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The Friends of the Library Spring 2024 Book Sale takes place April 20-24 at the Bookhouse, 430-B North Main St. in Gainesville. You will find thousands of bargain-priced books, vinyl records, puzzles, board games, artworks, comic books, DVDs, and more are available. Profits from the sale help support the Alachua County Library District and community literacy projects. Most items are priced between 25 cents and $4.
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The sale hours are:
- Saturday, April 20, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
- Sunday, April 21, 12 - 6 p.m.
- Monday, April 22, 12 - 6 p.m.
- Tuesday, April 23, 12 - 6 p.m. – All items in the general collection are half-price.
- Wednesday, April 24, 12 - 6 p.m. – All items are 10 cents.
- Thursday, April 25, Non-Profits Day - All items free to Non-Profits, contact FOL for details at folacld430@gmail.com.
The Collector's Corner features rare and unusual items from many genres. Books may be leather-bound, signed, first editions, out of print, or published by small presses. Larger sections include Art, Military History, Literature, Non-Fiction, Florida, Genealogy, Regional, Early Cookbooks, Natural History, Vintage Children’s Books, Pop-ups, and “Grandma’s Bookshelf." The Collector's Corner is open from Saturday, April 20 to Tuesday, April 23.
Featured items in the 2024 Spring Collector's Corner include the following:
Anthropology
- The Kurgan Culture and the Europeanization of Europe by Marija Gimbutas, 1997.
Art, Architecture, and Photography
- The Americans: Photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. First Grove Press Edition 1959.
- Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective: Fifty Years of Printmaking at the Kinngait Studios by Leslie Boyd Ryan, 2007.
- Collection of Andy Warhol materials
- Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1962-1987 by Frayda Feldman, 3rd edition, 1997
- Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne by Frayda Feldman, 2nd edition, 1997
- Andy Warhol and the Pop Generation, Sotheby’s, London, Monday 6 October 2003, exhibition catalog
- Andy Warhol Stars, Deaths, and Disasters 1962-64 by Douglas Fogle, 1st Edition 2005, including cd
- Cuba: A History in Art by Garry R. Libby, 1997
- Cuba: Art and History from 1868 to Today, Montreal Musuem of Fine Arts, 2008
- Cuban Art: Remembering Cuba Through Art: Private Collections in Exile, Vol. 1 by Felipe A. Del Valle and Sergio Delgado, 2004
- Good Luck and Bad, by Paul Brown, signed, numbered 1st edition, 1940.
- Greenwich Village Today and Yesterday, by Berenice Abbott, 1st edition, 1949
- Howling at the Moon, by Jakkub Rozalski, 1st edition, 2018.
- Hoeido: The Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido, by Ando Hiroshige, 1960.
- Maskee: A Shanghai Sketchbook, by Schiff, hand colored, signed, 1st edition limited to 570 copies c. 1938.
- Manet-Degas by Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley Dunn, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023
- Nature Form & Spirit, by George Nakashima, Interior Art, 2003.
- Temple Hill cut-outs from Chefoo China, by the Women’s Bible school Chefoo China, c.1930. Three books, 8 cutouts in each book. 1 Book of “Myths and Folklore, 2 Books of “Filial Sons of China”
Children and Young Adult
- The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper, 1930.
Domestic Arts
- The Housekeeper’s Manual, by Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1st edition, 1873.
Fairy Tales
- The Flying Trunk – a Classic Fairy Tale Pop Up, illustrated by Kubasta, 1st edition, 1959.
Fiction, including Science Fiction and Mystery
- The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett, 1st edition 6th printing, 1930.
- Night Flight, by Antoine de St-Exupery, 1st American edition, 1932.
Florida
- Civil Rights: The Florida Struggle …, by Ryan Morini, Hosbey, Jimenez and Maitland. Supplement to the African American History Project, vol. II. Includes a CD of interviews, 2014.
- The Everglades: River of Grass, by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, signed, 1st printing of the revised edition, 1988.
- History of Pinellas County, Florida: Narrative and Biological, by W. L. Straub, The Record Company Printers, St. Augustine, Florida, 1929.
- The Jacksonville Family Album: 150 Years of the Art of Photography, by Wayne W. Wood, 2005.
- The River Flows North, by Brian E. Michaels, inscribed to Kevin McCarthy, limited edition #2360/3500, 1986.
- When the Whippoorwill, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Mockingbird Books, 2nd printing, 1980.
Health
- Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis, by Rosalynn Carter, signed, 1st edition, 2010.
History
- Clinton, Portrait of Victory, photos by P. F. Bentley, 1st edition, signed by Clinton, 1993
- Collecting the Confederacy (R-1/22), by Shannon Pritchard, signed, limited 1st edition, 2005.
- The Defense of Charleston Harbor, by John Johnson, 1st edition, 1890.
- From the Black Sea Through Persia and India, by Edwin Lord Weeks, 1896.
- The Laws of the United States of America, vol. I, by Richard Folwell, 1st edition, 1796.
- The Letters of Major Howard W. Beal Headquarters First Div. Medical Dept., limited to 100 copies, WWI history, 1926.
- Life and Campaign of Lieutenant General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson) by Prof. R.L. Dabney, 1866.
- The Long and the Short and the Tall, by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., signed 1st edition, WWII history, 1946.
- The Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, by Louis W. Kemp, signed, limited numbered 1st edition, 1944.
- Spectacle in the White City, by Stanley Appelbaum, 1st edition, 2009.
Humor
- Is This Anything?, by Jerry Seinfeld, signed, 1st edition, 2020.
Literature and Classics
- Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Grossett and Dunlap Publishers
- Flower Fables, by Louisa May Alcott, 1st Henry Altemus edition, 1898.
- The Great Gatsby, by Fitzgerald, 1948.
- Lolita, 2 volume set, by Nabokov, 1st edition, 1955.
- The Old Man and the Sea, in English and Ukranian, by Hemingway, illustrations by Mikola P Shinka, 1991.
- A Pale View of Hills, by Kazuo Ishiguro, signed, 1st edition, 1982.
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard, signed, 1st edition.
- Three Blue Suits, by Aline Bernstein, signed, limited numbered edition, 1933.
Music
- Tom Petty—High School Era items: Gainesville High School Yearbooks1967,1968, booklets, and a GHS student newspaper.
Non-Fiction
- Guilherme Gaensly (in Portuguese), by Boris Kossoy, 2011.
- In Sun’s Likeness and Power: Cheyenne Accounts of Shield & Tipi Heraldry, Volumes 1 and 2, by James Mooney, signed, 1st edition, 2013.
- Moon Shot – Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon, by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, signed, 1st edition, 1994.
- 2063 A. D., by John Glenn, Walter Schirra, Scott Carpenter, etc.
Paperbacks
- Funk & Wagnall’s Standard Library 1883-1885, Large Paperback Edition, (11 vols.), copyright 1883-84
- Coffee on the Wing Beam by Capt. Brian McGuiness USNR(Ret), 1979
- Morlock Night by K.W. Jeter, 1st printing by Daw, 1979
- The End of Man?, by Olof Johannesson, 1st printing by Award 1969
Philosophy
- Ciceronis Opera, by Cicero, 1659.
- Works of Apuleius, by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis, 1533.
Politics
- My First Days in the White House, by Huey P. Long, 1st edition, 1935.
Posters, Brochures, Ephemera, Miscellaneous
Catalogs
- Vintage Lane Bryant catalogs, 1940. For the Expectant Mother, Style Book of Slenderizing Fashions, Style Book for Infants and children
Flight
- Higher: 100 Years of Boeing, by Banham 1st edition w/slipcase 2015
Florida
- Florida Trail Association Guidebook, 1st Edition (1981) and Complete Set of Trail Maps
Miscellaneous
- Concentration by Bhagwan S. Gyanee-Published by Atlantic Printers Inc, Miami Beach, Florida, 1932. Pamphlet
- Port Augusta Georgia; A Great New Inland Port -1937, Brochure-Savannah River Improvement Association and the August Traffic Bureau
- The Realist, Mae Brussell's Conspiracy Newsletter #98, Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, Feb 1974
Music
- Radio Station 60s Music-Set of 23 Fabulous Forty Weekly Music Surveys 1961-65
NASA
Extensive collection of NASA materials, decals, embroidered patches, commemorative coins, payload booklets, Spaceport News, large number of crew photographs, Apollo Fiberglas Beta fabric emblems, etc., including:
- Apollo 11 30th Anniversary 1999-pin, coin set
- Columbia Space Shuttle 10th Anniversary 1991-pin, envelope
- Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report
- Columbia STS-107 Crew memorial Service Agenda
- Flight of Apollo 11 Photo Set w/First Day Cover Postage Stamps
- International Space Station 10th Anniversary-coin, envelope
- Notebook of 15 Original Photos STS-1 Space Shuttle Columbia-1981
- Skylab 2, 2 Signed letters (Crew and Project Director,) decal
Political
Collection of Presidential memorabilia, political humor, campaign memorabilia
Sports
How to Play Bad Golf by Charles Fletcher, 1935, booklet
World War II
1944 V-mail and Letter w/envelope-Framed
Religion
- A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language, for Readers of English, by Ernest Klein, 1987.
- The Sarim, by Don Herron, signed, limited 1st edition 99/400, 1971.
Science
- A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle, Christmas Holiday Lectures of Great Britain, by Michael Faraday, 1st edition, 1861.