Sale Fall08 Toplist 080907

Friends of the Reston Regional Library

SELECTED SPECIALS for the

Fall 2008 Book Sale

Some books are available for viewing only to serious buyers upon request. The Reston Friends reserve the right to limit quantities sold to a single buyer. Although every effort is made to assess and describe the books accurately, we are not professional book appraisers. Thus we reserve the right to alter prices and availability as needed.

All the items listed below were DONATED! The Reston Friends wish to thank the local community for their generosity.

Questions? Submit your inquiries to: [email protected]

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ART TO SAVOR Africa Adorned / Angela Fisher / Collins (London) / copyr 1984 / hard cover / dj shows slight wear / signed by the author / printed in the Netherlands / as unread / scarce African Reflections: Art from Northeast Zaire / Enid Schildkrout & Curtis A Keim / Univ of Washington Press, American Museum of Natural History (NY) / copyr 1990 / hard cover in dj / printed in Japan / as unread The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk / Luckert & Szyk / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / copyr 2002 / hard cover in dj / as unread, brand new The Art of Netsuke Carving / Masatoshi & Bushell / Kodansha America / copyr 1981 / 1st ed / hard cover in slipcase / spine faded / slipcase shows minimal scuffing, no dents or tears / printed in Japan / book appears as unread An Artist’s Journey / Fleur Cowles / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd / copyr 1988 / hard cover / dj has lower corner clipped / as unread *** Other titles by Fleur Cowles are available *** Birds in Art 1995 / Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum / 20th anniversary ed / copyr 1996 / soft cover / as unread Fast Sketching Techniques / David J. Rankin / North Light Books / copyr 2000 / soft cover / as unread, brand new Fortune: The Art of Covering Business / Gibbs Publishing / copyr 1999 / hard cover in dj / features the magazine’s cover art from 1930-1950 / as unread Geschichte Aegyptens / J. H. Breasted / Grosse Illustrierte Phaidon-Ausgabe / copyr 1936 / hard cover / no dj / good condition Graphis / several issues of this publication are available, including three from the 1950’s Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers / publ George Braziller Inc / copyr 1988 / oversize hard cover / dj now in mylar / orange cloth boards / printed on heavy stock / as unread Le Nouveau Salon Des Cent: Exposition Internationale D'affiches, a L'occasion Du Centenaire De La M / Anthon Beeke / Editions Odyssee / copyr 2001 / hard cover in dj / in English and French / printed on heavy stock / as unread, brand new Luonnon Kuvaajien Parhaat Finnish Nature Photography at Its Best / Richard Hayhurst / Weilin Goos / copyr 1987 / hard cover / dj shows some shelf wear but no tears Manierre Dawson: American Pioneer of Abstract Art / publ by Hollis Taggart Galleries / copyr 1999 / soft cover / as unread

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Piranesi as Architect and Designer / John Wilton-Ely / Yale Univ Press / copyr 1993 / hard cover / no dj / text clean, tight, no markings / cover has some darkened spots, possibly stains, plus some scuffing Portraitures of Horses / George Ford Morris / Fordacre Studios (Shrewsbury, NJ) / copyr 1952 / hard cover, brown cloth simulating leather with gilt decoration / dj in poor condition with pieces missing, now in mylar / interior clean, bright, no markings Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings / text by Michael Babcock / Pomegranate Artbooks / copyr 1994 / 1st ed / hard cover in unclipped dj / as unread Turkish Art / Smithsonian Institution Press / copyr 1980 / hard cover / no dj / maroon fabric over boards / printed in Japan / as unread Unseen Versailles / Deborah Turbeville / Doubleday / copyr 1982 / 1st ed / hard cover / dj shows slight scuffing / as unread The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam / Robert Adam / Dover / copyr 1980 / oversize hard cover / dj shows some shelf wear at edges, 1.5-inch tear on back bottom edge / else appears as unread COLLECTIBLE FICTION & LITERATURE The Cat Who Could Read Backwards / Lilian Jackson Braun / E. P. Dutton / copyr 1966 / stated 1st ed / hard cover / ex-public libr with all markings / spine cocked / price $3.95 on dj / author’s first novel The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton / G. K. Chesterton / Dodd, Mead / 1961 reprint of 1932 edition / trade ed hard cover / unclipped dj shows signs of wear A Diversity of Dragons / Anne McCaffrey / Eos / copyr 1997 / hard cover in dj / as unread, brand new / Young Adult A Dream of Red Mansions / Foreign Languages Press (Peking) / copyr 1978 / 1st edition / 3 volume set in individual slipcases / hard covers in dj’s / owner’s name in vol 1 only / 1 slipcase shows small water mark but books appear as unread The Elfstones of Shannara / Terry Brooks / Ballantine Books (Del Rey) / copyr 1982 / 1st edition, 1st printing / trade ed hard cover / unclipped dj now in mylar / red remainder mark on top edge / appears unread / scarce I, Robot / Isaac Asimov / Grosset Dunlap / “Science Fiction Classics” / copyr 1950 / hard cover / dj now in mylar / green boards / owner’s bookplate The Literary Works of Abraham Lincoln / illustr by John Steuart Curry / Easton Press / Library of the Presidents / copyr 1980 / black leather binding accented with 22k gold, hubbed spine / ribbon marker / as unread Page 3

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The Oxford Mark Twain / ed Shelley Fisher Fishkin / Oxford Univ Press / copyr 1996 / 1st printings with full number lines / hard covers with dj’s / 29 volumes complete / as unread The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers / ed Tim Hunt / Stanford Univ Press / copyr 2001 / hard cover in dj / as unread / scarce hard cover ed The Sister of the Angels / Elizabeth Goudge / Popular Library / copyr 1967 / paperback / slight edgeware at top edge / else as unread Sword of Honour: The final version of the novels: Men at arms, 1952; Officers and gentlemen, 1955; and The end of the battle, 1962 / Evelyn Waugh / Little Brown / 1st American ed / hard cover / dj clipped with a few small edge tears / interior clean, tight Tellers of Tales / W. Somerset Maugham / Doubleday Doran / 1st ed, copyr 1939 / hard cover / no dj / text clean, tight, unmarked / slight shelf wear on cover Yale Shakespeare / Yale Univ Press / copyr 1957 / 40 volume set complete / blue cloth over boards HISTORY IN DEPTH Alone / Richard E. Byrd / Putnam / copyr 1938 / 4th printing / halfleather bound hard cover / no dj / text clean, binding tight / cover shows some wear and age / signed by the admiral Ancient Thrace / Ivan Marazov / Lettera / copyr 2005 / hard cover / dj shows very slight shelf wear / gift inscription / otherwise as unread Atomic Audit: The Cost and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 / ed Stephen I. Schwartz / Brookings Institution Press / copyr 1998 / soft cover Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History / publ Ure Smith / copyr 1991 / hard cover / dj shows slight shelf wear / as unread Battle of Koniggratz: Prussia’s Victory Over Austria 1866 / Gordon A. Craig / maps by John Carnes / Lippincott / copyr 1964 / stated 1st ed / hard cover / dj in good condition, unclipped with $4.50 retail price Churchill [Accompanying the Major ITV1 Series] / Celia Sandys, / Contender Books / copyr 2003 / 1st printing / hard cover in dj / PBS sticker over ITV1 on dj / signed by the author, Winston Churchill’s granddaughter / printed in UK / as unread Egypt: Imperialism and Revolution / Jacques Berque / Praeger / copyr 1972 / hard cover / no dj / text tight, unmarked / ex-libr with markings and bookplate from Middle East Institute (Washington DC) King Arthur’s Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury / Geoffrey Ashe / Collins / copyr 1957 / 4th printing (1966) / hard cover / dj shows slight shelf wear / possibly unread

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Land Behind Baghdad: A History of Settlement on the Diyala Plains / Robert McC. Adams / Univ of Chicago Press / copyr 1965 / 1st ed / hard cover / no dj / text tight, unmarked / cover shows slight shelf wear, fading along the edges and the spine, but no scratches or stains Mapping Boston / ed Krieger, Cobb, Turner / MIT Press / copyr 1999 / hard cover in dj / printed on heavy stock / as unread Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism / Kwame Nkrumah / International Publ / eighth printing 1984 / soft cover / cover shows slight age discoloration / appears as unread Piazza Tales: A Charleston Memory / Rose Pringle Ravenel / ed Anthony Harrigan / Shaftesbury Press (Charleston, SC) / copyr 1952 / 76 pgs / stiff wrapper / tight, unmarked, shows only slight signs of aging Red Army Uniforms of World War II in Colour Photographs / Europa Militaria / copyr 1993 / soft cover / still in plastic wrap / scarce Richmond, Virginia in Old Prints 1737-1887 / Alexander Wilbourne Weddell / Johnson Publishing Co / copyr 1932 / limited ed, number 222 of 600 / hard cover / no dj / text clean, unmarked / all maps intact / back cover shows some shelf wear, age Treasure of the Concepcion / Mathers & Shaw, ed Wygant / Best Publishing Co / copyr 1993 / 1st ed / hard cover / inscribed by the author Veterans 1944-2004 / Editions Biplan / copyr 2004 / soft cover / in English and French Witnesses for Freedom: Negro Americans in Autobiography / Rebecca Chalmers Barton / Harper & Brothers (NY) / copyr 1948 / stated 1st ed / hard cover / unclipped dj shows signs of age discoloration, plus shelf wear at bottom edges SPECIAL INTERESTS Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon / Reynolds, Schirra, Von Hardesty / Harcourt / copyr 2002 / hard cover / dj shows slight scuffing from shelf wear / as unread Atlas: The Story of a Missile / John L Chapman / Harper & Brothers / copyr 1960 / hard cover, green boards / unclipped dj shows wear, now in mylar / Young Adult, No. 9225A Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio: Audubon’s Birds of America / Roger Tory Peterson & Virginia Marie Peterson / Artabras / copyr 1981, publ 1985 / hard cover in dj / 2 tears in back of dj / dj now in mylar / edge stain / gift inscription The Camellia / Beryl Leslie Urquhart / Leslie Urquhart Press / copyr 1956 / 2 volume set / oversize hard covers / dj’s brittle, showing some age discoloration, slight shelf wear / text, plates in like-new condition Page 5

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Combined Tai Chi Chuan / Mark Bow-sim / Chinese Wushu Research Institute / copyr 1979 / soft cover / stated 1st printing / as unread, brand new / scarce Cybis: Porcelains That Fire the Imagination / publ by Cybis Art Studio / copyr 1979 / soft cover / interior bright A Description of Virginia House in Henrico County, near Richmond, Virginia / Alexander Wilbourne Weddell / Virginia Historical Society / copyr 1947 / limited ed, number 255 of 350 / hard cover / no dj / text tight, unmarked / red leather bindings, gilt title and cover emblem / cover wear to base of spine, front bottom corner The Development of Electrical Technology in the 19th Century / W. James King / Smithsonian Institution / copyr 1962 / 3 volume set / reprints from "Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology, U.S. National Museum Bulletin 228" / unmarked, tight / as unread / covers show some age fading, very slight shelf wear Devonian Paleontology of New York / David M. Linsley / Paleontological Research Institute / copyr 1994 / soft cover / some wear on binding Doctor Pygmalion: The Autobiography of a Plastic Surgeon / Maxwell Maltz / Crowell (NY) / copyr 1953 / hard cover / no dj / text clean, unmarked / slight shelf wear on bottom edge, small scratch on back cover Fiber Optic Component Design, Fabrication, Testing, Operation, Reliability and Maintainability / Christian & Passauer / Noyes Publications / copyr 1989 / hard cover / as unread Falconry in the British Isles / Salvin & Brodrick / Windward / 1980 reprint of 1855 ed / hard cover / dj shows slight shelf wear / printed in Great Britain / as unread Historic Homes and Churches of Virginia’s Eastern Shore / William S Nicholson / Atlantic Publications / copyr 1984 / hard cover in dj / as unread Japanese Gardens / Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter / William Morrow / copyr 1979 / hard cover / dj corner clipped, slightly worn edges / top edges lightly age speckled / printed in Switzerland A National Landmark: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology / privately publ by Stone & Webster Inc / copyr 1920 / stiff boards, tan with red spine / photographic essay, text featuring the buildings and labs, incl the Grand Court with its iconic dome / interior clean, bright, no marks / cover shows uneven sunfade / scarce New Worlds Beyond the Atom / Langston Day / publ Vincent Stuart / copyr 1956 / hard cover / shows shelf wear at binding Old Domestic Base-Metal Candlesticks: From the 13th to 19th Century / Ronald F. Michaelis / Antique Collectors’ Club / copyr 1978 / hard cover in / as unread

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Out of China’s Earth: Archaeological Discoveries in the People’s Republic of China / Frederick Muller Ltd (London) / copyr 1981 / hard cover in dj / as unread Rocket Development: Liquid-Fuel Rocket Research 1929-1941 / Robert H. Goddard / Prentice-Hall / copyr 1948, publ 1948 / 1st ed, not reprint / hard cover / no dj / text tight, unmarked / cover, corners show wear / foxing at top, side edges The Rhododendron / Beryl Leslie Urquhart / Leslie Urquhart Press / copyr 1958 Vol 1, copyr 1962 Vol 2 / 2 volume set / oversize hard cover / dj’s slow slight signs of wear at corners / each vol features 18 full-color reproductions of paintings by Carlos Riefel Understanding Physics / Isaac Asimov / Allen & Unwin Ltd / copyr 1966 / 1st ed / volumes 1-3 / hard covers / dj’s show shelf wear, some tears, child’s pencil scribbles / interiors appear as unread Virtual Teams That Work: Creating Conditions for Virtual Team Effectiveness / ed Gibson & Cohen / Jossey-Bass / copyr 2003 / as unread, brand new Fine Woodworking [magazine] / lot of 33 issues / #94-126 (MayJun 1992 through Sep-Oct 1997) / as unread FOREIGN LANGUAGE REFERENCE Dictionnaire Mondial de L’Islamisme / publ Plon / Crowell (NY) / copyr 2002 / soft cover / as unread, brand new New English-Russian Dictionary / Russky Yazyk Publishers / copyr 2000 / 5th ed / 3 volume set / hard covers / no dj / includes 250,000 lexical units The Oxford-Duden Pictorial English & Chinese Dictionary / Oxford Univ Press / copyr 1988 / soft cover / used, some pages folded, 2 pages torn / no marks / printed in Hong Kong Russian for English Speaking Learners / Russky Yazyk Publishers / copyr 1983 / hard cover / appears as unused Sub-Saharan French: Familiarization and Short-Term Training / Foreign Service Institute / copyr 1983 / boxed set with soft cover book plus 6 audio cassettes / owner’s name blacked out on book and on box / book has some handwritten notes, box shows wear CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT Alice in Wonderland / publ by Bancroft & Co (London) / hard cover / no publ date (circa 1960?) / illustrated boards with original plastic window in die-cut front cover / printed in Czechoslovakia / one double-page spread features pop-up of tea party house / second double-page spread features two rows of pop-up playing cards with both rows intact / all pop-ups are printed 4/C on both sides / front cover board shows damage / board edges, corners are worn through / scarce *** photos available *** Page 7

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Greg Hildebrandt’s Fairy Tale Frieze / Unicorn Publishing House / accordion-folded fairy tale precises backed by corresponding illustrations / bound in plastic / in original box, in very good condition / ISBN 0-88101-022-7 Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts for Reading and Listening / Simon & Schuster / copyr 1962 / stated 1st printing / hard cover plus box containing 5 7” vinyl records / slipcase shows age, wear / book, records appear unread, unused *** Wide assortment available, including titles from *** *** Tasha Tudor and Joan Walsh Anglund *** World Book Encyclopedia 2001 / World Book Inc / 21 volume set plus 1 index volume / ex-RRL set JUST FOR FUN ABBA: The Complete Recording Sessions / Carl Magnus Palm / Century 22 Ltd (Pinewood Studios, England) / copyr 1994 / UK trade ed / pictorial hard cover / no dj as issued / cover shows slight shelf wear / printed in Singapore / appears unread / scarce Charlie the Red Cat / Jim Tweedy / Crane Hill / copyr 1999 / 1st printing / hard cover / dj now in mylar / inscribed by author, with cartoon drawing / as unread *** Also a great assortment of titles *** *** for cat lovers of all ages *** Fragrance: The Story of Perfume from Cleopatra to Chanel / Edwin T. Morris / E. T. Morris & Co (self-published) / copyr 1984 / true 1st ed / soft cover / as unread Hershey’s 100th Anniversary: 100 Years of Hershey’s Favorites / Publications International / copyr 1994 / hard cover / appears as unread Home Comfort Cook Book / publ by Wrought Iron Range Co (St Louis) / c. late 1920’s / revised ed / stiff black paper wrapper / spine loose from perfect bound wrapper but cover is intact / interior clean, bright / distributed to purchasers of Wrought Iron ranges IISS Ship Files [Approved For Use With Traveller ScienceFiction Adventure in the Far Future] / Game Workshop Ltd (London) / copyr 1981 / stapled soft cover / appears unread *** Traveller RPG booklets and journals are available *** Illusion Builder to Fu Manchu (David Bamberg): A Tribute to Edmund Spreer / Robert E. Olson / publ by Morris Costumes (Charlotte, NC) / copyr 1986 / decorated red hard cover / dj shows mild shelf wear, two one-inch tears at bottom front corners, sunfading on top of back of dj / otherwise as unread / interior bright as new, no foxing La Maison Hantee / Jan Pienkowski / Nathan (Paris) / pop-up edition in French (1979) / all elements in working order, apparently no tears / cover corners bumped / scarce Page 8

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Lennon & McCartney for Flute / Amsco Music Publ Co / copyr 1976 / soft cover / cover worn, especially at the spine / pgs unmarked, tight / 57 Beatles songs arranged for solo flute with accompaniment chords The Looney Tunes Poster Book / Harmony Books / copyr 1979 / soft cover / posters are clean, bright / outer wrapper shows shelf wear The New Song Fest: 300 Songs – Words and Music / ed Dick & Beth Best / Crown / copyr 1963 / soft cover / tight, unmarked, few signs of use / cover has slight soil / back cover has small stain The Night Before Christmas Song / Johnny Marks / St Nicholas Music Inc (NY) / copyr 1952 / sheet music / no pencil or sticker marks / features Gene Autrey and Rosemary Clooney on the cover Pirate Radio and Video: Experimental Transmitter Projects / Newton C. Braga / Newnes / copyr 2000 / soft cover / as unread [issue with print ad featuring President Kennedy in the Oval Office] / Life Magazine / vol. 51, no. 25 / issue dated Dec 22, 1961 / ad spread on behalf of “magazines” appears bound between numbered pages 158 and 159 / magazine cover shows wear / ad spread is clean, bright / scarce since the ad does not appear in the national edition *** photo available *** Showplace of America: Cleveland’s Euclid Avenue, 1850-1910 / Jan Cigliano / Kent State Univ Press / copyr 1991 / hard cover in dj / as unread, brand new Tennis Anyone? / Richard H. Gould / McGraw-Hill / copyr 1999 / 6th ed / soft cover / as unread Timothy McSweeney’s Small Box Half-Full of Gems and Itching / McSweeney’s Quarterly / issue 5 / cover variant #3 / hard cover / dj shows minor shelf wear / printed in Iceland / appears as unread Valentine Treasury: A Century of Valentine Cards / Robert Brenner / Schiffer / copyr 1997 / hard cover / ex-RRL copy with all markings / interior as unread Your Numbers: Which What How Why } Are They? / Florence Evylinn Campbell / Tora Inc / copyr 1947 / revised ed / soft cover in very good condition *** Assortment of ephemera *** *** to tickle everyone’s fancy *** ANTIQUARIAN Dressmaking / Jane Fales / Charles Scribners & Sons / copyr 1917 / hard cover / no dj Persian Tales / Lorimer / illustr by Hilda Roberts / Macmillan / publ 1919 / hard cover / no dj / ex-libr / red cloth boards with gilt design / good condition / 16 color plates in excellent condition

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The Princess and the Goblin / George MacDonald, illustr Frances Brundage / Saalfield Publishing Co (Akron, OH) / “Every Child’s Library” / illustr copyr 1927 / hard cover / pristine 4/C paste-on over brown front cover / front of dj is bright, back of dj is missing piece at top / dj now in mylar / gift inscription with vintage sticker *** The Princess and Curdie is also available *** Grant’s Tour Around the World / J F Packard / H W Kelley (Phila) / copyr 1879, publ 1880 / “sold only by subscription” / hard cover / green boards with gilt decorations on front, spine / binding tight / engravings / no marks Up from Slavery / Booker T. Washington / Doubleday / copyr 1900, 1901, publ 1901 / hard cover / no dj / red cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on front cover / back cover shows damage / top edges gilt / interior clean, bright / gift inscription on front endpaper dated July 2, 1901

Let us know what kinds of books are on your personal wish list! [email protected]

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