Northampton Book and Book Arts Fair

Northampton Book and Book Arts Fair, Dec. 2-Dec. 3

The region’s leading used & antiquarian booksellers and fine letterpress printers, book binders, paper makers, and artist book makers will be showcased at the second edition of Northampton Book and Book Arts Fair on Friday, December 2, 2016, 5 to 9 pm and Saturday, December 3, 2016, 10 am to 5 pm at the Smith College Campus Center.

In addition to an exhibition and sale, the fair will feature a keynote address on December 2^nd at 4 pm by Ruth R. Rogers, Curator of Special Collections in the Wellesley College Library.   Rogers will talk on Layers of Perception: The Unwritten Language of Artists’ Books at the Smith College Nielson Library Browsing Room.  An opening reception will follow at the Campus Center Wilson Atrium. 

On December 3^rd,  Readers and Writers, Live! will feature  a day-long series of readings, talks and book signings by fiction writers, graphic novelists, poets, children’s book writers & illustrators, publishing and culinary historians, and independent publishers.  There will be demonstrations of letter carving & displays of other books arts, including hand papermaking, custom bookbinding, and letter press printing. 

Admission to the book fair and the event program is free and open to the public.

For more information, go to: www.northamptonbookfair.com

Northampton Book and Book Arts Fair Exhibitors by Location

Massachusetts:

Boomerang Booksellers, L&T Respess Books, Double Elephant Press, of Northampton                 

White Square Fine Books & Art, Warwick Press, of Easthampton

Chena River Marblers, of Amherst

Sheryl Jaffe, Papermaker, of Ludlow

Brier Hill Gallery, of Ashfield and West Roxbury

Shelburne Falls Booksellers and Wiggins Fine Books, of Shelburne Falls

New England Auctions, of Deerfield

Swamp Press, of Northfield

Monroe Bridge Books, of Greenfield

Shelter Bookworks, of Orange

The Lone Oak Press, of Petersham

Messenger Press, of North Adams

29 Press, of Cheshire

Pazzo Books, of Roslindale

North Bennett Street School, of Boston

Third Year Studios, of Boston

Laurie Alpert, of Brookline

Marsolais Press & Letter Carving, of Millbury

21^st Editions, of South Dennis

New Jersey:

Le Bookiniste, of Hopewell, NJ

Jeffrey Bergman Books, of Fort Lee, NJ

New York:

Furious Day Press, of New York

Intima Press, of New York

Jeffrey Rovenpor Rare Books, of New York

Tideline Press, of West Sayville

Connecticut:

Colebrook Book Barn, of Colebrook, CT

John Bale Books, of Waterbury, CT

Robin Price, Middletown, CT

Yesterday’s Gallery, of East Woodstock, CT

Pennsylvania:

William Hutchinson, of Mendenhall, PA

Virginia:

Austin Abbey Rare Books, of Mount Vernon, VA

Florida:

Little Sages Books, of Cooper City, FL

For more information on exhibitors, go to: www.northamptonbookfair.com/exhibitors

The Northampton Book and Book Arts Fair is produced by Book Arts Promotions, in association with community sponsors Smith College Libraries and the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Media sponsors are: New England Public Radio, WFCR-FM and WNNZ-AM, and the Valley Advocate. Book Arts Promotions is a collaboration between Mark Brumberg, of Boomerang Booksellers and Duane A. Stevens, of Wiggins Fine Books.

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For inquiries or questions about the fair, contact Mark Brumberg, of Boomerang Booksellers and Book Arts Promotions, by e-mail at:  mdb@northamptonbookfair.com