Marvin Getman, the trade show impresario, is continuing to build a book buying and bookselling community around his Brooklyn Book Fair, now in its fourth year and scheduled for the 8th to the 10th this month at the Brooklyn Expo Center. The shift of bookselling from open shops to online listings has given book fairs added importance as they become the point of human interaction for they who prefer to buy and sell in person. For Mr. Getman, book fairs, which for many years were in decline, are a trend that is strengthening.
Book fairs fall into two categories; those associated with a dealer organization and those open to the entire field. Mr. Getman’s fairs fall into the second category and attract an appealing and eclectic group that changes from show to show. For Mr. Getman this will be his largest fair to date and the first that is crossing the one hundred exhibitor threshold; 108 at last count. This a terribly big deal.
So in a few years we can predict that Mr. Getman’s fairs will begin to attract their own shadow fairs. And there is a certain justice in it for Mr. Getman began as an organizer of shadow fairs and is now reaping the benefits of years of work and experience to be creating his first major fair.
Congratulations.
Location, dates and hours:
BROOKLYN EXPO CENTER
79 Franklin St. (at Noble St)
Greenpoint Brooklyn
September 8-10, 2017
Hours
Friday 8 September Benefit Preview: 5-9 pm EST
Saturday 9 September: 11 am – 7 pm EST
Sunday 10 September: 11 am – 5 pm EST
Here is a list of participants:
Abraham Lincoln Book Shop
A.N. Devers
Adam Weinberger Rare Books - ABAA
Alexanderplatz Books
Anartist Books
Architectural Photography Collection
Auger Down Books - ABAA
Ayr Hill Books
B & B Rare Books - ABAA
Bauman Rare Books - ABAA
Be-hold
Between the Covers Rare Books - ABAA
Blakeney Griffin, Booksellers
Blue Mountain Books and Manuscripts
Boo-Hooray
Bookleggers Used Books - ABAA
Caliban Book Shop- ABAA
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Carnegie Hill Books
Carpe Librum Books
Carydale Books
Center Street Studio
Chloe's Original Ephemera
Dan Moyer
David A. Hamilton Americana Books - ABAA
David Cohn
David McGreevy, Early Photographs
Derringer Books - ABAA
Dubois Rare Books
The Earl of Clarendon
Eastside Books & Paper
Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts - ABAA
Egon and Joan Teichert Fine Prints
Erin Waters
Faenwyl Bindery
Framont
From Russia with Art
G. Gosen Rare Books & Old Paper - ABAA
Garrett Scott, Bookseller
Graph Books
Honey & Wax Booksellers - ABAA
James Cummins Bookseller - ABAA
James S. Jaffe Rare Books - ABAA
Jeannot R. Barr Prints & Drawings
Jerry N. Showalter, Books, ABAA
Joe Maynard
John Van Noate
L & T Respess Books - ABAA
Leonard Fox, LTD.
Le Bookiniste
Lizzyoung bookseller LLC - ABAA
Marninart - Rare Illustrated Art Books- ABAA
Melrose Books & Art
Old New York Book Shop - ABAA
Peter Austern & Co
Pop-up Lady
Prints Charming SOHO
Pryor-Johnson Rare Books
Quill & Brush - ABAA
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food and Drink - ABAA
Rare Paper
Roy Young Bookseller, Inc. - ABAA
Sanctuary Books - ABAA
Save A Book
Schulson Autographs, LTD - ABAA
Stan Gorski Books
Studio Montespecchio
Susan Mayer
Ten Pound Island Book Co. - ABAA
Thomas G. Boss Rare Books - ABAA
Thomas Harris
Tom Davidson, Bookseller
University Archives - ABAA
VASTA
W.C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera
Weinberg Modern
William Hutchison
Here's a link to the show site.
