Fun, friends, and old paper

The 2026 Northampton Book Antiquarian Book, Ephemera, and Book Arts Fair, the tenth edition, will be Friday, November 20th from 5 – 8pm and Saturday, November 21st from 10am to 4pm in the Northampton Center for the Arts at the Northampton Community Arts Trust at 33 Hawley Street in Northampton, Massachusetts, 01060.

More than 30 rare booksellers, paper Americana specialists, literary presses, and book artists, including but not limited to hand bookbinders, fine letterpress printers from New England and the mid - Atlantic states will convene to exhibit, sell, and schmooze at the popular two-day fair.  A limited number of exhibit spaces are still available.

The Northampton Book Fair is sponsored by Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers, the Yiddish Book Center, and the Northampton Center for the Arts. Media sponsors are New England Public Media and the NEPM Book Club.

The fair is supported, in part, by the Independent Online Booksellers Association and the New England Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America. Well produced and directed by Book Fair Promotion of Northampton.

Fair attendees will find a variety of books and ephemera ranging from rare travel books to literary first editions, paper Americana to historic account books and manuscripts. If that is not enough there will also be fine letter press printing including fine letter press poetry, mystery & science fiction.

There will be handmade journals, paper, fine bindings, artist books, and limited-edition wood engravings. A wide variety of collectible books, with prices for all will be available.

Special appearances are as follows: 

Leslie Arthur, Bookseller: modern first editions by, for, and about women of the Bloomsbury Group, rare botanicals, Americana, regional maps (New Haven, CT)

Stefan Baer, Complete Traveler: rare travel books, WPA Guides, A&C Black, Baedekers (Westport, CT)

Emily Baker & Ellen Pernat, Willis Monie Books: specializing in baseball books, used, rare & antiquarian books & ephemera (Cooperstown, NY)

Michael Brophy, Doyles Books: modern first editions, Rivers of America series & poetry (Fayetteville, NY) 

Karen Bullock, Old Working Books & Bindery: rare book restoration, hand bound blank notebooks, unique note cards from salvage book illustrations. (West Brookfield, MA)

Eliot Cardinaux, The Bodily Press: new paperbacks & poetry chapbooks (Amherst, MA)

Brian Cohen, Bridge Press: creator of original etchings and artist's books, & broadsides (Kennebunk, ME)

Tristan Evarts, Castle Books & Tea: science fiction, firsts, signed books, antiquarian tomes, astronomy, and more (Hamden, CT)

Steve Finer, Steven Finer Rare Books: antiquarian books with a focus on Americana, trade catalogues, cookery & domestic economy, architecture, decorative arts, technology and the trades (Greenfield, MA)

Timothy Forry, E.M. Maurice Books: 20th century picture Books, illustrated books, Caldecott and Newbery Award Winners (Torrington, CT)

Greg Gibson, Ten Pound Island Book Company, ABAA: old & rare books, manuscripts, ephemera, & documents pertaining to the sea and its history (Gloucester, MA)

Adam Grabowski, Poetry on Demand: your very own typewriter poem written just for you (Holyoke, MA)

Elizabeth Kelly-Griswold, Blue Mango Books & Manuscripts, ABAA: Americana and primary source manuscripts (New Hope, PA)

Ben Koenig, The Country Bookshop: unusual books & ephemera including folk music and folklore (Plainfield, VT)

Michael Koppa, The Heavy-Duty Press: limited edition fine press books, artist books, & letterpress printed broadsides (Viola, WI)

Joel Levin, Dewey Decimals: vintage, old & rare books, a selection of books from the libraries of Madeleine L’Engle, Edward Herrmann, & Barry Moser (Northampton, MA)

Peter Luke Americana:18th, 19th, and early 20th century Americana (New Baltimore, NY)

Michael and Earl Manz, Yesterday’s Gallery & Babylon Revisited, ABAA: specializing in jazz age and depression era literature (East Woodstock, CT & Northampton, MA)

Peter L. Masi, rare books & ephemera (Montague, MA)

Janet MacFadyen, Slate Roof Press: member-run press committed to publishing Massachusetts and regional poets and national poets in their chapbook contest (Northfield, MA)

Gary Metras, Adastra Press: letterpress poetry books (Easthampton, MA) 

Bill Muse, Parnassus Book Service: used & rare books & ephemera (Yarmouth Port, MA) 

Naomi Needle, Naomi Needle Books & Ephemera: 19th century books, prints and manuscripts (Newburyport, MA)

Rebecca Olander, Perugia Press, non-profit publisher of full-length poetry books by emerging women writers (Florence, MA)

Joseph Phillips, Commonwealth Books, ABAA, varied selection of vintage & antiquarian books (Boston, MA and Newport, RI)

Ed Rayher, Swamp Press/Slate Roof Press, designer and printer of fine letterpress poetry books, creates & casts new faces and ornaments in hot metal (Northfield, MA)

John R. Sanderson, Rare Books, rare, early & fine books (Stockbridge, MA)

Richard Stephens, Supersession Press, unique and limited-edition fine press books (Saint Louis Park, Minnesota)

Peter L. Stern & Co, Inc., literature, first editions, mysteries (Newtown, MA)

For a roster of vendors with contact information: 

www.northamptonbookfair.com/2025-exhibitors