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Tickets for tonight's Opening Night Preview can be purchased here: www.abaa.org/event/buy-ti...
Admission for Saturday & Sunday is free!
#RareBooks #Ephemera #BostonBookFair2025
07.11.2025 16:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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-...
07.11.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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!
06.11.2025 14:35 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 3
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.
04.11.2025 19:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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-...
28.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
24.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
21.10.2025 15:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
15.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
09.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
30.09.2025 17:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
29.09.2025 13:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
25.09.2025 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
22.09.2025 19:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#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.
08.09.2025 16:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
#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...
29.08.2025 20:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#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
07.08.2025 20:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
06.08.2025 18:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us as the 57th California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to San Francisco!
February 27-March 1, 2026
Pier 27, The Embarcadero in San Francisco
Details at www.abaa.org/cabookfair
#SavetheDate #RareBooks #Ephemera
31.07.2025 21:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#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...
15.07.2025 18:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#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...
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26.06.2025 14:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
25.06.2025 16:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
24.06.2025 16:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
19.06.2025 11:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
16.06.2025 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#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
03.06.2025 14:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
22.05.2025 14:23 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Join us for our May Brown Bag Lunch Series with Lyudmyla Babadzhanova of Bua Conservation for her talk on What Not to Do in Book and Paper Conservation on Tuesday, May 27, at 2 pm ET. (Registration req.)
Learn more: www.abaa.org/blog/post/ma...
#RareBooks #BookCollecting #BookConservation
21.05.2025 16:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Stylized images of old books in a pile and on a shelf underline the details of the RBMS Virtual Showcase, a virtual book fair, June 24-27, 2025 at abaa.org/vbf
Save the date for the ABAA RBMS Virtual Showcase, a virtual book fair.
ABAA RBMS Virtual Showcase
June 24-27, 2025
www.abaa.org/vbf
Doors will open at 12 pm ET on Tuesday, June 24 and remain open continuously until 8 pm ET on Friday, June 27, 2025.
#RareBooks #Ephemera
16.05.2025 16:36 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The ABAA Virtual Book Fair: Spring Edition continues today, 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: abaa.org/vbf
Doors close at 7pm ET tomorrow, Saturday, May 3, 2025.
02.05.2025 18:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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