Boston Rare Book Week

Boston Rare Book Week: Book Fairs, Exhibits, Culture, and More

Boston Rare Book Week is a 10-day celebration of Greater Boston's immensely diverse literary and cultural scene. It highlights Boston-area rare book events, exhibitions, readings and lectures, galleries, and book shops to delight the serious collector or curious browser. The celebration culminates with one of the oldest and most-visited book fairs in the U.S., the ABAA's Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Hynes Convention Center, November 8-10. This three-day event showcases more than 100 exhibitors displaying and selling rare books, maps, prints, and ephemera.

Organizations included in Boston Rare Book Week include the Boston Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard University Libraries, the Peabody Essex Museum, and many more. Rare book lovers, mark your calendars and come explore all Boston has to offer this November!
 

American Antiquarian Society - Free Public Tour, Wednesday, November 6

Books in Boston 

Boston Athenaeum - Exhibition & Talk with John Buchtel, The Art of Paper : Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press (register for the talk here)

Davis Museum, Wellesley College - Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature

Harvard Library - Virtual: Collecting Along an Ellipse: Art and Ephemera from Eastern Europe

Harvard Library, Harvard University Archives - Archives Inside Out

Museum of African American History - The Emancipation Proclamation: A Pragmatic Compromise

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Songs for Modern Japan | Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900–1950

Peabody Essex Museum - Draw Me Ishmael: The Book Arts of Moby Dick