OCTOBER 5th - 7th, 2023
About the Fair
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.
About the Venue
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.
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.
Book Fair
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.
Getting There
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
Act2Books
Adam Weinberger Rare Books
Adam Weinberger Rare Books
24 Central Ave. , Flemington,
NJ, 08822
(908) 968-3711
info@act2books.com
Adam Weinberger Rare Books
Adam Weinberger Rare Books
Adam Weinberger Rare Books
Anima Sola Fine Books
Adam Weinberger Rare Books
Anima Sola Fine Books
520 Mimosa Drive,
Norman, OK
73069
Appledore Books
Back Creek Books
Anima Sola Fine Books
Arader Books
Back Creek Books
Back Creek Books
Back Creek Books
Back Creek Books
Back Creek Books
Battledore, Ltd.
Battledore, Ltd.
Battledore, Ltd.
Bauman Rare Books
Bergen Book Studio
Bauman Rare Books
B & B Rare Books
Bergen Book Studio
Bauman Rare Books
165 Madison Avenue, Suite 500
New York, NY 10016
(646) 652-6766
info@bbrarebooks.com
Bergen Book Studio
Bergen Book Studio
Better Read Than Dead Books
Better Read Than Dead Books
BlueMango Books and Manuscripts
Better Read Than Dead Books
867 Broadway // 90 Kosciuszko Street
Brooklyn, NY
11206 // 11205
347.470.5367
BlueMango Books and Manuscripts
BlueMango Books and Manuscripts
BlueMango Books and Manuscripts
Books of Wonder
BlueMango Books and Manuscripts
BlueMango Books and Manuscripts
Brenner's Collectable Books
Brenner's Collectable Books
Brenner's Collectable Books
Capitol Hill Books
Brenner's Collectable Books
Brenner's Collectable Books
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Brenner's Collectable Books
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Christopher's Rare Books
Christopher's Rare Books
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Colebrook Book Barn
Christopher's Rare Books
Colebrook Book Barn
Craig Olson Books
Christopher's Rare Books
Colebrook Book Barn
De Wolfe & Wood Rare Books
Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts
De Wolfe & Wood Rare Books
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Dividing Line Books
Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts
De Wolfe & Wood Rare Books
Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts
Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts
Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts
Ellipsis Rare Books
Ellipsis Rare Books
Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts
Brooklyn, NY
E.M. Maurice Books
Ellipsis Rare Books
E.M. Maurice Books
Enchanted Books
Ellipsis Rare Books
E.M. Maurice Books
Faenwyl Bindery
Imperial Fine Books
FineArt Rare Books
FineArt Rare Books
Imperial Fine Books
FineArt Rare Books
Imperial Fine Books
Imperial Fine Books
James Cummins Bookseller
790 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor
New York, New York 10065
(212) 861-6620
James Cummins Bookseller
James Cummins Bookseller
James Cummins Bookseller
Jeffrey Bergman Books
James Cummins Bookseller
Jeffrey Bergman Books
John Bale Books
James Cummins Bookseller
Jeffrey Bergman Books
Laureate Fine Books
Lizzyyoung Bookseller
Laureate Fine Books
8155 Clear Ridge Rd,
Clearville, PA 15535
Lizzyyoung Bookseller
Lizzyyoung Bookseller
Lizzyyoung Bookseller
Gum Factory
221 Third Street
Newport, RI 02840
908 759 5644
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lizzyyoung Bookseller
Maggs Bros Ltd.
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Marc Chabot Fine Arts
48 Bedford Square
London
WC1B 3DR
Great Britain
Marc Chabot Fine Arts
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Marc Chabot Fine Arts
Michael R. Weintraub, Inc.
Michael R. Weintraub, Inc.
Michael R. Weintraub, Inc.
Owl of Athena Books
Michael R. Weintraub, Inc.
Michael R. Weintraub, Inc.
Pryor-Johnson Rare Books
Michael R. Weintraub, Inc.
Pryor-Johnson Rare Books
Purgatory Pie Press
Purgatory Pie Press
Pryor-Johnson Rare Books
New York, NY
PY Rare Books
Purgatory Pie Press
PY Rare Books
28 Bruton St,
London W1J 6QP,
United Kingdom
Rarities Inc.
Purgatory Pie Press
PY Rare Books
16 Galloway Heights
Warwick, NY,
10990
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Sanctuary Books
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Seth Kaller, Inc.
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
The First Edition Rare Books
The First Edition Rare Books
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop
The First Edition Rare Books
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop
2011 Tracy Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64108
816.471.4848
llwprints1@gmail.com
The Verne Collection
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop
Timeless Tales Rare Books
Timeless Tales Rare Books
Timeless Tales Rare Books
42 Drummer Rd
Acton, MA 01720
Walnut Street Paper
Timeless Tales Rare Books
Timeless Tales Rare Books
Weinberg Modern Books
Timeless Tales Rare Books
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
William Hutchison
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
W. S. Cotter Rare Books
PO Box 811
Mendenhall, PA 19357
W. S. Cotter Rare Books
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
W. S. Cotter Rare Books
FRIDAY OCTOBER 6TH, 5pm = 8 pm, michael lindsay-hogg
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.
Friday, OCTOBER 6th, 12 PM - 1 pm: PANEL ON PRINT COLLECTING
Kimberly Henrikson
Kimberly Henrikson
Kimberly Henrikson
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
Kimberly Henrikson
Kimberly Henrikson
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
Kimberly Henrikson
Marc Chabot
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.
1 pm - 2 pm, The Nation That Never Was with Kermit Roosevelt
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.
2 pm - 3 pm, The President They Love to Hate with John Milton Cooper
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.
3 pm - 4 pm, Writing Fiction with Daisy Waugh
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.
4 pm - 5 pm, Philosophy and Genius with David Edmonds
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.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7TH, 12 PM - 1 PM: PANEL ON BOOK COLLECTI
Jesse Erickson
Jesse Erickson
Jesse Erickson
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 Cifaldi
Jesse Erickson
Jesse Erickson
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
Jesse Erickson
Allie Alvis
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.
1 PM-2 PM: THE FUTURE OF THE MONARCHY
1 pm - 2 pm, The Future of the Monarchy with Hugo Vickers
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.
2pm - 3 pm, A Conversation with Peter McCrea
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).
3 pm - 4pm: Poetry and Music with Christopher Peacocke
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.