# Northampton Book and Book Arts Fair #### calendar\_today Date and Time **December 2 - December 3, 2016** 05:00PM - 05:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **Smith College Campus Center, 100 Elm Street Northampton, Massachusetts 01063** 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 2nd 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 3rd, **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](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.northamptonbookfair.com&d=CwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=d-51fevjuWJ7WzZY0y0BouTOvLCsE6Nbeq9XtutWF7k&m=kBprB239Rc42cRCC2qCnpE9fSGKCPgJCg7zaw1Th-a4&s=74PdB1ZOX9Meckyu64Y0tif2IrNemxLyp8VzhE3ao08&e=) **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 21st 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](/file://localhost/C:/Dropbox/NBBF/Events%20Calendar/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**. **\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_** For inquiries or questions about the fair, contact Mark Brumberg, of Boomerang Booksellers and Book Arts Promotions, by e-mail at: Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/node/946721/event-feed.ics) Copy link link