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The Rose City Book Fair Returns June 14-15

Find the purrfect book at the 19th annual Rose City Book & Paper Fair.

Find the purrfect book at the 19th annual Rose City Book & Paper Fair.

Come June, it will once again be time for the annual Rose City Book & Paper Fair held in the “Rose City,” Portland, Oregon. The annual book fair will once again be held at the DoubleTree at Lloyd Center, 1000 NE Multnomah, Portland, Oregon. The dates are Saturday and Sunday, June 14-15. Hours are 10:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m. Admission is the same as last year, $5 at the door.

 

At this writing, they already have over 60 exhibitors signed up and there will likely be more. They go from ACS, Inc., to Zephyr Used & Rare Books. The sponsor is the Cascade Booksellers Association. Cascade's members come from Oregon and Washington. Visitors to the fair may come from anywhere!

 

This the link for more information or to buy tickets in advance - www.rosecitybookfair.com.

 

Here is a list of the currently confirmed exhibitors.

 

ACS, Inc.

Arches Bookhouse

Authors Against Book Bans

Backstory Books & Yarn

Balcony Books

Barbara Mader Children's Books

Belmont Books

BOLD Coffee & Books

Book Bin, ABAA

Book Feast

Books Read & Books New

boredom books

Bottom Feeder's Book Collective

Bud Plant & Hutchison Books ABAA

Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Clinker Press

Collins Books

Comics Adventure

cool, calm, and collectible

Crooked House, ABAA

Cross Genre Books

Cultural Images, ABAA

Daedalus Books

Desert Wind Rare Books

Fairlook Antiques

Fandomland Crafts

Fantasy Illustrated, ABAA

John Howell for Books, ABAA

Junk Empire

Last Word Books

Lee Johnson's Zephyr Books, ABAA

Librariana, LLC

The Literate Collector

Magic Bird Books

Melville Books

MJ Rare Books & Manuscripts

Moothart Books N' Stuff

Munster & Company, ABAA

Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

Orca Books Cooperative

Parallel Worlds

Passages Bookshop

Paul Johnson Fine Books

Peruse the Stacks, ABAA

Revolutions Bookshop

Richard Bishop, Bookseller

Rob & June Edwards

Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA

Stellar Books & Ephemera, ABAA

Studio Books

Suzanne & Truman Price

Swan's Fine Books, ABAA

Taylor Bowie, ABAA

Terry's Old School Comics

Thorn Books, ABAA

Timbuktu Books

Tylor's Books, Toys & Comics

Vandello Books

Wallace Books

Zephyr Used & Rare Books, ABAA

 

Rare Book Monthly

  • Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935
  • June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.
    Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.
    June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.
  • Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950
  • Sotheby's Book Week
    2 June - 9 July
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.

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