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The Portsmouth Athenaeum will be holding its annual book sale on Saturday, September 28 from 9-noon at the North Church Parish House on Spinney Road in Portsmouth. New this year is an early bird preview on Friday, September 27 from 6:00-8:00 pm. Admission to the early bird preview is $15 per person.(Continued details below)

 There is no charge to attend the book sale on Saturday. Available for purchase will be thousands of used hardcovers for $2.00 and paperbacks for $1.00. Specialty items and ephemera will be individually marked. Proceeds benefit the Portsmouth Athenaeum, a nonprofit membership library. 

“This year, we are excited to offer an early bird preview of the thousands of books, DVDs and other interesting ephemera we have on offer as part of this year’s book sale,” noted David Sanderson, Chairman of the Portsmouth Athenaeum Book Sale Committee. “And we encourage anyone looking to stock up on their winter reading and holiday gifts to join us Saturday to take advantage of the wide range of fiction, non-fiction, local history and children's books we have for sale.” 

The North Church Parish is located on 355 Spinney Road in Portsmouth. Free parking is available on site. For more information about the Portsmouth Athenaeum, please visit www.portsmouthathenaeum.org or call (603) 431-2538. 

About the Portsmouth Athenaeum

The Portsmouth Athenaeum is a non-profit membership library and museum, incorporated in 1817 and located in the heart of historic Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The mission of the Portsmouth Athenaeum is to retain its tradition of serving as a locus of convivial interchange and intellectual discourse; to collect and preserve materials relevant to the study of the history of Portsmouth and the Piscataqua region; and to make these materials available to its Proprietors, to scholars, and to the general public.