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The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair celebrates its 47th year at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston’s Back Bay, November 7-9, 2025.

Learn more: www.abaa.org/bostonbookfair

#RareBooks #Ephemera #BostonBookFair2025
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Today's the day! The #bostonbookfair2025 opens tonight!

Join us at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston’s Back Bay November 7-9, 2025, and immerse yourself in the world of rare books!

Learn more: www.abaa.org/events/47th-...
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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RBS staff members Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Barbara Heritage, @klhkhistorian.bsky.social, Andrew Kuhn & Zoe Langer will be at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend (7–9 Nov.). Stop by Booth 427 on Cultural Row for info on RBS courses, fellowships, job opportunities & more!
A vertically oriented rectangular graphic with a dark blue background is overlaid with a large green circle that spills off the right side of the image. Across the top of the graphic a horizontal white bar has the RBS logo and text reading “Rare Book School will be at the 47th annual Boston ABAA International Antiquarian Book Fair from Friday to Sunday, 7–9 November 2025.” White text on the lower dark blue background reads “RBS Executive Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J., along with staff members Barbara Heritage, Katie Hodges-Kluck, Andrew Kuhn, and Zoe Langer, will be ‘on the ground’ at the Hynes Convention Center this weekend. Stop by Booth 427 to say hello!” To the right of this, on the green background is a graphic for the Boston Book Fair with a multi-colored geometric pattern and pictures of a globe, a letter, a quill pen, and a compass on it.
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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View selected highlights from among the many scarce & rare items exhibitors will be offering at the #BostonBookFair2025:

www.abaa.org/articles/bos...

Nov. 7-9 at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA.
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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The Boston Book Fair (Nov. 7-9, 2025) at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston's Back Bay features fine & rare material from around the globe, including manuscripts, #firsteditions, #childrensbooks, #ephemera, maps & autographs, and #rarebooks on a vast array of topics.

www.abaa.org/events/47th-...
A collage of images (a quill, a globe, a letter, a compass, and an open book) beside the information: 47th Boston Book Fair, November 7-9, 2025 at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA.
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair celebrates its 47th year at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston’s Back Bay, November 7-9, 2025.

Learn more: www.abaa.org/bostonbookfair

#RareBooks #Ephemera #BostonBookFair2025
October 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Join us at 1pm ET TODAY, October 21st, for a brown bag lunch discussion with Pom Harrington of @peterharringtonltd.bsky.social on current challenges in rare book security, including online fraud, provenance manipulation, and forgery.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Join us on October 21st at 1pm ET for a brown bag lunch discussion with Pom Harrington of @peterharringtonltd.bsky.social on current challenges in rare book security, including online fraud, provenance manipulation, and forgery.

Register here.: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Hungarian László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize for Literature.

Image: The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai; George Szirtes [trans.]
NY: New Directions, 2000. Offered by ABAA-member Capitol Hill Books.

View this & other items by Krasznahorkai: bit.ly/42AtFWO
October 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Join us at 4pm ET TODAY for a brown bag lunch with Australian journalist Michael Visontay.

The Hunt for Gutenberg Bible Leaves
Tuesday, September 30 @ 4pm ET

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#RareBooks #GutenbergBible #Webinar
September 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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September Brown Bag
"The Hunt for Gutenberg Bible Leaves"
Tuesday, September 30 at 4pm

Join us on zoom for a brown bag lunch with Australian journalist Michael Visontay.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#RareBooks
September 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The ABAA Virtual Book Fair: Autumn Edition has begun!

Shop the Fair: abaa.org/vbf

Doors will remain open continuously until 7pm ET on Sat., Sept. 27.

We invite you to shop the virtual booths of leading antiquarian booksellers from the around U.S. and overseas.
September 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Our next virtual book fair opens on Thursday!

ABAA Virtual Book Fair: Autumn Edition
September 25-27, 2025
abaa.org/vbf

Open continuously from 12 pm ET on Sept. 25 until 7 pm ET on Sept. 27.

The members of the ABAA have been your trusted source for #rarebooks & related #ephemera since 1949.
September 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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#SavetheDate for our next virtual book fair!

ABAA Virtual Book Fair: Autumn Edition
September 25-27, 2025
abaa.org/vbf

Open continuously from 12 pm ET on Sept. 25 until 7 pm ET on Sept. 27.

The members of the ABAA have been your trusted source for #rarebooks & related #ephemera since 1949.
September 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#HappyLaborDay Weekend! We hope you enjoy resting from your labors & perusing your library! 📚📖📙

"Labor Day" by F.K. Houston
[ca. 1895-1900]. Original pen-&-ink drawing; sheet size 34cm x 40cm (ca. 13-1/2" x 16"). Signed.

Learn more: www.abaa.org/blog/post/ra...
Sketch in black ink showing a bearded male worker relaxing in a hammock and smoking a pipe. The pipe smoke forms the words "Labor Day" in the air.
August 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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#SavetheDate! The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair celebrates its 47th year at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston’s Back Bay, November 7-9, 2025.

Learn more: www.abaa.org/blog/post/20...

#RareBooks #Ephemera #BostonBookFair2025
August 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Join the ABAA Gender Equity Initiative and Professor Deborah Parker of the University of Virginia for the August Brown Bag on Belle da Costa Greene and Modern Art on Tuesday, August 19th, 2025.

Learn more & register here: www.abaa.org/blog/post/au...
August 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Join us as the ​57th California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to San Francisco!

February ​2​7-March 1, 202​6
Pier 27, The Embarcadero in San Francisco

Details at www.abaa.org/cabookfair

#SavetheDate #RareBooks #Ephemera
July 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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#TerminologyTuesday: MARBLED PAPER

Paper decorated with a multi-colored, swirled design or pattern; often used for end papers or for paper covered boards, especially with 3/4 or 1/2 leather bindings.

Learn more at the ABAA Glossary of Rare-Book Terms: www.abaa.org/glossary/ent...
July 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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#TerminologyTuesday: INCUNABLE

Anything printed during the 15th century, the first century of printing with “moveable type”; can also be used in a relative sense to refer to other early printings.

Learn more at the ABAA Glossary of Common Book Terms: www.abaa.org/glossary/ent...

#RareBooks
June 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Day 2 of the ABAA RBMS Virtual Showcase has begun, and exhibitors have refreshed their booths with additional material. So, even if you shopped the fair yesterday, there's more to discover today!

Shop the Fair: www.abaa.org/vbf

Doors will remain open continuously until 8 pm ET Fri., June 27.
June 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The ABAA RBMS Virtual Showcase, a virtual book fair in conjunction with the annual RBMS conference, is now open!

Shop the Fair: www.abaa.org/vbf

Doors will remain open continuously until 8 pm ET on Friday, June 27, 2025.
June 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Visit our members & friends at the 2025 Dallas Antiquarian Book Fair, which opens tomorrow, Friday, June 20, and runs through Sunday, June 22, 2025.

Many ABAA members will be joining regional member & non-member bookstores at this new antiquarian book fair.

Learn more: www.abaa.org/events/detai...
June 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Happy #Bloomsday!

ULYSSES
by James Joyce

New York: Random House, 1934. #FirstAmericanEdition. Bound in publisher's original cream-colored cloth lettered in black and red.

Offered by ABAA-member Burnside Rare Books

To purchase this item, visit: www.abaa.org/blog/post/ra...
June 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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#TerminologyTuesday: FORE-EDGE PAINTING

Books which have one or more of the top, fore, or bottom edge painted – usually with watercolors.

Learn more at the ABAA Glossary of Book Terms: www.abaa.org/glossary/ent...

#RareBooks #foreedgepainting #bookcollecting #bookart #bookedgepainting
June 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The ABAA is accepting entries for the 2025 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest.

All entries should be submitted by June 9, 2025.

For more information, visit: www.abaa.org/ncbcc/the-na...

#RareBooks #BookCollecting #NCBCC
May 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM