The San Francisco ABAA Book Fair - in the rear view mirror
The ABAA’s San Francisco Book Fair has come and gone and participants returned home, left for vacation or moved on to the next show. For book collectors and institutions these shows are special events, for dealers part of the modern formula for meeting clients and selling books. By most accounts the show met or exceeded expectations. Certainly the telltale signs of a good show; a seamless process, good attendance, and anecdotal evidence of satisfactory to robust sales, suggest a successful event that portends well short-term but casts little light on the future. Such is the state of th...