Annual Newtown Booth Library Sale Set for July 11-15
- by Michael Stillman
Coming soon is one of the biggest and most successful book sales in the entire country. It's time for the annual C.H. Booth Library Sale. This is the one the Boston Globe called “one of the largest and most well-run book sales in the country.” Held in Newtown, Connecticut, it draws large crowds yearly from all over. It's an event as much as a book sale. The only thing larger than the crowds is the number of books being sold at prices so low they hardly make sense.
This is the 49th edition of the Newtown book sale, put on by the Friends of the C.H. Booth Library. Considering the size of this sale, we can say these are very good friends indeed. The dates, times, and admission fees and discounts for each day are as follows:
Friday July 11. 1:00-5:00. Admission $40. Attendance limited to 200.
Saturday July 12. 10:00-5:00. Admission $5*. 18 and under free. Ticket sales start at 9:00 a.m.
Sunday July 13. 10:00-5:00. No admission fee. All items 25% off.
Monday July 14. 10:00-7:00. No admission fee. All items 50% off.
Tuesday July 15. 10:00-1:00. No admission fee. All items FREE!
*You can reduce Saturday's admission fee by printing off and bringing this $2.00 discount coupon. Click here.
This may be a book sale but items offered aren't limited to books. They also sell CDs, DVDs, and LPs. There will be tens of thousands of books to choose from and along with reading copies there are rare and antiquarian titles.
The location is Newtown's Reed Intermediate School. There is lots of parking and the sale takes place in air conditioned indoor facilities. If you get hungry, you can grab a quick lunch or drink at the Newtown Boy Scouts' refreshment tent in front of the main entrance. Come and join the fun!
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
Forum, May 28:The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000
Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000
