46th Annual Big Book Sale September 23-26, 2010
Join us for the largest book sale on the West Coast
Held at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion, the sale features over 300,000 books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, vinyl and other forms of media. All books $5 or less and the sale is FREE and OPEN to the public.
The five-day extravaganza is a logistical feat that involves over 300,000 books in over 50 categories, 350 volunteers, 8,000 boxes and 300 tables. All proceeds from the Big Book Sale are given to the San Francisco Public Library to fund education programs that promote literacy for children, teens and adults. Last year, over $265,000 was raised for San Francisco’s libraries.
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!
Volunteer at the 2010 Big Book Sale
Be a part of the 46th Annual Big Book Sale as a volunteer.
Click here for more information and to sign up!
2009 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.
Join us this fall for SF
Reads and participate in San Francisco’s biggest literary extravaganza
with book sales, author readings, book groups and more.
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 2009 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 45th 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:
