Monster Saturday Morning Book Sale
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Athenaeum_Book_SaleOctober 9, 2010

The biggest best book sale of the year happens annually – and you may be missing it. It begins at 9 am and is all over by noon. Proprietors of the Portsmouth Athenaeum donate books all year for this fundraising event, so the books are high quality. (Click for more details below.) 

  

The Portsmouth Athenaeum Annual Book Sale will take place this weekend on Saturday, October 9th at 248 Spinney Road, Portsmouth. We have a barn full of books. Some of the categories are fiction, art, architecture, travel, sports, history, antiques, children's, NH, NE, health, business, reference, rare books, cookbooks, military, history and much more. The sale will run from 9am - 12 pm rain or shine.  

About the Athenaeum  (Click here for WEB SITE)

The Portsmouth Athenaeum is a non-profit membership library and museum, incorporated in 1817 and located in the heart of historic Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Membership libraries were first created in the 18th century for the mutual edification of their members and to elevate the educational resources available in the community. The name "Athenæum" was used by a number of societies established during the nineteenth century to describe institutions with broader aims than just a library. The term is derived from Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, and the classical temple of the arts and sciences named to honor her. 

While there were once hundreds of membership libraries across America, there are now fewer than twenty left. The Athenaeum today continues this long tradition of mutual improvement by maintaining a library of over 40,000 volumes and an archive of manuscripts, photographs, objects, and ephemera relating to local history. It also sponsors exhibitions, concerts, lectures, and other educational and cultural programs.  

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 it Proprietors, to scholars, and to the general public.