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Thanks to the more than 300 volunteers who came out and supported this year's event! The 2009 Book Fair was a HUGE success with record breaking numbers brought in on every day of sales.

Location and dates for 2010:

August 20 - August 25, 2010

Kennedy Recreation Center
6050 Wells Road, St. Louis, MO, 63128
Near Meramec Bottom Road & I-55,
10 miles south of Carondelet YMCA

The Kennedy Recreation Center will include:
- 270 Parking Spaces on lot + additional parking
- All indoor, Air Conditioned, accessible facility
- Wider aisles, books to be displayed in one large open area with more space

Click here for a map of the location

Book Fair History

2009 celebrated the 31st anniversary of the YMCA Book Fair. Started in 1978 by a group of dedicated YMCA volunteers who raised several hundred dollars for the YMCA by holing a small, one day book fair in the gymnasium.

The YMCA book fair has now grown to into a six day event. So far the YMCA Book Fair has raised over One Million dollars for the YMCA and our outreach programs. To learn more about what each of these YMCA programs means to the community, please follow these links: Carondelet Family YMCA, the Wash U Campus YMCA, YMCA Literacy Programs, Carondelet Y Service Club.

The YMCA Book Fair is a collaborative project of the YMCA. It includes several YMCA organizations & community volunteers that are dedicated to assisting the YMCA in their mission, in particular their Youth Programs and the YMCA Literacy Programs. Among its efforts to this end is the YMCA Book Fair, which provides a large selection of new and quality used books at reasonable prices.

Volunteers

The YMCA Book Fair would not be possible without our volunteers!
The YMCA Book Fair is an event that you have to see to believe. The preparation process begins in March and ends with the event in August. Volunteering at the YMCA Book Fair is a great way to connect with other book lovers.

This year we need help with:

• book and box pick ups
• book sorting
• book fair set-up and take down

If you are interested in joining our volunteer team, please click here for additional information.

Media

Members of the press, please click here for additional information.
Numerous Signed Books

Gramation de la Lengua
Castellana, Real Academia Espaqola, 1901

Everybody’s Birthday Book by David Strong
1st Edition 1925

Rats’ Nests – the Collected Poetry of Hagiwara Sakutaro transcribed by Robert Epp
1999, Inscribed and signed by translator, Hardcover, no jacket

The World’s One Hundred Best Short Stories in Ten Volumes
Funk Wagnalls 1927. Small HC w/DJ

30 Volume Set Little Leather Library
No publication date but old

30 Volume Set – The Bible
Little Leather Library, 1920s(?) Rare

Low Pressure Selling by J. A. Worsham
Midwest Press, c.1930, Inscribed and signed by author 1938

29 Volumes Set (Entire Set) The Encyclopedia Britannica
11th Edition – 1911

Rock Villages of the Riviera by William Scott
Publisher Adam & Charles Black, London, 1898

Set of 16 Soft covers published by the Newcomen Society 1980

1st To Die by James Patterson
First Edition – Flat Signed

Day Dreams by Rudolph Valentino
Publisher McFadden, NY, HC 1923
Missing spine cover, front cover detached

Qty 25 Circulating File Extracts From the Readings of Edgar Cayce

The Ladies’ Letter Writer
c.1850 – 1870

Journal of Andre Gide 1889 – 1939
HC/DJ/Slipcase (1948)
Librairie Gallimard – In French

From Quebec to New Orleans, The Story of the French in America, JH Schlarman, 1929. 2 copies Fair condition

Collection of 25 Out of print and Rare Railroad books

Racing Through Paradise signed ltd edition slipcase William F Buckley

Owen Meredith’s Lucile, 1882 Arundel containing numerous stock certificates and photos laid in

Numerous first editions and signed/autographed books

What America Thinks – Editorials and Cartoons
Munich Crisis and World War II, 1941, 1495 Pages

Dot and Tot by L. Frank Baum (1st Ed)
Pictures by W. Denslow;
Publisher Geo. M. Hill Co., Chicago, 1901
Poor Condition

Public Opinion in War and Peace by A. L. Lowell
Harvard University Press, 1923

The Life of Pope Leo XIII – Memorial Edition
By J. Martin Miller
National Publishing Co., PA, 1903

AGarden of Girls by Helena Concannon
Publisher: Benzinger, 1928

Washington und die Helden der Revolution, von Dr. Johann Friedrich Schroder, 1857, Good minus condition, 2 volume set marbled endpapers and boards, leather bindings gilt lettering on spine, Volume 2 top of spine is coming off (closed tear. German text,
Many illustrations

History of Missouri 5 volume set, 1930The American Historical Society

A Witness Tree by Robert Frost
Pub: Henry Holt & Co., NY, 1942, First Printing

North British Station Hotel – Old & New Edinburgh
Pub: Insider Publications Ltd, Edinburgh, 1991

System of Practical Surgery by E. v. Bergmann & W. T. Bull
Pub: Lea Bros. & Co., N.Y. 1904
Volumes I, II, IV, V (Missing III)

Grimms Marchen (Fairy Tales)
c.1900 Pub: Union Deutsche, Stuttgart, Germany
(Text in German)

The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
By Ernest Hemingway
Pub: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969 1st Edition with “A-8-69(c)” on
Copyright page. No dust jacket. Has glued picture of Ernest Hemingway signed by him “Madrid 1937”

Yom Winde Verweht by Margaret Mitchell
Oub: Claasen Verlag, Hamburg 1937
No DJ, 1st German Edition Text in German

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Pub: Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, 1887

Pervil du Pic by Sir Walter Scott
Pub: Librairie de Firmun – Didot, Paris, 1891
Ornate red cloth over boards, gilt edges, gold and red lettering
Text in French (Nice condition)

The Battle Flags of the Confederate Army of Tennessee
By Howard Michael Madaus & Robert D. Needham
Soft cover – Fair Condition

Sky Master – The Story of Donald Douglas
By Frank Cunningham
Pub: Dorrance and Co., 1943, 1st Ed, HC/DJ
Inscribed and signed by author and dated 1945. Also has business card of author still clipped by rusted paperclip.

47 Volume Modern Business (set)
Pub: Alexander Hamilton Insgtitute 1952 Edition
Brown Leatherette, gold lettering (Nice condition)

The Little One by Dare Loright
Pub: Doubleday, NY, 1959 (Nice condition, no DJ)

Les Vacances de Zephir by Jean de Bunhoff
Pub: Jachette, 1936 (In French) Fair Condition Rare

Le Voyage de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
Pub: Jardin des Modes, 1932 (In French)

Le Roi Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
Pub: Jardin des Modes 1933 (In French)

12 Volume Set Psychology and Achievement (Revised)
By Warren Hilton
Pub: Society of Applied Psychology 1927

The Story of Professor Porky by Hugh Heaton
Osford University Press, 1947

Larned’s History of the World
World Syndicate Co., NY, 1915
All 5 Volumes Still in original box, still has tissue guarded dust jackets on each book

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Alfred A. Knopf, 1930 (1st Edition)

Boatswain’s Mate 3 & 2
Navy Training Course NAVPERS 10121-C, 19595

Tariff Information Surveys - Tariff Act of 1913
2 Volumes 1919 & 1921
Was originally part of U. S. Senate Library, Office of Secretary

Columbus and Columbia - Four Books in One Volume
Pub: N. D. Thompson, 1892

Dante: Seinleben und sein Werk by F. X. Kraus
Berlin, 1897 Former Library Copy

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Illustrated by Ralph Barton
Signed and dated by author 1926
Pub: Boni & Liveright, c.1925 (12th Printing)

A Garden of Girls by Helena Concannon
Publisher: Benzinger, 1928

Boxes and Bowls, Decorated Containers by 19th Century Haida
Tsimshian Indian Artists, Smithsonian Int Press 1974

Executive Privilege by Lynne Cheney
1st Edition, inscribed and signed
Simon & Schuster 1979 (Author’s first book)

Parkman;s Works
Little Brown 1910 Nice old set

Sargo Grammaticus Danmarks Kronik
By Dr. Fr. Winkle Horn; Illustrated by Louis Moe
Publisher: A Christiansens Kunstforlag 1898

Set of 16 Softcovers published by the Newcomen Society 1980

The Fire Ants
By Walter R. Tschinkel
Pub: Belknap Press of Harvard 2006
Inscribed to Chancellor …and signed by author

With A Feather on My None
By Billie Burge
Hc/Dj Signed and dated by author ’49