The 2013 Friends of the Princeton Public Library Book Sale is set to take place Sept. 27 to 29 in the library’s Community Room and in a tent on Hinds Plaza.
The sale features nearly 10,000 books for all ages on a wide variety of topics. Most books are priced between $1 and $3, with art books and special selections priced higher.
The event is set to open with a preview sale 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Sept. 27. A ticket for the preview sale is $10, but admission for Friends of the Library is free. Numbered tickets will be available at the door starting at 8 a.m. Customers enter the sale in numerical order.
Starting at noon, admission to the book sale is free for the remainder of the sale.
Hours are 12 to 8:30 p.m. Sept 27, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 28 and 1-5:30 p.m. Sept. 29.
On Sept. 29, books will be sold at half price in the Community Room and in the tent on Hinds Plaza. From 3-5:30 p.m. on Sunday, a Bag Sale will be held in the tent where a standard grocery bag can be filled with books for $5. Bags will be supplied at the sale.
This year’s sale includes a large number of high quality children’s books, history books and art books, as well as books on cooking and gardening and a selection of fiction, poetry and classics.
Buyers may also find many old and unusual books, books in a variety of foreign languages for both adults and children, CDs, DVDs and audiobooks.
Also on sale are modern first editions, a number of works by classic authors in fine bindings and sheet music.
Among the sale items are first editions of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s All the Sad Young Men and Afternoon of an Author, signed copy of Seamus Heaney’s Crediting Poetry, The Nobel Lecture, 1906 edition of Grover Cleveland’s Fishing and Shooting Sketches and first edition of Thomas Wolfe’s Of Time and the River that was dedicated to and signed by publisher Maxwell E. Perkins.
Other books include inscriptions or signatures from Bill Clinton, William Saroyan and Thornton Wilder.
Collections include those of Stanley Katz — featuring a selection of scholarly books on constitutional and international law — historians David Cannadine and Theodore Draper, composer Claudio Spies and author Nathaniel Burt.
Princeton Public Library is located at 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton.
More information is online at princetonlibrary.org.
