UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The State College branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will hold its 58th annual used book sale May 11-14 in the Snider Agricultural Arena, across from Beaver Stadium and the Central Pennsylvania Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, on Penn State’s University Park campus. The sale will run from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
More than 250,000 sorted books, priced to sell, will be available for purchase. The sale is organized into 30 different departments, including arts, biography, children, collectors, fiction, history, hobbies, humor and pop culture, literature, mystery, science and engineering, sports, travel, and more. Textbooks are limited to books that are five years old or less.
Sale highlights include approximately 25,000 children’s books; a biography section that is 50 percent larger than last year; a newly expanded games and puzzles area; thousands of mint-condition comics, with more than 1,000 individual titles; an abundance of sheet music; a Special Collections Room, featuring some real treasures for book aficionados; and Penn State LaVie yearbooks going back several decades.