The Empire State Rare Book and Print Fair will bring 56 rare book, print and ephemera exhibitors from across the country to the heart of Manhattan. Visitors can browse books, prints and ephemera on a broad range of topics and areas. Our fairs are social events that cultivate a welcoming experience for all. There will be items at the fair to fit all budgets.
In conjunction with the fair, we will host a series of panel discussions, talks and fireside chats with noted authors and cultural figures. A full list of speakers and special events can be found here.
You can reserve tickets in advance or purchase them at the door.
St. Bartholomew's Church, commonly called St. Bart's, is a historic Episcopal parish founded in January 1835, and located on the east side of Park Avenue between 50th and 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan. On October 31, 2016, the St. Bartholomew's Church and Community House complex was designated a National Historic Landmark, for its significance as an important example of early 20th-century ecclesiastical architecture designed by Bertram Goodhue. The church contains the largest pipe organ in the City (and one of the 10 largest in the world), which will be played by the resident music director during the fair preview night.
Thursday, October 5th: 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm: Preview Night:
This will be a ticketed event where the public can enjoy wine, live music and canapes while having first access to the books.
Tickets: $125
During the preview night, Ryan Miller, lead singer of the band Guster, will play his band's song Empire State live at 6 pm. This will be followed by a VIP meet and greet wine reception with Mr. Miller (capped at 30 attendees) between 6:10 pm and 7 pm. Tickets for the VIP reception will cost $250 (inclusive of entry to the fair).
Paolo Bourdigon, associate director of music at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City and harpsichordist of the New York Philharmonic, will play St. Bart's famous pipe organ with Miller and then continue playing until 8 pm.
A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will go to the Antiquarian Booksellers' Benevolent Fund which is dedicated to providing timely financial assistance to those in the book trade who find themselves in a time of need.
Most antiquarian booksellers are individual proprietors with limited capital, and are especially vulnerable to unanticipated ill-health, accidents, natural disasters or other types of misfortune.
Contributions to the Benevolent Fund are completely tax-deductible.
Friday, October 6th: 11 am – 6 pm: Book Fair:
Entry to the fair will be $15, $10 for students, under 16s are free.
Saturday October 7th: 11 am – 5 pm: Book Fair:
Entry to the fair will be $15, $10 for students, under 16s are free.
Admission will be free from 3 pm to 5 pm. An appraisal service will be offered at that time for the public.
The venue is within a block of the subway.
To reach St. Barts, you can take the 6 Lexington Avenue local to 51st Street, walk west to Park Avenue or the E or M train to Lexington Avenue-53rd Street stop, walk downtown on Lexington to 51st Street, turn right to Park Avenue.
There is no on-site parking. There are numerous parking lots nearby, including:
35 East 50th Street
Icon Parking Systems LLC 136-166 E 51st St (569-573 Lexington Ave)
Quik Park 575 Lexington Ave
Parklex Garage Inc. 116 E 52nd St
520 Mimosa Drive,
Norman, OK
73069
165 Madison Avenue, Suite 500
New York, NY 10016
(646) 652-6766
info@bbrarebooks.com
867 Broadway // 90 Kosciuszko Street
Brooklyn, NY
11206 // 11205
347.470.5367
Brooklyn, NY
790 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor
New York, New York 10065
(212) 861-6620
8155 Clear Ridge Rd,
Clearville, PA 15535
Gum Factory
221 Third Street
Newport, RI 02840
908 759 5644
2011 Tracy Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64108
816.471.4848
llwprints1@gmail.com
42 Drummer Rd
Acton, MA 01720
PO Box 811
Mendenhall, PA 19357
During the preview night, Ryan Miller, lead singer of the band Guster, will play his band's song Empire State live at 6 pm. This will be followed by a VIP meet and greet wine reception with Mr. Miller
Ryan Miller is the lead singer of the band Guster, host of Vermont PBS’s Makin’ Friends with Ryan Miller and Bardo, composer on a slew of rad films (Safety Not Guaranteed, In a World, Kings of Summer, Tig, Fundamentals of Caring).
Ryan Miller is the lead singer and a multi-instrumentalist in the alternative-rock band Guster, alongside Adam Gardner (vocals, multiple instruments), Luke Reynolds (vocals, multiple instruments), and Brian Rosenworcel (drums and percussion). Over a thirty-year career in music, Guster has released eight studio albums and built a dedicated fan base.
Join us for a fireside chat with Michael Lindsay-Hogg at St. Bartholomew's Church.
Tickets cost $50 and include entry to the book fair.
About Sir. Michael:
If fame, though fleeting, matters at all, Michael Lindsay-Hogg is partly famous as the director who lured The Beatles up on the roof for their final-ever Concert as the climax to his film, Let It Be, which provided all the footage for Peter Jackson's epic "documentary about the making of a documentary," Get Back.
Michael's career began at the age of sixteen when he acted at the Stratford Connecticut Shakespeare Festival. He then attended Oxford University, leaving after a year to work with Orson Welles and act in the theatrical version of Chimes At Midnight.
Only a few years later, "through a combination of ambition, luck, and guile," he found himself directing Ready Steady Go at the age of 24. It has been called the "greatest live TV Rock and Roll show of all time."
Then because of friendships he'd made, Michael started directing the earliest videos for the greatest rock bands of the twentieth century. He directed several for The Beatles, including "Rain" and "Hey Jude," and then "Let It Be."
Michael spent 15 years with The Rolling Stones, directing their first video, "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and others through "Waiting On A Friend," as well as The Rolling Stones "Rock and Roll Circus." He also started The Who off with their first video, "Happy Jack."
Moving to TV drama, Michael received four BAFTA nominations. In 1981, he won as Co- Director for Brideshead Revisited.
In theatre, Michael received a Tony nomination for directing Whose Life Is It Anyway? Agnes of God ran for 15 months on Broadway. Then came Larry Kramer's groundbreaking drama about AIDS, The Normal Heart. Michael directed the first production at Joe Papp's Public Theatre in New York, where it caused a sensation.
He wrote and directed the film, The Object of Beauty with John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell. Roger Ebert called it "Cool and witty."
Michael's first memoir, Luck and Circumstance, was published by Knopf. He is currently working on a second.
He has been painting for 25 years and has had shows of his work in Los Angeles and London. His third show of paintings and drawings in Paris will be in Spring 2024.
Photo Credit: Lisa Ticknor
Moderator:
Mark Rozzo is the author of the cultural history Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles (Ecco Books, 2022), a national best-seller. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair (where he previously served as deputy editor), and has also been a contributor at The New Yorker and a columnist at The Los Angeles Times Book Review. His essays, criticism, and profiles have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Oxford American, The Washington Post, Esquire, Vogue, Gourmet, Town & Country, Architectural Digest, BookForum, and Air Mail. He has been a frequent moderator and panelist at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and has been a guest on National Public Radio (“All Things Considered,” “On Point,” “Greater LA”) and Sirius XM. As a musician, he has released albums with various bands and has created music for TV and films, including Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, and soundtracks for Audible.com. He received a BA in English Literature from Swarthmore College and was a 2005 National Arts Journalism fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
In conjunction with the fair on Friday and Saturday, we will run a series of talks and panels on a range of topics. These will be included with admission to the fair. Seating will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Kimberly Henrikson is Executive Director at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP). Her involvement in the non-profit and fine art printmaking community has continued to expand and develop over the course of the past 15 years. Before coming to CCP, she founded her own business, the Yvonne Brandt Art Advisory
based in New Canaan, CT
Kimberly Henrikson is Executive Director at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP). Her involvement in the non-profit and fine art printmaking community has continued to expand and develop over the course of the past 15 years. Before coming to CCP, she founded her own business, the Yvonne Brandt Art Advisory
based in New Canaan, CT, which provided art advising services for private individuals. For more than 12 years, Kimberly has been involved with the Print Club of New York, a membership group of print collectors in the New York City area for which she holds the position of membership chair after eight years as president for the organization.
Allison Tolman represents leading Japanese artists whose principal medium is paper. She lectures frequently on contemporary Japanese prints and is actively involved in building private, corporate and museum collections of contemporary Japanese works on paper. She regularly appraises 20 th and 21 st century Japanese prints. She is a board
Allison Tolman represents leading Japanese artists whose principal medium is paper. She lectures frequently on contemporary Japanese prints and is actively involved in building private, corporate and museum collections of contemporary Japanese works on paper. She regularly appraises 20 th and 21 st century Japanese prints. She is a board member of the Print Club of New York and a board member of the Japanese Art Society of America where she currently serves as Treasurer.
Marc Chabot is an artist, curator, lecturer and private dealer in 19th-21st century American and European original prints and works on paper based in Southbury, CT. Founding Marc Chabot Fine Arts in 1990, he has gallery website and exhibits at select art fairs on the east coast. Since 1998 he has been curator of the Natalie Van Vleck c
Marc Chabot is an artist, curator, lecturer and private dealer in 19th-21st century American and European original prints and works on paper based in Southbury, CT. Founding Marc Chabot Fine Arts in 1990, he has gallery website and exhibits at select art fairs on the east coast. Since 1998 he has been curator of the Natalie Van Vleck collections at Flanders Nature Center and Land Trust, in Woodbury, CT, curating a retrospective exhibition at the Mattatuck Museum with catalogue documenting the life and modernist art and objects of Flanders founder artist Natalie Van Vleck, also a pioneering environmentalism and land preservation.
Kermit Roosevelt III is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. A former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice David Souter, he is the author of The Nation That Never Was and The Myth of Judicial Activism, as well as two novels, Allegiance and In the Shadow of the Law. He is the great-great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt.
John Milton Cooper Jr. is an American historian, author, and educator. He specializes in late 19th and early 20th-century American political and diplomatic history with a particular focus on presidential history. His 2009 biography of Woodrow Wilson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Cooper is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daisy Waugh has written 12 novels which, between them, have been translated into many languages. Three of those novels were set in early 20th century Hollywood, New York and Colorado.. She has written two further novels under the name EV Harte, starring a tarot-reading detective. Most recently, she has written a series of comic murder mysteries starring a family of contemporary British aristocrats. The third in the series, Old School Ties, will be published in the UK in September. She is the granddaughter of Evelyn Waugh and daughter of Auberon Waugh.
David Edmonds is a philosopher and the author of many books, including Parfit, The Murder of Professor Schlick, Would You Kill the Fat Man? and (with John Eidinow) the international bestseller Wittgenstein’s Poker. He’s a Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. With Nigel Warburton he produces the popular podcast series Philosophy Bites. For three decades he was a multi-award winning presenter/producer at the BBC and the host of The Big Idea.
Jesse R. Erickson is the Astor Curator and Department Head, Printed Books and Bindings at the Morgan Library. Dr. Erickson’s research specializations include ethnobibliography, African American print culture, and the transnational publishing history of the Victorian period author Ouida. In 2021, Dr. Erickson was named Co-Editor of The Pa
Jesse R. Erickson is the Astor Curator and Department Head, Printed Books and Bindings at the Morgan Library. Dr. Erickson’s research specializations include ethnobibliography, African American print culture, and the transnational publishing history of the Victorian period author Ouida. In 2021, Dr. Erickson was named Co-Editor of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, the quarterly journal of the Bibliographic Society of America.
Angelo J. Cifaldi is President and Managing Director of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A., leading all aspects of the firm’s practice and operations. Mr. Cifaldi focuses his practice on mass tort litigation and pharmacy administrative law. Mr. Cifaldi is one of the country's leading collectors of the works of Mark Twain.
Allie Alvis the Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library, and a former rare book cataloguer at Type Punch Matrix. Allie is also a public bibliographic educator (find them as @Book_historia on Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube), and a book collector. They have published and lectured widely on a variety of topics inclu
Allie Alvis the Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library, and a former rare book cataloguer at Type Punch Matrix. Allie is also a public bibliographic educator (find them as @Book_historia on Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube), and a book collector. They have published and lectured widely on a variety of topics including 16th century arsenical bookbindings, the depiction of rare books in pop culture, the importance of well-loved books, and the work of English binders Douglas Cockerell and Son.
Hugo Vickers is a writer and broadcaster, who has written biographies of many twentieth century figures, including the Queen Mother, Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, Cecil Beaton, Vivien Leigh, a study of Greta Garbo, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece, and his book, The Private World of The Duke and Duchess of Windsor was illustrated with pictures from their own collection.
Peter McCrea is the President of American Impact Capital Foundation, a venture philanthropy Impact Investment platform, facilitating millions of dollars in philanthropic and impact investment capital to social entrepreneurs. He is the son of Hollywood stars Joel McCrea and Frances Dee. Joel McCrea starred in over eighty films, including aAlfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940), Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The More the Merrier (1943), Frances Dee starred in I Walked With a Zombie (1943), Of Human Bondage (1934) and Little Women (1933).
Christopher Peacocke is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, in the University of London. His books include Sense and Content, A Study of Concepts, Being Known, The Mirror of the World: Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness, and The Primacy of Metaphysics.
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