CUBBERLEY
USED BOOK SALES
Saturday March 8
Ephemera 8am - 4pm
Bargain and Children's Rooms 10am - 4pm
Main Room Sale 11am - 4pm
Tent Sale 9am - 4pm
*WEATHER PERMITTING*
Sunday March 9
All Rooms 11am - 4pm
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FEATURED IN MARCH
Second Soviet Super Sale
Psychology & Self-Help
Ephemera
DVDs
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4000 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto
NE corner of the Cubberley Community Center
(650) 213-8755
www.fopal.org
Maps and Directions
More information on the sales
Donate your old books
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HELP PALO ALTO LIBRARIES
Marty's (Main) Room
In our Main Room, prices are way below what used book stores charge.
Hardcover books start at $1.00 and softcover books start at only 50
cents.
Due to the popularity of our sale and the fact that we can only have
160 customers in the room at any time a numbered ticket system (Main
Room only) is in place and numbers are given out beginning at 8am on
Saturday. Be sure to be in line in order of your number before the
11am opening. If you miss the time when your number is allowed to
enter the Main Room you will forfeit your place in line. NOTE: If
you plan on arriving to the sale after 11am you do NOT need to get a
number.
Please note that due to crowding during the first two hours of the
Book Sale, no strollers, rolling carts, etc. can be brought into the
Main Room. This is for the safety of shoppers and volunteers alike.
By 12:30 or so, the crowd thins out and shoppers are welcome to bring
these items into the sale.
Children's Book Sale
The Children's Room is located in the portable formerly occupied by
the Jewish Community Center next to the soccer field. It is entirely
filled with children's books and toys. You'll find picture books,
school age fiction and non-fiction, award winners, non-English titles,
CDs and DVDs, and books for parents and teachers, most for 50 cents
or $1. Strollers are welcome in the Children's Room at any time.
Bargain Books in H-2
The Bargain Room is located in Rooms H-2 and H-3 of the Cubberley
main campus, between Marty's Room and Middlefield Road. On Saturday,
paperbacks are 50 cents, hardcovers are $1, and children's books are
50 cents each. The room also contains many LP records and 78s at
$1 each. On Sunday, the room opens at 11 am and all prices are half
off. Or, save even more on Sunday by buying green FOPAL reusable bags
from us for $2/ea (or bring your own grocery-size reusable bag) and
stuffing them with any items in the room for $5/bag. Fill four bags
at $5/bag and fill a fifth bag FREE! (We no longer receive sufficient
used paper grocery bags along with donations for this purpose.)
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Library Events for the Next Month
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You can find out about Palo Alto Library events on the Library's
event calendar.
Some of those events are funded in part by the proceeds from these
book sales.
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Friends Bookstore in Downtown Library |
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If you cannot attend the book sale, please drop by the Friends
Bookstore located inside the Downtown Library and open during
library hours. It is restocked regularly with a unique selection
of books for all ages and interests.
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FOPAL Book Sale Notices Now on Twitter |
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You can now follow us on Twitter @fopalbooks.
We'll post Sale notices and will reveal the Sunday 50% off
section via our Twitter feed.
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Non-Profit Book Giveaway
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Non-profit organizations and schools are able to select books
from among the thousands of books available in the Bargain Room
on the Sunday evening following the sale from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
If you are associated with a non-profit organization or school
that would like to receive books from us for free or for
information on eligibility, hours, and the types of materials
available, please contact Norma Burchard in advance by e-mail
at normalcy@earthlink.net or at (650) 494-1082.
Several dozen organizations benefit from the monthly giveaways,
including local hospitals, homeless programs, senior centers,
schools, and jails, as well as libraries in rural areas and on
reservations, and literacy projects in many other countries.
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True in 2004 and still true in 2013
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"It's truly surprising how many valuable books are donated to FOPAL"
-Marty Paddock, 2004.
This is still true in 2013! It's because of this truth that FOPAL
continues encouraging checking the value of uncommon books on the
internet so that they can be given a price which is fair to our
customers and high enough to ensure the Friends are maximizing
their sales revenue.
This is why our Main Room book sale customers are likely to see some
books priced higher than the Bargain Room prices of $1 for a hardback
and 50 cents for a paperback. A suggested pricing guideline for
pricing book using internet research is one-third to one-half of the
on-line asking prices given the criteria of publisher, date, edition,
signed copy, condition, and availability. So, if you see a book
priced for $10 at a monthly sale, chances are this book would sell
on-line for at least $30. That being said some books warrant higher
prices, but are still a great deal to our "collecting and reader"
customers.
One of FOPAL's challenges is to recognize those books that might be
even more out-of-ordinary and of unusually high value say...where
the Internet price is over $40.00. Now once these books have been
identified, FOPAL then looks for other markets for them where they
can be sold at prices well above what we might price and sell them
for our monthly sale. FOPAL not only sells at sells books at the
monthly sale but also at the Friends Kiosk (Downtown library) at
auction and on-line.
If you can't attend the monthly sale, please drop by the Friends
Kiosk located in the Downtown library during library hours. Books
are priced $1 for hardbacks and 50 cents for paperbacks. The Friends
Kiosk is restocked regularly with books for all interests. Or, shop
our on-line book store http://www.amazon.com/shops/grandmabetsybooks.
All proceeds from book sales benefit the Palo Alto Libraries.
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A Reminder about the 12-Book Limit
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Most people who come to our sales early on Saturday are enthusiastic,
cooperative, and they appreciate the reasons for our 12-book limit,
which is in force only until the Sale Manager announces that the
limit is lifted. This usually happens around noon; earlier when all
who are in line have been admitted, and when the Fire Department's
occupancy limit is no longer a problem.
Shoppers may not bring in more than one bag per customer, or any
oversize bags. Standard grocery-sized bags are okay - and of course
we encourage the use of our highly visible flashy green FOPAL bags,
for sale outside the entry ramp. Please remember that boxes and
large backpacks are a safety hazard, and we cannot allow them when
the book room is crowded.
We will remove shoppers from the sale if the they refuse to limit
the number of books in their possession to 12. A reminder: as
always, customers are welcome to choose 12 books, pay for them,
exit Marty's room and re-enter as many times as they wish, honoring
the waiting line if it is still in existence.
Our goal is to make our book sales as pleasant and rewarding as
possible, for as many customers as possible. We are grateful for
the support of most of our shoppers for shopping according to our
rules. We ask for the commitment of our "business clients" in
considering the rights of all of our customers and observing our
rules. -FOPAL Book Sale Committee
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Suggestions?
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We're always eager to hear your suggestions for ways to improve our
book sale. Please email us at
suggestions@friendspaloaltolib.org or mention them to a volunteer at the sale.
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Spring Forward This Sale Weekend
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Daylight Saving Time begins this Sunday, which means you'll
want to be sure to move your clock forward by one hour on Saturday
night. Otherwise, you'll arrive at our Sunday sale an hour late!
Incidentally, the correct term is daylight saving time, not daylight
savings time. If you had it wrong, don't feel bad. More people Google
the incorrect phrase than the correct one!
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Massive, Monolithic, Monumental Book Sale
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The Soviet Super Sale continues to provide more books for this
month's sale. We're calling this the Second Soviet Super Sale and
including books from several areas of interest including: History,
Military History, and Philosophy and Historical Fiction. So
if you didn't get enough books on the Stalin era or post-Stalinist
power struggle and the Khrushchev Era...then March at FOPAL is the
month to shop and buy more books from the Second Soviet Super Sale!
Also, for this weekend's sale look for a special from our
Psychology & Self-Help section in the special book case near
the fiction area (southwest corner) of the Main Room, as well as in
the assigned Psychology & Self-Help bays. The
Psychology & Self-Help section manager and her assistants
have been working together to process hundreds of books that were
donated by a local retiring psychology professional and another
health science specialist that worked for Veterans Affairs in Menlo
Park. These two generous donations offer sale goers enough books to
see half of the collection in the March sale and the other half in
the April sale!
Stamp book price now half-off for the March FOPAL sale. Long-time
volunteer Althea Andersen has had two stamp book collections for
sale for the past two months so she's reduced the price of one so
they both are now $50. And, in our Ephemera area, check out a huge
donation of LIFE Magazines.
The March FOPAL sale is also going to be a big one for DVDs. The
Palo Alto Library cleared out a huge number of DVDs from its
collection and we are now offering them to you to own. The DVD
shelves are packed full waiting to find their way to homes of
FOPAL's movie lovers.
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Preview Our Shelves
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Check out some of the thousands of books that will be on sale this
weekend using our
shelf preview photos.
The old shelf preview photos work too.
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Second Super Soviet Sale
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To celebrate the February Revolution of 1917, which happened in
March, and the return of The Americans on FX we are having a
Second Soviet Super Sale. After a successful First SSS we had
a spontaneous popular uprising and received so many additional Soviet
related books that we are having a Second SSS to affect a Great Purge
of the collection. We have an excellent selection of both rare Soviet
editions from houses such as Progress Publishers, and rare pamphlets.
Other sections include: biographies, autobiographies and memoirs,
works by or about Marx, Engels, Stalin and Lenin, and the ever-popular
topic of Cold War Espionage. After March there will be dispersal of
Soviet remnants to other areas. -Suzanne Little, Nigel Jones,
Vladimir Johnson
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Psychology & Self-Help
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Interested in Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 - July 15, 1970), a
Canadian-born psychiatrist best known as the creator of transactional
analysis and the author of Games People Play? Then March is
your month for picking up a collection of Eric Berne's books. We have
for sale in the Psychology & Self-Help section a 1961 copy of
his Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy for a mere $6 -- on
Amazon you'll find this same book priced at $12.55. Or, a 1964 copy
of his well-known book Games People Play, FOPAL price $3 --
Amazon listed at $4.03. And, a 1973 copy of What Do You Say after Hello?
AbeBooks is offering this classic for on-line sale at $3.47 and for
you at FOPAL only $2. Look for these and many more books by well
known psychologists and psychiatrists in the assigned Psychology &
Self-Help bays. In the Psychology & Self-Help special book
case near in the fiction area (southwest corner) of the Main room,
look for three (3) new still in the plastic books by Yves Chesni:
Dialectical Realism: Towards a Philosophy of Growth,
Studies On the Development of Consciousness and Inner Voyage.
These books sold new on-line are priced between $13 and $7.
FOPAL's prices will be half of what you'd be paying on-line and we
don't charge $3.99 for shipping!
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Stamp Books
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Stamp books are sometimes donated to FOPAL and after a little
research we put these on sales for our Stamp Collecting
customers, or perhaps to those who'd like to start a collection.
Found near the exit door of the Main Sale room, next to Games and
Puzzles on a top shelf, you'll find two full stamp books. One
is titled Norman Rockwell Classics and Historical American Stamps
1940s-1970s and the other is The American Historic Stamp
Collection, Volume I, 1920s-1980s by the Franklin Philatelic
Society. Both are now priced for $50.
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Ephemera Has Lots of LIFE in March
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We have 16 volumes of LIFE magazines from 1942 to 1946 in the
Main Room or about 240 issues and copies are in good shape. These
volumes each have about 15 issues of the magazines. (Some volumes are
incomplete.) They are priced as a set at $400 for all volumes. Many
of these older issues of Life are worth more than the per
price issue at $400 for the set. One of our volunteers did some
on-line price checking and found on AbeBooks that many are selling
at $3 to $18 per issue and some at many multiples of $18.
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DVDs
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With the recent Oscars being held just this past week, movie going
may be on your mind, here are the highlights to the DVD section this
month: six winners of the Oscar for best picture, 20+ films with a
"Rotten Tomatoes" rating of 90 or higher, two classics in the AFI
top 100, two comedies from the late Harold Ramis. (Harold Allen Ramis
(November 21, 1944 - February 24, 2014) was an American actor,
director, and writer specializing in comedy. His best-known film
acting roles are as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and
Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote both films.
As a writer-director, his films include the comedies Caddyshack
(1980), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Groundhog Day
(1993) and Analyze This (1999). Ramis was the original head writer
of the television series SCTV, on which he also performed, and one
of three screenwriters for the film National Lampoon's Animal
House (1978) And he worked on all nine seasons of The
X-Files! Thanks Dean Ujihara for these DVD mentions!
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Philosophy for March
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The two Philosophy bookcases are arranged so that the left one is
primarily about specific philosophers, their works and commentaries
on their works, whereas the right is more to do with philosophical
topics, historical overviews and schools of thought. The selection
of books relating to ethics continues to grow and this month we have
a shelf and a half dedicated to it.
All recent arrivals are in the right bookcase and include: Visions
of the Future - Heilbroner, Diderot - The Testing Years - Wilson,
Confessions of a Philosopher - Magee, Consilience - Wilson,
Alternative Modernity - Feenberg, and Self Expression - Flanagan.
A selection related to China is on the bottom left shelf. -Nigel Jones
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Music Books for March
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Some highlights in this month's Music and Dance section --
Music for the Joy of It by Stephanie Judy
Social Dance: Steps to Success by Judy Patterson Wright
Music I-LXXIV by August Kleinzahler
My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance by Harry Belafonte
Lambs' Tales from Great Operas by Donald Elliott and illustrated by
Clinton Arrowood
The Symphony: A Listener's Guide by Michael Steinberg
Dave Tarras: The King of Klezmer by Yale Strom
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
From Africa to Afrocentric Innovations Some Call "Jazz" by Harlton
Hester (4 volume set)
Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus
-Charlotte Epstein
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Greeting Cards
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Added to the normal categories of cards this month are April Fool's
Day cards. In addition, Passover cards and Easter cards are also out
this month for your early shopping. We greatly appreciate greeting
card donors - commercial cards are especially appreciated.
-Marda Buchholz
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Book Sets
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If you have empty bookshelves, come see what is offered in Sets on
aisle 6.
Modern Eloquence (1900) in 10 volumes for $50.
Outline of Science (1932) in 4 volumes for $35.
Smithsonian Series (1944) in 12 volumes for $40.
Book of Knowledge - The Children's Encyclopedia (1918) in 20
volumes for $40.
World's Best Orations (1900) in 10 volumes for $20.
The Old West (1946) in more than 20 volumes, volumes available
separately at $2.00 per volume.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy
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In addition to the usual in the Science Fiction and Fantasy
section, we have special collections of Isaac Asimov, his
Foundation series and more; Anne McCaffrey, her Pern books and lots
more; Stephen Brust, mostly Dragherian; and a diverse shelf of fantasy
romances. -Rich McAllister
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Humor for March
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Humor in March has three bookcases.
The right hand bookcase is where most of the new arrivals are found.
These include Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary, Blount's Be Sweet,
Fey's Bossy Pants, the Oxford Dictionary of Humor, and that modern
masterpiece, Fawlty Towers. Two highlights still available:
Gavin & Stacey, where England meets Wales and love conquers
all as its occurring, and Bill Gates' Secret Laptop.
Top left of the middle bookcase: signed books, including Adams,
Buchwald, Humburg, Bartnikowski and maybe Shaffer, I think yes,
but maybe not.
Top left of the middle bookcase: various books laughing at or with
Presidents, especially the ever-popular George W. Bush, and poems by
R. M. Nixon.
Left bookcase: whatever did not fit in the other two....
Don't forget the Bargain Room, which is whatever did not fit in three
bookcases and 99% of all cartoons. -Nigel Jones
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Art & Architecture
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As usual, many treasures wait on the overflowing Featured Art and
Architecture shelves. All in perfect or new condition at bargain
prices. Be sure to look for: Joseph Bueys Drawings, Peter Voulkos,
Bill Holm's Spirit and Ancestor, Sherman Lee's The Genius
of Japanese Design and The Elegant Japanese House. Bring
a LARGE, STURDY bag. Enjoy- Mary Smith
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Home & Craft
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A wonderful soul donated a marvelous collection of woodworking books
that now fill the "feature of the month" shelf in Home & Craft.
Thank you Thank you. You have no idea how very much we appreciate
all of you who take the time and effort to donate. Although Home &
Craft is a non-fiction section, this month I have 6 novels with
Quilting as the subject. So please stop by. Prepare for the ides of
March with a good craft book to keep you safely at home. -Nancy
Welch
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Drama
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The bookshelves are getting full. Don't be put off by isolated books.
Many good books are placed in isolated spots because no related items
are available. Search around. -Robert Jackson
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Computers
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The computer section has a good selection of books on Mathematica
and Matlab this month. -Jerry Stone
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Health & Medicine
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The Health Section has a large and interesting new collection of Asian
Medicine books, and a number of fascinating and very attractive ones
about Reiki (a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation
that also promotes healing.) And books on Parkinson's Disease and
other chronic illnesses are plentiful. And you'll see lots of brand
new books on all of our shelves this month. -Verne & Ed Rice
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Children's Room - Arushi's Recommendations
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The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson is a novel about an
island where magical creatures like feys, ogres, mermaids, and many
more live alongside humans. But when the prince of the island is
kidnapped by Mrs. Trottle and taken to the human world through a
magical portal that opens only for nine days every nine years, a
search group is sent out to find him. The Secret of Platform 13 is
about the adventures the band of misfit rescuers have while finding
the prince, who might not be who you expect he is.
The City of Ember is the story of two children who try and find
a way out of Ember, the city that was built 200 years ago by the
Builders. But the city is dying. The lights that illuminate Ember are
failing, crops are not able to sustain themselves, and corruption is
spreading. Lina and Doon find an ancient parchment and suspect that
there may be a way out of Ember, but who will listen to the word of
two children who barely know what they are doing?
Homecoming is the first book in the celebrated Tillerman cycle.
It's a heartwarming story of four children, led by 13-year-old Dicey,
who seek a home with their great-aunt in Bridgeport when their mother
abandons them at the market. Homecoming is about how they make
friends as well as enemies as they make their way to Bridgeport. But
what if the home in Bridgeport is not what the comforting haven they
were hoping to find? The Tillermans must find the courage to continue
on their journey through the convoluted pathways of their family.
-Arushi Sinha
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