Saturday’s Friends of BCL Big Fall Book Sale offering best bargains
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula News
Published: November 04, 2009
If you want to start the fall off right and enjoy those books you’ve promised yourself to read, don’t miss Saturday’s Friends of Blanchard Community Library Big Fall Book Sale.
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula Times
If you want to start the fall off right and enjoy those books you’ve promised yourself to read, don’t miss Saturday’s Friends of Blanchard Community Library Big Fall Book Sale. The November 7 sale will be held in the north parking lot of Blanchard Community Library, 119 N. 8th St., from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The sale will offer the best book bargains in Ventura County, with thousands of volumes carefully sorted by Friends into dozens of categories ranging from history and biography to mystery and cooking to westerns and politics. Self-help, literature, computer, government... the list of genres offered at the sale is a book lover’s dream.
With hardbacks at 50 cents, paperbacks 25 cents and Better Books starting at $1 - and half price on everything from 2 to 3 p.m. - this is the book sale that must not be missed.
The Silent Auction of rare and collectible books - often with a local connection - will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Featured in the Big Fall Book Sale’s Silent Auction are several tomes with strong local interest.
“It Happened in Santa Barbara” by Walter Tompkins offers anecdotes, incidents and legends of the city by the sea; “A Comprehensive Study of Ventura County” published in 1956 offers county history by many authors; that local favorite, “Glancing Through the Headlines: 19161-1924” by Santa Paula Historical Society President Mary Alice Orcutt Henderson is a history buff’s look at news of the period; and “The California I Love” by film star Leo Carrillo is a love letter to the Golden State.
“The St. Francis Dam Disaster: Manmade Disaster” by late local historian Charles Outland examines the 1928 tragedy, and “The Enchanted Valley & Other Sketches” by Guy C. Earl concentrates on the area where the state’s water wars got their start, with stories of the Owens Valley River Valley and surrounding areas. There are many more rare and collectible books - and all with reasonably priced starting bids - featured in the Silent Auction, perfect to take home or buy early for a friend of loved one as a holiday gift.
This year the Friends of Blanchard Community Library helped fund the annual Santa Paula Times Executive Spelling Bee for Literacy, replaced funding for children’s books, bought new library carts, and provided the library with monies for a special Santa Paula California Oil Museum exhibit. All proceeds of the twice annual Friends Book Sales benefit the library, so help keep literacy and the love of books alive: buy lots of books (as well as tapes, films, games, etc.) at Saturday’s Big Fall Book Sale!
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