A Benefit for the William L. Clements Library -  the Forty-Third Annual Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair is being held on Sunday, October 1^st, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Michigan Union on the campus of the University of Michigan for its 47^th year.  For antiquarians there is nothing nicer than a room full of old books with prices.

 

The Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair has brough together booksellers and dealers from across America for nearly five decades, handling a wider range pf old and rare books, Americana, children’s books, autographs and manuscripts, maps, prints, ephemera, photography, fine press material and more.

 

BCD member/bookseller, Jay Platt, helped organize the Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair in 1976 and has been the director of that  show since the 1990’s.

 

For information about the fair, contact Jay at the West Side Book Shop, (734) 995-1891 or visit annarborbookfair.com.   https://annarborbookfair.com/

 

Here is their list of exhibitors:

 

 

Autumn Leaves Books, Crown Point, IN

Lorne Bair Rare Books (ABAA), Winchester, VA

Bookleggers Fine Books (ABAA), Park Ridge, IL

Capitol Hill Books (ABAA), Washington, DC

Caroliniana Rare Books (ABAA), Aiken, SC

Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL

Centigrade 233, Ann Arbor, MI

Curious Book Shop, East Lansing, MI

Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI

Doyle’s Books, Fayetteville, NY

gallerybfa (ABAA), Prospect, PA

Martin Hartzold, bookseller, St. Louis, MO

Jeff Hirsch Books (ABAA), Wadsworth, IL

Little Button Rose, Elkhart, IN

Peter Luke Americana, New Baltimore, NY

Mossback/McCormick Books, Hartland, MI

Motte & Bailey Booksellers, Ann Arbor, MI

Doug Price Photographs, Ann Arbor, MI

Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA), Ann Arbor, MI

Shell Beach Books, Ypsilanti, MI

Third Mind Books, Ann Arbor, MI

Walnut Street Paper, Kutztown, PA

West Side Book Shop (ABAA), Ann Arbor, MI

White Raven Books, Ypsilanti, MI

Jett W. Whitehead Rare Books (ABAA), Bay City, MI