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