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Princeton Public Library's Friends Annual Book Sale May 4-6

Continuing the new tradition of the Friends Annual Book Sale being held in the spring, the 2018 Friends of the Princeton Public Library Book Sale will take place May 4-6 in the library’s Community Room.

One of the top used book sales in the region, this year’s sale includes thousands of books for all ages and across a wide variety of topics. Most books are priced between $1 and $3, with art books and special selections priced higher. On the last day of the sale (Sunday), everything will be sold at half price. 

The event opens with a Preview Sale Friday, May 4, from 10 a.m. to noon. A ticket for the Preview Sale is $10, but is free for Friends of the Library. Numbered tickets will be available at the door starting at 8 a.m. Customers enter the sale in numerical order. Barcode scanners will be permitted at the tables, but collecting books to scan will not be allowed.

Starting at noon, admission to the book sale is free for the remainder of the sale. Hours are noon-8:30 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday.

The sale includes an excellent selection of literary classics, fiction, mysteries, art, science and math, politics and history, with an outstanding collection of books in the field of African American Studies, as well as children’s books and many other categories. Special items at this year’s sale include:

• A first edition of the two-volume “Letters and Notes on the Manners, Custom, and Condition of the North American Indians” by George Catlin, published in 1841. A beautiful book with many plates, it is recognized as an important early work of Native American ethnography
• English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley’s most famous work “Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature” published in London, 1864
• A first edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-five”
• A signed copy of “A Memoir” by John Glenn
• A first edition of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s 1977 travel masterpiece, “A Time of Gifts”
• A 1947 first edition of “The Age of Anxiety” by W.H. Auden
• A first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
• A 1942 first edition of “Shakespeare in Harlem” by Langston Hughes
• A limited edition of "Mandate for Change" signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1963
• A rare first edition of "A Little Night Music" signed by Stephen Sondheim

• Numerous Franklin Limited Edition signed volumes including:

• Joan Didion, “A Book of Common Prayer”
• Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man”
• Joseph Heller, “Good as Gold”
• Mary McCarthy, “Birds of America”
• Arthur Miller, “Collected Plays”
• Joyce Carol Oates, “Them”
• Walker Percy, “The Moviegoer”
• John Updike, “Rabbit Redux”
• Robert Penn Warren, “Selected Poems”
• Eudora Welty, “The Optimist’s Daughter”
• Tennessee Williams, “Selected Plays”

For more information, contact Claire Bertrand, Friends Book Sale Manager,

(609) 924-9529 ext. 1227, or cbertrand@princetonlibrary.org.

The library is in the Sands Library Building at 65 Witherspoon St. in Princeton, NJ. Convenient parking is available on neighboring streets and in the Spring Street Garage, which is adjacent to the library. For more information about library programs and services, call (609) 924-9529 or visit www.princetonlibrary.org