At the library sale April 2026

At the Library Sale

April, 2026

A couple of weeks ago, it was time once again for the bi-annual Friends of the Library Sale, down route 29 in Charlottesville. As always, the opening evening - 5 o'clock on Friday - came with a large number of attendees, and the warm Spring weather meant that it was quite hot and airless in the room. The staff overseeing the sale regularly were calling out "We've got water up front for anyone who needs it ! Water up front !"

By now I have a routine down when it comes to the sci-fi table, so I made my way to one end and slowly shuffled along it, moving in between and around other bibliophiles, looking for paperbacks.

 

And I found them ! Someone had dropped off a large number of first-printing Doc Savage paperbacks, many of these in Good to Very Good condition, and for just a buck each. I grabbed a bunch:

Also there on the table were other vintage paperbacks from the 1960s and early 1970s. I found some treasures, here......some (the Vance novels) were in Acceptable condition, and some were Good condition.

 

With regard to larger books, I grabbed a vintage hardbound 'England Swings SF,' a black-and-white 'Solomon Kane' comics compilation, and a vintage Alfred Hitchcock anthology aimed at the Young Adult readership. 

 

The sale lasts for over a week, so I came one more time mid-week, to look at the vinyl / LPs, and paperbacks in genres other than sci-fi. I was able to get some more vintage paperbacks, including two 'Mod Squad' entries. 

All in all, some nice stuff. And as I always say, you never know just what you'll find, at the Library Sale..........