Unique and Unusual Selections

These unique and special books will be in the Rare and Unusual Section in the northwest corner of the building when the Sale opens on Saturday, February 11 at 7 am.     Further information and prices are NOT available before the Sale.   These books are only a sampling of many interesting and unusual books that will be found at the 50 th Annual VNSA Used Book Sale!

Childrens

Dr. Seuss Story-Time
1974; Random House; 1 st printing
This 4-book set is in VG condition.

Eloise in Paris
Author: Kay Thompson
1957; Simon & Schuster
Illustrator:   Hilary Knight

Friendly Faries
Author: Johnny Gruelle (author of Raggedy Ann & Andy)
1919; M.A. Donohue & Company
With dust jacket; like new inside

Good Shabbos Everybody
United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education, New York
1951; 1 st edition
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Program from the opening of Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland

Squiffer
Author: Hal Garrott
1924; USA Robert M. McBride & Co., New York
1 st printing; 2 color plates; signed

Peter and Wendy
Author: J. M. Barrie
1911; Charles Scribner's and Sons
1 st printing; 13 plates by F. D. Bedford

Classics

Laughter in the Dark
Author: Vladimir Nabokoff
1938; Bobbs-Merrill Co.
Dust jacket is not price clipped
Scarce 1 st edition, 1 st printing of author's first novel published in America
"Printing on a few pages is very faint, indistinct and not readable."

The Mabinogion
Mediaeval Welsh romances translated by Guest, Lady Charlotte
1902; David Nutt, publisher, Long Acre
Original green cloth decorated in gilt

The High History of the Holy Grail
2-volume set, edited by Israel Golancz
Second edition, June 1899
J.M. Dent and Company, Aldine House
Gold-decorated olive leather, marker ribbons present

Le Morte D-Arthur
Edited by Israel Golancz
Temple edition, J.M. Dent & Company, Aldine House
4-volume set
            1 st and 2 nd parts - 3 rd edition, 1899
            3 rd and 4 th parts - 2 nd edition, 1898
Gold-decorated olive leather, marker ribbons present

Fine Arts / Film

Sleeping Beauty, Memorial Photography in America
Author: Stanley B. Burns
1990; Twelve Trees Press
Beautiful presentation of a gruesome though moving subject

Great Book of Currier & Ives' America
Author: Walton Rawls
1979; Abbeville Press
The largest number of Currier & Ives' prints ever reproduced in a single volume

The Negro Sings a New Heaven
Author: Mary Allen Grissom
1930; University of North Carolina Press
Engraved by Author
Various chapters deal with songs of death, resurrection, exhortation and of triumph. Lyrics, written in dialect, are accompanied by musical notations.

Ivan Albright
Author:   Michael Croydon
1978; Abbeville Press; 1 st edition
170 illustrations, 83 in color

History, War and Politics

The Russian Century
Author: Brian Moynahan (text) & Yevgeny Yevtushenko (forward)
1994; Random House
Photographic history of Russia's 100 years

The Holocaust Chronicle
2002; Publications International, Ltd.
A history in words and pictures

The Tower Menagerie
Author: Daniel Hahn
2004; Tarcher/Penguin
With dust jacket
Amazing 600-year history of the Royal Collection of wild and ferocious beasts kept at the Tower
of London

The Crime of Caste in our Country
Author:   Benjamin R. Davenport
1892; National Publishing Co.
History of the power of people re-told

"Boots and Saddles: Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
Author:   Elizabeth Custer
1885; Harper and Brothers
Daily life of an army family

Equal Justice Under Law: The Supreme Court in American Life
1982; Supreme Court Historical Society
Hand-written inscription by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

Humor

Pogo: We have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
Author: Walt Kelly
1995; Jonas/Winter, Inc.
First hardcover edition
Without dust jacket as issued
Printed upside-down

Science and Nature

Aristarchus of Samos (the ancient Copernicus)
Author: Sir Thomas Heath
1913; Oxford at the Clarendon Press
1 st edition; with dust jacket

Medicine: an Illustrated History
Author: Albert S. Lyons, M.D.
1987; Abradale Press/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers

Sports and Fitness

Ben Hogan's Five Lessons
Author:   Ben Hogan
1957; A. S. Barnes & Co.
First edition

Natchez Route - A Mississippi Central Railroad Album
Author: David S. Price & Louis R. Saillard
1975; Mississippi Great Southern Chapter of NRHS
Excellent condition

Rare Air: Michael on Michael
Author:   Michael Jordan
1993; Collins Publishing, San Francisco
1 st edition; 100+ photos

Complete Picture Collection, A History 1951-1985 Topps Baseball Cards
Author:   Frank Slocum
1985; Warner Books, Inc.

A Sense of Where You Are
Author:   John McPhee
1965; Farrar Straus   & Giroux
Profile of Bill Bradley, with pictures

A Hard Road to Glory
Author:   Arthur Ashe
1988; Warner Books
1 st edition; 3 volumes

C. Fred's Story - A Dog's Life
Author:   C. Fred Bush
1984; Doubleday & Co.
1 st edition; signature of Barbara Bush / paw print of Fred

West

The Conscience of a Conservative
Author:   Barry Goldwater
1960; Victor Publishing Co.
Signed; with dust jacket

The Undiscovered Zane Grey Fishing Stories
Editor: George Reiger
1983; Winchester Press
Published in association with the Izaak Walton League of America

Sets

Arabian Stud Handbook
Published by the Arabian Horse Club Registry of America, Inc.
20 volumes between 1944 and 1973