In New York: A Rare Book Week
For those lucky enough to visit New York City during rare book fair week the city was transformed [in a small but very good way] into the center of book collecting in the western hemisphere for seven straight days. I was there and it was a terrific experience. There were three fairs, the largest the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, the American Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association’s event that invites their counterpart ILAB, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers members to participate. One of the other events was actually two, the Manhattan Vintage Book Ephemera Fair and th...
