Rare Book Monthly

Articles - September - 2017 Issue

Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair September 8-10

- by Bruce E. McKinney

The Bigger, Better Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair

Marvin Getman, the trade show impresario, is continuing to build a book buying and bookselling community around his Brooklyn Book Fair, now in its fourth year and scheduled for the 8th to the 10th this month at the Brooklyn Expo Center.  The shift of bookselling from open shops to online listings has given book fairs added importance as they become the point of human interaction for they who prefer to buy and sell in person.  For Mr. Getman, book fairs, which for many years were in decline, are a trend that is strengthening.

 

Book fairs fall into two categories; those associated with a dealer organization and those open to the entire field.  Mr. Getman’s fairs fall into the second category and attract an appealing and eclectic group that changes from show to show.  For Mr. Getman this will be his largest fair to date and the first that is crossing the one hundred exhibitor threshold; 108 at last count.  This a terribly big deal.

 

So in a few years we can predict that Mr. Getman’s fairs will begin to attract their own shadow fairs.  And there is a certain justice in it for Mr. Getman began as an organizer of shadow fairs and is now reaping the benefits of years of work and experience to be creating his first major fair.

 

Congratulations.

 

Location, dates and hours:

 

BROOKLYN EXPO CENTER
79 Franklin St. (at Noble St)
Greenpoint Brooklyn

 

September 8-10, 2017

 

Hours

 

Friday 8 September Benefit Preview:  5-9 pm EST

Saturday 9 September:  11 am – 7 pm EST

Sunday 10 September:  11 am – 5 pm EST

 

 

Here is a list of participants:

 

Abraham Lincoln Book Shop

A.N. Devers

Adam Weinberger Rare Books - ABAA

Alexanderplatz Books

Anartist Books

Appledore Books - ABAA

Architectural Photography Collection 

Auger Down Books - ABAA

Ayr Hill Books 

B & B Rare Books - ABAA

Bartleby's Books - ABAA

Battledore LTD - ABAA

Bauman Rare Books - ABAA

Be-hold

Between the Covers Rare Books - ABAA

Blakeney Griffin, Booksellers

Blue Mountain Books and Manuscripts

Boo-Hooray

Bookleggers Used Books - ABAA

Caliban Book Shop- ABAA

Captain Ahab's Rare Books

Carnegie Hill Books

Carpe Librum Books

Carydale Books

Center Street Studio

Chloe's Original Ephemera

Citation Books - ABAA

Colebrook Book Barn- ABAA

Commonwealth Books- ABAA

Dan Moyer

David A. Hamilton Americana Books - ABAA

David Cohn

David McGreevy, Early Photographs

Derringer Books - ABAA

Dubois Rare Books

The Earl of Clarendon

Eastside Books & Paper

Eclectibles - ABAA

Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts - ABAA

Egon and Joan Teichert Fine Prints

Erin Waters

Evan Bates - Books/Documents

Faenwyl Bindery

Framont

From Russia with Art

G. Curwen Books

G. Gosen Rare Books & Old Paper - ABAA

Garrett Scott, Bookseller

Graph Books

Honey & Wax Booksellers - ABAA

House of Mirth Photos

Imperial Fine Books - ABAA

James Cummins Bookseller - ABAA

James S. Jaffe Rare Books - ABAA

Jeannot R. Barr Prints & Drawings

Jeff Bergman Books - ABAA

Jeff Hirsch Books - ABAA

Jeffrey Rovenpor Rare Books

Jerry N. Showalter, Books, ABAA

Joe Maynard

Johanson Rare Books - ABAA

John Bale Books - ABAA

John Kehoe Bookseller - ABAA

John Van Noate

Ken Lopez, Bookseller - ABAA

Kenneth Mallory ABAA

L & T Respess Books - ABAA

Leonard Fox, LTD.

Le Bookiniste

Lizzyoung bookseller LLC - ABAA

Lorne Bair Rare Books - ABAA

Marc Chabot Fine Arts

Marninart - Rare Illustrated Art Books- ABAA

Melrose Books & Art

Old Book Shop

Old New York Book Shop - ABAA 

Peter Austern & Co

Peter Harrington – ILAB, ABA

Pop-up Lady

Prints Charming SOHO

Pryor-Johnson Rare Books      

Quill & Brush - ABAA

Rabelais - Fine Books on Food and Drink - ABAA

Rare Paper

Read 'em again Books - ABAA

Resser-Thorner Antiques

Roy Young Bookseller, Inc. - ABAA

Sanctuary Books - ABAA

Save A Book

Schulson Autographs, LTD - ABAA

Stan Gorski Books

Studio Montespecchio 

Susan Mayer

Ten Pound Island Book Co. - ABAA

Terrace Books

The Weekly Photobook

Thomas G. Boss Rare Books - ABAA

Thomas Harris

Tom Davidson, Bookseller

Town's End Books - ABAA

University Archives - ABAA  

VASTA

W.C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

Weinberg Modern

William Greebaum Fine Prints

William Hutchison

William Reese Company - ABAA

Winter Works on Paper

 

Here's a link to the show site. 

Rare Book Monthly

  • Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Roberts (David) & Croly (George). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumae, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. Lond. 1842 - 1843 [-49]. First Edn. €10,000 to €15,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Incunabula: O'Fihily (Maurice). Duns Scotus Joannes: O'Fihely, Maurice Abp… Venice, 20th November 1497. €8,000 to €12,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: An important file of documents with provenance to G.A. Newsom, manager of the Jacob’s Factory in Dublin, occupied by insurgents during Easter Week 1916. €6,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: WILDE (Oscar), 1854-1900, playwright, aesthete and wit. A lock of Wilde’s Hair, presented by his son to the distinguished Irish actor Mícheál MacLiammóir. €6,000 to €8,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Heaney (Seamus). Bog Poems, London, 1975. Special Limited Edition, No. 33 of 150 Copies, Signed by Author. Illus. by Barrie Cooke. €4,000 to €6,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Binding: Burke, Thomas O.P. (de Burgo). Hibernia Dominicana, Sive Historia Provinciae Hiberniae Ordinis Praedicatorum, ... 1762. First Edition. €4,000 to €6,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: COLLINS, Michael. An important TL, 29 July 1922, addressed to GOVERNMENT on ‘suggested Proclamation warning all concerned that troops have orders to shoot prisoners found sniping, ambushing etc.’. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Scott Fitzgerald (F.) The Great Gatsby, New York (Charles Scribner's Sons) 1925, First Edn. €2,000 to €3,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Limited Edition, No. 46 of 375 Copies Only, Signed by W.B. Yeats. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Miller (William) Publisher. The Costume of the Russian Empire, Description in English and French, Lg. folio London (S. Gosnell) 1803. First Edn. €1,000 to €1,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Miller (William) Publisher. The Costume of Turkey, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings. Lg. folio Lond.(T. Bensley) 1802. First Edn. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Mason (Geo. Henry). The Costume of China, Illustrated with Sixty Engravings. Lg. folio London (for W. Miller) 1800. First Edn. €1,400 to €1,800
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Books and Manuscripts
    8 December 2023
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: [Austen, Jane] — Isaac D'Israeli. Jane Austen's copy of Curiosities of Literature. 100,000 - 150,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition in boards of the author's debut novel. 70,000 - 100,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Brontë, Charlotte. "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me..." 100,000 - 150,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Eliot, George. The author's magnum opus. 25,000 - 35,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Whitman, Walt. Manuscript written upon the Death of Lincoln, 1865. 60,000 - 80,000 USD
  • Sotheby’s
    Important Modern Literature from the Library of an American Filmmaker
    8 December 2023
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Kerouac, Jack. Typescript scroll of The Dharma Bums. Typed by Kerouac in Orlando, Florida, 1957, published by Viking in 1958. 300,000 - 500,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Hemingway, Ernest. The autograph manuscript of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." [Key West, finished April 1936]. 300,000 - 500,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Miller, Henry. Typescript of The Last Book, a working title for Tropic of Cancer, written circa 1931–1932. 100,000 - 150,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Ruscha, Ed. Twentysix Gasoline Stations, with a lengthy inscription to Joe Goode. 40,000 - 60,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Hemingway, Ernest. in our time, first edition of Hemingway’s second book. 30,000 - 50,000 USD
  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 7, 2023
    Swann, Dec. 7: Samuel Augustus Mitchell, A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California with the Regions Adjoining, Philadelphia, 1846. $3,500 to $5,000.
    Swann, Dec. 7: 17th–19th-century case maps of various locations. $1,500 to $2,000.
    Swann, Dec. 7: Andreas Cellarius, Haemisphaerium Stellatum Boreale Cum Subiecto Haemisphaerio Terrestri, celestial chart, Amsterdam, 1708. $2,500 to $3,500.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 7, 2023
    Swann, Dec. 7: Vincenzo Coronelli, Set of engraved gores for Coronelli’s monumental 42-inch terrestrial globe, Venice, circa 1688–97. $18,000 to $22,000.
    Swann, Dec. 7: Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, group of four navigational charts, Antwerp, 1580s. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, Dec. 7: Thomas Bros, Block Book of Berkeley, Oakland, 1920s. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 7, 2023
    Swann, Dec. 7: John Nieuhoff & John Ogilby, An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, map of China, plan of Canton, London, 1673. $1,200 to $1,800.
    Swann, Dec. 7: Frederick Sander, Reichenbachia, St. Albans, 1888-1894. $5,000 to $7,000.
    Swann, Dec. 7: Two early illustrated works on horsemanship and breeding, Nuremberg, early 18th century. $700 to $800.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 7, 2023
    Swann, Dec. 7: John Gould, A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans. Supplement to the First Edition, London, 1834; 1855. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Swann, Dec. 7: John Pinkerton, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, London, 1808–14. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Dec. 7: Oakley Hoopes Bailey, Hackensack, New Jersey, Boston, 1896. $800 to $1,200.
  • CHRISTIE’S
    Valuable Books and Manuscripts
    London auction
    13 December
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    Christie’s, Explore now
    TREW, Christoph Jacob (1695–1769). Plantae Selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortus curiosorum. [Nuremberg: 1750–1773]. £30,000–40,000
    Christie’s, Explore now
    VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623–88). Liber Organicus Astronomiae Europaeae apud Sinas restituate. [Beijing: Board of Astronomy, 1674]. £250,000–350,000
    Christie’s, Explore now
    PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALICE & NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT. Master of Jean Rolin (active 1445–65). Book of Hours, use of Paris, in Latin and French, [Paris, c.1450–1460]. £120,000–180,000
    Christie’s, Explore now
    A SILVER MICROSCOPE. Probably by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), c.1700. £150,000–250,000
    Christie’s, Explore now
    AN ENGLISH HORARY QUADRANT
    C.1311. £100,000–150,000

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