Sunday, October 9, 2022

Fall Highlights: Fine Art, Collectibles, and Unique Books on Display


 

Fall Highlights: FINE ART, COLLECTIBLES, AND UNIQUE BOOKS on DISPLAY

Don’t miss a wide-array of beautiful art books along with other unique collectibles on display in the George Mason Regional Library lobby.  These items will be available for sale beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 20.  


Below is a list of titles and prices and some photos of several of the books. 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

The Thrilling Comic Book Cover Art of Alex Schomburg, 

1st printing    $ 40

Compiled by J. David Spurlock

Vanguard Productions   2005


Picasso & the Camera                           $ 30

John Richardson, Curator

Gagosian Gallery                                  2014

 

Drawings of Jim Dine                           $ 25

Judith Brodie

National Gallery of Art                         2004

 

 Sculpture to Wear, the Jewelry of Marjorie Schick           $ 50 

Tracey Rosolowski, et. al.

Arnoldsche Art Publisher       2007 


Information Art, Diagramming Microchips $ 30

Cara McCarty

Museum of Modern Art                        1990

 

William Glackens                                 $ 20

Avis Berman, Editor

Skira Rizzoli                                        2014

 

 

 

The Essence of Line, French Drawings from  Ingres to Degas       $17.50

Jay McKean Fisher, et. al.

Pennsylvania State University Press      2005

 

 

 

 

Tom Thomson                                      $ 35

Dennis Reid, Editor

Art Gallery of Ontario                          2002

 

Kilim History and Symbols                   $ 25

Dario Valcarenghi

Electa/Abbeville                                   1994

 

Czech Cubism                                      $ 40

Alexander von Vegesack, Editor

Princeton Architectural Press                1992

 

The Cathedral of Palermo                     $ 30

Giuseppe Bellafiore

S.F. Flaccovio                                      1976

 

LITERATURE

 

 

 

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam          
$ 40

In Persian, English, and French

Dr. Hossein-Ali Nouri Esfandiary, Editor

Shumposha Photo Printing Co.              1974

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir                      $200

R.A. Dick

Buccaneer Books

 

Diary of Sylvia McNeely                      $ 50

Longmans, Green and Co.                     1931

 

The Stones of Venice, 3 volumes           $100

John Ruskin

Merrill and Baker

 

The Adventures of Gremlin                   $ 15    
DuPre Jones

Drawings by Edward Gorey

Pomegranate                                        2013

 

Michael Strogoff, A Courier of the Czar $ 30

Jules Verne

N.C. Wyeth, Illustrator

Charles Scribner’s Sons                        1927

 

The Green Knight                                 $ 45

Iris Murdoch

Autographed

Chatto & Windus                                 1993

 

Kumquat 1                                           $ 35

Geof Hewitt, Editor

The Kumquat Press                              1967

 

HISTORY/FOREIGN LANGUAGE

 A Chinese Biographical Dictionary        $500

Herbert A. Giles

London, Bernard Quaritch                     1898

 


HISTORY

One World, second printing                   $ 35    

Wendell L. Wilkie

Signed by owner

Simon and Schuster                              1943

 

Abraham Lincoln, As a Man Among Men          $ 20

G. Lynn Sumner

Inscribed by author

Scranton, PA                                        1922


ESOTERICA

 

The New Book of Runes                       $ 25

Commentary by Ralph Blum

Incudes 25 runes with velvet bag

St. Martin’s Press, 3rd Edition                1987   

 

 

 

The Druid Animal Oracle Deck             $ 15

Philip & Stephanie Carr-Gomm

Bill Worthington, Illustrator

Includes 33 cards plus 3 blanks

Connections Book Publishing                2005

           

 

 

PHILOSOPHY

Plato Gorgias                                        $ 20

A Revised Text with Introduction & Commentary

E.R. Dodds

Oxford University Press                        1966