45th Annual Big Book Sale Sept. 24-27
Big Book Sale joins SF Reads
For the first time, Friends’ Big Book Sale will be a part of
SF Reads—a new city-wide collaboration that celebrates the written word and San Francisco’s thriving literary community.
Converging San Francisco’s three major literary events— SFPL’s One City One Book program; Litquake, the West Coast’s largest literary festival; and Friends’ Big Book Sale—SF Reads brings writers, books and readers together this fall like never before.
This September 24-27, 2009 marks our
45th Annual Big Book Sale, held at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion, and promises to be our biggest yet, with all books $5 or less. With our new 5,000 square-foot Donation Center open, our book operations have dramatically expanded, meaning more books at our sales and in the hands of readers.
Join us this fall for SF Reads and participate in San Francisco’s biggest literary extravaganza to dates with book sales, author readings, book groups and more.
2009 Big Book Sale:
Wednesday, September 23— 4-8 PM (Member Preview Sale)
Thursday, September 24—10 AM-8 PM
Friday, September 25—10 AM-8 PM
Saturday, September 26—10 AM-8 PM
Sunday, September 27—10 AM to 6 PM (All Books $1 or less!)
Volunteer at the 2009 Big Book Sale
Be a part of the 45th Annual Big Book Sale as a volunteer.
Click here for more information and to sign up!
Friends of the SFPL raised over in 2008 $265,000!
The 2008 Big Book Sale was our most successful sale to date, raising over $265,000 for education programs that promote literacy for children, teens and adults at the SFPL. Not only did we raise far more than our previous record of $250,000, but we did it this year selling the books for considerably less than previous years (all books were $5 and under)!
The 44th Annual sale had over 300,000 books and was held at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion on September 25—28, 2008 with a member preview on Wednesday, September 24. All proceeds from the sale benefit the San Francisco Public library.
Best of Book Bay
Throughout the year our volunteers and staff set
aside books of particular note to be included in the Best of Book Bay booth at
the Big Sale. Most of these books have never been in our stores and are
offered here for the first time.
The 2008 Best of Book Bay will included books on a wide range of subjects with
special collections in the following areas:• Art & Photography
• Architecture
• Poetry
• Bay Area & California History
• Food & Cookery
• Cartoon & Comic Art
• Rare & Signed Children’s Books
• Transportation: Trains, Ships, and Automobiles
• Metaphysics
• Textiles & Crafts
• Mountaineering
Especially rare and interesting books included:
• An early American edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
• Marc Chagall’s Jersulam Windows
• The Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton & Ogden Codman, Jr. (1897)
• American Hawking by Hans J. Peeters & E. W. Jameson, Jr.
• Harold Rosenberg’s monograph of Willem de Kooning
• Dark Like the River, the rare first book of poems by Mistress of Spices author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Signed monograph of flower artist Masao Mizukami
• Mask of Medusa by architect John Hejduk (Rizzoli, 1987)
• Arts Décoratifs à Bord des Paquebots Français: 1880-1960 by Louis-René Vian, a beautifully-illustrated study of French cruise ship decoration.
Thank you to our Volunteers!
Thank you to all our volunteers who helped make the 44th Annual Big Book Sale possible!
For more information on volunteering at our
Annual Big Book Sale at the Fort Mason Center in the fall click below.
Volunteers set up and staff the sales. Free books to volunteers at the end of all book sales!
Special Thanks to our Sponsors:
