50th NY Book Fair
“The best book fair in the world.” - Andy Rooney, CBS “60 Minutes”
ABOUT THE FAIR:
The 50th Annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America returns this April to the Park Avenue Armory under the management of Sanford L. Smith & Associates. This year, on the event’s 50th anniversary, 200 of the world’s finest dealers will gather with their rare books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, finely bound volumes and ephemera to make up the oldest and most prestigious book fair. The grand scale of this exhibition and sale has something for everyone. “The New York Book Fair in Middle age...keeps broadening its scope,” notes Eve Kahn of The New York Times, “for just about any specialty interest you can think of there is handmade material to stumble upon serendipitously...” Perusing the show floor that covers almost an entire city block, visitors will find treasures in History, Law, Music, Dance, Fashion, Gastronomy, Children’s Books, Art and Philosophy. A preview Thursday, April 8 from 5pm - 9pm will offer the festive first chance to browse and buy.
DISCOVERY DAY:
A favorite tradition, Discovery Day gives ticketed visitors the opportunity to bring their own rare books, manuscripts, maps, etc. (up to 5 items) on Sunday, April 11, from noon - 3pm. Exhibitors will be on hand to offer expert advice and free appraisals.
PUBLIC INFO:
The New York Antiquarian Book Fair runs April 9 - 11, 2010 at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street. Hours are Friday from noon to 8pm, Saturday from noon to 7pm, and Sunday from noon to 5pm. A café and bar will be open during show hours to serve refreshments. Student and group rates are available. The Park Avenue Armory is wheelchair accessible; please call 212.777.5218 to make arrangements. Contact info@sanfordsmith.com for more information.
EXHIBITORS AND HIGHLIGHTS:
Exhibitors at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair are members of the ABAA and ILAB. The 2010 fair will host over 200 dealers from Austria, Australia, Argentina, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, and all over the United States.
Highlights of this year’s fair will include:
?? ABECEDA ANTIQUARIAT, specialists in 20th century avant-garde books and art on paper, will bring a copy of Kandinsky’s almanac of The Blue Rider, an important and innovative publication in the history of German expressionist art. The piece features 4 colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations, and vocal scores by Schonberg, Berg and von Webern.
?? BETWEEN THE COVERS will feature an inscribed copy of one of the most sought after novels, the first issue of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises in the rare dustwrapper (1926).
?? PAUL FOSTER RARE BOOKS will feature rare copies of The Works of Jane Austen and Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
?? BRUCE McKITTRICK’s booth will include a baroque festival and opera book printed and illustrated by orphan girls at the Venetian patrician Marco Contarini’s private printing press known as the "Press of the Virgins." [5]
?? PRODUCTIVE ARTS is offering a group of 8 original caramel wrappers from Soviet Russia titled “New Measures” with text and designs by Vladimir Mayakovsky, manufactured for Mosselprom department store by the factory Red October in Moscow, circa 1923 . In Soviet Russia during the 1920s, the candy wrapper became a miniature form of mass agitational art and propaganda, in this case showing modern forms of measurements put in place by the Bolsheviks after the Revolution.
?? IL POLIFILO LIBRI RARI plans to bring the first edition of an important Columbus biography, written by his son. This work also contains what might be some of the most ancient history of Native Americans.
?? PAGE BOOKS, specialists in 19th and 20th Century Children’s books by outstanding artsists and authors, will offer among their selections rare copies of the Little Engine that Could, A Wrinkle in Time, and Blueberries for Sal.
?? JONKERS LIMITED brings an original autograph manuscript by Charles Dickens, entitled "The Sanatorium." This manuscript is accompanied by a three page autograph letter dated 27 December 1842, and by a collection of other Dickens material, including a signed first edition of his “American Notes.”
?? PRISCILLA JUVELIS will bring artist books and unique book objects such as Message from Diamond Ring, by Eugenie Torgerson. The artist, fascinated with names of towns on maps, found that Diamond Ring, Montana lodged in her imagination. This box of poems insets various hand-made papers and drawings into two shallow troughs.
?? SETH KALLER’s booth will highlight a page from Abraham Lincoln's last State of the Union address. This final manuscript page, in Lincoln’s own hand, contains the heart of his 1864 State of the Union address, in which he proclaims that despite terrible losses, the Union will triumph and America will emerge a stronger nation (ca. December 3, 1864).
?? LIBRAIRIE LARDANCHET offers a folio of 42 original lithographs, Daphnis and Chloe, by Chagall, signed (1961).
“...There are a few things that provide hope that our civilization will endure--the New York Book Fair is one of them.” -Andy Rooney, CBS “60 Minutes”
At the Park Avenue Armory
April 9 - 11, 2010
Friday, noon - 8pm; Saturday, noon - 7pm; Sunday noon - 6pm
Preview, Thursday, April 8, 5pm - 9pm
Admission $20 Daily or $30 for a Two-Day Pass
www.sanfordsmith.com
www.abaa.org
The 50th Annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America returns this April to the Park Avenue Armory under the management of Sanford L. Smith & Associates. This year, on the event’s 50th anniversary, 200 of the world’s finest dealers will gather with their rare books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, finely bound volumes and ephemera to make up the oldest and most prestigious book fair. The grand scale of this exhibition and sale has something for everyone. “The New York Book Fair in Middle age...keeps broadening its scope,” notes Eve Kahn of The New York Times, “for just about any specialty interest you can think of there is handmade material to stumble upon serendipitously...” Perusing the show floor that covers almost an entire city block, visitors will find treasures in History, Law, Music, Dance, Fashion, Gastronomy, Children’s Books, Art and Philosophy. A preview Thursday, April 8 from 5pm - 9pm will offer the festive first chance to browse and buy.
DISCOVERY DAY:
A favorite tradition, Discovery Day gives ticketed visitors the opportunity to bring their own rare books, manuscripts, maps, etc. (up to 5 items) on Sunday, April 11, from noon - 3pm. Exhibitors will be on hand to offer expert advice and free appraisals.
PUBLIC INFO:
The New York Antiquarian Book Fair runs April 9 - 11, 2010 at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street. Hours are Friday from noon to 8pm, Saturday from noon to 7pm, and Sunday from noon to 5pm. A café and bar will be open during show hours to serve refreshments. Student and group rates are available. The Park Avenue Armory is wheelchair accessible; please call 212.777.5218 to make arrangements. Contact info@sanfordsmith.com for more information.
EXHIBITORS AND HIGHLIGHTS:
Exhibitors at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair are members of the ABAA and ILAB. The 2010 fair will host over 200 dealers from Austria, Australia, Argentina, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, and all over the United States.
Highlights of this year’s fair will include:
?? ABECEDA ANTIQUARIAT, specialists in 20th century avant-garde books and art on paper, will bring a copy of Kandinsky’s almanac of The Blue Rider, an important and innovative publication in the history of German expressionist art. The piece features 4 colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations, and vocal scores by Schonberg, Berg and von Webern.
?? BETWEEN THE COVERS will feature an inscribed copy of one of the most sought after novels, the first issue of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises in the rare dustwrapper (1926).
?? PAUL FOSTER RARE BOOKS will feature rare copies of The Works of Jane Austen and Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
?? BRUCE McKITTRICK’s booth will include a baroque festival and opera book printed and illustrated by orphan girls at the Venetian patrician Marco Contarini’s private printing press known as the "Press of the Virgins." [5]
?? PRODUCTIVE ARTS is offering a group of 8 original caramel wrappers from Soviet Russia titled “New Measures” with text and designs by Vladimir Mayakovsky, manufactured for Mosselprom department store by the factory Red October in Moscow, circa 1923 . In Soviet Russia during the 1920s, the candy wrapper became a miniature form of mass agitational art and propaganda, in this case showing modern forms of measurements put in place by the Bolsheviks after the Revolution.
?? IL POLIFILO LIBRI RARI plans to bring the first edition of an important Columbus biography, written by his son. This work also contains what might be some of the most ancient history of Native Americans.
?? PAGE BOOKS, specialists in 19th and 20th Century Children’s books by outstanding artsists and authors, will offer among their selections rare copies of the Little Engine that Could, A Wrinkle in Time, and Blueberries for Sal.
?? JONKERS LIMITED brings an original autograph manuscript by Charles Dickens, entitled "The Sanatorium." This manuscript is accompanied by a three page autograph letter dated 27 December 1842, and by a collection of other Dickens material, including a signed first edition of his “American Notes.”
?? PRISCILLA JUVELIS will bring artist books and unique book objects such as Message from Diamond Ring, by Eugenie Torgerson. The artist, fascinated with names of towns on maps, found that Diamond Ring, Montana lodged in her imagination. This box of poems insets various hand-made papers and drawings into two shallow troughs.
?? SETH KALLER’s booth will highlight a page from Abraham Lincoln's last State of the Union address. This final manuscript page, in Lincoln’s own hand, contains the heart of his 1864 State of the Union address, in which he proclaims that despite terrible losses, the Union will triumph and America will emerge a stronger nation (ca. December 3, 1864).
?? LIBRAIRIE LARDANCHET offers a folio of 42 original lithographs, Daphnis and Chloe, by Chagall, signed (1961).
“...There are a few things that provide hope that our civilization will endure--the New York Book Fair is one of them.” -Andy Rooney, CBS “60 Minutes”
At the Park Avenue Armory
April 9 - 11, 2010
Friday, noon - 8pm; Saturday, noon - 7pm; Sunday noon - 6pm
Preview, Thursday, April 8, 5pm - 9pm
Admission $20 Daily or $30 for a Two-Day Pass
www.sanfordsmith.com
www.abaa.org
