[Program]: Keepsake of the First Antiquarian Book Fair

New York: [no publisher], 1960. Unbound. Very Good. First edition. A single printed card deckle-edged leaf measuring 8.5" x 5.5" and folded to make four pages. Faint offsetting on about half of the first page, else near fine. Souvenir program for the first American rare book fair, sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America), and the progenitor of the long-running New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. This program lists 23, mostly New York-centric booksellers, almost all of them notable including J.N. Bartfield, James F. Drake, Goodspeed's, House of Books, House of El Dieff, Howard Mott, Bernard Rosenthal. Leona Rostenberg. Walter Schatzki, Scribners, Seven Gables, Geoffrey Steele, Elisabeth Woodburn, Richard Wormser, and others. The current iteration of the Fair features approximately 200 exhibitors from around the world, and is widely considered the Earth's best antiquarian book fair. Very uncommon.