The major project of the College Women's Club of Montclair, Inc. is the Book Sale, which raises money for scholarships.  Each year the club provides aid to graduating high school girls from Montclair, Glen Ridge, Verona and Cedar Grove for their college education.  The club has awarded over a million dollars in scholarships to girls in Montclair and the surrounding area since its inception over 81 years ago.  It  supports the AAUW Education Foundation, which helps women reach their personal and professional goals through a series of fellowships and grants.

We rent Book Sale Headquarters in the basement of the Technopulp Building at 26 Park Street in Montclair, NJ, all year.  We take donations of used Books, CDs, DVDs, LPs, Audio Tapes, Sheet Music, Software, Ephemera from area residents during the year, usually Saturdays from 9:30am until 11:45am.  We collect Books from May through August and again from December through February.  The Book Sales take place in November and April.  We post our schedules on Baristanet.com, Patch.com, the jerseytomatopress.com  and feature it on the Montclair Watercooler, the Montclair Times and the Montclair Local. 

Our Book Sales allow us to create a substantial number of scholarships each year.  For the 2017-2018 year we gave out $40,000 to 20 area high school senior girls.  Quite impressive results for selling all those books for $.50, $1 and $2!!!  We sold them but you donated them - many thanks!

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!  We welcome volunteers to help with receiving, organizing and selling our donations.  Our efforts were supported this past year by many high school volunteers.  As these young people gained experience in community service, we enjoyed the enthusiasm and strength of their youth.  There are many different opportunities for volunteers, including helping us receive and sort donations on Saturday mornings, distributing flyers and postcards before our sales, helping with online and other marketing, etc. This is a booklover’s dream volunteer opportunity!   Want to know more?  Please contact Nancy Perlman at  NJP777@aol.com, or call the Book Sale office at (973) 783-7040.  We spend Wednesday and Saturday mornings at the Headquarters, and, as the Sale date nears, Mondays through Fridays.  But please note, although we are sometimes there on other days, we only accept donations on the scheduled Saturdays when we have sufficient staff present to accept the stream of books.  If you would like to help us sort on a Wednesday morning, please call (973) 783-7040 between 10:00 am and noon to be sure someone is there.

We will open Saturday, December 1,  for donations.  Our donation policy has been altered - our contract with our landlord has changed and we are now limited in our use of space.  We can therefore accept LIMITED donations at Booksale Headquarters on the following Saturdays from 9:30am 'til 11:45am.

Donors may drop off no more than 15 containers each week, either bags, cartons (with maximum dimensions of 10” X 12” X 15”), or a combination.  They may return on subsequent weeks, following the same guidelines.

December 1, 8, 15, 29
January 5, 12, 19, 26
February 2, 9,16

It's easier to say what we don't accept than to list what we do. We DO NOT want

  1. Encyclopedia sets
  2. Reader's Digest Condensed books (or similar)
  3. Textbooks (unless quite recent or very old)
  4. AAA Travel Guides or maps
  5. Travel Guides that are more than 3-4 years old (unless they are very old)
  6. Anything that is falling apart, moldy, heavily underlined, etc.
  7. Puzzles or board games
  8. American Heritage or Horizon magazines
  9. Magazines more recent than 1980
  10. VHS tapes (video tapes)
 
We would love to get

  1. All hardcover and softcover books, adult & children, English and other languages, fiction and non-fiction
  2. Media of all kinds: DVDs, CDs, records (no 78's), audio books (CD and audio tape), audio tapes. They must all be in their original printed jackets. Please don't bring us empty cases (check those CD jewel boxes), or anything that you recorded yourself (we can't legally resell those). 
  3. Software
  4. Sheet music, maps, postcards
  5. Magazines from before 1980, except for National Geographic which must be from before WWII
 
If you want a tax receipt, please come prepared with a count of how many of each kind of item you brought. We do not have the space for you to count your books after you get here.  Please bring donations in bags or boxes. Loose books are very difficult for us to handle and books in garbage bags are easily damaged. Please don't tie books up with string. Plastic over paper grocery bags work very well, as do smaller boxes such as wine/beer boxes or file boxes (sometimes called banker's boxes). Please use containers that you can just leave with us. Those re-useable bags are very nice, but only if you don't want them back.

Please pull up in the striped area in front of the door on the side of the building to unload. DO NOT park in the building lot - you may stop briefly to drop off books but do not leave your car unattended.  The building tenants rent their spaces year round and they will call the police to ticket your car if you park in one of their slots

Dropoff location: 

Booksale Headquarters
26 Park St. (Lower level)
Montclair, NJ 07042

973-783-7040

Email: cwcbooksale@gmail.com
Web site: cwcmontclair.com
We can provide you with  tax receipt for the books that you donate. The guidelines represent the prices for the books we sell. 
If you feel any items in your donations exceed these guidelines, you must present them separately with an explanation.

The value guidelines for donated material is as follows:

Hardcover books                                    $2.00
       New (2017, 2018) 1/3 list price
Trade Paperbacks                                   1.00
Maps                                                          .50
CDs                                                            .50/disk
DVDs                                                        1.00/disk
Cassette tapes                                           .25
Computer Software:  New                     1/3 list price
      All others                                             1.00
Sheet Music:  Pre 1915                             1.00
     All others                                                 .50
Music Books                                          $1 - $2
Records                                                       .50/disk

If the value of your donation exceeds $500, you need to fill out IRS form #8283