COLLECTORS’ CORNER FEATURES WESTERNS AND CLASSICS
New additions to the Collectors’ Corner, offered by Friends of the East Providence Public Library, feature books ranging from western film and TV stars to classics.
These collectible books can be ordered by email or phone and picked up at Weaver Library.
Lists of some of these special books are available on the Friends of the East Providence Library web page on the East Providence Public Library website,
Just click on About, then Friends of the Library.
The books are listed with a short description and price on the site. Dozens of books are featured on a wide variety of topics.
More are added as they arrive.
Collectors’ Corner List #3 features a large selection of books about cowboys and westerns.
Included are books chronicling the careers of Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid, Gabby Hayes and other western stars. Included in List #4, Classics and Interesting Finds, is a 1908 edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Millicent Sowerby, for 1926, $40. To lift one’s spirits, The Abbott & Costello Story: 60 Years of Who’s on First, sells for $10. Copies of The Crimson, East Providence High School yearbook, are offered at $10 each. The collection includes years 1926, 1946, 1950, 1972, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991 and 1995.