New York, NY—On March 6-7, 2020, the NYC Book and Ephemera Fair returns to Wallace Hall in the Church of St. Ignatius (Park Ave. at 83rd Street) for its seventh straight year during NY Rare Book Week. This is the satellite fair to the NY Antiquarian Book Fair and offers a continuous free shuttle rides to and from the Park Avenue Armory for both days.
The NYC Book and Ephemera Fair is proud to host sixty world-class dealers from twenty states, plus Canada and Italy, who are primed to offer their best stock, including an 1875 World Atlas, replete with cartographic depictions of the moon, by Adolf Stieler; a rare surviving copy of History of the Borden Murders (1893), by Edwin Porter, which acquitted axe murder suspect Lizzie Borden tried to have the entire print run destroyed; and a signed, unopened copy of Bob Dylan's 2017 Nobel Prize lecture (one of only a hundred copies). It is not unusual to find an item offered at this fair in the morning over at the Armory fair by the afternoon!
Other exceptional pieces on offer during these two days of fabulous bibliophilia include: a first edition of Mohandas Gandhi's two-volume autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927), with rare dust jackets; a museum-level, pristine copy of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961); and a 1719 edition of Henry Care's English Liberties or the Freeborn subject's inheritance (1680), which lobbied initial complaints against the British monarchy regarding taxation without representation and would become a seminal text in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War era.
Collectors of the strange, macabre, and/or futuristic can also expect several notables, including a first edition (with rare dust jacket) of Lord Dunsany's The Chronicles of Rodriguez (1922)—a major influence on the work of H.P. Lovecraft; as well as a near-perfect copy of Isaac Asimov's Foundation (1951), the rare Currey binding edition, with a signed postcard by the author tucked inside.
Fair hours are as follows: Friday, March 6th, 9am-5pm, and Saturday, March 7th, 8am-4pm. Tickets can be pre-purchased at bookandpaperfairs.com with a $5 discount. Further inquiries regarding dealers, special objects in the show, and general fair details should be directed to Marvin Getman at info@bookandpaperfairs.com
Here’s a link to the event’s website: https://www.bookandpaperfairs.com/nyc-book-and-ephemera-fair
Here's a link for a special offer: bit.ly/NYBOOK20
A list of exhibitors:
Austin Abbey Rare Books - ABAA/ILAB
Bison Books
Brenner's Books - Rare & Collectable
Capitol Hill Books
Carnegie Hill Books
Carydale Books
Cleveland Book Company
Colebrook Book Barn
Commonwealth Books, Inc ABAA
Doyle's Books
Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts
Ellipsis Rare Books
E M Maurice Books
Faenwyl Bindery
Fred Pajerski Photography Books
G&A Historical
Glover's Bookery, ABAA
House of Mirth Photos
Island Antique & Art Gallery
James Arsenault & Company
Jeannot R. Barr, Prints & Drawings
Jason Rovito, Bookseller
John Liberati Books
Johnnycake Books
Karol Krysik Books
Kate Mitas, Bookseller
Kenneth Leininger
Le Bookiniste
Liberty Book Store
Mackus Company Illuminated Manuscripts
McBride Rare Books
MelroseBOOKS&ART
Old Book Shop
Old New York Book Shop
Original Antique Maps by Carol Spack
Pryor-Johnson Rare Books ABAA
Rare Photo Gallery
Rarities etc.
Resser-Thorner Antiques
Richard Mori Books
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Rosenlund Books
Save A Book
Stan Gorski, Books & Ephemera
Star of the Sea Books
studio montespecchio
Tannery Books
Tennyson Williams Books and Fine Art
Ten Pound Island Book Co.
The Chatham Bookseller LLC
The Country Bookshop
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
The Pages of Yesteryear
Town's End Books
Weinberg Modern Books
Wiggins Fine Books ABAA
Willis Monie Books
Wm Hutchison
Wm. H. Adams' Antiquarian Books
Wonderland Books
