Silent Auction of Collectables - Dec. 1 through Dec. 8
Friends of Venice Library Silent Auction
Friends of Venice Library is hosting our second annual Silent Auction starting Friday, December 1 and running through Friday, December 8, in the Friends of Venice Library Bookstore.
Don Weiss, a Friends Bookstore collectables specialist, says about this year’s selection, “Our second pre-holiday silent auction includes items that have separated themselves from the rest over the past year.”
Don Weiss’s Personal Favorites
. To begin collecting vintage children’s books, items 1, 2, 3, 6, 8 and 13 make a great start. The Friends feel lucky to have had so many donations of beautifully illustrated children's books this year -- something we rarely see.
. 4, 15, 16 and 17 are wonderful coffee-table books that you won’t find on many coffee tables.
To place a bid in the Silent Auction
See photos below of all items.
Stop by the Friends Bookstore to look at the items displayed on the table by the bookstore entrance.
Mark your bid in the corresponding Silent Auction bidding sheets. All bids must be on the appropriate bidding sheet by 4 p.m. on Friday, December 8.
Opening bids begin between $5 and $25, depending on the value of the book, with many selling online for up to much more.
Winning bidders will be notified by phone or email in a timely manner. All items need to be paid for and picked up from the Friends Bookstore’s main desk by Friday, December 15.
Show your support for the William H. Jervey Jr. Venice Library and the Friends of the Venice Library by bidding on some special, donated collectables. Support from the Friends helps make the Jervey Public Library’s current and future programming possible. Visit venicefriends.org or call at 941.861.1351 for more information.
Collectables at the Friends Silent Auction 2023
Please stop by to bid on one or more of the following:
1. Set of Six Vintage Children’s Books, including early Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
Starting bid is $15 for the set.
2..Set of Six Vintage Children’s Books, including two books by Rudyard Kipling and a 1926 retold Peter Pan and Wendy
Starting bid is $25 for the set.
3. Set of Five Beautifully Illustrated Vintage Children’s Books, including a picture storybook Peter Pan
Starting bid is $25 for the set.
4. Iditarod, The First Ten Years
Starting bid is $5.
5. Crystal Chess Set
Starting bid is $10.
6. Set of Five Walter Farley books. Walter Farley was a former native son and resident of Venice as well as a Venice Public Library founder.
Bidding starts at $10.
7. Complete Dexter Series Set (Starting with Season One). Set is in Wooden Box and Comes with Book of Photos
Bidding starts at $10.
8. Set of Four First Edition Vintage Science Fiction Books
Bids start at $25.
9. Complete Set of Five John Gould the Bird Man, Signed
John Gould has been called the most celebrated British ornithologist of the nineteenth-century. Bids start at $5.
10. Hand Folded Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Pages are folded to Spell LOVE.)
Starting bid is $10.
11. The Venice News-Reproduction of the 1927 Edition
Starting bid is $3.
12. Smithsonian Oceanology - The Secrets of the Sea Revealed, First American Edition
Bidding starts at $10.
13. Contes de Perrault, with Illustrations by Felix Lorioux
A collection of French Fairy Tales beautifully illustrated for children. Starting bid is $15.
14. Set of Two Erik Larson’s Historical Fiction Books, both signed by the author
Bidding starts at $10 for the set.
15. Book of Dali Paintings
Starting bid is $5.
16. The Louvre, All the Paintings
This catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum in Paris lists the painters of the collection of the Louvre Museum as they are catalogued in the Joconde database. Bidding starts at $10.
17. Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-Up
Starting bid is $5.