Monday, September 26, 2011

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

The Fall Book Sale has ended.  It wouldn't have been possible without:
  • the generous contribution of time, muscles (and sweat) of our volunteer adult and student workers who set up the sale; worked during the sale; and cleaned up at the end of the sale. 
  • donations of the wonderful books, audio books, DVDs, CDs and videos from our community.
  • the George Mason Regional Library staff who cheerfully put up with the disruption in their normal operations to support the sale.
  • the year-round hard work of our Friends who sort and process the donations.
  • all of you who came to the sale!
THANK YOU!  THANK YOU!

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Sunday at the Book Sale - half price!

Sunday, September 25, is the last day of the Fall Book Sale.  All books, dvds, audio books, and videos are 1/2 price.  The book sale begins at noon (before the library opens for regular service) and ends promptly at 5 pm.  We hope to see  you!


The money raised at our book sales helps fund the Summer Reading Program and other Fairfax County Public Library needs.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

The Fall 2011 Book Sale Reminders

The George Mason Friends Book Sale is on!
Thursday, 9/22: 5 pm - 9 pm
Friday, 9/23: 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday, 9/24:  10 am - 5 pm
Sunday, 9/25: noon - 5 pm

Now for the fine print:
  •  We can only take cash or checks for payment of your purchases. NO CREDIT or DEBIT CARDS, sorry. 
  • No strollers or large bins in the sale areas, please. 
  • The book sale ends each day promptly at the announced closing time.
  • We haven't viewed videos or DVDs that are on sale. We also haven't listened to the thousands of CDs and audio books that are on sale.
  • At busy times, we may limit how long you may leave your boxes or containers.
  • Please be careful to park only in marked parking spaces.

Happy browsing and shopping! 

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Fall 2011 Sale - Adult Display Case

The left side display case in the lobby of the Library is now full of special finds of adult books which will be for sale at the book sale starting September 22. Warning: we reserve the right to correct any mistakes we have made in the prices or descriptions being published here. We may remove a book if we detect a mistake and we may add books without updating the list.



DISPLAY CASE BOOKS---09/11

Seto and Mino Ceramics                                                                 $60
Louise Allison Cort                      1992, Smithsonian Institution   
HB in DJ


The Freer Chinese Bronzes                                                             $50 
(Volume I, Catalogue)
John Alexander Pope et al          1967, Smithsonian Institution
HB in DJ 

History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 1892                     $60
edited by John F. Meginness
HB, 1996 Reprint

Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1868                                                            $40
HB; some loose pages, cover also loose

Mada’in Saleh                                                                                 $25
Mohammed Babelli                                      Second Edition 2007
HB in DJ

Process:  Architecture, Volume 32,                                               $25
The Legacy of Marcel Breuer  
PB, in English and Japanese

Process:  Architecture, Volume 19,                                               $15
The Heritage of Walter Gropius
PB, in English and Japanese


Firearms Identification, 3 Volumes                                           $350 
J. Howard Mathews                    1962, University of Wisconsin  
HB in DJ, Volume I signed by author

The Crying of Lot 49                                                                     $40 
Thomas Pynchon                            J.B. Lippincott, First Edition  
HB in DJ with small tears

The Marble Collegiate Church                                                       $75 
edited by Blanche Tessaro Cleaver                                        1954  
HB signed by Norman Vincent Peale

Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, 2 Volumes     $50 
Lucy Aiken                                                                                 1833  
HB, leather and board binding, well rubbed but intact

Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola                                               $40 
Decimoctava Edicion                                                                1956  
HB, shelfworn and binding cracked

The Judson Burmese-English Dictionary                                     $50
Revised & Enlarged by Robert C. Stevenson    1921, Rangoon American
Baptist Mission Press
HB, title retaped on front and spine                                                 


Virginia Ancestors and Adventurers,                                           $50 
3 Volumes in One
compiled by Charles Hughes Hamlin                                  1975 
HB                                                                                                          

Going Rogue                                                                                    $25 
Sarah Palin, 2009  
HB in DJ, signed by author on label pasted on endpaper

The Scarlet Cockerel                                                                        $20 
C.M. Sublette, illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover            1931   
HB with pasted-on illustration on front cover

Twenty Years of Congress:  From Lincoln                                    $50 
to Garfield, 2 Volumes
James G. Blaine                                                             1884 &1886  
HB, spines loose

Douze Journees de la Revolution                                                   $30 
Poemes par Barthelemy                                                                 1832  
HB in rubbed leather and board cover, in French and German

Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America                      $30 
Richard Harding Davis                                        copyright 1896   
HB, illustrated

A Soldier With the Arabs                                                               $45 
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb                           1957   
HB

The Construction and Reconstruction of the Human               $100  
Body, A Manual of the Therapeutics of Exercise
Eugen Sandow, with Foreword by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle    1907
HB in red cloth badly worn and stained but intact

Official Proceedings, St. Louis Railway Club                              $25 
Volume 17 from May 1912 through April 1913
HB in leather and decorated boards, front cover loose

Lhasa and Its Mysteries With a Record of the                              $60 
Expedition of 1903-1904, Third and Cheaper Edition
L. Austine Waddell                                                                       1906  
HB, ex-library

Cuadernos de Poesia, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena

     Volume 3:  Luis Pales Matos                                                     $12
      illustrated by Rafael Tufino                                              1989
      PB

     Volume 4:  Jose Gautier Benitez                                                $12
     illustrated by A. Marin                                                        1960           
     PB

     Volume 5:  Lola Rodriguez de Tio                                            $12  
     illustrated by S. Sanchez                                                      1960       
     PB

     Volume 10:  Santiago Vidarte                                                   $12
     illustrated by Carlos Marichal                                           1965     
     PB

     Volume 13:  Francisco Matos Paoli                                          $12 
     illustrated by Augusto Marin                                            1976  
     PB


Washington, D.C., Celebrated Chefs, Volume 1                         $35          
Edited by Melissa McCart, Photographs by                               2010
Angie Norwood Browne 
HB  


The Touch of the Artist, Master Drawings from                          $20 
the Woodner Collections                                                               1996 
Edited by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, National Gallery of Art                                                                                         
PB


With Ossie & Ruby, In This Life Together                                   $25
Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee                                                          1998   
First Edition, signed by both authors on book plate
PB


The Edna Lewis Cookbook                                                              $75
Edna Lewis & Evangeline Peterson          1972, Bobbs-Merrill          
HB VG/VG                                                                  First Printing


American Self-Taught, Paintings and Drawings                        $20
by Outsider Artists
Frank Maresca & Roger Ricco, with a Foreword by
Lanford Wilson,                                               1993, Alfred A. Knopf                                                                             
HB NF/NF                                                                         First Edition

Imogen Cunningham, Flora                                                           $25
Text by Richard Lorenz, 1996, Bullfinch Press     First Edition
HB NF/VG                                                                                            


Aniu, From Snowflake to Iceberg                                                   $50
Bernard Voyer, Explorer, Preface by Sir Edmund Hillary,
2005, Neve Editions                                    Signed by author                                                                   
HB NF/NF

Korean Art: 100 Masterpieces                                                        $75
1995, Editions API          
HB Boxed, Like New /Like New

Friday, September 2, 2011

Fall 2011 Book Sale - Children's Case in the Lobby

The right-hand display cases in the lobby of the Library is now full of children's books which will be for sale at the book sale starting September 22.  We may be adding to the display in the next week or so.  Warning: we reserve the right to correct any mistakes we have made in the prices or descriptions being published here. We may remove a book if we detect a mistake. 



On display:

The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa
The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa                      $50
Ruth Plumley Thompson             illus John R. Neill
                                                            Reilly & Lee 1926
No dust jacket, color paste-down on cover, illustrated in 3 colors on every page. The only non-Oz collaboration by Thompson and Neill

Raggedy Ann Helps Grandpa Hoppergrass            $10
Johnny Gruelle                                            Perks 1946
Soft cover, stapled wraps

The Stars                                                                     $10
H.A. Ray                                Houghton Mifflin 1966
Book is near fine, dust jacket is price-clipped and in very good condition, decorated end papers

Home Run Feud                                                         $10
Clair Bee                                Grosset & Dunlap 1964
No dust jacket, pictorial boards, Chip Hilton #22

Mr. Charlie's Gas Station

Mr. Charlie’s Gas Station                                          $25
Edith and Clement Hurd                    Lippincott 1956
Unpaginated, dust jacket in fair condition and not price clipped

Fox Eyes

Fox Eyes                                                               $10
Margaret Wise Brown                    Pantheon 1977
Illus Garth Williams
Jacket in good condition and not price-clipped

Doctor Dolittle’s Return                                         $10
Hugh Lofting                              Fred A. Stokes 1933
                                                      15 color illustrations
Pictorial end papers, no dust jacket, paste-down color illustration on cover, all illustrations present

In the Nursery of My Book House                            $10
Olive Beapre Miller                                                1971
Decorated end papers, no dust jacket, pictorial front cover, in very good condition

Chinese Fairy Tales                                                    $10
Marie Ponsot                                                 1st edition
                                                          Golden Press 1973
Book in very good condition, pictorial boards
Russian Fairy Tales, Chinese Fairy Tales

Russian Fairy Tales                                                   $10
Marie Ponsot                                              2nd Printing
                                                          Golden Press 1973
Child’s name inside, book in very good condition, no dust jacket but pictorial boards


Shanty Brook Lodge

Shanty Brook Lodge                                                $25
Fjeril Hess                                        Macmillan 1938
Fair dust jacket which is not price clipped, illustrated end papers

The Statue of Liberty                                                 $15
Joseph Forte                                                  1st edition
Paper Engineer Penick        Holt Rinehart Winston
Near fine condition, all pop-ups work

Up the Hill                                                                  $10
DeAngeli                                              Doubleday 1942
Dust jacket in fair condition and is price clipped, has decorated endpapers

The Very Little Girl                                               $20
Krasilovsky                                     Doubleday 1953
The dust jacket is in very good condition and the price is intact, unpaginated

Shirley Temple Edition of Heidi                           $10
Johanna Spyri                       Photoplay Illustrations
                                                                            Saalfield
12 photos of Shirley Temple from the movie, no dust jacket, the pages are brown but the movie photographs are beautiful

Betty Wales, Senior
Betty Wales, Senior                                         $75
Margaret Warde                            Early Edition
                               Grosset & Dunlap 1907
Dust jacket in fair condition, book has illustrated end papers


New Neighbors at Bird-a-Lee                                    $30
Clementia                                        The Bookery 1932
Jacket is in shreds but included, pages are tan from age

Marjorie Dean, Post-Graduate                                  $10
Pauline Lester                                                 A.L. Burt
Dust jacket in fiar condition, decorated end papers

Omnibus                                                                     $15
Hilda Boswell                                           Collins 1972
Dust jacket in good condition and price is intact, decorated end papers

Uncle Wiggily and His Friends                                       $10
Howard Garis                              Platt & Munk 1955
Unpaginated, no dust jacket, library binding but not a former library book

Raggedy Ann’s Lucky Pennies                                   $5
Johnny Gruelle                           M.A. Donohue 1932
No dust jacket, blank spine


Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land                                     $5
Johnny Grueele                          M.A. Donohue 1931
No dust jacket, blank spine


Tales of a Grandmother                                              $10
George Sand                                       Lippincott 1930
12 full page color illustrations, many line drawings, decorated end papers, dust jacket in fair condition

52 Stories for Girls                                                     $10
Alfred Miles                                     Hutchinson & Co
No date, preface says 1880, embossed with gilt, gilt-edged pages, no dust jacket.

True Love for Jenny                                                   $10
Mebane Burgwyn                                        1st edition
                                                               Lippincott 1956
Dust jacket in good condition, not price-clipped, stated 1st edition

Old Man Rabbit's Dinner Party

Old Man Rabbit’s Dinner Party                                     $10
Carolyn Bailey                             Platt & Munk 1949
Pictorial end papers, illustrated on every page, unpaginated, dust jacket in very good condition

Mother Goose

Mother Goose                                                         $25
Illus Tasha Tudor       Henry Z. Walck 1944 (1972)
Dust jacket is price-clipped and in good condition, illustrated on every page

Silver for General Washington                                 $10
Enid Meadowcroft                Thomas Crowell 1944
Dust jacket in fair condition