LOUIS L'AMOUR WESTERN NOVELS

 

 

 

     Sixteen volumes of Louis L’Amour’s westerns will be available at the book sale. The volumes are part of the Bantam Books Louis L’Amour Leatherette Collection released in the 1980’s and 1990’s. The books are in beautiful brown simulated leather with gold lettering and a reproduction of Louis L’Amour’s signature embossed on the cover of each volume.  $4.00 each.

 

DISPLAY CASE: RARE BOOKS AND COLLECTIBLES

 

       Below is a list of the rare books and collectibles that are on display, and for sale, at our upcoming Spring Book Sale. Take a look below at the rare and unique items in a variety of categories. 

ART

­­Anthony van Dyck as a Printmaker $20
Car Depauw & Ger Luijten
Antwerpen Open 1999
(Water damage at back)

Curves and Contrasts of the Human Figure $75
Bertram Park & Yvonne Gregory
Bridgman Publishers first published in 1936

Tibetan Thangas $45
In Tibetan and Chinese with Preface in English
Preface by Rezin Dorji, Ou Chaogui, and Yishi Wangchu

Fabulous beasts and demons $20
Heinz Mode
Phaidon Press 1975

Tokyo Untitled $40
Renato D’Agostin
MC2GALLERY 2009

7439 $40
Renato D’Agostin
MC2GALLERY 2016

The Box Project $35
Works from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection
Lyssa C. Stapleton, Editor
The Cotsen Occasional Press 2016

The Quranic Art of Calligraphy and Illumination
Martin Lings $45
World of Islam Festival Trust 1976

The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill
Notes by Robert Harling $30
Number 47 of 100 copies
Eva Svensson 1976

Walter Pilcher $50
Drawings, Sculpture, Buildings
Introduction by Friedrich Achleitner
Princeton Architectural Press 1993

Minnie Evans, Artist $30
Charles M. Lovell and Erwin Hester, Editors
Wellington B. Gray Gallery 1993

Eva Hesse, 2 Volumes $35
Transformations & Datebooks, 1964/65
Kunstehalle Wien 2004

A Romp through Peace & War $15
Alban Bernard Butler, Jr.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation 1999

Tracing the Figure $20
Willem De Kooning
Essays by Cornelia H. Butler, et. al.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2002

Awash in Color $17
Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor
Sue Welsh Reed & Carol Troyen
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1993

Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing $17
Exhibition organized by The Oriental Ceramic Society and the British Museum
British Museum Publications 1984

Flickering Light, A History of Neon $25
Christoph Ribbat
Reaktion Books 2013

The Story of Imari $40
Goro Shimura
Ten Speed Press, 1st Printing 2008

Hindu Art $15
T. Richard Blurton
Harvard University Press 1993

The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats $15
Claudia J. Nahson
Yale University Press 2011

Salvador Dali’s Tarot $35
Rachel Pollack
Salem House 1985 

Hiroshigo's Tokaido in Prints an Poetry $10
Reiko Chiba, Editor
Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1969

LITERATURE

 

Snow-Bound $20
With Twenty Full-Page Illustrations
John Greenleaf Whittier
Houghton Mifflin 1906 

Samuel Beckett, 4 Volumes $75
The Grove Centenary Edition
Paul Auster, Series Editor
Grove Press, 1st Grove Press Edition 2006 

 

Our Lady of the Flowers $30
Jean Genet
Anthony Blond 1964

Gulliver’s Travels $35
Jonathan Swift
Adapted for the Young by W.B. Scott
London, Ernest Nister 

 

The Maltese Falcon $75
Dashiell Hammett
Alfred A. Knopf 1930

Nobody Knows My Name $25
James Baldwin
Dial Press, 2nd Printing 1961

 

The Weans $20
Robert Nathan
Alfred A. Knopf 1960

Leaves of Grass $50
An Exact Copy of the First Edition 1855 as Issuedby Whitman and Received by Emerson
Eakins Press 1966 

 

The Poe Catalogue $20
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stephan Loewentheil Collection
The 19th Century Shop 1992  

 

HISTORY 

On the Drifting Ice, $50
A short Description of the Life of the North Pole Scientific Expedition by Eugeny Fedorov
With a facsimile Reproduction of the Author’s Note Book
State Art Publishers 1939

 

Global Mission $35
H.H. Arnold, signed by author
Harper & Brothers, 1st Edition 1949

The Klondike Stampede of 1897-1898 $30
Tappan Adney
Harper & Brothers 1900  

The Land of the Veda: being Personal Reminiscences of India $25
Rev. William Butler, D.D.
New York: Hunt & Eaton 1891

 

OTHER CATEGORIES 

 

Cooking--  Melrose, Honey of Roses $40
Stirling Graham
Records & Goldsborough, 3rd Printing 1944 

 

Travel --  Kentucky $25
A Guide to the Bluegrass State
By the Federal Writers’ Project of the WPA
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 3rd Printing 1942 

Science--The Descent of Man, and Selections in Relation of Sex, 2 Volumes $500
Charles Darwin
John Murray, Seventh Thousand 1871 

 

Science -- Here’s Power, Practical Physiognomy $25
Harlan E. Tarbell & John B. Rolle
Signed by Harlan Tarbell
Metaphor System College 

 

Philosophy-- Michel de Montaigne, Essays $50
Translated by M.A. Screech
Penguin Classics 2013

Esoterica--The Druid Animal Oracle Deck $20
Philip & Stephanie Carr-Gomm
Illustrated by Bill Worthington
Includes 33 cards plus 3 blanks
Connections Book Publishing 2005

Esoterica -- The New Book of Runes $40
Commentary by Ralph Blum
Includes 25 runes plus velvet bag
St. Martin’s Press, 3rd Edition 1987

Religion-- Biblia Sacra Vulgata $20
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft 1984 

Photography--EAT, Michiko Kon $30
Introduction by Shuji Shimamoto
Artworks Books 1987