Rare Book Monthly

Articles - July - 2009 Issue

An Update on Summer Possibilities

Book Fairs:  the gates of imagination

Book Fairs: the gates of imagination


Latino Book & Family Festivals
phone: 713-236-1073
email: jims@latinofestivals.com
www.lbff.us/
Los Angeles
Aug 29 and 30

Michigan Storytellers Festival
Flint, MI
phone: 810-232-7111,ext.2173
www.flint.lib.mi.us/msf/index.shtml
July 17 and 18

New Hampshire Book Fair
Everett Arena
Concord, New Hampshire
Aug 16

Papermania Plus
XL Center
Hartford, Connecticut
www.bookfairs.com
Aug 22 & 23

Rhinebeck Antiques Show
Rhinebeck Fairgrounds
Rhinebeck, New York
www.bookfairs.com
Jul 25

Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair
Denver Merchandise Mart
I-25, 58th Ave
Denver CO
July 31 and Aug 1st

Searles Castle Antiquarian Book Fair
Searles Castle
Route 7>br> Great Barrington, MA
Aug 1

Steinbeck Festival
Salinas, CA
phone: 831-796-3833
www.steinbeck.org/
Aug 6 to 9

Stockbridge Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair
Town Hall [formerly The Plain School]
50 Main Street [Route 7]
Stockbridge, MA 01262
www.bookfairs.com
Jul 11

Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts
Sechelt, BC, Canada
phone: 604-885-9631 or 1-800-565-9631
email: written_arts@sunshine.net
www.writersfestival.ca
Aug 13 to 16

Three Rivers Storytelling Festival
Pittsburgh, PA
phone: 412-366-8100
http://home.comcast.net/~3rstf/
Aug 7 and 8

Timpanogos Storytelling Festival
Orem, UT
phone: 801-229-7436
email:storyteller@timpfest.org
www.timpfest.org/
Sept 3 to 5

Tokyo International Book Fair
Tokyo, Japan
web.reedexpo.co.jp/tibf/english
July 9 to 12

Vermont Summer Book Fair
Union Community Center
Route 4
Woodstock, VT
Aug 9

Rare Book Monthly

  • Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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  • Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.

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