More than 30 rare booksellers, paper Americana specialists, and book artists, including hand bookbinders, papermakers, & fine letterpress printers from New England and beyond, will convene at the Center for the Arts in downtown Northampton for the eighth edition of the Northampton Antiquarian Book, Ephemera, and Book Arts Fair.

Northampton is located in the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts, about an hour north of Hartford, CT, two hours west of Boston, and three and a half hours northeast of New York City. Northampton has been called Paradise City, as it repeatedly has been voted one of the best small arts cities and one of the best places to live in the country. You’ll find a variety of small, independently owned bookshops, restaurants, craft & art galleries, and music venues in downtown and the surrounding region.

The fair is sponsored by SNEAB, Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers and the Northampton Center for the Arts. Media sponsor is New England Public Media. Produced by Book Fair Promotion.

Visit the ABAA Virtual Book Fair: Holiday Edition, where dealers from around the globe exhibit new acquisitions, discoveries, and rare finds exclusively at the VBF.

Explore and shop antique and rare books, maps, prints, ephemera, and more. There is something for everyone!

The fair remains open continuously from noon until 7pm ET on Saturday, and dealers restock throughout the fair.

Building on the success of the Philadelphia Rare Book and Print Fair, the fair will move to an exciting new venue that can accommodate three times as many exhibitors!

​For more information, contact: Eve Rachel Lemon, finebookfairs@gmail.com

This three-day event presents rare and collected books, manuscripts, letters, maps, photographs, original artwork, and all manner of paper ephemera from booksellers around the world.

Universally referred to as the world’s finest antiquarian book fair, the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s (ABAA) New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) will return in April 2025.

The fair’s specialties encompass art, science, medicine, literature, history, gastronomy, fashion, first editions, Americana, philosophy, children’s books, and much more. From the historic and academic, the religious and spiritual—to the bedrock of secular culture, finance, and politics—the fair boasts offerings in every conceivable genre and subject.​