Another First Tuesday, Another Stack from the Scrapheap of History!

We’ll be exhibiting 15 fresh scraps for sale starting Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at noon in our booth at Getman’s Virtual Book & Paper Fair.
We hope you’ll visit.
Peter

Selling score of screened scraps in viral virtual book and paper fair!

Dear Friends,
We’ve gone virtual!
We’ll have a booth in Getman’s Virtual Book & Paper Fair, which opens Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at noon.
We’re featuring some interesting historical scraps which have been in residence awaiting an opportunity to offer a visual presentation.
Please visit!

Boston Book, Print & Ephemera Show, Saturday, November 16th

From Bryant & Stratton Commercial School, Boston, 44th Year Book, 1904-5, $25

Dear Friends,
We’ll be exhibiting at the Boston Book, Print & Ephemera Show, November 16, 2019, 8 am – 4 pm, Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston, in Booth A 107.

For a list of some items we’ll be exhibiting, click here.

Click here for more information about the show.

Please visit! Peter

Here’s a peep show of some Boston items we’ll exhibit:

Colonial Navigation Company, Boston & New England, $35

Royal Blue Lines, Boston & Vicinity, 1924, $15

Backman, Under the Gilde Dome, 1907, $20

Foreign Trade Convention, Tour of Boston Harbor, 1924, $15

Burdett Business College, Prospectus, $25

The Picturesque Charles, 20 Views, $75

The Quincy, Boston, memo book, 1887, $20

Massachusetts Real Estate Company, Stock Prospectus, 1891, $15

From Boston to Plymouth, Views of Historic Places, 1921, $25

Boston Board of Trade, 29th Annual Report, 1883, $35

Lock-Ober Cafe Menu $10

Review of Boston, Historical, Descriptive, 1896, $75

Boston Book, Print & Ephemera Show, Saturday, November 11, 2017

77314. Bemis Brothers Bag Company, Boston, 1908 Presidents of United States Calendar. Printed textile. $100

Dear Friends:
We’ll be exhibiting at the Boston Book, Print & Ephemera Show, The Satellite Show, Saturday, November 11, 2017, 8 am – 4 pm, Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston.

Click here to read a list of some items we’ll be bringing.

http://www.bookandpaperfairs.com

13th Annual Pioneer Valley Book & Ephemera Fair

For details, dealer list, . . .

Dear Friends:

This Sunday, October 15, 2017, we’ll be exhibiting at the 13th Annual Pioneer Valley Book & Ephemera Fair, 10 am – 4 pm, Smith Vocational School, 80 Locust St (Route 9), Northampton, Massachusetts.

We invite all to attend.

40 of your favorite dealers from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey & even Ohio will offer early, modern, collectible, rare, scholarly, fine & downright used books, manuscripts, ephemera, prints, maps, autographs, postcards, photographs & probably some incarnations of paper & print which I’ve forgotten.

It’s a great time to visit the Pioneer Valley! We’re plastered with pumpkins, potted mums, apples for picking or purchase, cider of several stripes. We got Five Colleges! (University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Hampshire College) with students to visit, football games to watch, rare book libraries with exhibits & several noteworthy art museums! The foliage committee is working 3 shifts & we shall strive to please the leaf peepers! So come, already! No excuses!

What the media are saying: ‘tremendous’, ‘fantastic’, ‘greatest’, ‘best’, ‘incredible’, ‘unpresidented’, ‘believe me’. Oh, yeah, ‘epic’, i forgot ‘epic’.

Hoping to enjoy your visit,
Peter

Boston Book, Print & Ephemera Show, Saturday, October 29, 2016

We invite you to visit us in Booth 107 at the Boston Book, Print & Ephemera Fair, Saturday, October 29, 2016, Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston.
For a list of some of the items we will be offering, click here.

72985. W.L. Sims, San Jose, California & W.T. Mogle, Fresno, California, Our Appeal to Ministers, Adventist leaflet. $50

78668. Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, “With Ruby & Ossie”. Printed textile. $100

80066. Davis Studio, Exhibition of Paintings, Pen & Ink Poster. $100

78673. Edwin Romazo Elmer, American painter, 1850-1923, 2 Student Certificate for National Academy of Design Classes, with initialed pocket. $100

73018. Atrocites Armeniennes, 1919. $250

77095. S. Howe, Enfield, Massachusetts, The Gray Mare. Broadside, ca 1835. $250

77094. Elegy On the death of Mr. Harfield Lyndsey, no imprint, but Solomon Howe, Enfield, Massachusetts, 1838. Broadside. $250

80090. Boydell, Herb Market, 1779. Set of 4 Culinary Prints. $2500

80090. Boydell, Fish Market, 1782. Set of 4 Cullinary Prints. $2500

80090. Boydell, Fruit Market, 1775. Set of 4 Cullinary Prints. $2500

80075. Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Pocket Book, 1974, presentation copy from editor. $50

79408. Cupid’s Victims, London, ca 1880? $50

66020. Harvard University, At Meeting of Faculty . . .1841, initialed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, addressed to Professor William Smyth, Bowdoin College. $50

80079. Fenollosa, Outline of History of Ukiyo-ye, Tokyo, 1901. $1500

79329. 1899 Taber-Prang Art Company, Boston, 1899 Postal Calendar & Stamp Companion. $25

41186. Nursery Plate Book. $35

18804. Pen & ink caricature of Rural Free Delivery Carrier. $25

38865. Comer All Weather Coats, Swatch book, 125 Styles. $75

Ephemera 36 – Politics, Patriotism & Protest, March 19-20, 2016

Miller Brewing Company, Convention Survival Kit, Democratic National Convention, 1964. $25

36th Annual Ephemera Fair, March 19-20, 2016, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Old Greenwich, Connecticut. We’ll be exhibiting at the 36th Annual Ephemera Fair, March 19-20, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Old Greenwich, Connecticut, Sponsored by the Ephemera Society of America, booth 710-712. Hours are Saturday 9 – 5, Sunday, 11-4. For more information, a floorplan, link to discount ticket for Sunday click here.

11th Annual Pioneer Valley Book & Ephemera Fair

We will be exhibiting at & cordially invite all to attend the 11th Annual Pioneer Valley Book & Ephemera Fair, Sunday, October 18, 2015, 10 am – 4 pm, Smith Vocational School, 80 Locust Street (Route 9), Northampton, Massachusetts. Sponsored by Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers, www.sneab.com
Admission is $6; $1 discount with card, advertisement, printout from website; ages 12-21 $3; under 12 free.

About 50 dealers will offer antiquarian, fine, collectible, rare, & used books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps, posters, prints, manuscripts, autographs, postcards, photographs, original artwork, all manner of paper ephemera.

Of particular note, Battledore Books, Kingston, New York, will display original artwork for children’s books & Chinese propaganda; Brier Hill Gallery, West Roxbury, Massachusetts will show fine 20th century wood engravings; Commonwealth Books, Boston, Massachusetts, will offer modern literature published by Black Widow & Second Line Presses; For the Collector, Glendale, Rhode Island, specializes in 16th-19th century religion & New England history; Joslin Hall Rare Books, Northampton, Massachusetts will bring books & ephemera on decorative arts, design & architecture; Periodyssey, Northampton, Massachusetts, will feature collectible magazines; Schoen Books, South Deerfield, Massachusetts, specializes in Judaica & holocaust literature; Southpaw Books, Conway, Massachusetts, sells social reforms & African-Americana; White Fox Rare Books, West Windsor, Vermont, features fine illustrated & color plate books; Wesley Williams, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, offers books on history of science & medicine; Yesterdays Gallery, East Woodstock, Connecticut, deals in jazz age & depression era literature in original dust-jackets.

Foliage crews are working 24/7, armed with buckets of bright red, orange & yellow; pumpkins & potted mums will line the roadsides; pick your own apples; stock up on cider; Yankee Candle will undoubtedly favor the season with several new & appropriately named scents; college students will be everywhere; politics & perhaps even the sky a lovely & comforting shade of blue.

For a list of all exhibitors visit: www.pioneervalleybookfair.com

Library History Seminar XIII Showcase

Library History Seminar XIII will be held at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts from Friday July 31st through Sunday August 2d, 2015. Held every 4-5 years since 1961, founders Louis Shores and Wayne Shirley also established the Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association. The Seminar features scholarly presentations, field trips, and a bookseller showcase on Saturday afternoon. The seminar will delve into the enduring and evolving aspects of libraries and librarianship.

Click here for more information.

We will be exhibiting at the showcase on Saturday Afternoon from 2-6 pm, which is open to the public. We will be offering books and printed ephemera related to library history, dedications, catalogs, exhibits, reports, librarians, as well as books about books, publishing, printing, bookseller and book auction catalogs.

Click here to view a list of some of what we will bring.

Boston Book, Print and Ephemera Show, November 17, 2012

We will be exhibiting in booth 112. We invite you to visit the show.

Visit the show website for directions, list of dealers, &c:

Click here for show website.