Book Fair Calendar

The Book & Paper Show. Westfield, NY. July 31, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Searles Castle Antiquarian Book Fair. Great Barrington, MA. July 31, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

PulpFest 2010. Columbus, OH. July 31–August 1, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair. Denver, CO. August 6–7, 2010. (See ad in May/June issue.)

Granite State Book Fair. Bedford, NH. August 8, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Chicago Antiquarian Book Fair. Chicago, IL. August 13–14, 2010.

Vermont Summer Book Fair. Brattleboro, VT. August 15, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Papermania Paper Show. Hartford, CT. August 28–29, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Baltimore Summer Antiques Show & Antiquarian Book Fair. Baltimore, MD. September 2–5, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

York National Book Fair. York, England. September 10–11, 2010.

Santa Monica Book Fair. Santa Monica, CA. September 11, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair. Rochester, NY. September 11, 2010. (See ad in September/October issue.)

New Hampshire Antiquarian Book Fair. Concord, NH. September 12, 2010. (See ad in September/October issue.)

Montreal Antiquarian Book Fair. Montreal, Canada. September 25–26, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Santa Fe Book Fair. Santa Fe, NM. October 1–2, 2010. (See ad in September/October issue.)

Great Eastern U.S. Fall Antique Advertising Book & Paper Show. Allentown, PA. October 2–3, 2010. (See ad in September/October issue.)

Heart of the Continent Book Fair. Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada). October 2–3, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Michigan Antiquarian Book & Paper Show. East Lansing, MI. October 3, 2010. (See ad in September/October issue.)

Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair. Seattle, WA. October 9–10, 2010.

Pioneer Valley Book & Ephemera Fair. Northampton, MA. October 17, 2010. (See ad in September/October issue.)

Golden Gate Park Book Fair. San Francisco, CA. October 24, 2010.

Toronto International Antiquarian Book Fair. Toronto, Ontario (Canada). October 29–31, 2010. (See ad in September/October issue.)

Toronto Book Fair & Paper Show. Toronto, Ontario (Canada). October 31, 2010. (See ad in September/October issue.)

Chelsea Book Fair. London, England. November 5–6, 2010.

Long Island Book & Ephemera Fair. Garden City, NY. November 6–7, 2010. (See ad in September/October issue.)

HD Book Fair. London, England. November 8, 2010.

Boston Antiquarian Book Fair. Boston, MA. November 12–14, 2010.

Boston Book, Print & Ephemera Show. Boston, MA. November 13, 2010. (See ad in September/October issue.)

Albany Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. Albany, NY. November 28, 2010. (See ad in September/October issue.)

HD Book Fair. London, England. December 13, 2010.

Book Auction Calendar

Bloomsbury Auctions. New York, NY. July 22, 2010. (See ad in May/June issue.)

PBA Galleries. San Francisco, CA. July 22, 2010.

Doyle. New York, NY. July 22, 2010. (See ad in March/April issue.)

Bonhams. Los Angeles, California. July 25, 2010.

New England Book Auctions. Northampton, MA. July 27, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Bloomsbury Book Auctions. New York, NY. July 28, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

New England Book Auctions. Northampton, MA. August 3, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Swann Galleries. New York, NY. August 4, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

PBA Galleries. San Francisco, CA. August 5, 2010.

New England Book Auctions. Northampton, MA. August 17, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

New England Book Auctions. Northampton, MA. August 17, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

PBA Galleries. San Francisco, CA. August 19, 2010.

Bonhams. Edinburgh, Scotland. August 20, 2010.

Bonhams. Los Angeles, California. August 22, 2010.

PBA Galleries. San Francisco, CA. September 2, 2010.

Swann Galleries. New York, NY. September 6, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Freeman’s. Philadelphia, PA. September 8, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Heritage Auction Galleries. Dallas, TX. September 14–15, 2010. (See ad in May/June issue.)

Bonhams. London, England. September 15, 2010. (See ad in May/June issue.)

PBA Galleries. San Francisco. September 16, 2010.

Swann Galleries. New York, NY. September 21, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Swann Galleries. New York, NY. September 30, 2010. (See ad in July/August issue.)

Heritage Auction Galleries. Dallas, TX. October 12–13, 2010. (See ad in May/June issue.)

Bonhams. Oxford, England. October 26, 2010.

Heritage Auction Galleries. Dallas, TX. October 28, 2010. (See ad in May/June issue.)

Bonhams. London, England. November 23, 2010.

David Trutt Gilbert & Sullivan Collection Now Available Online

For the past two decades David Trutt has been collecting books relating to the Victorian operatic pair of William Gilbert (words) and Arthur Sullivan (music). Intrigued by Sullivan’s independent collaboration with librettist Sydney Grundy on the opera Haddon Hall, he added items relating to Haddon Hall, the thousand year-old castle in Derbyshire England. His website (www.haddon-hall.com) contains scarce and unusual material on these two subjects. In general, items on this website are nowhere else on the internet, are probably not on the used book sites, or are expensive if so listed. Items on this website are downloadable PDF files available at no charge.

There are three major sections to the website that the reader may wish to explore.

G & S. Collection: This section provides information on how David formed the Gilbert & Sullivan portion of the collection that has been donated to the Oviatt Library at California State University-Northridge (CSUN)....more

The evening before we left for Jekyll Island in late February, the local Methodist Church in conjunction with the Syracuse Peace Council hosted a lecture and book-signing by Richard Becker, author of Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire (San Francisco: PSL Publications, 2009). The weather forecasters had put out a winter storm warning for the same evening so the organizers of the event weren't very optimistic about the size of the turn-out or whether or not the speaker would even be able to make it from his last speaking engagement in Rochester.

Our village is situated next to a lake at a higher elevation compared to the rest of central New York, so the coordinator wasn't at all surprised to get a phone call telling her Mr. Becker's car was stuck in the snow at the bottom of a series of hills leading to Cazenovia. But good fortune prevailed and someone with a four-wheel drive SUV drove to his rescue and against all odds the lecture began on time. Despite the weather the church hall was nearly filled...but then central New Yorkers...more

Many dealers have heard the story of a man who chanced upon a copy of “Tamerlane” by “A Bostonian” in an outdoor bin of a book store. The purchase of Edgar Allen Poe’s first book for a few dollars, thereafter sold for tens of thousands of dollars, or so the story goes. It is probably a one in a million dream but, on a lesser scale, such treasures do emerge from time to time: it did, once, for me.

Several years ago at an auction, I came across a book with an astonishing inscription from the author. The auctioneer was quick to explain that it was probably impossible to verify the authenticity of the inscription, even if it were genuine. That said, I won the race for the book and paid $175 for a $50 item.

The first task for me was to determine if my book had in fact ever been owned by the man to whom it was dedicated. Fortunately, the late man’s friends had assembled a highly detailed bibliography of his private library...more