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BOOK SALES

Our quarterly BIG Book Sales have been suspended until further notice. We are now selling books right here on our website! See our Online Deals…

We are selling some cool stuff online — right here! Our Friends Members receive amazing discounts — they may also give reasonable offers on the higher priced items. (It only costs $15 to join.) Here are the details:

  • Simply contact us with the items you’d like to purchase
  • We accept exact cash/check upon delivery, or, if you prefer, you can pay directly to our PayPal account.
  • Please do not pay until we verify the availability of the item, the amount due, and provide you with any necessary additional information.
  • Local non-contact pickup will be made following all  public health regulations

BOOKS

THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY
by the Beatles • San Francisco: Chronicle Books 2000
Gray pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth boards with silver lettering. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated. *DJ has light wear. Hardcover/pages ae clean and tight.
$30 Nonmember • $15 Member

BEV DOOLITTLE’S THE SACRED CIRCLE CHAPBOOK
which includes the companion print Walk Softly
(The Greenwich Workshop Inc 1992)
Limited Edition — not more than 40,192
Chapbook cover has light wear. Pages are clean and tight. Please note: Print is not signed.
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member

CHRONICLES: NEWS OF THE PAST Volumes 1-3
A Publication of the Reubeni Foundation, Jerusalem
Vol 1: In the Days of the Bible (1968)
Vol 2: Second Temple & Rise of Christianity (1968)
Vol 3: The Dawn of Redemption (1972)
Brown dust jackets. Various colored boards. Newspaper-like format. Illustrated. *DJ has significant wear, tears, chips, soiling/stains. Hardcovers may have bumped corners. *Pages may have tears, creases.
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member

COLORADO 1870 – 2000 *Gift Inscription by John Fielder
WH Jackson, John Fielder & Ed Marston • Englewood Colorado: Westcliffe Publishers 1999
1565793471
Brown leather with gilt lettering. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated. *Cover has very light wear. Pages are clean and tight.
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member

CORNERSTONES AND COMMUNITIES: A Historical Overview of Colorado’s County Seats and Courthouses  *Gift Inscription by Author on Dedication Page*
William L Virden • Loveland CO: Rodgers & Nelsen 2001 • Stated First Edition • ISBN 0966269659
Black boards with gilt lettering. Illustrated. *Hardcover/pages are clean and tight. Book has slight tilting.
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member

GNU EMACS LISP REFERENCE MANUAL
Bil Lewis, Dan Laliberte, Richard Stallman, et al • Free Software Foundation 2015 • ISBN 9788866060994
White pictorial boards featuring a parrot on front. *Former library volume with usual stamps. Hardcover has soiling. Cracked hinge. Pages are clean and tight.
$40 Nonmember • $20 Member

LEGENDS OF THE WEST MINT SET + STAMPS
A Collection of US Commemorative Stamps / US Postal Service
Relive the excitement and drama of the Old West with this exclusive 80-page hardbound book. *Brown pictorial slipcase box. Burgundy boards. Pictorial endpapers. **Slipcase has light wear, sticker pull, rubbings. Hardcover/pages are clean and tight. Stamps are NEW — still factory sealed.
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member

LONGMONT MEMORIES: The Early Years • A Pictorial History
presented by Times-Call 2018 • ISBN 9781597257985
White pictorial boards. *Hardcover/pages are clean and tight
$40 Nonmember • $20 Member

A LOOK AT BOULDER: From Settlement to City
Phyllis Smith • Boulder CO: Pruett Publishing Co 1981 • ISBN 0871085909
Gift Inscription by Author *Black pictorial dust jacket. Black boards with silver lettering on spine. Mapped endpapers. Illustrated. **DJ has edge wear, small tears, rubbings. Hardcover/pages are clean and tight
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member

MARY POPPINS: ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IF YOU LET IT
Brian Sibley and Michael Lassell • Welcome Enterprises/Disney 2007 • ISBN 0786836571
Unique folding case design includes three individual books: (1) Mary Poppins Design Folio (2) If You Want to Find Cherry Tree Lane (3) Mary Poppins on Broadway. *Red decorative boards with photo pastedown and gilt lettering and designs. Hardcover/Pages are clean and tight!
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member

PORTRAIT TYPES OF THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE
Introduction by Prof F.W. Putnam, Harvard University
World’s Columbian Exposition • ND Thompson Publishing Co 1894
A collection of photographs of individual types of various nations from all parts of the world who represented distinctive traits and peculiarities of their race * Three-quarter leather and maroon buckram boards with gilt lettering. Decorated endpapers. Remarkable illustrated halftone portraits. *Hardcover has significant, edge/corner wear, frayed corners, tears/chips along spine, rubbings. Pages have light creases/wrinkling otherwise clean and tight!
$75 Nonmember • $50 Member

A TREASURY OF AMERICAN PRINTS
Edited by Thomas Craven • New York: Simon and Schuster 1939
A selection of 100 etchings and lithographs by the foremost living American artists. *Green boards with black spine, internal spiral binding  *Hardcover has soiling/stains/discoloration, scratches. Pages have age-tanning, clean and tight.
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member

WALT DISNEY’S RAILROAD STORY: The Small-Scale Fascination that Led to a Full-Scale Kingdom *SIGNED BY AUTHOR*
Michael Broggie • Pasadena CA: Pentrex Media Group 1997
Burgundy pictorial dust jacket. Burgundy boards with gilt lettering. Illustrated. *DJ has light wear. Hardcover/pages are clean and tight.
$75 Nonmember • $50 Member

BOOK SETS

CIVIL WAR: A NARRATIVE • 3 Vol Box Set
Shelby Foote • New York: Vintage 1985
Pictorial slipcase box has significant wear, tears, rubbings/scuff marks. Pictorial softcovers/pages are clean and tight.
$40 Nonmember • $20 Member

THE COMPLETE FAR SIDE – 3 Vol Box Set
Gary Larson • Andrews McMeel Publishing 2018
Pictorial slipcase box has a bumped/tear in corner. Softcovers have very light wear. Pages are clean and tight.
$50 Nonmember • $25 Member

GIANTS OF AMERICA: THE FOUNDING FATHERS • 9 Vol Box Set
Various Authors • New Rochelle NY: Arlington House (No copyright date, research shows  1970) Volumes include: James Madison, John Adams, James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, Thomas Jefferson. Black box slipcase with pastedown on end. Burgundy cloth boards with gild lettering/designs. *Box has significant wear on edges, soiling. Hardcovers have light wear. Pages are clean and tight.
$100 Nonmember • $75 Member

GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS – 20 Vol Set
The National Alumni (1905)
Colorful boards with gilt embossed designs and lettering, deckled edges, first volume is signed by editor, Rossiter Johnson, numbered. *Some hardcovers have rubbings, bumped corners/edges, faded spines; blind stamped, cracked hinges.
$100 Nonmember • $75 Member

HENRY DAVID THOREAU – 3 Vol Box Set
Walden • The Maine Woods • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
New York: Book of the Month Club 1996
Decorative slipcase box has light wear, bumped corners. Lovely illustrated hardcovers. Pages are clean and tight.
$40 Nonmember • $20 Member

HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR – 5 Vol Set
Frank H Simonds • The Review of Reviews Company 1919-1920
Decorated blue boards with gilt lettering. Decorated endpapers and title pages. Illustrated. *Hardcovers have light wear, rubbings, edge/corner wear, faded spines. Cracked hinges, vol one has broken hinge however all pages are in tact. Pages are clean and tight!
$40 Nonmember • $20 Member

MUSIKGESCHICHTE IN BILDERN – 7 Vol Set
It’s in German so please forgive us if we don’t give all the proper information
VEB Deutscher Verlag Fur Musik Leipzig
HBDJ: Dust jackets have tears, Vol I has a chip, Vol III has a large tear repair on back. Hardcovers/pages are clean and tight, light wear. Some volumes have cracked hinges.
$50 Nonmember • $25 Member

THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
Stanley Sadie • Macmillan Publishers Limited 1980 • 20 Vol Set in 10 Books • ISBN 0333231112
Brown boards with gilt and blue lettering. Illustrated. *Hardcovers have some wrinkling on spine, rubbings. Name/date/place written inside otherwise pages appear to be clean and tight.
$100 Nonmember • $75 Member 

SECOND VIEW: THE REPHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY PROJECT Mark Klett+ (HBDJ 1984)
THIRD VIEWS SECOND SIGHTS Mark Klett+ (HBDJ 2004)
Dust jackets have light edge wear. Hardcovers/pages are clean and tight.
$40 Nonmember • $20 Member

THE WEST POINT ATLAS OF AMERICAN WARS Volumes 1-2
Colonel Vincent J Esposito • New York: Frederick A Praeger • Second Printing 1960
Black boards with gray cloth spines. Illustrated. *Hardcover has spine wear, soiling. Blindstamps. Pages are clean and tight.
$50 Nonmember • $25 Member

AUDIO/VISUAL

FRENCH I PIMSLEUR LANGUAGE PROGRAM
30 Lessons on 16 CDs
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member

ALIAS DVDs: Seasons 1-5 Box Sets
$40 Nonmember • $20 Member

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER DVDs: Seasons 1-7 Box Sets
$50 Nonmember • $25 Member

HOGAN’S HEROES DVDs: Seasons 1-6 Box Sets
$40 Nonmember • $20 Member

THE SIMPSONS DVDs: Seasons 1-7 Box Sets
$50 Nonmember • $25 Member

STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION DVDs: Seasons 1-7 Box Sets
$75 Nonmember • $50 Member

TRUE BLOOD DVDs: Seasons 1-7 Box Sets
$50 Nonmember • $25 Member

THE WALKING DEAD DVDs: Seasons 1-5
Note: Seasons 2 & 4 are brand new, still factory sealed
$40 Nonmember • $20 Member

XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS DVDs Seasons 1-6 Box Set
$75 Nonmember • $50 Member

X-FILES DVDs Seasons 1-4 6-8 Box Sets
$40 Nonmember • $20 Member

#FUN

ANSEL ADAMS NOTE CARDS
4 boxes of note cards featuring the photography of Ansel Adams. Each box contains 8 cards.
$30 Nonmember • $20 Member

BOOK HOLDER / MISSAL STAND / EASEL
Features: wooden, adjustable, sturdy. Used…has a few rubbings, scuff marks
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member

COASTERS – Made by ClassiCoasters
Brand New! A set of four coasters featuring lovely literary designs created from recycled vintage books. Features: Round, measures 3 1/2 inches diameter, mylar protected, cork backing. One-of-a-kind gifts!

Many selections available:
• Corduroy
• Fairy Tales
• Flag / Patriotic
• Home is Where the Heart Is
• Horses
• If a Mouse Gives You a Cookie…
• The Little Prince
• Little Women
• Madeline
• Mary Engelbreit “Friendship”
• Paddington Bear
• Paddington Bear featuring gardening scenes
• Spiderman
• Wind in the Willows

PLEASE NOTE: We can also make custom coasters from your photo jpg files — add $10/set.
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member

MEOWSIC CAT KEYBOARD by B Toys
Interactive cat piano with retractable toy microphone for sing-along fun. Features:
• Plays 20 familiar songs and 7 witty kitty tunes
• 5 instrument sounds: piano, bells, organ, banjo or meow
• 5 rhythm sounds: rock, blues, samba, techno or disco
• Record and playback buttons
Used…in very good condition! Includes batteries.
$20 Nonmember • $10 Member 

Our Lobby Book Shop is OPEN!

The Friends Book Shop is always open during library hours
409 Fourth Avenue, Longmont

CATEGORIES

Books are arranged in categories so you may easily browse:

    • Children
    • Young Adults
    • Nonfiction: Animals/Pets, Art, Biography/History, Colorado/West, Cooking, General, Home/Hobbies, Lands/Travel, Languages/Reference, Religions, Sciences
    • Special Features
    • Media: CDs, DVDs, TV Series, Audiobooks
    • Classics & Vintage
    • Fiction

BOOK SHOP PRICES

    • Children: Multiple prices
    • Young Adult: Softcovers $2, Hardcovers $3
    • Adult Fiction & Nonfiction: Softcovers $2, Hardcovers $3, Oversize $4
    • Media: CDs $1;  DVDs $2;  DVD sets & Audiobooks $5
    • Special Features Friends Members get discounts on these valued volumes: $5 Members • $6 Non-members

BOOK SHOP PAYMENT

All sales are cash or check payable at the Circulation Desk
All sales benefit the Longmont Public Library

BOOK SHOP (& Library) HOURS

Current Hours:
Monday-Tuesday • Thursday-Saturday 10 am to 4 pm
Wednesday 1 to 7 pm