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EXAMPLES OF SPECIAL BOOKS
AVAILABLE AT THE BOOK SALE
Thursday, September
25 - Saturday, September.
27
10 am - 7pm all three days
Sale is conducted at Pittsboro Kiwanis Club
309 Credle Street (one block west of 15-501)
Pittsboro, N.C.
List updated:
11/12/2008
Fall 08 Special Books
These books will be available for sale in the Special Price section of the sale floor, along with other volumes not listed. We hope that this listing will give you an idea of the quality and variety of items available at our sale. Additional items will be added to this list between now and September 25. Check back often!
Hasso Von Winning, Pre-Colombian Art of Mexico and Central America, Abrams, 1968.
Magnum’s Women Photographers, Prestel, 1999.
John Loengard, Classic Photographs, 1988.
Ancient Glass, Miho Museum, signed.
Franz Philipp, Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, 1967.
Keith Hitchins, Rumania 1866-1947, Clarendon Press, 1994.
Eterovich and Spalatin, Croatia: Land, People, Culture, Vol 2, University of Toronto Press, 1970.
M. Pardoe, Bunkle Began It, Routledge, 1942.
Thomas N. Bisson, Cultures of Power, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Toni Morrison, Beloved, Knopf, 1987. Signed.
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, Dodd, Warwick edition, no date.
George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy, Dodd, Warwick edition, 1868.
The Golden Mill: A Tale of Filial Piety, Sunday School Union, illustrated, no date (1800s).
Alfred Tennyson, Poems vol 2, Ticknor, 1866.
Troilus and Cressida: A Love Poem in Five Books, Literary Guild, wood engravings by Eric Gill, 1932.
De Balzac, Cousin Betty, Review of Reviews, no date.
Bailey and Kent, History of the Hebrew Commonwealth, Scribner, 1920.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, My Robin, Stokes, 1912.
Amy Lowell, Men, Women and Ghosts, Macmillan, 1917.
Clifton Johnson, The Isle of the Shamrock, Macmillan, 1901.
Robert Graves, Adam’s Rib, Yoseloff, 1955.
Louis A. Perez, Jr. Cuba Under the Platt Amendment 1902-1934, University of Pittsburgh, 1986.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, illustrated by Mead Schaeffer, Dodd, 1934.
Honore De Balzac, Ten Droll Tales, The Abbey Library, no date.
Rostovtzeff, A History of the Ancient World, vol 1: The Orient and Greece, Oxford, 1926. Excellent condition.
Rudolph Giuliani, Leadership, Miramax, 2002. Signed.
Bertram M. Wallenstein, Gauchos and Tom-Toms, Dorrance, 1932.
Julia Davis, The Shenandoah, Farrar, 1945. Rivers of America series.
Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens, Hogarth Press, 1999 reprint.
Kitchen Comfort: A Book of Practical and Tried Recipes—A cookbook “compiled and published by the ladies and friends of the Simpson Creek Baptist Church, of Bridgeport, W. Va.,” in 1917. Simpson Creek Baptist Church is recognized as the oldest Baptist church in West Virginia by the West Virginia Baptist Convention and is also generally accepted as being the oldest Protestant church west of the Allegheny Mountains. The first formal records of the church are dated 1774. Excellent condition.
Edith M. Patch and Harrison F. H owe, Outdoor Visits, Macmillan, 1938. A nature and science reader. Good condition—spine frayed. Contains some lovely illustrations.
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, Scribner, 1924. Very good condition. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.
The Writings of John Muir, William Frederic Bade, Editor. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1916-1924. First Edition. Complete in ten volumes, The Manuscript Edition of Muir's Collected Works contains a leaf of an original manuscript by Muir in the first volume. Copy number 455 of 750 bound in the publisher's green cloth with gilt-lettered leather spine labels. Nicely illustrated with numerous plates including photogravures after photographs by Herbert Gleason and others as well as maps. Enhanced by a leaf of original manuscript. Spines mildly and evenly sunned. Very good condition. On-line in this condition $2000 and up.
Stairs, Rein Jansma, Elffers, 1982, 4th edition. A pop-up book with staircases.
A North Carolina Postcard Album, Stephen Massengill and Robert Thompson, Raleigh Division of Archives and History, NC Department of Cultural Resources, 1988. Ex-library but excellent condition.
Twenty-First Annual Report 1899-1900 United States Geological Survey, Part VI—continued Mineral Resources of the United States, 1899-1900, Nonmetallic production except coal and coke. Charles D. Walcott, Director.
Francis James Child, ed. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, in five volumes. Paperback.
Walter Lord, A Night to Remember, very good condition with dust jacket, 1st edition, 1955.
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edwards, ed. Macmillan, 1967. 8 volumes in four books. Excellent condition. Not ex-library.
Konigskinder, Anna Alice Chapin. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911 A fairy tale founded on the fairy opera of "Konigskinder" for which Engelbert Humperdinck wrote the music, and Ernst Rosmer the words. Told for children with photographs from the opera.
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, Illustrated Modern Library edition, 1945. A lovely, clean copy in slipcase.
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire. Putnam, 1962. First impression.
Pete Seeger, How to play the 5-string Banjo. Third edition, revised 1962. Softcover. Excellent condition.
V.S. Naipaul, India: A wounded civilization. Knopf, 1977. First edition.
H.L. Mencken’s Smart Set Criticism, Ed. By William H. Nolte. Cornell University Press, 1968.
Margaret M. Waddington, set of 5 softcover books: Wild Oats at Furnace Brook Farm, Shamrock Hill: Tales from Furnace Brook Farm, Four Seasons at Furnace Brook Farm, Bear with Me: Tales from Furnace Brook Farm, and Bear Essentials: Tales from Furnace Brook Farm. All signed.
Jane Eayre Fryer, Stories of Everyday Wonders. Winston, 1920.
New York Herald Tribune Front Page History of the Second World War, 1946, softcover, excellent condition.
Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe, vol 1, U. of Washington Press, 1993.
John Ciardi, You read to me, I’ll read to you. Drawings by Edward Gorey, 1962. Signed by Ciardi.
Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, book club editions, with very good dust jackets.
The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, Barnes & Noble, 2002. Nice copy!
John Morressy, Kedrigern in Wonderland and The Questing of Kedrigern. Softcover. Both signed by author.
John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South, Oxford U. Press, 2006. Like new.
Albrecht von Haller [London J. Nourse, 1755], A Dissertation on the Sensible and Irritable Parts of Animals, Johns Hopkins Press, 1956.
Kadra Maysi, The Patteran, State. 1925.
Roget’s Thesaurus, 1936 edition.
Inglis Fletcher, Roanoke Hundred, Bobbs-Merrill, 1948. First edition. Nice copy.
Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, Globe ed. Four volumes in one. Hurd, 1873.
Madeline Brandeis, Little Tom of England, Grosset, 1935. With fair jacket.
Walter Karig and Eric Purdon, Battle Report: four of six volumes:
Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea, 1944
Pacific War: Middle Phase, 1947
The End of the Empire, 1948
Victory in the Pacific, 1949
Andre Malraux, Days of Wrath, Random House, 1936.
Clive Bell, Art, Chatto and Windus, 1928.
Chaucer, Nun’s Priest Tale, Kenneth Sisam, ed. Oxford, 1938.
Charles H. Callahan, Washington: The Man and the Mason, Memorial Temple Committee of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Assoc., 1913.
The Works of Charles Dickens, 12 volumes, Globe edition. Condition varies.
A good selection of pocket paperbacks from the 40s, 50s and 60s---with interesting period covers. Published by Popular Library, Ace, Fawcett, Penguin.
North Carolina: Rebuilding an Ancient Commonwealth, American Historical Society, 1928. Volumes III and IV.
Thomas Nelson Page, Among the Camps, Scribner, 1899.
Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, The Documents of 20th Century Art: The Blaue Reitter Almanac. Viking Press, 1974.
Victor Davis Hanson, Carnage and Culture, Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, Doubleday, 2001.
Noel Polk, ed. William Faulkner, Sanctuary: the Original Text. Random House, 1981.
Stories by English Authors: The Orient. Scribner, 1903.
David Swing, Old Pictures of Life, Stone and Kimball, 1894. Two volumes.
Three portfolios of oriental prints.33x37mm.
Allen H. Eaton, Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands, Russell Sage, 1937.
James W. Wall, History of Davie County in the Forks of the Yadkin, Davie County Historical Publishing Association, 1969.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lippincott, 1960, 7th impression. Early dust jacket in excellent condition.
Ruth Stout, I’ve Always Done It My Way, 1975, 1st ed. A scarce title.
George Marsh, Ask No Quarter, William Morrow, 1945. Scarce.
Dr. D. Jayne’s Dream Book and Fortune Teller. 1932 pamphlet w/ interesting illustrations and vintage advertisements.
Jim Brandenburg, Brother Wolf: A Forgotten Promise, NorthWord Press, 1993.
Carter Ratcliff, Red Grooms, Abbeville Press, 1984. First ed.
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