This weekend, Friends of the SFPL is hauling some of the most interesting, unusual, rare and collectible books from Readers Bookstores and the online stores on an adventure to the 2012 San Francisco Antiquarian Book, Print & Paper Fair. Over 200 dealers from all across the globe will be hawking wares including first editions, modern [...]

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By Katie Sue Ambellan At Friends, we know these people really well.  Many of them are our Members and they come to our Annual Big Book Sale and our Spring Book Sale.  They are book dealers with scanners who are using new technologies to stock their book stores, online stores and more. We know the [...]

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By Byron Spooner Every year the Friends’ Book Sales Operation comes up with some really cool, rare stuff.  A great deal of that rare stuff we donate to the Library for their collections or sell on various on-line venues or at auction to benefit the Library.  And there’s always a bunch of stuff that we [...]

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By Katie Sue Ambellan Today, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library unleashes over 250,000 books and media to the public at the 50th Anniversary Book Sale! Held at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion,the sale runs April 21-24th from 10 AM-6 PM. EVERYTHING is $3 or less, with a 3-2-1 scale: $3-hard cover books; $2-paperback [...]

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By Katie Sue Ambellan Spring has finally sprung here in San Francisco and you know what that means? Friends’ Steps Sales are back! Held every Wednesday, April-October, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. (weather permitting) on the Larkin Street steps of the Main Library, all books at the Steps Sale are $1 or less and proceeds benefit the [...]

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By Marcia Schneider Year after year, Shirley and Byron were the first buyers in line on the last day of the Friends of the Library’s annual Big Book Sale, when all the books are sold for a mere one dollar each. Their motivation? To purchase large quantities of quality hardcover fiction, which they used in [...]

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By Katie Sue Ambellan Every fall I start to freak out just a little bit because it’s time for the 46th Annual Big Book Sale, September 22-26th! My freak out is a good thing-I start to get giddy and excited, then a little concerned and sometimes, I don’t know if I am completely prepared to [...]

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