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“The Best Book Fair in the World” - Andy Rooney, CBS “60 Minutes” 2007
The 48th New York Antiquarian Book Fair sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America returns this April to the Park Avenue Armory under the management of Sanford L. Smith & Associates.
This year, 200 of the finest dealers from the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, England, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Argentina and Denmark will exhibit at the country’s oldest and most prestigious book fair. Visitors and collectors can browse and buy from extensive collections of rare books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, finely bound volumes and ephemera in all specialties, including History, Law, Music, Dance, Fashion, Gastronomy, Children’s Books, Art and Philosophy.
The Book Fair welcomes the Morgan Library & Museum as its new preview beneficiary. The Morgan is one of the very few institutions in the United States that collects, exhibits, and sponsors research in the areas of illuminated manuscripts, master drawings, rare books, fine bindings, and literary, historical, and music manuscripts. The preview gala on Thursday, April 3 from 6 - 9pm will offer a festive first look at the fair, and all proceeds will support the The Morgan. For more information, please call Sanford L. Smith & Associates at 212.777.5218.
Discovery Day returns to the fair Sunday April 6 from noon - 3pm in the lobby of the Armory. Visitors with tickets to the fair are invited to bring up to 5 items, rare books and manuscripts for free verbal appraisal by experienced exhibitors.
A café and bar will be open during show hours to serve refreshments. Student and group rates are available. The Park Avenue Armory is wheelchair accessible; please call 212.777.5218 to make arrangements.
“...There are a few things that provide hope that our civilization will endure - the New York Book Fair is one of them.” - Andy Rooney, CBS
Highlights of the fair include:
Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books (Toronto)
Nicolosi, Giovanni Battista. Mexicum. Rome, 1671. A large scale, black and white map of the entire North American continent. “The R. Escondido, representing the Rio Grande, is for the first time correctly depicted flowing south-east from New Mexico and discharging itself into the Gulf of Mexico...” (Burden)
Estates of Mind (Great Neck, NY)
The Cloverdale Bible. From 1535. One of about 60 copies known to exist. The first printing of the complete Bible in English.
Il Polifilo Libri Rari (Milan)
Dante. Divina Commedia. Venezia: Marcolini, 1544. 8vo, XVII century calf. 441 II. [the last blank lacking], 3 full page pictures and 101 vignettes wood engraved. First edition edited by Vellutello, first issue of the engravings.
Jonkers Rare Books (Oxon, England)
Hughes, Ted. Shakespeare’s Poem with original manuscript. Lexham Press, 1971. Sole edition, one of 75 copies “not for sale for the author’s use.” Signed and dated. Includes the original manuscript of the poem, “Crow’s Song about Prospero and Sycorax,” signed by Hughes with an illustration at the base of the page of a Viking long boat and a whale. A fine copy.
The Lawbook Exchange (Clark, NJ)
Story, Joseph. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. Boston: Hillard, Gray and Company, 1833. Three volumes. Excellent Copy of the first edition of the most important work on the U.S. Constitution.
Paul Foster (London)
Churchill, Winston S. The American Civil War. Cassell: London, 1961. New, separate edition. Reprint published in April 1961, one month after the first. Illustrated with 6 maps & 31 fascinating mono photographs taken during the war. Signed by Churchill to the front free endpaper.
Quill & Brush (Dickerson, MD)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1934. First edition. Very minor rubbing to the original green cloth, otherwise in pictoral dust jacket with minor restoration to top edge and flap fold. Housed in a specially made clamshell box with leather label. (1)
Stuart Lutz Historic Documents (Short Hills, NJ)
PS. 10” x 8”. No date [probably March 17, 1937]. No place [most likely Oakland Airport]. A mint photograph signed by Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan and the other crewmen just before she left on her final flight around the world. (2)
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