The 53^rd California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to Pasadena, California February 7-9.  It features booksellers from the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.  As in recent years, the show is being held at the spacious Pasadena Convention Center where more than 160 dealers from xx countries and yy states will be offering collectible material for sale.  In 2020, on the west coast, this is the year’s most important event.

 

This show has two objectives; to provide encouragement to collectors, and opportunities for the larger community to celebrate the beauty and power of collectable paper.  Where once there were hundreds of old and rare book shops to attract nascent collectors in California, these days, with significant sales online and at auction, this and other fairs have embraced the need to provide in-person experiences for both the new and experienced collector.

 

As in past years while the show is ongoing there will be seminars.

 

Saturday, February 8

FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF WOMEN'S WORK
1:00 PM: Women's work. The phrase usually conjures up domestic duties or occupations largely associated with women-such as teaching, nursing, or housekeeping. The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection at Duke University's Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture upends those associations. By bringing together materials from across the centuries, Baskin reveals what has been hidden—that Western women have long pursued a startling range of careers and vocations and that through their work they have supported themselves, their families, and the causes they believed in. Lisa Unger Baskin leads an illustrated talk about collecting this unique material, how crucial her relationship to the book trade was in the process, and the scholarship involved in the catalogue that introduced it to the public. Presented by the Bibliographical Society of America and ABAA.

3:00 PM: PROFILES IN SUFFRAGE: DEPICTIONS OF WOMEN AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, this panel discussion will explore the people, the movements, and the literature that helped women win the vote and how women have been depicted in literature.

Panelists:
Discussion moderated by best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning and Emmy-winning reporter Patt Morrison (Los Angeles Times, NPR)

Ellen Carol DuBois is a professor of history and gender studies who retired in 2017 from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2017. She is the author of numerous books on the subject of suffrage, including Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote (2020), which was recently published by Simon & Schuster.

Lisa See is the author of numerous best-selling books, including On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995), which was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book. The book traces the journey of Lisa's great-grandfather, Fong See, who overcame obstacles at every step to become the 100-year- old godfather of Los Angeles's Chinatown and the patriarch of a sprawling family.

Bookseller Miranda Garno Nesler earned her PhD in literature and gender studies from Vanderbilt University and is the director of women's history and the institutional liaison for Whitmore Rare Books in Pasadena.

Sunday, February 9

SOMETHING WONDERFUL THIS WAY CAME: 100 YEARS OF RAY BRADBURY
12:00 PM: Honoring the centennial of the celebrated science fiction writer Ray Bradbury's birth, our panel of experts explores his mastery of the subject and enduring legacy. This event is moderated by David Kipen, former literature director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kipen opened the Boyle Heights lending library Libros Schmibros in 2010, contributed to multiple volumes of California cultural history, and teaches in the UCLA writing program.

Panelists:
Steven Paul Leiva, author, film producer, and long-time friend of Ray Bradbury, is the author of Searching for Ray Bradbury (2013). Levia was the lead organizer of Ray Bradbury Week (2010) and involved in the naming of Ray Bradbury Square in Los Angeles, as well as the dedication of the Ray Bradbury Room at Palms-Rancho Park Library.

John F. Szabo, City Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library and Chair of the OCLC Board of Trustees, hosted the naming of Ray Bradbury Square in Los Angeles.

Tim Powers, bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy (On Stranger Tides, Last Call, Anubis Gates), is the two-time winner of both the World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick awards. His novel, On Stranger Tides, was adapted into the Disney Pirates of the Caribbean film of the same name (2011).

Obadiah Baird, owner of The Book Bin in Salem Oregon, is a specialist in rare and collectible science fiction, fantasy and horror. He also edits and publishes The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy.

DISCOVERY DAY
1:30 – 3:00 PM: Discovery Day is open to the public, free with paid admission. Exhibitors will offer interested individuals an opportunity to receive free appraisals on up to three books. Appraisals are available on a first-come, first-served basis within the scheduled times.

Note: personal appraisal items cannot be taken into the in exhibition hall and should be safely held at coat check.

 

 Fair hours

Friday, February 7, 2020 • 3 pm to 8 pm
Saturday, February 8, 2020 • 11 am to 7 pm
Sunday, February 9, 2020 • 11 am to 5 pm

 

$25: Preview on Friday 7th (includes Saturday and Sunday)
$15: Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th

• Students: $5.00 off admission (with current valid ID)
• ABAA and ILAB members: Free admission (with membership card)

Use your California Book Fair ticket stub for $5 discount into the Huntington Library during February 2020.

 

Here is a link to the show’s website:  https://www.cabookfair.com/

 

A list of exhibitors:

 

 

	Company	Booth No.
	Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc.	108
	Nick Adams & Co. Rare Books	110
	aGatherin'	112
	Charles Agvent	602
	Antiquariat Aix-la-Chapelle	717
	Amanda Hall Rare Books	709
	Libreria de Antan?o LLC	417
	Aquila Books	823
	Argonaut Book Shop	413
	James Arsenault & Company	821
	Athena Rare Books	418
	Auger Down Books	204
	B & B Rare Books, Ltd.	815
	Back of Beyond Books	517
	Antiquariat Michael Banzhaf	705
	Bauman Rare Books	206
	Roland Belgrave Vintage Photography Ltd	814
	Antiquariat Reinhold Berg eK	217
	David Bergman	209
	Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.	618
	Biblioctopus	617
	Carl Blomgren Fine Books	118
	Bolerium Books	419
	The Book Bin Inc.	708
	Bookbid Rare Books	803
	Booklegger’s Fine Books	613
	The Bookpress, Ltd.	103
	Books of Wonder	111
	BOOKTRST	202
	Bookvica	405
	Antiquariat Botanicum	218
	Taylor Bowie	105
	David Brass Rare Books, Inc.	813
	Burnside Rare Books	805
	Pablo Butcher	112
	Caroliniana	609
	Carpe Diem Fine Books	403
	Jeffrey D. Carr	607
	Rodolphe Chamonal	601
	Chanticleer Books	402
	Coconut Rose Rare Books	306
	Daniel Crouch Rare Books, LLC	604
	Cultural Images	211
	James Cummins Bookseller Inc.	215
	Robert Dagg Rare Books	415
	Dark Parks Books & Collectibles	505
	Davar Antiquarian Books	710
	Dawson's Book Shop	410
	De Wolfe & Wood	203
	Nat Des Marais Rare Books	116
	Eclectibles	718
	Christopher Edwards	818
	Scott Emerson Books	511
	Evening Star Books	101
	First Folio	101
	Foldvari Books	406
	Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller	506
	Robert Frew Ltd.	615
	Elena Gallego Rare Books LLC	310
	Garcia-Garst, Booksellers	102
	Gilann Books	602
	Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books	611
	James Graham, Bookseller	714
	Hackenberg Booksellers	411
	David A. Hamilton Americana Books	612
	Peter Harrington	501
	Donald A. Heald Rare Books, Prints & Maps	824
	Heartwood Books And Art	810
	Heritage Book Shop, LLC	512
	Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller	216
	Hordern House Rare Books	702
	House of Mirth Photos	107
	John Howell for Books	212
	HS Rare Books	616
	Imperial Fine Books, Inc.	307
	Antiquariat Inlibris Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH	605
	James S. Jaffe Rare Books	611
	Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers	119
	Johanson Rare Books	304
	Johnson Rare Books & Archives	608
	Jonkers Rare Books	812
	Kaaterskill Books	203
	Kagerou Bunko	213
	Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller, Inc.	809
	The Kelmscott Bookshop	305
	Ben Kinmont, Bookseller	716
	Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller	407
	John W. Knott, Jr. Bookseller	408
	Kotte Autographs	606
	Langdon Manor Books, LLC	117
	Bill Leone, Bookseller	715
	JF Letenneur Livres Rares	806
	Liber Antiquus, Early Books & Manuscripts	801
	Locus Solus Rare Books	817
	Lucius Books	820
	Lux Mentis, Booksellers	504
	Herman H.J. Lynge & Son A/S	701
	Maggs Bros. Ltd.	404
	Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts	105
	Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.	719
	Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books	315
	Marlborough Rare Books Ltd.	103
	Martayan Lan Rare Books & Maps	502
	MARTINEZ D.	113
	McBride Rare Books	816
	Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc.	811
	Meda Riquier Rare Books Ltd.	409
	Midway Rare Books	603
	Howard S. Mott, Inc.	106
	J. B. Muns, Fine Arts Books & Musical Autographs	414
	Musinsky Rare Books, Inc.	317
	Nudelman Rare Books	109
	Oak Knoll Books	713
	Ohya-Shobo co.,Ltd	207
	Pacific Coast Books	825
	Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscrip	711
	Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manus	401
	Bud Plant & Hutchison Books	826
	Nicholas Potter -- Bookseller	120
	Powell's Books Chicago	412
	John Price Antiquarian Books	807
	PY Rare Books	814
	Bernard Quaritch Ltd.	614
	Max Rambod, Inc.	819
	John Randall Books	416
	Rare Books Le Feu Follet	802
	Rare Photo Gallery	822
	Janette Ray Bookseller	804
	Read'Em Again Books	507
	ReadInk	114
	William Reese Company	703
	Walter Reuben, Inc.	219
	Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscript	302
	Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique M	301
	Rulon-Miller Books	313
	Sanctuary Books	210
	Ken Sanders Rare Books	610
	Sawtooth Books	715
	Antiquariaat Schierenberg	706
	Sophie Schneideman Rare Books	508
	Marc Selvaggio, Books & Ephemera	516
	Shapero Rare Books Ltd	503
	Sims Reed Ltd	509
	Ralph Sipper Books	214
	Sokol Books Ltd.	514
	SOPHIA ∑ RARE BOOKS	704
	Benjamin Spademan	510
	David Spilman Fine Books	121
	Antiquariat Michael Steinbach	308
	Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc.	314
	Douglas Stewart Fine Books	311
	Swan's Fine Books	104
	Tavistock Books	312
	Ten Pound Island Book Co.	308
	Michael R. Thompson, Bookseller	808
	Thorn Books	202
	Triolet Rare Books	309
	Tschanz Rare Books	816
	Vagabond Books	712
	Walkabout Books	518
	W.P. Watson Antiquarian Books	316
	Michael R. Weintraub, Inc.	707
	White Fox Rare Books and Antiques	303
	Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.	513
	John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller	201
	Zephyr Used & Rare Books	115
	ZH Books	515