The Friends of the San Carlos Library is a volunteer organization dedicated to supporting library programs and city reading initiatives by providing financial support and advocacy.
Visit our monthly sale, held on the second floor of the library
on the third Sunday of each month.
Browse our Book Shop, open daily during regular library hours, and located just inside the library entrance.
Explore our online sales at The Book Forest.
Here's where you can find us:
Upcoming
Sunday Sale:
November 15, 1-4pm
Second floor
of the library
Friends of the San Carlos Library
purchases new study pod
Thanks to funds raised via our wonderful donors and customers, the Friends were able to fully support the purchase of a new study pod. This space is air-conditioned and soundproof and provides meeting space for a group of 4-6 people, or a comfortable location for a lively game of mahjong! This pod can be booked by library card holders on the library's Rooms & Equipment Reservation page.
Featured titles in the Rare Book Nook
Three treats from Ansel Adams:
Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley with Virginia Adams. (3rd edition 1946) $15
The Pageant of History in Northern California with text by Nancy Newhall.
A centennial publication of the American Trust Company. Oversized. Stunning extra-glossy paper. (1954) $30
Photographs of the American Southwest. (1984) $15
Books by four Nobel Prize winners plus one who declined the award:
The Works of Anatole France. Limited edition Autograph in volume 1. Complete 30 volume set.
Fine condition. Leather spine and corners over cloth with gilt spine decoration. (1924) $200
Herzog, by Saul Bellow. The comic/philosophical novel with its mastery of the American vernacular
that confirmed Bellow’s stature as a 20th century Mark Twain. (1964, 1st printing) $15
The Moon is Down, by John Steinbeck. (1942, 1st printing, 1st issue). $15
Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan. (1973, 1979 printing). $7.50
Being and Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Sartre (1956, 1st American printing) $50
Six unmarked early edition Hardy Boys books with very good original dust jackets.
1st 4 in the series, plus 6 & 7. (1934 and 1937 “issue II” printings) $200 for the group.
Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by John Nicolay and John Hay.
Sponsors Limited Edition. 12 volume set. Fine condition. Decorative leather binding with gilt decorations. (1926) $100.
Three 19th century oversized Bibles. (1847, 1858, 1873) Illustrated. 600 illustrations and maps in the 1873 Bible. $10, $25, $25
Find these books and many more in the Rare Book Nook during the monthly Sunday Sale!