WELCOME TO OUR FALL BOOK SALE! No shipping charges, no taxes, items for sale are clean, in good condition, and most of them cost less than a toothbrush. Saturday, October 2, from 10-5 and Sunday, October 3, from 1-5 (half price).
Questions? E-mail Dee Grover or call the Essex Library 860-767-1560.
All categories are packed, and the selections are wonderful! We will continue to welcome donations of books, CD's, and DVD's until September 24th. (Or save your donations until after the sale - there's always another sale coming up in the spring.)
Here are a few titles that will be found in the fall sale, most likely assigned to the following categories.
FICTION:
The Lacuna, Lucid Intervals, Kisser, Scarecrow, Tensleep, Q&A, Turkish Gambit, 9th Judgment, The Spy (Cussler), That Old Cape Magic, Tamarind Woman, Samaritan, Brick Lane, Glassblower of Murano, Green Night, Last Night in Twisted River, Comedy Writer, Inspector Alleyn Calls, Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
BIOGRAPHY & HISTORY:
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, American Bloomsbury, N.Y. State Ghosts, Durham CT, Lewis & Clark Revisited, Persepolis, Homage to Pythagoras, 101 Things to do in Wartime 1940, Authority of Experts, Yellow Fever in the North, W. S. Gilbert, History of Sweden, The Wonder that Was India, Nuclear Express, Wings Over the Atlantic, Code-Breakers, Jesse James, Last Stand!, Who’s Who in Military History, Whittaker Chambers, Lost Chicago, Spiral Staircase, Alton Locke, Horatio Nelson, Life in the CT River Valley 1800-1840.
HUMOR, LITERATURE, POETRY, DRAMA:
No Poems (Benchley), Frost, You Say?, Driving Like Crazy, I’m Not an Ambulance Driver, Native American Myths & Legends Illustrated, Letters to a Young Artist, Pigs in Clover, There’s Always Another Windmill, Writing Ethnographic Field Notes, Letters of J.R.R. Tolkein, One Writer’s Beginnings, Friend of My Youth, Red Guard Fantasies & Other Stories.
TRAVEL & NATURE:
A Great Current Running, North American Tree Squirrels, Instant Guide to Edible Plants, Tallgrass Restortion Handbook, Shunpiker’s Guide to the Northeast, Devil’s Picnic, Paris to the Moon, Every Creeping Thing, Harrison’s Greater New Haven.
MARITIME & SPORTS:
Seasons In Hell, Complete Guide to Freshwater Fishing, Dave Pelz’s Short Game Bible, NBA Jam Session, Baseball’s Greatest Games, A Good Walk Spoiled, Fighting Art of Tang Soo Do, Greatest Fly Fishing Worldwide, Amateur Seaman, Following the Sea.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Metalwork, Samplers, Christ the Ideal of the Priest, Analytic Geometry & Calculus, Introductory Physics with Algebra, Headhunter’s Edge, Pennsylvania Dutch Stuff, Scholar Warrior (Tao), Ken Purdy’s Book of Automobiles, Fischer v. Spassky, Culture-Bound Syndromes, Afro-Caribbean Folk Medicine, Leprosy Racism & Public Health, Golden Age of Homespun, Disasters & Development, Uncommon Cures for Everyday Ailments, Patent it Yourself, Theory of Semiotics, When Genius Failed, Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, GarageBand for Dummies.
COOKING:
Dooky Chase Cookbook, Cold Cuisine, Black Whale Cook Book, Complete Guide to Home Meat Curing, 3 from Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library, Gas Grill Gourmet, Good Fat Cookbook, Volumetrics Eating Plan, Pecans Etc., Fine Art of Garnishing, Breads of France, Mushroom Cookbook, Festive Tarts, Elegantly Easy Liqueur Desserts, No Red Meat, New Laurel’s Kitchen, Out of Vermont’s Kitchen, Lyme’s Own Cookbook 1933, Cat-Lovers Cookbook, White House Cook Book, Coffee Cookbook, Food in History.
GARDENING:
Gardens of Historic Charleston, An Illustrated Guide to Daylilies, Rosa Rugosa, House Plant Expert, Taylor’s Guide to Ornamental Grasses, Deep in the Green, Woodchuck’s Guide to Gardening, Beginning Hydroponics, A Northeast Gardener’s Year, Paths of Desire, Let it Rot, Square foot Gardening.
ART:
(See Also LARGE BOOKS OVER $4.) Complete Printmaker, Figure Drawing Books, Miro, Painting Fresh Florals in Watercolor, I Was a Teenage Clip-Art Book, Painter Krans of Bishop Hill Colony, Cut-Outs of Henri Matisse, Hungarian Peasant Art, Tramp Art, Folk Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley, Sheeler the Photographs, Naïve Painters of Czechoslovakia, Folk Arts of Norway.
THE THREE BOOKCARTS OF MIXED SUBJECTS:
Gershwin Song Book, Jerome Kern Song Book, EZ Play Today The Best Songs Ever & Gospel Songs of Johnny Cash, Frisbee a Practitioner’s Manuel, Private World of Tasha Tudor, Beatrix Potter - 1866-1943, Key to German Translation, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Art of the Storyboard, Not One Drop, Getting Started in Radio-Control Airplanes, Winston Churchill’s War 1940-45, In the Land of Hummel, Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe, Remarkable Names of Real People, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Le Musee Picasso De Barcelona, Minute Stories from the Bible, Thar She Goes – Shipbuilding on the CT River, PA German Folk Art, Ribbon Embroidery for Crazy Quilts, Psychology of Children’s Drawings, Age of the Unthinkable, Death by Black Hole, Heathcote House, Home in Fenwick, Hummels & Me, ECCE Romani I (Latin Reading Program), Handbook of Near-Death Experiences, Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Map & Guide to the Fabulous Homes of the Stars, Mozart Miniature Opera Score, Historic Silver of the Colonies & Its Makers, The Hitchcock Chair, Hand-Loom Weaving.
LARGE BOOKS $4 AND UP:
(See also ART) Folk Art of Rural Pennsylvania, Rufus Porter Yankee Pioneer, Teddybar Mit Knopf im Ohr, Creating the Not-So-Big House, The New Cottage Home, Dier’s Hardy Trees & Shrubs, Donna Karan N.Y., American Painted Furniture, Rugs & Carpets of the World, American Folk Portraits, In the Kennedy Style, World’s Most Beautiful Dolls, Rooms, Swedish Handcraft, The Cottage Home.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE:
Books in Russian, Latin, Barbadian Dialect, a number of books in French & German in excellent condition on the bottom shelves of the book carts mentioned above.
LIBRARY ENTRYWAY:
Wall Chart of World History, Atlas of CT Topographical Maps, Game of “This vs. That” in shrink wrap, Roswell Report, The Art of Scandinavia (2 vols.), N.Y. Times Directory of the Theater, DK Illustrated Oxford Dictionary, Suze Orman Blue Valise Kit, What Mystery Do I Read Next?, Box of Eugene Sue, Bag of 6 wireless tech books c. 1920’s, Box of full scores of 8 Gilbert & Sullivan Operas late 1800’s & early 1900’s most in good condition.
AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS:
Ken Burns Baseball, Finest Hour, Jane Eyre, The Divided Union, Inspector Morse (set 5), Great Pharaohs of Egypt, Mr. Bean, I Love Lucy, Christianity the First thousand Years, carton of shrink-wrapped Disney.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS:
Box of nice wooden puzzles for preschoolers (Galt, Creative Playthings, Playskool).
BOXES OF BOOKS FOR COMING FALL/WINTER SEASONS & HOLIDAYS.
NO TABLE OF SIGNED BOOKS IN THIS SALE – WAIT FOR SPRING 2011 SALE.