The VNSA Book Sale includes a special section for rare and unusual books.
These are some of the selections available for sale at the Feb. 15-16, 2025 sale.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Lew Wallace
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1880
First Edition, no date on title page, short six-word dedication, “To the wife of my youth”
Catalogue of Chinese Art Objects, Including Porcelains, Potteries, Jades, Bronzes, and Cloisonne Enamels
Edward R. and John Getz Bacon
Privately Printed for V.P. Bacon, 1919
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Alfred A. Knopf, 1964, first American Edition, first issue with six-line colophon, dust jacket with no ISBN number
A Christmas Memory
Truman Capote
Random House, 1956
First Edition, signed by Capote
Chinese Painting with the Original Paintings & Discourses on Chinese Art by Professor Chang Da-chien
Edited and published by Kao Ling Mei
First Edition, printed in February 1961.
It includes text in English and Chinese, and numerous Chinese paintings. The paintings are in both black and white, and color.
Complete Poems of Robert Frost
Henry Holt & Company, N.Y., 1949
Signed
Glenn Miller’s Method for Orchestral Arranging
Glenn Miller
Mutual Music Society, 1943, signed
The Last Picture Show
Larry McMurtry
Simon & Schuster
First printing of this 1989 reprint. Signed.
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Delacorte Press, 1991
Signed 1st edition
Paintings and Statues from the Collection of President Sukarno
Lee Man-Fong, ed
Toppan Printing, Tokyo, 1964
Complete set in five volumes. With slipcases.
The Pentagon Papers: The Senator Gravel Edition
Beacon Press, 1971
Five-volume set, including the fifth volume of essays. Includes dustjackets in mylar.
Photographic History of the Civil War
Rodenbough, Miller, Trevelyan
Easton Press, 1995
10-volume set, complete.
The new technology of photography allowed this war to be captured in real time, documenting street scenes, battle fields, soldiers’ portraits, etc.
Picasso 347
Piero & Aldo Crommelynck
2 Volumes in Clamshell Box
Random House/Maecenas Press, 1970
The Poetic Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ellis & Elvey, 1891
Inscribed by William Rossetti to his sister Christina.
Sled Driver Flying the World’s Fastest Jet
Brian Shul
March 1, 1991
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
McClurg, Chicago, 1909
7th Edition
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Captain Red W. Lawson
Random House, NY, 1943
Signed by four crew members
To Tou Epiktetou
Epictetus, Arrian, John Upton
Foulus, Glasgow, 1751
Miniature book
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: A Play
Edward Albee
Scribner, 2003