LANCASTER —When local family physician Dr. Robert B. Hess passed away on July 14 this year, he left behind a trove of old and rare books on topics ranging from nature to Mennonite history to the Civil War.

On Saturday, October 13, 9:00 AM–2:00 PM, much of Dr. Hess’s prized collection will be sold in a book auction organized by Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society at the Fivepointville Fire Company, 1087 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, Pa.

The sale will include dozens of first editions and copies autographed by authors, including Mennonite and church literature and theology from Harold Bender, Guy Hershberger, C.S. Lewis, Orie Miller and John Howard Yoder. A first edition of Amos B. Hoover’s The Jonas Martin Era is one of only 650 copies printed.