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That big event local bibliophiles look forward to each year — the Friends of the Menlo Park Library Book Fair and Auction — is set for this weekend on the grounds of the Menlo Park Civic Center.
The outdoor event, which will offer up more than 35,000 used books for notably low prices (most are priced around $1, organizers say), will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15; and from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
Proceeds from the fair benefit Menlo Park Library programs and projects, such as special children’s programs and Project Read.
Friends of the Library members are especially excited this year by the return of the auction after a one-year hiatus. Some of the books in the auction line-up of particular note are:
• “How Plants are Trained to Work for Man,” by Luther Burbank; 1921, eight volumes.
• “In the American West,” by Richard Avedon; 1985, first edition, in dust jacket.
• “Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West,” by Wallace Stegner; 1954, first edition, in dust jacket.
• “Frank Duveneck: Painter-Teacher,” by Josephine W. Duveneck, 1970.
• “Le Dur Desir de Durer,” by Paul Eluard, illustrated by Marc Chagall, translated by Stephen Spender and Frances Cornford; No. 354 of 750 copies reserved for Trianon Press, London; first edition, in glassine dust jacket over paper wrappers.
• “The Journal of an Expedition Across Venezuela and Colombia 1906-1907,” by Hiram Bingham; 1909, first edition, with folding map.
Written bids for auction items will be accepted during fair hours on Saturday, and from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. The oral auction begins at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Also on Sunday, books will be half-price until 11:30; from 11:45 until 1:30, when the outdoor book fair closes, you can buy all the books you can cram into a bag for $2.
Coffee, orange juice, cookies and other simple refreshments will be available for sale.
The tables of books will be in the outdoor area between the library, at 800 Alma St., and the City Council Chambers.
