At the 2022 Book Fair
Yesterday the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair opened to the public, the first of its four days at the Park Avenue Armory on Manhattan's Upper East Side. I was able tp attend the preview yesterday, taking the opportunity to search out items relevant to architecture. So, like I did with the first fair I attended two years ago (it was the last event I attended before lockdown and was the most recent edition of the fair, it being cancelled last year), below are some of those finds ? 15 items from 12 booksellers ? with photos and captions, and listed in the order I discovered them. People interested in attending the 62nd Annual ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair can buy tickets online.Located near the entrance, the booth for New York's Ursus Rare Books has a reduced version (still nearly 6' long) of the Historical Table for 'The Functional City' exhibition (De Functionele Stad) at the Stedelijk Museum in 1935. It's attributed to Rudolf Steiger, George Schmidt, and Wilhelm Hess but features contributions by Otto Neurath. $17,500London's Benjamin Spademan Rare Books has the oldest and most expensive architecture book I came across yesterday: Fra Giovanni Giocondo da Verona's illustrated 1511 edition of Vitruvius's De Architectura. $55,000My favorite staging of a book ? books, actually ? is at the booth of Type Punch Matrix, where Ed Ruscha's famous Every Building on the Sunset Strip (bottom left) from 1966 is presented alongside two ...
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