Silent auctions at the Wareham Free Library and the Spinney Memorial branch for the month of September — the last of the summer auctions until next year — include artistic books, fables, and more.

The books are selected from the donations made to the Friends of the Wareham Free Library, which sells them to augment the library's budget.

Wareham Free Library visitors can bid on Churches, an oversized panorama by Judith Dupre of text and photographs (it opens like the doors of a church); on an illustrated edition of John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage; and on Twelve of Hearts, a boxed set of 7” x 7” watercolors of embellished hearts reflecting symbolic and mythological images. The auction begins September 3 and goes through September 28.

The Spinney Memorial Lirbary has a copy of the original Notes in Training Field Artillery Details by the instructors, Captains Danford and Moretti, a guide to mastering this training and covering all essential details; a late 17th century illustrated copy of Aesop’s Fables, with 100 Ernest Griset illustrations; and a first-edition of Island Nights’ Entertainment by Robert Louis Stevenson, a collection of three illustrated stories. This auction will run from September 7 through September 27.

Directions for bidding are posted at each site. Bidders must raise the bid by at least one dollar over the previous bidder.