Home > Arts & EntertainmentBooksellers & Booksales: Where to Find Used Books in the Finger LakesIt cannot be denied that having more than 20 colleges and universities in the region helps to promote reading, but reading tastes in the Finger Lakes extend far beyond textbooks. Poetry, local history, the classics, cookbooks, essays, law, engineering, computer science, medicine, sex, even comic books can be found in great profusion in the Finger Lakes.
Twice a year the Friends of the Tompkins County Library holds one of the largest booksales in the country in an enormous pole barn in Ithaca. The line at the door begins days in advance no matter what the weather, with people coming from all over the East Coast of the United States and Ontario, Canada. The most dedicated pitch tents on the sidewalk. Spring and fall 250,000 books, all donated by the community, go on sale. Prices begin at $4.50 for hard cover books. This includes unused college textbooks that normally sell for $125.00 each. You can't beat the bargains. The entire sale is extremely well sorted with many people coming in with lists of specific titles or authors they hope to find. It's amazing sometimes what people are looking for, and even more amazing when they find it. The money from the sale is funneled back into the community in the form of grants for reading programs, money to the Tompkins County Public Library to buy new books, and scholarships to library science students. Two young women came for the first time to the Fall 2006 sale. As they passed a long row of shelves filled with books and turned a corner, one said to the other, "Look, they sell records!" "Awesome!" the other responded. Yes, ladies, and the Friends also sells, CDs, DVDs, puzzles, and children's games. YOU are cordially invited to be one of the many who are awestruck by this sale.
It's hard to beat the Friends Booksale. But here is a list of other regularly scheduled sales in the Finger Lakes. You never know what you might find. USED BOOK DEALERSTOMPKINS COUNTYAutumn Leaves Used Books115 E. State St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607-273-8239 Book Barn of the Finger Lakes198 North Rd. Dryden, NY 13053 607-844-9365 The BookeryDeWitt Mall 215 N. Cayuga St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607-273-5055 CNY Book Auctions1429 Danby Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 607-269-0101 Ithaca Books111A E. State St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607-277-4886 Phoenix Used & Rare Books1608 Dryden Rd. Freeville, NY 13068 607-347-4767 TIOGA COUNTYRiverow Bookshop187 Front St. Owego, NY 13827 607-687-4094 BOOKSALESUlysses Pilomathic Library74 E. Main St. Trumansburg, NY 14886 607-387-5623 Dates: 6 days in late November and early December COMIC BOOKSComics for Collectors207 N. Aurora St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607-272-3007 |
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