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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.

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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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