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Online Bookstore

Lifeline Canberra earns a major part of its funding by selling hundreds of thousands of donated items at two big Bookfairs and several smaller sales each year. We offer a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books for all ages, as well as magazines and pamphlets, comic books and atlases, records and CDs, videotapes and DVDs, games and puzzles.

A limited selection of our rarer, more valuable or collectable items is available for purchase from our online bookstore catalogue.

Collectables - Autumn and Spring Bookfairs

The Collectors' Room (in the Budawang conference centre's Kakadu Room) contains the rare, more valuable and fragile items donated to Lifeline Canberra. There is also a large range of reasonably priced books (some under $20), pamphlets from $3, and serials.

WHEN?

The entire Collectables area, including the Collectors' Room, will be open on all three days of the Spring 2012 Bookfair.

Friday 10am-5pm
Saturday 10am-4pm
Sunday 10am-3pm

WHERE?

Conference Centre (Kakadu Room), Budawang Building, Exhibition Park in Canberra

WHAT?

First and limited editions, rare, old, fragile and collectable items - a wide range of adult and children's books, also pamphlets, posters and ephemera, plus collectable vinyl records and music CDs.

Categories can include:

ACT and NSW local history
Antarctica and the Arctic
Art reproductions, prints and posters
Art, architecture and photography
Asia and the Pacific
Australian Aborigines
Australiana
Automobilia
Canberra and region
Children's annuals, pop-up books and novelties
Children's Australian and overseas classics
Collectable authors
Collectable vinyl records and music CDs
Folio editions
Journals and magazines
Military
Nature and environment
Literature
General non-fiction
Signed editions

Before entering the Collectables area during the Bookfair, please leave all bags of already purchased books outside the cloakroom near the building's main entrance.

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