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Friends of the Reston Regional Library

SELECTED OFFERINGS for the SPRING 2009 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 items listed were DONATED! The Reston Friends wish to thank the local community for their generosity.

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Yves Bonnefoy / publ Flammarion / copyr 1991, publ 2001 / stiff wraps / as unread Katrina Cook / publ Quercus [London] / oversize elephant folio / UK trade ed, 1st printing with full number line / hard cover in unclipped dj / as Birds unread Naomi Miller & Keith Morgan / Prestel [Munich] / copyr 1990 / hard cover Boston Architecture 1957-1990 in scuffed dj / printed in Germany / appears unread Cosmatesque Ornament: Flat Polychrome Paloma Pajares-Ayuela / publ W W Norton / copyr 2002 / illustr ed / hard Geometric Patterns in Architecture cover in dj / as unread Louis de Taeye / Bruylant-Christophe & Co / publ 1891 / hard cover shows wear, with some loosening of the binding / no marks / history of Belgian Etudes Sur Les Arts Plastiques En Belgique sculpture and ceramics / in French / scarce Editions d'Art Aurore [Leningrad] / copyr 1981 / hard cover in dj / printed in L'Ermitage: Le Dessin d'Europe Occidentale Yugoslavia / as unread Stanley Abercrombie / MIT Press / copyr 1994 / hard cover in dj / appears George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design as new, unread William L Beiswanger / Univ of North Carolina Press / copyr 2001 / hard cover in dj / as unread Monticello in Measured Drawings Northeast Auctions: Twelfth Annual Portsmouth Northeast Auctions [Portsmouth, NH] / wraps / tight, unmarked, shows Marine China Trade Auction - Aug 20-21, 2005 little sign of use, slight shelf wear on cover Richard Martin & Harold Koda / Metropolitan Museum of Art / 1994 Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress exhibition catalog / wraps / cover wear Martin Andersch / Design Press / copyr 1989 / 1st ed, 1st printing / hard Symbols Signs Letters cover, dj now in mylar / white cloth boards with paste-on at spine Bruno Zevi / Faber & Faber / copyr 1950, 1st ed / hard cover in worn dj / binding tight / no marks / scarce Towards an Organic Architecture Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work

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Busman's Honeymoon: A Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Mystery (audio cassette / Dorothy L Sayers / narrated by Ian Carmichael / Mystery Masters / copyr unabridged) 2003 / wear on box cover

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The Cadfael Companion

Maggie: A Child of the Streets The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words

[The Oxford Mark Twain / complete 29 vol set]

Robin Hood The Smile That Wins / The Delightful World of P G Wodehouse (audio cassette)

War and Peace

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HISTORY IN DEPTH

Aramco, the United States, and Saudi Arabia: A Study of the Dynamics of Foreign Oil Policy, 1933-1950

Britain's Homage to 28,000 American Dead

The Century: America's Time (VHS set)

Robin Whiteman / intro Ellis Peters / Mysterious Press / revised ed 1995 / trade ed / hard cover in unclipped dj / ribbon marker / as unread Stephen Crane / publ William Heinemann [London] / author's first book / 1st English ed publ 1896, one year after 1st US hard cover ed / owner's name stamped on front endpaper / stains on last three pgs of text / damage to back endpaper, back cover Cambridge Univ Press / Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature / copyr 1999 / hard cover / new, as unread 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 *** incl Following the Equator and Anti-imperialist Essays with intro by Gore Vidal and The Diaries of Adam and Eve with intro by Ursula Le Guin *** Paul Creswick / illustr N C Wyeth / Charles Scribner's Sons / hard cover, dj in mylar / tight, no marks *** other titles in the series are available *** P G Wodehouse / narrated by J Donald Walters / publ Crystal Clarity / copyr 1999 *** also available Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo in audio cassette *** Leo Tolstoy / Simon & Schuster / Inner Sanctum ed / copyr 1942, ninth printing / red cloth binding / price clipped dj now in mylar / incl Reader's Guide

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*** Irvine H Anderson / Princeton Univ Press / publ 1981 / hard cover / dj is faded, particularly along spine, plus shows scuffing and small tears at the top of the spine / book is clean, tight, may not have been read London Times / copyr 1952 / hard cover, no dj / light shelf-wear on cover, book is clean & tight / presentation copy to the family of a US serviceman from the chairman of the London Times ABC News & History Channel / 6 VHS tapes as set / all 6 tapes still in original individual shrinkwraps / narrated by Peter Jennings / this documentary is not available in dvd format

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Dying for Saint-Lo: Hedgerow Hell, July 1944 Iraq Under Qassem: A Political History, 19581963 L'Italia in Africa: Serie Storico-Militare: L'Opera dell'Aeronautica: Eritrea-Libia (1888-1932) / 1 vol only A Mediterranean Cruise - USS Walter B Cobb Jan-May 1954 The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War Reform in the Ottoman Empire: 1856-1876 Roman Warfare Shipmates: A Salute to the Officers and Men of the USS Macon CA 132 United States Navy in Hampton Roads War & Civilization / TLC (VHS set)

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Didier Lodieu / Histoire and Collections / copyr 2007 / hard cover / new, as unread Uriel Dann / publ Praeger / copyr 1969 / binding tight, interior clean / good condition / scarce Vicenzo Lioy / Instituto Poligrafico dello Stato [Roma] / publ 1964 / red cloth binding, pasted spine label / warped front board / printed in Italy / in Italian / military maps, photos Transport Division Twenty-One / David Waddington Publ / publ 1954 / hard cover in partially torn slipcase / small brown stains on title page, else unmarked / binding shows some wear at the spine Fairfax Press / 1983 ed, 2nd printing / oversized elephant folio / dj now in mylar / appears as unread Roderic H Davison / Princeton Univ Press / copyr 1963 / publ 1963 / 1st ed / hard cover, no dj / no interior marks, good reading copy / scarce Adrian Goldsworthy & John Keegan / History of Warfare / publ Cassell / copyr 2000 / hard cover / appears as new, unread hard cover, no dj / clean and tight with some wear to the corners of the covers / book recounts the history of the USS Macon from 1945 until her de-activation in 1950, covering every phase of life aboard the Macon William O Foss / Donning Co / copyr 1984 / hard cover / appears as unread TLC Video [The Learning Co] / boxed set of 8 VHS tapes, still in original shrinkwrap / copyr 1998

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Marcel Morand / Typographie Adolphe Jourdan [Alger] / publ 1916 / Avant-Projet de Code Presente a la Commission rebound at spine in leather, incl owner's name on spine / interior very de Codification du Droit Musulman Algerien good, red covers stained / in French / scarce ed Joseph R Smallwood / Newfoundland Book Publishers Ltd / copyr 1975 / hard cover bound in simulated alligator with gold lettering / no dj / book is tight and unmarked, showing slight wear on the corners of the covers The Book of Newfoundland / vol V of 6 *** Volume VI also available *** Cape Henlopen Lighthouse and Delaware John W Beach / Dover Graphic Assoc [Dover, DE] / copyr 1970, 3rd Breakwater (revised) printing 1979 / hard cover in dj

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Adrian Hastings / Oxford History of the Christian Church / Oxford Univ Press / publ 1996 / soft cover / owner's name on flyleaf / mild shelf wear / otherwise appears as unread The Church in Africa: 1450-1950 Ossian Publications / copyr 1984, second ed 1989 / ISBN 09460050168 / wraps / 213 tunes by the Irish harper Turlough Carolan, plus "a recent The Complete Works of O'Carolan discovery" / no marks / printed in Ireland / scarce Crime and Punishment Under Hanbali Law: being George M Baroody / privately published / gift inscription by the author, a translation from Manar Al-Sabil in explanation presentation correspondence 1962 / interior very good, red binding is of the text Al-Dalil stained A Dictionary of Islam: Being a Cyclopaedia of the Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs, Thomas Patrick Hughes / W H Allen & Co, Ltd [London] / publ 1896 / Together With the Technical and Theological interior very good, binding has partial crack near gutter but still holding Terms, of the Muhammadan Religion firm, blue cloth covers stained Die Mauer steht am Rhein: Deutschland nach Christian von Ditwurth / publ Kiepenheuer & Witsch / copyr 1999, 3rd Aufl dem Sieg des Sozialismus (German Edition) ed / hard cover / dj shows some shelf-wear / in German B S "Rusty" Restuccia / Rustic Enterprise [Ann Arbor, MI] / copyr 2001 / An Extraordinary Man: Homer B Roberts 1885- wraps / inscribed by the author / story of the first African-American car 1952 dealer / as unread Anthony LeJeune & Malcolm Lewis / Dorset Press / copyr 1979, 1984 ed / oversize hardback in dj / printed in Spain / as unread The Gentlemen's Clubs of London And God Saw That It Was Good: Catholic Theology & the Environment (Monographs of the ed Drew Christiansen & Walter Grazer / publ USCCB / copyr 1996 / soft High/Scope Educational Research Foundation) cover Bernard C Middleton / publ Holland Press [London] / copyr 1988, 3rd A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique supplemental ed / appears unread / dj now in mylar Franz Rosenthal / publ E J Brill [Leiden] / copyr 1956, publ 1956 / 1st ed / green cloth boards, warped front board / no marks / Muslim studies Humor in Early Islam academic work / printed in the Netherlands / scarce J Windrow Sweetman / Lutterworth Press [London] / blue cloth bindings, Islam and Christian Theology: A Study of the no dj's, stained covers / Part II, Vol I / Historical Survey of the Second Interpretation of Theological Ideas in the Two Period / shows "First Published 1955" / Part II, Vol II / Medaevil Scholastic Religions / Part II of 3 Parts / 2 vol complete / Developments / copyr 1967 [note that Parts I & III were never published] Medaevil Development Index Islamicus Supplement: 1956-1960: A Catalogue of Articles on Islamic Subjects in compiled by J D Pearson / W Heffer & Sons, Ltd [Cambridge, England] / Periodicals and Other Publications copyr 1962 / green cloth binding, green dj now in mylar

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MATH, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Advanced Airbreathing Propulsion (Orbit)

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Y M Timnat / Krieger Publ / copyr 1996 / hard cover / small scratch on front cover / as unread

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change

William H Schlesinger / Academic Press / copyr 1991, 1st ed / soft cover Charles Nash / Academic Press / copyr 1992 / soft cover / appears new, Differential Topology and Quantum Field Theory as unread Phacodynamics: Mastering the Tools and Barry S Siebel / publ by Slack Inc / copyr 2004, 4th ed / hard cover / Techniques of Phacoemulsification Surgery binding tight / some shelf wear on cover [Qamus al-mustalahat al-naftiyah] Dictionary of Petroleum Terms: English-French-Arabic hard cover / green binding / good, no underlinings / 486 pgs / in Arabic ed A A Levinson / Pergamon Press [NY] / vol 1 Mineralogy and Petrology, vol 2 Chemical and Isotope Analyses, vol 3 Physical Properties / hard covers in dj's / "Crystal Chemistry Project" notation in ink on front Proceedings of the Apollo 11 Lunar Science Conference: Houston, Texas, January 5-8, 1970 / endpapers, else books appear unmarked / bindings tight / from the library 3 vol set of distinguished Apollo scientist Daniel Appleman *** other space program related items from this generous donation are available, detailed information provided upon request *** National Academies Press / illustr ed / copyr 2003 / hard cover / A Review of the Dose Reconstruction Program of committee review of a program related to atmospheric nuclear weapons the Defense Threat Reduction Agency testing and the impact on military personnel in the period 1945-1962 Security Education and Critical Infrastructures (IFIP International Federation for Information ed Cynthia Irvine & Helen Armstrong / publ Springer / copyr 2003, 1st ed / Processing) hard cover / binding tight / as new, unread The Solar System: Panorama Colorslide Nature Columbia Record Club / copyr 1961 / book plus slides and introductory and Science Program recording by Walter Cronkite *** other Panorama Colorslide titles available *** Nicholas Rescher / Univ of Pittsburgh Press / copyr 1963 / green cloth covers, no dj / printed in England Studies in the History of Arabic Logic Georges Ifrah / Harvill Press / copyr 2000 / soft cover / World's First Number System , Universal History of Numbers, Computers and the The Universal History of Numbers / 3 vol boxed Information Revolution / books appear as new, unread / box shows slight shelf wear set

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LIBRARY BUILDERS

The Annals of America / numbered vol 1-19 plus 1 softcover intro A Concise Grammar of the Bulgarian Language: With Reading Exercises and Vocabularies Macmillan's Pocket Kipling [lot of 18 vol] A Thesaurus of Slang Yale Shakespeare

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*** Encyclopedia Britannica / copyr 1968, intro copyr 1974 / appears as unread H M Stationery Office / publ 1918 / paper cover is somewhat discolored and has a small tear at the bottom of the spine / text tight, unmarked Rudyard Kipling / publ Macmillan, Methuen / mixed lot of 18 reprint vol / red leather bindings Howard N Rose / Macmillan / copyr 1934 / hard cover, no dj / clean, tight, cover shows very slight shelf wear 40 vol set complete / blue cloth boards / good to fair / no marks [selection of "Great Courses" college-level titles in DVD, audio cd, audio cassette and VHS formats] / The Teaching Company

[GREAT COURSES]

JUST FOR FUN

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Adventures of a Gardener Art Buchwald's Secret List of Paris Restaurants, Nightclubs, Fun and ?

As I Am: ABBA Before and Beyond Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969 [COMICS / sold as single copies and in lots]

Gloves Higher and Higher: The Quarterly Infozine for Fans of the Moody Blues

Peter Smithers / Harvill Press with the Royal Horticultural Society / copyr 1995 / UK trade ed with retail price in US dollars / assumed 1st ed, full number line / hard cover / dj with edge tears, now in mylar Art Buchwald / illustr Sally Paine / publ European Herald Tribune / no date, c.late 1950's / paperback / printed in Utrecht, Hollland Agnetha Faltskog with Brita Ahman / Virgin Publ / publ 1997 / UK trade ed / hard cover / unclipped dj has small tear at bottom of spine / interior clean and bright / scarce W W Norton / publ 1989 / soft cover / like new, as unread *** ask to see Marvel Comics "Avengers", "Silver Surfer", plus Frank Cho's "Liberty Meadows" (incl #31 signed by the artist) *** Valerie Cumming / The Costume Accessories Series / Quite Specific Media Group / copyr 1982 / ex-RRL / appears to have had very little use / dj in mylar, with labels on the mylar, card pocket inside back cover publ Murley-Salas / Back Issue Pack #1 (Issues 104) / vol 1, # 1-4, Spring 1984 - Winter/Spring 1985 / comb binding

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PBS Home Video / copyr 2001 / boxed set of 10 VHS tapes / 8 of 10 tapes still in original individual shrinkwraps Sylvie Girard / publ Messidor / copyr 1986, publ 1990 / hard cover, dj now in mylar / appears as new, unread Le Livre du Parfum The Padlock Collector: Illustrations and Prices for Franklin M Arnall / Padlock Collector / copyr 1996 / 6th ed / soft cover / 2800 Padlocks from the Past 100 Years appears new, as unread Pattie & Kyle Petty / publ Universe / copyr 2002 / 1st ed, 1st printing with full number line / hard cover / unclipped dj now in mylar / signatures of The Petty Family Album: In Tribute to Adam Richard Petty and daughter Pattie on the title page / appears new, as Petty unread Wise Publications / wraps / copyr 2002 / tight, unmarked, with very little The Piano Solos of Richard Clayderman 5 shelf wear on the cover / sheet music for 10 classical piano solos Johnny Gruelle / publ M A Donahue [Chicago] / series copyr 1920-1932 / hard covers, 3 with dj's / 4/C endpapers / worn edges / interiors bright, no [Raggedy Ann / lot of 7 titles] marks *** Beloved Belindy and Wooden Willie are also available *** Otfried Preussler / illustr F J Tripp / Abelard-Schuman (NY) / translation copyr 1964 / reprinted 1969 trade ed / hard cover / dj colors are bright but dj shows wear / dj now in mylar / spine cocked, binding loose / no marks / The Robber Hotzenplotz printed in England / scarce children's book Highbridge Audio / copyr 1998 / 6 audio cd's, fully dramatized / three Star Wars: Dark Forces Collector Trilogy (audio novels are Soldier for the Empire ; Rebel Agent ; Jedi Knight / still in original shrinkwrap cd's / unabridged) Bernard S Benson / illustr Jack Roberts / Benson Lehner Corp [Santa Strictly Birdsmanship or: How to Lay the Egg that Monica, CA] / copyr 1960 / hardback in poor dj / humorous look at Kills the Golden Goose government management and government workers Tovah Martin, photogr Richard W Brown / Houghton Mifflin / copyr 1994, publ 1994 / 1st trade ed with full number line / hard cover / unclipped dj Tasha Tudor's Garden now in mylar / printed in Italy Asahi Shimbun Newspaper Publ Co / issue Sept 1958, Number 6 (annual) / oversize in stiff wraps / in original wood slipcase with title burned in plus 4/C paste-ons / magazine, slipcase both show signs of wear and use / cultural content and ads / printed in Japan / in English This Is Japan Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns / VHS boxed set

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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections Gathered During a Lifetime of Discriminating Reading for His Use

Henri Perreyve

Ida May: A Story of Things Actual and Possible The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship: The Masterpieces of the Standard Writers of All Nations and All Time [Illustrated]

publ by The Roycrofters / copyr 1923 / "346th to 384th Thousand" / ribbon bound / dust wrapper present but not intact / 228 pgs plus index / no marks by A Gratry / 2nd ed, publ 1866 by Charles Douniol, Jacques Lecoffre [both Paris] / 296 pgs, in French / single volume also contains 247 pgs on Marie-Madeleine (no title page bound in, also in French) Mary Langdon / Phillips, Samson & Co [Boston] / copyr 1854, publ 1855 / "Forty-third thousand" / half bound in brown leather, balance in black leather / top edge of spine worn away / anti-slavery novel

ed Ainsworth R Spofford & Charles Gibson / Gebbie & Co [Phila] / 10 vol set / copyr 1890 / ex-college library / hard covers with gilded top edges / interiors clean, bright / 100 photogravures Rufus Wilmot Griswold / Porter & Coates [Philadelphia] / copyr 1870, no The Prose Writers of America: With a Survey of date / original alligator binding shows wear, cracked at the spine / gold the Intellectual History, Condition, and Prospects embossed title design on the cover / owner's name in pencil, no other of the Country marks Oliver Goldsmith / etchings (6) by M M Taylor / J B Lippincott [Philadelphia] / copyr 1888, publ 1889 / gray boards with beveled edges, embossed designs on cover and spine The Traveller [Illustrated] Arthur Young / George Bell & Sons [London] / publ 1890, 3rd ed / rebound Travels in France: During the Years 1787, 1788, in 3/4 dark blue leather with hubbed spine, marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers / no marks 1789 Lewis Wingfield / Hurst and Blackett [London] / publ 1868 / beveled brown cloth covers, back cover stained / label from Maggs Bros Ltd, indicating Under the Palms in Algeria and Tunis / vol 1 only that the volume was from the library of the Comte de Chambord (Henry V of 2 of France, Duke of Bordeaux, b.1820) / scarce

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