The much-anticipated Brooklyn Flea debuts on Sunday. Their blog includes a map on where to find them, subway directions, and even a weather map of the day of the event. I was a little worried they wouldn't have enough antique dealers, but as of today, there are 50 names under the "Antiques + Vintage Clothing" category. Yeah!
Today we head into the celebration of old books with the New York Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory.
From Art in Review in the New York Times:
Wandering the aisles of the annual Antiquarian Book Fair, at the Park Avenue Armory, is like being a fly on the wall at the ultimate dinner party. Two hundred dealers are exhibiting rare books, manuscripts, first editions and ephemera related to a host of authors, artists and historical figures. . . .
Bits of gossip are mixed in with the polite literary conversation. Among the legal guides and treatises at the Lawbook Exchange are several 18th-century books illustrated with scenes related to famous adultery trials. . . .
Many older rarities can be paged through and pored over: 17th-century wall maps, at Martayan Lan; letters from Mozart and Beethoven, at La Scala Autographs; a Delacroix-illustrated version of “Faust,” at Ursus; even fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, at Michael R. Thompson Bookseller. On Sunday the fair will sponsor “Discovery Day,” during which ticketed guests can bring up to five of their own treasures for appraisal.
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