Notable Children’s Books at the Fall 2015 Sale

Childhood treasures at great prices!

Special selections from the children's books available for the Fall 2015 book sale are now on display at George Mason Library in the glass case on the right side of the lobby as you enter. They will go on sale at 3 pm on Thursday, October 1. 

Below 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.

How to Find Flower Fairies (pop-up book), $15

Cicely Barker

Warne, 2007

Norman Rockwell’s Americana ABC, $10

Dell/Abrams     1975

The Pop-Up Action Circus Book, $10

Sarah Keyser

Child Guidance, 1975

The Wizard of Oz. Beautifully illustrated,
with original green glasses.

The Wizard of Oz, $20

L. Frank Baum, Lizbeth Zwerger

North-South, 1996

Includes original green viewing glasses

Folk Tales from the Soviet Union, $10

Central Asia, Kazakhstan

Raduga Moscow, 1986

Folk Tales from the Soviet Union, $10

The Baltic Republics

Raduga Moscow, 1986

Interior view from Sabuda's Encyclopedia Prehistorica:
Sharks and other Sea Monsters 

Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters (pop-up book), $10

Robert Sabuda, Matthew Reinhart

Candlewick, 2006

Second edition

Amphigorey, $10

Edward Gorey

Berkley/Windhover, 1975

15 books in one volume

The Bumper Book, $10

Watty Piper, Eulalie

Platt & Mink, 1961

Bobbsey Twins
Commemorative Edition

The Bobbsey Twins, $10

Laura Lee Hope

Wanderer Books, 1979

75th anniversary commemorative edition in slipcase

1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up, $8

Julia Eccleshare, ed., Quentin Blake, preface

Universe, 2010

Edith and Mr. Bear, $15

Dare Wright

Houghton Mifflin, 1964

Reprint

Marionettes.
Includes rear pocket with patterns.

Marionettes, $10

Edith Ackley

Lippincott, 1929

Little Black Sambo, $25

Helen Bannerman

Golden Press, 1976

First printing

Sara Crew, $10

Frances Hodgson Burnett   

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1889

Penny, Lock Her Through, and The Road to Oz.

Penny, $10

Marjorie Torrey

Howell, Soskin, 1944

Lock Her Through, $10

Erick Berry

Oxford University Press

Signed

The Road to Oz, $5

L. Frank Baum, Peter Archer

Simon & Schuster, 1951

First edition Little Golden Book

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (pop-up book), $10

Lewis Carroll, J. Otto Siebold

Orchard Books, 2003

First edition

Cinders, $10

Katherine Gibson

Longmans, 1947

Reprint

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, $25

James Barrie, Arthur Rackham

Folio Society, 2006

Folio edition in slipcase

Walt Disney’s The Three Orphan Kittens, 3$25

Whitman Publishing Company, 1949

Lego Ideas Book, $10

Daniel Lipkowitz

DK Children, 2011