Friends of the Sierra Madre Library Silent Auction

Recent donations to the Friends of the Sierra Madre Library Book Sale Committee have included some very special books including several signed first editions.  These exceptional books will be featured in the Committee’s second Silent Auction to be held in the Sierra Madre Public Library, 440 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre from Tuesday, May 7, through Monday, June 3.  The books
will be on display in the display case in the library’s main room.  To inspect the books more closely, visit the
library on May 11, May 18, May 25, and June 1 from 1-2 PM when a member of the Book Sale Committee will be happy to help you. 

Proceeds from the Silent Auction will benefit
the Sierra Madre Library’s programs, services, and acquisitions.  For more information, visit our website at www.sierramadrelibraryfriends.org or call us at 626 355-7186.  A complete list of the books to be auctioned follows.

A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005 by Annie Leibovitz, Random House 2006

Everything to Gain-Making the Most of the rest of Your Life by Jimmy and
Roslyn Carter (signed, first edition) Random House 1987

History of Pasadena and the SG Valley, CA by Harold D.
Carew (Sierra Madre resident – forward written from Pulpit Lodge, S.M.) S.J. Clark Publishing Co. 1930 (only 1 of 3 volumes)

Jungle Jest by Talbot Mundy, The Century Co. 1932 (first printing)

Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance by Thomas Moore, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1854

Paintings in the Hermitage by Colin, Eisler, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1990 (first edition)

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie/illustrator Arthur Rackham Weathervane Bks. (first edition) 1975

Rod McKuen’s Book of Days and a Month of Sundays by Rod McKuen, Cheval Books/Harper and Row 1981 (1^stprinting, inscribed, also signed postcard found inside the book)

Silas Marner by George Eliot, illustrator C.E. Brach, J.M. Dent and Co. 1905

Sincerely, Andy Rooney by Andy Rooney, Public Affairs 1999 (signed first edition)

The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds by John K. Terres, Alfred A. Knopf 1980

The Presidency by Stefan Lorant, MacMillan 1951 (first edition) bookplate from library of Jean Hersholt donated to Motion Picture Country Home

The Stories of O. Henry, illustrator John Groth, Easton Press 1965

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Smith, Elder and Co. (24 volumes) 1869, 1880 (leather-bound and appraised at $1200-1500)

Treasures of the World (16 volumes), Stonehenge Press 1982, 1983