PRINCETON, NJ Stores and Shopping Guide Announcement

94th Annual Bryn-Mawr Wellesley Book Sale March 12 - 16

February 13, 2025

This year’s sale will be held March 12-16 at Stuart Country Day School, 1200 Stuart Road, in Princeton. Admission on the first day is $32. Tickets may be purchased on the Annual Sale page at bmandwbooks.com or at the door. All other days are free. The book sale raises college scholarships for local students.

Our volunteers sort through hundreds of thousands of donated books each year to select about 60,000 volumes for the annual sale. Books are in very good to excellent condition, set out in over 60 categories for easy browsing.

THREE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS:
Buyers will find books from the estate of Alfred Bush, an editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson and longtime curator of Western and Native American materials at the Princeton University Library. There are also volumes from the estate of Bryn Mawr graduate Dr. Susan Auth, a classical archaeologist and Newark Museum curator. The final private collection that will be on sale is from the estate of Susan Casteras, Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Washington (Seattle), an expert on British art, especially Victorian and pre- Raphaelitism.

EXCEPTIONAL BOOKS
Exceptional books this year include an original 1894 “Peacock” edition of Pride and Prejudice, with an exquisite gilt cover design, a celebrated example of late Victorian pictorial covers. Also on offer is an original 1704 edition in excellent condition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or Index of Forbidden Books. These volumes were considered heretical at the time by the Catholic Church.

Buyers will find plenty of art books, including a book on Maxfield Parrish and a Dictionary of Artist’s Models, which includes brief biographies of 200 artists' models from the Renaissance to the present. Homeschoolers can stock up on books for learning, while travelers can find small paperbacks to tuck into bags for upcoming trips.

HOURS
Weds, March 12 - Opening Day - 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tickets are $32, entrance on all other days is free.
Thurs, March 13 - 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday, March 14 - 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 15 - 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 16 – Box Day 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. $10 per box (approx. 12x12x16 in.)