“Oil, Land and Politics” has strong local allure as does “Of California’s First Citrus Empire,” a history of Limoneira by Dean Hobbs Blanchard, whose ancestors founded the library. Another local legend, Charles C. Teague, is the author of “Fifty Years a Rancher” and this highly popular book will also be on the auction block.An inscribed 1950 copy of “El Molino Viedo” – not video – by Robert Glass Cleland will be up for bid, as well as a rare copy of “Through Ramona’s Country” by George Wharton James, circa 1908.“Wyatt Earp,” a 1931 bio by Stuart Lake, a signed, first edition of the 1952 book, “The Devil in the Desert” by Paul Horgan, and “A Way of Life” by William Osler, “The Gun Digest” and the 22-volume Time-Life Books “The American Indians” will all be up for bid.George Wharton James has another offering - albeit a translation - with the intriguingly titled “Palov’s Life of Junipero Serra,” a 1913 book that will have collector’s drooling.Even without the great auction this book sale shouldn’t be missed, especially since the Friends use all proceeds to benefit Blanchard Community Library.
Saturday! BCL Friends Fall Book Sale & Auction
October 29, 2003
Santa Paula News
Saturday is a just in time for the holidays to buy that special present: books, gently used but much loved tomes, rows and rows of them available at the Friends of the Blanchard Community Library Big Fall Book Sale.
By Peggy KellySanta Paula TimesSaturday is a just in time for the holidays to buy that special present: books, gently used but much loved tomes, rows and rows of them available at the Friends of the Blanchard Community Library Big Fall Book Sale.The book sale will be held Nov. 1 in the north parking lot of the library, located at 119 N. 8th St. from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and all remaining stock will be half-price from 2 to 3 p.m.Better books are $1 and up, hardbacks 50 cents and paperbacks a quarter (25 cents).How often have your heard a friend or loved one say that there’s a book they read once-upon-a-time that they would love to have? Well, with 25 categories of books to choose from the Friends assure that if you can’t find it here it’s probably not out there!In addition, at 10 a.m. the highly anticipated auction with choice collector books will be held, featuring many books that cater to the growing number of those who crave tomes about local and state history as well as those characters who lived lives that just screamed to be written about.
