Everything is half-price today. The sale runs noon to 5 pm. And we take credit cards.
Do we need to say more? Yes -
Thanks for supporting this book sale and your local FCPL library!
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013
BOOK SALE REMINDERS - And something new!
Book Sale Hours:
Thursday, October 3 from 5 pm to 9 pm
Friday, October 4 from 10 am to 6 pm
Saturday, October 5 from 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday, October 6 (1/2 price day) from noon to 5 pm
The book sale ends each day promptly at the announced closing time.
New This Year:
You may pay by cash or check, as in the past. As a pilot, we will also be accepting credit card payments at 2 of the checkout stations. Credit card purchases must be completed by 15 minutes before the end of the sale day to be sure that we can process your purchase. We may announce an earlier deadline for getting into the credit card purchase line if the checkout line is lengthy.
Book Sale Policy Reminders:
All sales are final. We haven't viewed all of the DVDs and VHS tapes, nor listened to the recorded books or CDs. When we placed the items on the sale table, all CDs and DVDs were in their containers.
Parking. Please be careful to park only in marked parking spaces and not along Evergreen Lane where the police may ticket you.
Bins and boxes and piles of books. No large bins or wheeled bins of any size going down the sale aisles or stored at the end of the aisles. Copier paper boxes or banker's boxes may be carried with you in the sales area. We will have designated areas for you to leave your boxes while you continue to shop. You will need to mark them with your name. At busy times, we may limit how long you may leave your boxes or containers.
Thursday, October 3 from 5 pm to 9 pm
Friday, October 4 from 10 am to 6 pm
Saturday, October 5 from 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday, October 6 (1/2 price day) from noon to 5 pm
The book sale ends each day promptly at the announced closing time.
New This Year:
You may pay by cash or check, as in the past. As a pilot, we will also be accepting credit card payments at 2 of the checkout stations. Credit card purchases must be completed by 15 minutes before the end of the sale day to be sure that we can process your purchase. We may announce an earlier deadline for getting into the credit card purchase line if the checkout line is lengthy.
Book Sale Policy Reminders:
All sales are final. We haven't viewed all of the DVDs and VHS tapes, nor listened to the recorded books or CDs. When we placed the items on the sale table, all CDs and DVDs were in their containers.
Parking. Please be careful to park only in marked parking spaces and not along Evergreen Lane where the police may ticket you.
Bins and boxes and piles of books. No large bins or wheeled bins of any size going down the sale aisles or stored at the end of the aisles. Copier paper boxes or banker's boxes may be carried with you in the sales area. We will have designated areas for you to leave your boxes while you continue to shop. You will need to mark them with your name. At busy times, we may limit how long you may leave your boxes or containers.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Adult Case - October 3 - 6, 2013 Sale
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 October 3, 2013 at 5 pm.
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.
We have pictures of many, but not all, of the books in the case:
Robert Frost
Signed and dated by author
1st printing, 1915
Henry Holt & Co
Signed and dated by author
1st printing, 1915
Henry Holt & Co
Truman Capote
1st British Edition, 1966
1st British Edition, 1966
Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, The Texas $25
Ranger and Hunter
John C. Duval 1871
The
Future is Now, George Allen $25
Gildea & Kenneth Turan, 1972
Signed by George Allen
1st edition
Signed by George Allen
1st edition
Borte
Med Blaesten $25
(Gone with the Wind in Danish)
(Gone with the Wind in Danish)
Margaret Mitchell 1937
Leather bound
Leather bound
Sergeant
Ted Cole,
United States Marines $25
Everett T. Tomlinson 1919
Works
of Nash Buckingham $80
Second Restricted Edition, #2248
Seven Volumes, Buckingham Mint, Inc.
Shuttle-Craft
Book of American $20
Hand-Weaving
Mary Meigs Atwater
Macmillan Company, 1935
Nora Ephron
Signed by the author
Signed by the author
2nd
Printing before publication, 1983
Herbert Cole and Chike C. Aniakor
Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1984Bridge Aesthetics Around the World $30
Committee on General Structures Transportation Research Board, 1991
James L. Greaves
First Printing, 2008The Radiant City $40
Le Corbusier
Orion Press, Re-published 1964
Robert Kipniss
Signed by the Artist
Abaris Books, First Edition, 1980Cannes and Mougins, 1954-1963
Editions Cercle D’Art, S.A. & Harry
Abrams
Pontificale Romanum, $30
Editio Typica 1961-1962
Citta del Vaticano, 2008
Rituale
Romanum, $50
Editio Typica 1952
Citta del Vaticano, 2008
Missale
Romanum, $50
Editio Typica 1962
Citta del Vaticano, 2007
Drawn
and Quartered $10
Charles Addams
Forward by Boris KarloffBantam Books, 1946
A Phenomenological Investigation
Alan Paskow
Cambridge University Press, 2004The Buccaneers $50
Edith Wharton
D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938
Practical
of Book Oriental Rugs $30
G. Griffin Lewis
J.B. Lippincott, 1911
Lana,
the Lady, the Legend, the Truth $40
Lana Turner
Signed by the AuthorE.P. Dutton, 1982
Will James
Scribner’s, 1947Anansi Boys $45
Neil Gaiman
Limited and Signed First EditionWilliam Morrow, 2005
Art
Treasures in China $35
Mary Tregear & Shelagh Vainker
Harry Abrams, 1994
My
American Journey $25
Colin Powell
Signed by Colin Powell
Random House, 1995
numberline starts 2
Handbook
of Nuclear Weapon Effects $200
John Northrop, editor
1st edition, September
1996 No CDOf Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin
in Sudan (1863 – 1864)
$40
$40
Rober Joost Willink
Amsterdam Press, 2011America’s Women in the Revolutionary $75
3 volumes
Eric G. Grundset DAR
The Paintings of Henry Wo Yue-Kee $30
Artland
Press, 1992
A Mirror of Princes, The Mughals and the Medici $30
Edited by
Dalu Jones
Marg
Publications, 1987The Kariye Djami $75
Paul A.
Underwood
3 VolumesPantheon Books, 1966
Indian Pictorial Education $20
Times of
India Press, 1930
ADDED to the case September 25, 2013:
W. Brockedon John Murray, 1837
Finden’s Illustrations of the
Life and Works $80
of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 W. Brockedon John Murray, 1837
Discovery of
the Circle $10
Bruno Munari
George
Wittenborn, Inc., 1970
Discovery of
the Square $10
Bruno Munari
George
Wittenborn, Inc., 1970
The Thomas Jefferson Building,
The Library of Congress $10
Blaine Marshall & Alexander Hovan
Library of Congress, 2003
Guatemala Rainbow $30
Photographs by Gianni Vecchiato
Pomegranate Art Books, 1989
Morris’s Human Anatomy, 5 Volumes $50
A Complete Systematic Treatise by English
And American Authors
Edited by C.M. Jackson
P. Blakiston’s Son & Co., copyright 1914
Silver Certificates face value $1 selling for $2 each
Children's Case for October 3-6, 2013 Sale
The right side display case in the
lobby of the Library is filled with collectible children's books or books about children's books. While we may change the display for our own reasons, the books in the case go on sale at 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 2.
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.
Not all books have an individual photo but they are described below.
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.
Not all books have an individual photo but they are described below.
The
Complete Peter Rabbit Library $25
Beatrix Potter, copyright 2006, publisher Warne. 23 individual books housed in a slipcase.
The
Wicked Witch of Oz $30
Rachel Cosgrove Payes, copyright 1993, 1st edition, published by Int. Wizard of Oz Club
Inscribed by illustrator, dust jacket protected by Brodart cover
Inscribed by illustrator, dust jacket protected by Brodart cover
Cave
Kids $6
Bruce R. Carrick Hanna-Barbera
Little Golden Book “A”
edition
The
Private World of Tasha Tudor $5
Tasha Tudor and Richard Brown, copyright 1992, 1st edition
Gaudenzia $10
Mauguerite Henry, copyright 1960, 1st edition
Signed
by author, no dust jacket, from a church library
Dean’s
A Book of Fairy Tales $15
Illus by Janet and Anne, published by John Stone
printed in 1977
edition, no dust jacket, beautiful color illustrations
Klingendes Kinderland $10
Walter Buhe, illus., copyright 1950, published by Sikorski
Color picture boards, colorful endpapers, a song book in German
Color picture boards, colorful endpapers, a song book in German
The
Wuggly Ump $20
Edward Gorey, copyright 1963, published by Adama
Books
Pictorial Boards, no dust jacket
Pictorial Boards, no dust jacket
The
Annotated Cat $10
Dr. Seuss, copyright 2007, 1st
edition, published by Random
House
Dust jacket is not price clipped.
Dust jacket is not price clipped.
Growing
Up With Dick and Jane $5
Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman, copyright 1996, published by Collins
Large paperbook book. Has a 24-page sample book and sheet of 2 cut-out dolls.
From
Mother Goose to Dr. Seuss $5
Harold Darling, copyright 1999, 1st edition, published by Chronicle
Books.
Children's Book covers from 1860 - 1960
Children's Book covers from 1860 - 1960
Dr.
Dolittle and the Secret Lake $10
Hugh Lofting, copyright 1948, 9th printing, published by Lippincott
Dust jacket in good condition, spine is sun-faded. Previous owner's name has been inked out on the front endpaper.
Dust jacket in good condition, spine is sun-faded. Previous owner's name has been inked out on the front endpaper.
Play
with Us (1954) set
for $10
See
Us Have Fun (1963)
Guy Bond, published by Lyons and Carnahan
Two softcover books. No writing inside.
Two softcover books. No writing inside.
Walt Disney's Uncle Remus Stories $10
Walt Disney adaptations of Joel Chandler Harris stories, copyright 1986, published by Golden Press.
Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz $10
L. Frank Baum, copyright 1908, published by Reilly and Lee
Early reprint, from a church library.
Sinbad
the Sailor and other stories $10
Edmund Dulac, illus., copyright 1978
The 12 Days of Christmas $10
Robert Sabuda, published by1996, 1st edition
New
Pop-up in original shrink-wrap
Little Turtle’s Big Adventure $10
David Harrison, copyright 1969, published by Random House
Early Bird Book, no dust jacket
Early Bird Book, no dust jacket
My Very First Mother Goose $15
Rosemary Wells, illus., copyright 1996, 1st U.S. edition
Signed by illustrator. Dust Jacket in not price clipped.
Chatterbox $10
Popular Limited Edition 1927
8 color plates L. C. Page
Glenda of Oz $5
L. Frank Baum 1970’s
John R. Neill, illus. Rand McNally
The
Magic of Oz $4
L. Frank Baum 1970’s
John R. Neill, illus. Rand McNally
Inside the Secret Garden $5
Collins and Erikson 2001, 1st
edition
Harper
Collins
Harry Potter and the Deadly Halllows $20
J. K. Rawling 2007
Deluxe 1st edition, Scholastic
Deluxe 1st edition, Scholastic
The
Magic Butterfly $10
George Obligado 1963, 1st edition
Golden
Press
Girl
Scout Handbook $5
Intermediate Program 1944
The
Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear $10
Holbrook Jackson, ed. 1965
Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber
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