SPRING HIGHLIGHTS:
RARE, FINE, AND UNIQUE BOOKS ON DISPLAY
A selection of art and architecture books, literature, rare books, and other collectibles are now on display at the George Mason Regional Library lobby. These items will be available for sale beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 27.
The following 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.
ART & ARCHITECTURE
2nd Taiwan 100 Artists Union Exhibition $50
of Calligraphy and
Painting
100 Years of Bicycle Posters, 1st Edition $40
Jack Rennert
Harper & Row 1973
Al-Andalus, The Art of Islamic Spain $30
Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Editor
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1992
Artes de Mexico, Numero 15, $10
El Arte Ritual de la Muerte Nina
Primavera 1992
Beware Wet Paint $15
Designs by Alan Fletcher
Commentary by Jeremy Myerson
Phaidon 1996
Cezanne in the Studio $25
Carol Armstrong
The J. Paul Getty Museum 2004
Cruelty & Utopia, Cities and Landscapes of Latin America $75
Eduardo Baez et. al.
Princeton Architectural Press 2003
The Domus Aurea and the Roman $75
Architectural Revolution
Larry F. Ball
Cambridge University Press 2003
How to Draw Wild Flowers $15
Vere Temple
The Studio 1943
The John Marin Collection at the $20
Colby College Museum of Art
Ruth E. Fine
Colby College Museum of Art 2003
Las Cuatro Estaciones (The Four Seasons) $40
Cesar Luengo
No. 26 of limited edition of print portfolio with hexagrams by I Ching
All prints signed and numbered by the artist
Galeria Estampa, Ediciones 1980
Lost Treasures of Persia $30
Vladimir Loukonine & Anatoli Ivanov
Mage Publishers 1996
Manet’s Modernism $25
Michael Fried
University of Chicago Press 1996
Paper Cuts in China $15
Makeup of Peking Opera
The Quranic Art of Calligraphy and Illumination $45
Martin Lings
World of Islam Festival Trust 1976
The Ramakian, Mural Paintings Along $40
the Galleries of the Temple of the
Emerald Buddha
The Government Lottery Office of
Thailand 1995
The Story of Imari, 1st Printing $40
Goro Shimura
Ten Speed Press 2008
The Sultan’s Garden, The Blossoming of $150
Ottoman Art
Denny & Krody
The Textile Museum 2012
LITERATURE
All in the Day’s Riding, 1st edition $30
Will James, illustrated by the author
Charles Scribner’s Sons 1933
All Quiet on the Western Front $30
Stated 1st printing
Erich Maria Remarque
Little, Brown, and Company 1929
The Call of the Wild $50
Jack London
Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin & Charles Livingston Bull
The Macmillan Company 1904
Cannery Row, 1st Edition 3rd Printing $25
John Steinbeck
Viking 1945
Cranford, Illustrated $20
Mrs. Gaskell
Joseph Knight Company 1891
Don Quixote de la Mancha, 2 volumes $25
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Translated by Samuel Putnam
The Viking Press 1949
The Grapes of Wrath, with a Portfolio of Photographs $75
John Steinbeck
The Franklin Library 1988
Michel de Montaigne, Essays $50
Translated by M.A. Screech
Penguin Classics 2013
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 $25
Edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Oxford University Press 1966
Peril and Promise $30
John Chancellor, signed 1st edition
Easton Press 1990
Rhapsody, A Dream Novel, 2nd printing $40
Arthur Schnitzler
Translated by Otto P. Schinnerer
Simon and Schuster 1927
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam $40
In Persian, English, and French
Dr. Hossein-Ali Nouri Esfandiary, Editor
Shumposha Photo Printing Co. 1974
Tennyson’s Poetical Works $40
Landscape Series of Poets
E. & J.B. Young
A Piece of My Heart, stated 1st Edition $35
Richard Ford
Ex-library first novel
Harper & Row 1976
A Piece of My Heart, Advance reading copy $50
Richard Ford
Harper & Row 1976
HISTORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY
America’s Housekeeping Book $60
Compiled by NY Herald Tribute Home Institute
Charles Scribner’s Sons 1941
American History Leaflets, No. 16 $12
The Territorial Development of the U.S.,
1584-1774
Parker P. Simmons 1913
The Art of Wall Street Investing $50
John Moody
Moody’s Magazine 1909
The Great Rebellion, 2 volumes $50
A History of the Civil War in the United States
J.T. Headley
Hurlbut, Scranton & Company 1864
Lens on Life $40
Stephanie Calabrese Roberts
Focal Press 2012
Lincoln the Unknown $20
Dale Carnegie, inscribed by author
D. Appleton-Century Company 1935
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State $20
Frederick Engels
Charles H. Kerr 1902