Silent Auction
Our Book Sale’s Silent Auction, held in Williamstown 
Elementary School’s bright cafeteria, is an opportunity to find unusual volumes, special or older editions, and printed treasures. Auction preview opens Friday at 9:00 am, with bidding running 10:00 am Friday to 2:00 pm Saturday. Winning bidders need not be present when the auction closes.
Take a look at some of this year’s distinctive and valuable books:
| Title | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Lordly Hudson | Henry Collins Brown | Signed copy, #14 of 874 copies. 1939. Very good condition. |
| Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates | Howard Pyle | 1921. Very good condition. |
| St. Francis Preaches to the Birds | Peter Schumann at Bread and Puppet Theater | Inscribed by Claire Van Vliet. Black and white. Janus Press, Newark, VT, 1978 |
| Holbein's Dance of Death and Bible Woodcuts | designed by Lewis F. White | Limited edition, privately printed for Sylvan Press. #300 of 1499 copies. 1949 |
| BEE: The Princess of the Dwarfs | Anatole France; pictured by Charles Robinson; retold in English by Peter Wright | 1922 |
| Candle-Lightin' Time | Paul Laurence Dunbar. Illustrated with Photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong | By the first important black poet in American literature. 1902. Very good condition. |
| Five Colonial Artists of New England | Frank W. Bayley | Only 500 copies. Privately printed, 1929. Good condition. |
| Vanished Halls & Cathedrals of France | George Wharton Edwards | 1917. Good condition. |
| Anna Pavlova: Her Life and Art | Keith Money | First edition, 1982 |
| History of the City of New York | Martha J. Lamb | 2 volumes, 1877-1880. Excellent condition. |
| This Is My Own | Rockwell Kent | First edition, 1940 |
| Encyclopedia of World Art | 15 Volumes, 1959. | |
| Paintings and Drawings of Matisse | With a critical survey by Jean Cassou | 1939. Very good condition. |
| Works of O. Henry | O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) | 12 Volumes, printed 1919. Good condition. |
| Harvard Classics: The Five Foot Shelf of Books | 50-Volume set. 1937-8. Very good condition. |
