August 1 - 3, 2025
At The Family Arena
The Family Arena, 2002 Arena Pkwy, St Charles, MO 63303
Friends members only admission.
To enter at 9 am, Friends memberships must be received by July 24. Friends memberships will be sold on Friday after the current members line has entered the arena.
Open to the general public.
Open to the general public
Open to the general public
$5 a bag day (most items)
Standard plastic bag provided.
Free books for nonprofits.
Advanced registration required.
Please note: The Fair does not provide hand carts, boxes, or bags for moving materials.
Silent Auction The Book Fair will include a silent auction. The auction will be available online and in person via a QR code during the fair and will feature some of the more valuable items that were donated. The silent auction can also be viewed with the list of titles on this page, with the link to the bidding site at the bottom.
AV Materials & Graphic Novels - As Priced | |
All proceeds from the Book Fair are donated to the St. Charles City-County Library. Proceeds from the Book Fair and other fundraisers have been used to fund a wide variety of things including the annual reading challenges, special author events, construction and expansion of new branches, the purchase of furniture & equipment for all libraries, outdoor classrooms for library branches, and monthly book discussion groups at branches throughout the County.
Book Fair Silent Auction
Dune
Author: Frank Herbert
Publisher/Publication Date: Clinton Book Company, 1965
Starting Bid: $45
Tarzan Series (24 volumes)
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher/Publication Date:
Starting Bid: $80
The Jerusalem Bible
Illustrations: Salvador Dali
Publisher/Publication Date: Doubleday and Company, 1970
Starting Bid: $85
Nero Wolf books (8 volumes)
A Right to Die
Trio for Blunt Instruments
Death of a Doxy
The Final Deduction
Plot It Yourself
Gambit
All Aces
The Father Hunt
Author: Rex Stout
Publisher/Publication Date:
Starting Bid: $75
The Book of Life (complete set of 7 volumes)
Author: Robert Collier (1st volume is autographed)
Publisher/Publication Date: Robert Collier, Publisher, 1925
Starting Bid: $70
My Travelship Series (complete set of 3 volumes)
Tales Told in Holland, Maud and Miska Petersham, illustrators, 30th printing
Little Pictures of Japan, Katharine Sturges, illustrator, 30th printing
Nursery Friends from France, Maud and Miska Petersham, illustrators, 30th printing
Author: Olive Beaupre Miller
Publisher/Publication Date: The Book House for Children, 1954
Starting Bid: $60
Crime Does Not Pay (complete set of volumes 1-10)
Publisher/Publication Date: Dark Horse Archives, publisher
Starting Bid: $475
The Firearms Classics Library (7 volumes)
A History of the Colt Revolver, Frank A. Haven and Charles T. Belden, Odysseus Press, 1997
The Rifle in America, Philip B Sharpe, Odysseus Press, 1995
Smith and Wesson Hand Guns, Roy C. McHenry and Walter F. Roper, Palladium Press, 1997
Pistols and Revolvers, volume 1, Walter H. B. Smith, Palladium Press, 1997
Rifles, volume 2, Walter H. B. Smith, Palladium Press, 1997
The American Shotgun, Charles Askins, Palladium Press, 2000
The Book of the Springfield, Edward C. Crossman, Palladium Press, 1997
Starting Bid: $160
The Fighting 45th: The Complete Report of an Infantry Division
Compiled and edited under the supervision of the Historical Board
Publisher/Publication Date: Army and Navy Publishing Company, 1946
Starting Bid: $125
History of Missouri (complete set of 4 volumes)
Author: David D. March
Publisher/Publication Date: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1967
Starting Bid: $80
Spawn Compendium (complete set of 4 volumes)
Author: Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo
Starting Bid: $125
The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (complete set of volumes 1, 2, and 3)
Publisher/Publication Date: New York Graphic Society, 1959
Starting Bid: $150
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (complete set of 2 volumes)
Publisher/Publication Date: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1886
Starting Bid: $160
International Air Power Review (volumes 1-5)
Publisher/Publication Date: AIRtime Publishing, 2001
Starting Bid: $105