Books in Boston

08/27/2024

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Shadow Show

Co-hosts Ed Markiewicz and Lee Linn visit with Pennsylvania ephemera dealer Scott Brasseur along with Rare Book Cafe regular Richard Mori, who is organizing ...

07/04/2024

02/22/2024

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This is the first issue of Book Lovers' Paradise magazine, a periodical dedicated to helping collectors of books, maps, prints, and ephemera to understand in more depth their chosen areas of interest.

10/26/2023

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🔴 BOOKS IN BOSTON — A visit with Stacy Waldman of House of Mirth Photos

Co-show promoter Richard Mori chats with Stacy Waldman of House of Mirth Photos about the unique items she’s bringing to Books in Boston, the Shadow Show to the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.

Stacy has an abiding interest in photography, and she views her endeavors as two different businesses. On the one hand, Stacy deals in snapshots, what she little pieces of art capturing a unique time and place. She posts many of those on Instagram, where she has quite a following.

Her other business is with photo albums and scrapbooks. These are little collections of history and she finds them most interesting. She has been doing this for more than 25 years.

Stacy shares some of the items that will be in her booth, including a World War 2 vintage scrapbook that belonged to the leader of the American Red Cross in Britain, a volume of 1960s-era women wrestlers (including n**e pictures of some of the subject), and an album of 1940s mountain climbers.

Stacy says she’ll have many other albums on a variety of subjects.

Richard Mori of Mori Books in Nashua, New Hampshire, one of the promoters of Books in Boston, the shadow show to the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. Richard has partnered with Duane Stevens, of Wiggins Fine Books in Shelburne Falls, Massacihusetts, to produce Books in Boston under MW Book Fairs. It is a 25-year tradition in Boston

The shadow show will be presented on Saturday, October 28, 2023, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Boston Hilton Back Bay’s Belvidere Ballroom, at 40 Dalton Street. It is within a few minutes walk of the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Hynes Convention Center on October 27-29, 2023.

The shadow show is scheduled to open on Saturday four hours before the opening of the of the book fair at noon on Saturday.

MW Book Fairs. Richard Mori at (603) 801-7176 or Duane Stevens at (413) 320-3701.

Co-show promoter Richard Mori chats with Stacy Waldman of House of Mirth Photos about the unique items she’s bringing to Books in Boston, the Shadow Show to ...

10/21/2023

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🔴 BOOKS IN BOSTON — A visit with Elizabeth Kelly-Griswold of Bluemango Books and Manuscripts

Co-show promoter Richard Mori chats with Elizabeth Kelly-Griswold about some interesting Americana she’s bringing to Books in Boston, the Shadow Show to the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.

Elizabeth, who specializes in early American primary source manuscripts, including journals, diaries, account books, and bibles. She delights in researching the items she come across and finding the story behind them.

Elizabeth is a member of the Bucks County Antique Association. She closely works with local historical societies in order to connect local towns to glimpses of their history.

Richard Mori of Mori Books in Nashua, New Hampshire, one of the promoters of Books in Boston, the shadow show to the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. Richard has partnered with Duane Stevens, of Wiggins Fine Books in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, to produce Books in Boston under MW Book Fairs. It is a 25-year tradition in Boston.

Music by Kevin MacLeod

The shadow show will be presented on Saturday, October 28, 2023, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Boston Hilton Back Bay’s Belvidere Ballroom, at 40 Dalton Street. It is within a few minutes walk of the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Hynes Convention Center on October 27-29, 2023.

The shadow show is scheduled to open on Saturday four hours before the opening of the of the book fair at noon on Saturday.

MW Book Fairs. Richard Mori at (603) 801-7176 or Duane Stevens at (413) 320-3701.

Co-show promoter Richard Mori chats with Elizabeth Kelly-Griswold about some interesting Americana she’s bringing to Books in Boston, the Shadow Show to the ...

10/19/2023

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🔴 Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK No. 32: Treasures of the Harlem Renaissance

Rare Book Cafe co-host Lee Linn shares some of the special items related to the Harlem Renaissance that she’s planning to take to the Books in Boston Shadow Show on October 28, including special volumes by Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.

The Books in Boston show is the shadow show to the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair October 27-29, 2023 at the Hynes Convention Center. The Books in Boston Shadow Show is a short walk away at the Boston Hilton Back Back on October 28 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., so it’s easy for book lovers attending the Hynes show to also take in the Hilton show.

In this episode, co-hosts Lee Linn and Ed Markiewicz chat with RBC regular Gigi Best, who has a special place in her heart for all things Harlem Renaissance. Gigi and her husband Skip Richardson are in the process of reopening their museum in St. Augustine after a move to a larger space nearby. We’ll have more on that later.

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This is another one of the earliest episodes of Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK, our new series offering short programs, usually on a single topic. Watch for more in our Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK series.

Rare Book Cafe is on YouTube and Facebook and will soon be available on podcast. Please SUBSCRIBE to our show on your favorite platform, share Rare Book Cafe with your book-loving friends, and LIKE us. Join us in the Book Lovers’ Rendezvous. This program is prerecorded.

Co-hosts Ed Markiewicz and Lee Linn are veteran antiquarian booksellers. Ed owns Montgomery Rare Books & Manuscripts in Portland, Oregon, and Lee owns The Ridge Books in Calhoun, Georgia.

Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK is made possible by the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, the oldest and largest rare, used, and collectible book fair in the southeastern United States. The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair will be presented March 1-3, 2024 at The Coliseum in downtown St. Petersburg. More information at floridaantiquarianbookfair.com

The program also is made possible by Biblio.com, a website featuring used, rare, and out-of-print books from independent booksellers. Biblio is celebrating 20 years of serving book lovers. It’s better than ever. Biblio spotlights “the core of our business model: the independent booksellers who bring their expertise, enthusiasm, and professionalism to soon the used and rare book trade.”

Music by Kevin MacLeod Hyperfun

Rare Book Cafe is a gathering of collectors and lovers of old, rare, and collectible books. It is a virtual cafe, accessible anywhere in the world, where the subjects are priceless and the conversation is free. It is truly the book lovers' rendezvous.

Rare Book Cafe is presented on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. Rare Book Cafe features conversations about antiquarian books, rare books, collectible books, unusual books, vintage photographs, antique maps, rare prints, and a wide variety of ephemera.

Guests include antiquarian booksellers, authors, collectors, and anyone else with an interest in and knowledge of these topics.

Rare Book Cafe is based in Florida.
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Rare Book Cafe co-host Lee Linn shares some of the special items related to the Harlem Renaissance that she’s planning to take to the Books in Boston Shadow ...

10/17/2023

Offered by Cardtique, Osprey, FL

• 1884 Rex Mardi Gras Invitation - 3 images

• 1828 Handmade framed endless knot valentine – 3 images

• Handmade perpetual calendar – 1 image

10/15/2023

🔴 Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK No. 31: Why buying from an antiquarian book dealer is best

Richard Mori, the Road Warrior, on his way to Books in Boston, has some amazing finds for hikers of the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire. But the advice that comes along with it is excellent for book lovers everywhere.

Along with co-hosts Ed Markiewicz and Lee Linn, Richard discusses the benefits of buying from knowledgeable booksellers, the kind you’ll find at Books in Boston, the Shadow Show to the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, October 27-29, at the Hynes Convention Center. The Shadow Show is on Saturday, October 28 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and it’s right around the corner at the Boston Hilton Back Bay at 40 Dalton Street.

Co-host Lee Linn shares some of the items she’s bringing to the show, including material from famed composer and tenor Roland Hayes, who was born in Georgia later lived in Brookline, MA, and worked with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Please SHARE this program with your book loving friends.

This is another one of the earliest episodes of Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK, our new series offering short programs, usually on a single topic. Watch for more in our Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK series.

Rare Book Cafe is on YouTube and Facebook and will soon be available on podcast. Please SUBSCRIBE to our show on your favorite platform, share Rare Book Cafe with your book-loving friends, and LIKE us. Join us in the Book Lovers’ Rendezvous. This program is prerecorded.

Co-hosts Ed Markiewicz and Lee Linn are veteran antiquarian booksellers. Ed owns Montgomery Rare Books & Manuscripts in Portland, Oregon, and Lee owns The Ridge Books in Calhoun, Georgia.

Music by Kevin MacLeod Hyperfun

Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK is made possible by the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, the oldest and largest rare, used, and collectible book fair in the southeastern United States. The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair will be presented March 1-3, 2024 at The Coliseum in downtown St. Petersburg. More information at floridaantiquarianbookfair.com

The program also is made possible by Biblio.com, a website featuring used, rare, and out-of-print books from independent booksellers. Biblio is celebrating 20 years of serving book lovers. It’s better than ever. Biblio spotlights “the core of our business model: the independent booksellers who bring their expertise, enthusiasm, and professionalism to soon the used and rare book trade.”

Music by

Richard Mori, the Road Warrior, on his way to Books in Boston, has some amazing finds for hikers of the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire. But the advice th...

10/13/2023

BOOKS IN BOSTON The Shadow Show to the Boston International Book Fair. Visit our website: http://booksinboston.com

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A new antiquarian book and ephemera fair shadow show to the Boston International Book Fair

10/12/2023

Offered by The Ridge Books, Calhoun, GA

A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty. Ist edition with Dj.A Curtain of Green was Eudora Welty's first book. It is a collection of short stories, including: "Why I Live at the P. O., "Death of a Traveling Salesman," "Powerhouse," and "A Worn Path." It is signed on the ffep, to "Willie, A friend and customer, With love, Eudora, December, 1941."

10/11/2023

Our Richard Mori was a guest the latest episode of Rare Book Cafe, the book lovers' rendezvous. He's showing some of the items he'll be bringing to the.Shadow Show. Watch to the end. He mentions some of the exhibitors who will be part of the Shadow Show. PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS BELOW.

Richard Mori, The Road Warrior, is at home in New Hampshire getting ready for the upcoming Books in Boston, the Shadow Show to the Boston International Book ...

10/09/2023

Offered by gallerybfa, ABAA, Prospect, PA

Poster of R101 dirigible disaster (signed) (1929)
SPARS Album (WW2)
Broadside with serial numbers of Baby Lindbergh ransom (1930s)

Music: Kevin Macleod: Scott Joplin's Fig Leaf Rag, 1908

10/08/2023

BOOK LOVERS: Here's a list of booksellers who are planning to exhibit at the Books in Boston Shadow Show. Check it to see it your favorite booksellers are there.

A-C
James Arsenault & Company ABAA, Arrowsic, ME
Val Paul Auger, Holliston, MA
Aaron Benneian Historical Americana, Lampeter, PA
AGLIATSON, Framingham, MA
Bauman Rare Books ABAA, New York, NY
Bluemango Books and Manuscripts, New Hope PA
Cardtique, Osprey, FL
Christopher's Rare Books, New Milford, CT
Colebrook Book Barn ABAA, Colebrook, CT
Complete Traveller, Westport, CT
Connecticut River Books, Deep River, CT
CS Miller Books, Norwich, NY
Curt Wendler Rare Books, Old Saybrook, CT

D-R
De Wolfe & Wood ABAA, Alfred, ME
Dividing Line Books, Queens, NY
Enchanted Books ABAA, Brooklyn, New York
Eyes of the Owl – Books, Wolfeboro, NH
Faenwyl Bindery, New York, NY
gallerybfa ABAA, Prospect, PA
House of Mirth Photos ABAA, Easthampton, MA
William Hutchison, Mendenhall, PA
John Liberati Books, Barkhamsted, CT
Kenneth Leininger, Denver, PA
Liberty Book Store ABAA, Jupiter, FL
Lippincott Books, Hampden, ME
Peter Luke Antiques, Ephemera, Old & Rare Books, New Baltimore, NY
Joe Maynard, Newburgh, NY
McBride Rare Books ABAA, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Richard Mori Books, Nashua, NH
Periodyssey, Northampton, MA
Rare Photo Gallery, Toronto, ON

S-W
Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC, ABAA, Virginia Beach, VA
Small Circus Rare Books, Abingdon, UK
Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc., Newton, MA
Ten Pound Island Book Co., ABAA, Gloucester, MA
The Country Bookshop, Plainfield, VT
The Ridge Books, Calhoun, GA
Timeless Tales Rare Books, Acton, MA
University Archives ABAA, Westport, CT
Walnut Street Paper, LLC, Kutztown, PA
Wiggins Fine Books ABAA, Shelburne Falls, MA
Written Relics, Alton Bay, NH

BOOKSELLERS: This list may be incomplete. Some spaces may still be available. For details, please call Richard Mori at (603) 801-7176 or Duane Stevens at (413) 320-3701.

10/07/2023

Offered by The Ridge Books, Calhoun, GA.

Dopefiend by Donald Goines 1st edition paperback Holloway House 1971. Goines first novel. Goines books in attractive condition are very difficult to find. Holloway House printed hurriedly and cheaply. Goines wrote 16 novels in five years before he was murdered. This is the true first, not one with a new cover issued after Goines' death. His reputation continues to grow. Holloway House number: BH419.

10/05/2023

Offered by Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA

[Binding, Fine- Léon Gruel, Fabulous Forerunner to Cosway Bindings, Deluxe Edition with Watercolor by the Illustrator, Francois Courboin, and Much More] Celle-Ci et Celle-La. Paris: Librairie A. Rouquette, 1900. First Edition. Quarto. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. A monumental binding by GRUEL, crafted in 1900, with a central original watercolor painting of a couple on a couch kissing, under slightly domed plastic- like covering, appearing to pre-date the first Cosway bindings by a few years.

As J. H. Stonehouse, the manager of Henry Sotheran wrote in their Piccadilly Notes of 1913, “the firm claimed this style as invented by us 10 years ago,” thus putting the beginning of the Cosway bindings in 1903. Exquisitely crafted full sumptuous black Morocco with copious onlays on both covers and spine in ochre, red-brown, beige, maroon and dark brown comprising geometric swirls, blossoms, stems, and the like, and magnificently tooled in gilt on both covers and spine. Full brown Morocco doublures heavily gilt with ruling, border design and corner designs, and with the bookbinder’s signature “GRUEL” stamped in gilt near the bottom. Lavish green silk finely woven end-sheets.

DELUXE EDITION, THE AUTHOR’S OWN COPY, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN FOUR STATES of the plates (versus three), CONTAINING AN ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE WATERCOLOR BY COURBOIN for the “kissing-on-the-sofa” scene, which is SIGNED BY COURBOIN. THIS IS FRANCIS COURBOIN’S OWN COPY, inscribed to him by the publisher, Rouquette, as stated on a preliminary page [translated]: “Copy Provided” [in print] “to Mr. Francois Courboin/ Roquette.” [in manuscript pen]. Courboin has also signed a vignette self-portrait in a prelim page in pencil. All of the illustrations are in four states and the original watercolor for the kissing-on-the-sofa scene is SIGNED BY THE ARTIST).

Lavishly illustrated with full page illustrations illustration in four states, including a series of first state proofs, in pure etching and the continuation of the proofs of the main plate of each stamp finished with an addition head-shot.

Top edges gilt, the other edges untrimmed, yet still richly gilded. In original richly lined crimson felt chemise and slipcase with superb paper marbling and leather lined edges. The binding is in very fine condition, with absolutely no signs of wear. This is undoubtedly one of Gruel’s finest works, and perhaps married with this special illustrated copy with original artwork, a cornerstone of any fine bindings collection. (6384) $15,000.00

A new antiquarian book and ephemera fair shadow show to the Boston International Book Fair

10/01/2023

https://youtu.be/sDVXhdBr8PE?si=1RDUEgjUUPJci_QU
New Hampshire bookseller Richard Mori is a regular on the streaming antiquarian book program Rare Book Cafe, and in this episode he's discussing the upcoming Books in Boston, the shadow show to the Boston International Book Fair. Richard is partnering with Duane Stevens, of Wiggins Fine Books in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, to bring you Books in Boston under MW Book Fairs.

Books in Boston will be presented Saturday, October 28, 2023, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Boston Hilton Back Bay’s Belvidere Ballroom, at 40 Dalton Street. It is within a few minutes walk of the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Hynes Convention Center on October 27-29, 2023.

Rare Book Cafe regular Richard Mori, who’s known as the Road Warrior, is also known as a book fir promoter. He’s partnering with Duane Stevens of Wiggins Fin...

09/18/2023

Here's our first podcast for the Books in Boston shadow show. If you have any a questions about the show -- exhibiting in it or attending it -- please call Richard Mori at (603) 801-7176 or Duane Stevens at (413) 320-3701.

If you have other questions or comments, please leave them below.

https://youtu.be/xLnFnzwMxKY

A new antiquarian book and ephemera fair shadow show to the Boston International Book Fair

07/27/2023

EXPERIENCE THE REALITY. Rare and collectible books. Maps. Ephemera. Photos. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m Saturday, October 28. Boston Hilton Back Bay.

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07/27/2023

https://www.abaa.org/bostonbookfair

07/27/2023

Welcome to our new page for our new event for lovers of old and collectible books, ephemera, and photographs. It is to be held at the Boston Hilton Back Bay from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 28.

This is the shadow show to the Boston International Book Fair, which will be at the Hynes Convention Center on October 27-29.

So it’s right around the corner, just a four-minute walk.

Check this page for more details as they become available.