Want books?

For convenience and discounts, you can't beat amazon .com. For interesting finds, go to eBay. To get what you want today, the neighborhood bookstore is only a car ride away.

But once a year, a Valley book sale draws thousands of people searching for new titles, bargains, variety and unusual finds. Sponsored by the Volunteer Nonprofit Service Association, the event is next weekend at the Arizona Exposition and State Fair Park's Exhibit Building in Phoenix, and admission is free.

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Other interesting items this year include a 1938 copy of Laughter in the Dark, the first printing of Vladimir Nabokov's first novel published in America; a program from the 1955 opening of Sleeping Beauty's castle in Disneyland; a copy of Pogo: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us, by Walt Kelly, printed upside down in 1995; and a copy of The Conscience of a Conservative, signed by its author, Barry Goldwater.