Cultivating Great Collections One Item at a Time!
The popularity of digital ink has increased the demand for rare books, ephemera, and works on paper. Antiquarian book fairs represent vibrant curated marketplaces where such items are found in abundance in all price points presented by a select group of dealers. If you have not already done so, we hope you will be able to visit a rare book or ephemera fair. There you will be transported to a simpler time when paper was the medium to satisfy our thirst for intellectual and creative stimulation. And when you do visit one, we expect that you will leave with a gem to cherish and call your own, perhaps the start of a new collection.
2020 brought with it an entirely new challenge to the world of rare book fairs. The pandemic abruptly stopped live book fairs in their tracks. As producers of top book fairs in the northeast U.S., we took that as a challenge. This pandemic was not about to stop the momentum we had built up among book dealers, collectors and institutions. We developed what is being seen as the gold standard in virtual book fairs. Getman’s Virtual Book and Paper Fair have taken place monthly since the pandemic began.
In 2022, live in-person book fairs started to return. For a list of live fairs click the button for live in-person fairs on this site.
photos by Ed Lefkowicz and Book and Paper Fairs
