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The London Antiquarian Book Fair is just around the corner. This fair is one of the annual highlights on the book collecting calendar and we urge fans of AbeBooks in the UK to get down to Olympia, and see the world’s finest rare books. It begins on Thursday 24 May and runs until Saturday 26 [...]

Are you thinking of becoming a rare bookseller? Or have you just started to sell collectible books? The 2012 Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar is a week-long educational event held in Colorado Springs in August, 2012 for booksellers, librarians and collectors that offers expert discussion about rare books. This is your opportunity to enter for a [...]

This year’s Frye Festival, located in Moncton, New Brunswick and taking place April 23rd – 29th, 2012, celbrates the 100th birthday of literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye with an array of fun and bookish events.

AbeBooks is a proud sponsor of the 2011 Toronto International Antiquarian Book Fair, October 28th through October 30th, 2011 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Whoever is doing the marketing for this year’s Wigtown Book Festival in Scotland should get a raise (although I imagine the actual bright spark is doing it for free). This wonderful festival has hired a hermit-in-residence for the duration of the 10-day event. The hermit even has a great name, Robert Twigger – Twiggy to [...]

Visitors to the 54th London International Antiquarian Book Fair later this week will be able to see an historic King James Bible, which celebrates its 400th anniversary this year. The King James Bible, more commonly known as the Authorized Version, was first published in London in 1611. The bible comes from the collection of the [...]

The London International Antiquarian Book Fair is one of the highlights on the rare book calendar. This year’s fair begins on Thursday 9 June and continues until Saturday 11 June at the Olympia Exhibition Centre. Visitors will see rare and collectable books offered for sale from the finest booksellers in Europe, North America and Australia. [...]

One of the most aptly named events on the Canadian literary calendar is the annual Bloody Words mystery conference. This year, it is being held in Victoria, British Columbia (AbeBooks’ home town) on June 3-5. The guests of honour are writers Tess Gerritsen, Michael Slade and William Deverell. The Bloody Words conference began in 1999. [...]

My colleague Lindsay recently visited the New York Antiquarian Book Fair. This event features the world’s finest booksellers, including many who sell on AbeBooks, and a huge number of rare books are on display.

Over on AbeBooks’ main Canadian page, we are previewing the inaugural Vancouver International Poetry Festival, which begins on April 18 and goes until April 23. The event celebrates the spoken and written word, and showcases a wide variety of exceptional poets from Canada and beyond. Some of the headline acts include Susan Musgrave, bill bissett, [...]