Show SENSATION I alionnl Publishers Association Throws Hooks Away Hundreds Crowding Tho Auction Sale A sale that Is more of a donation party than a genuine selling affair Is puzzling Salt Lakers There is an auc loneer In I I town who Is selling books at t unheardof prices and when no1 buyer can be found is giving them away with money on the side as an In ucement to the lucky receiver to not 3c backward In accepting the gift C A Thomas representing the National Na-tional Publishers association Is conducting con-ducting the sale at No 11 E 1st So A crowd gathered quickly but fought shy or the tempting bargains offered They soon saw that the sale was bona fide and the stock firstclass howeer and started In to make up for lost lime The latest popular novels In the copyrighted 160 editions sold like hot cakes for pIlces which did not pay for the composition work of one page The Gentleman from Indiana DrI and I Janice Meredith To Have and to Hold Richard Carvel When Knighthood was in Flower The Master Christian and others of the same class were sold for 5 cents 10 cents 15 cents anything the buyer desired to offer Magnificent copies of Paradise Lost and Dantes Inferno illustrated by Dore were bought for 50 cents and a dollar When the bidding slackened Mr Thomas reversed his system and from a dollar bid would run the price down to 7C cents 50 cents 25 cents and then placing the amount of the last bid on top of the book would give It to someone some-one In the crowd for nothing Between bids he would Chrow books out Into the crowd causing wild scrambles for their possession Complete sets oC the Encyclopedia Britannica sold for SO Websters unabridged un-abridged dictionaries went as low as 2 twentyeight volume sets of Dick enss works brought 3sets of standard stand-ard works sold for from 10 cents to 2 while single books brought prices In proportion The crowds which attended the auctions auc-tions did not understand how the books could be sold so cheaply but took advantage of the good thing and more books were sold Saturday and Monday In the city than under ordinary ordi-nary clrcumatancea are purchased in three months Today books will still go at tho ridiculously low prices and the promoters pro-moters expect to leave a carload of choice literature In Salt Lake The stock Includes hundreds of volumes suitable for Christmas presents and any number that would be useful acquisitions ac-quisitions to any library Its a real book sensation Every lady attending the sale this afternoon will be given a fine bound book absolutely tree |