
Tamara de Lempicka: Art Deco Icon $25
Royal Academy of Arts, 2004
ARCHITECTURE
Inventory of Early Architecture $15
Christopher M. Gregson. County of Henrico, Virginia, 1998
The Lost Palace of Whitehall $20
Simon Thurley. Royal Institute of British Architects, 1998
The Lion and the Unicorn $25
Henrietta Goodden. Unicorn Press, 2011
ASIAN ART
Hokusai, Beyond the Great Wave $35
Timothy Clark, Editor. Thames & Hudson, The British Museum, 2017
Qing dais hui hua feng (Mandarin Chinese edition) $25
Chongquing chu ban she, 1995
Chinesische Kunst $25
Lubor Hajek. Artia, 1955
Along the Border of Heaven: Sung and Yuan Paintings from the C.C. Wang Family Collection $25
Richard M. Barnhart. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983
In the Western Manner, Paintings by Chinese Export Artists, Catalogue 53 $15
Martyn Gregory Gallery, 1989
Images of the Mind: Selections from the Edward L. Elliott Family $30
Wen C. Fong, et. al. Art Museum, Princeton University, 1984
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN ART
Leading Figures in Venezuelan Painting of the Nineteenth Century $15
Inter-American Development Bank, 1999
Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees: Reconstructing the Murals of Teotihuacan $25
Kathleen Berrin, et. al. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988
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Cuatro Siglos de Pintura
Puertorriquena |
Cuatro Siglos de Pintura Puertorriquena $25
Banco Santander. Puerto Rico, 1998
EUROPEAN ART
Antonello da Messina, Sicily’s Renaissance Master $20
Gioacchino Barbera. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005
Heroic Deeds and Mystic Figures: A New Reading of Rubens’ Life of Maria de’Medici $25
Millen and Wolf. Princeton University Press, 1989
Ingres and the Comtesse d’Haussonville $30
Edgar Munhall. Frick Collection, 1998
Degas Landscapes $30
Richard Kendall. Yale University Press, 1993
Rembrandt, Etchings $45
Introduction & Catalogue by Yevgeny Levitan, Andrew Baratt, Translator. Aurora Art, 1973
MIDDLE EASTERN ART
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| Qur'ans of the Mamluks |
Qur’ans of the Mamluks $25
David James, 1988
La Alhambra Palais $75
Owen Jones y Jules Goury. Ediciones Akal, S.A., 2001
NATURE IN ART AND SCIENCE
Flower Paintings of Ellis Rowan $80
National Library of Australia, 1982
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ABC and XYZ of
Bee Culture |
ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture $30
A.I. Root Company, 1950
Boscos Vells, Mature Forests: Artists for Nature in the Catalan Pyrenees $35
Lynx Edicions, 2003
RUSSIAN CULTURE
The Art of Soviet Palekh (37 of 39 plates; numbers 4 and 26 missing) $40
Moscow, 1958
Siberia and the Exile System, 2 volumes $
James R. Osgood and Company, 1883
The Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin $40
I Ya. Kachalova, et. al.Moscow Iskusstvo Publishers, 1990
COLLECTIONS
Adolphe Stoclet Collection (Part 1) $40
J.P. van Goidsenhoven, 1956
Aspects of Art, A Painter’s Alphabet $25
Tom Phillips. Bellew Publishing, 1997
