History Library Book Sale Offers Great Deals A fund-raiser for the Chavez History Library

Just in time for the holidays, the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library will hold its first ever book sale on Saturday, December 3 from 10 am to 4 pm, in the Meem Room.

Sale items include donated books on New Mexico, Southwestern and Western history, US and world history and political science on the “atomic age,” biographies, coffee table books, and some literature. Here’s where the deal comes in: Most hardbacks will go for $3, paperbacks for $1 to $2, and coffee-table books for $5. A selection of higher-priced,  hard-to-find items on Southwest history will also be available.

Besides books, you can pick up a few original (and unfinished) art works by Helen Blumenschein, photographs from the Photo Archives ($2–$4 for small, $5-$10 for large), and a few graphics/posters.

Proceeds from the book sale will help the Library purchase materials for its collection, particularly those on the atomic age, an era of particular interest to New Mexico. In 2009, the Library acquired a collection of nearly 5,000 items on the subject, and a future purchase would supplement this collection. Get a glimpse of some of those items, including comic books and salt-and-pepper shakers on loan from the Robert Dalton Harris Collection of the Atomic Age, now on display in the Library.

The History Library book sale is just one of the ways the museum is raising funds to support acquisitions. Tell your friends and make it a book-buying day: Just across Washington Avenue, the Santa Fe Public Library will be holding its holiday book sale, too.

In order to prepare for this book sale, the Chavez Library and the Photo Archives will be CLOSED on Friday, Dec. 2 For further information please call (505) 476.5090 (Library) or (505) 476.5092 (Photo Archives).