Rare Book Monthly

Articles - October - 2022 Issue

Northampton Print & Book Fair 2022 on October 1st, 12 to 5PM

The Northampton Fair is Back! October 1st!

The Northampton Fair is Back! October 1st!

After a two year hiatus, Northampton Print & Book Fair is excited to announce that it is making its return to downtown Northampton this Fall! Come by from noon-5pm for a one-day celebration of contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples. The NPBF will feature work of artists, publishers, and collectives from across western Massachusetts and throughout New England, on display and for sale.

Established in 2015, the Northampton Print & Book Fair was created to promote contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples, celebrating local talent while bringing regional artists and publishers to our community. Artists, independent publishers, and art collectives are invited to display and sell their work—including artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, mini-comics, screenprints, risographs, letterpress prints, etchings, photographs, photobooks, digital prints, and more.

 

When and Where:

Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley

Northampton, Massachusetts

October 1st, 12 to 5PM

For more information, contact northamptonprintandbookfair@gmail.com.

NPBF 2022 Artists & Vendors

Angela Zammarelli’s work lives at an intersection of fantasy and reality. She uses play to ask how fantastical elements call upon reality to give them meaning, and how observations in reality can slip into the fantastical through certain framing.

Annie Sollinger is a visual artist making use of drawing, photography, embroidery, and more.

Audrey Helen Weber is an illustrator and book artist based in Greenfield, MA. Audrey’s first picture book, On The Day The Horse Got Out was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2021. Alongside commercial and editorial illustration, Audrey’s work centers around small narrative paintings exploring our perception of the world around us.

BurnsMax explores ways of expression through new technologies and old slow processes. Works have analyzed relationships to place, people, history and occasionally narratives both (true and false) through visual storytelling using installation, performance, and works on paper. Also, sometimes just silly stuff.

Canto Cutie is a juried art and literature zine that publishes the work of Cantonese artists and writers around the world. Founded in 2019 by Katherine Leung, it is edited by Tsz Kam and Meaghan Yuen, and translated by G. Relationship to identity, immigration, and civil unrest vary all across the diaspora and this zine attempts to reflect that diversity.

CatLABS is a Boston-based company that specializes in traditional photographic equipment, from large format cameras and lenses, to film processing and darkroom gear.

Chew—Chew is the multidisciplinary studio of siblings Allison and Chris who try their hand at everything and specialize in nothing.

Clare Lagomarsino is an independent designer who just released and sold out of the first and second print runs of her debut book - Queer Earth Food. It's a collection of writing and art from rural queer people on the earth, queerness, food, and farming. All profits from the book go toward a farm fund by a trans farmer from New Mexico.

coldhatkid makes mini comics, zines, prints, stickers, paintings and original illustrations.

Dead Eye Prints offers custom silk screen, vinyl, and DTG apparel and accessories with no order minimums, and they occasionally produce small runs of original printed items as well.

Esther S White spent the summer making mugs while she listened to Beowulf on repeat.

Factory Hollow Press & Scram Press • Located in North Amherst, MA factory hollow press publishes chapbooks and a few full length books since early 2000s; occasional broadsides, all in limited editions. Scram Press, published in Northampton, MA, specializes in small books, chapbooks, and graphic work.

GUTROT is the alias of illustrator Eric Benton. Influenced by old horror comics and a DIY aesthetic, he publishes zines, prints shirts, sells patches, pins and all sorts or other putrid wares. Some products may be haunted. 

Ian Reed is an multidisciplinary artist who lives in Easthampton, MA.

Laura Mason is a photographer based in Northampton, MA. Her subject matter consists mostly of nature and light, reflection and shadow. Finding greater satisfaction in the analog process, much of her work is shot on 35mm film, and often features a multiple exposure technique to evoke the sense of wonder she feels when shooting.

Looky Here is a volunteer-run nonprofit art space in downtown Greenfield, MA. Aside from providing second hand art supplies, community workshops and gallery space, Looky Here runs a community Risograph printer. 

Malaika Ross’ work integrates shapes and patterns from her microbial drawings and collages into contemporary botanical paintings of native and introduced flora in Western Massachusetts.

Phoebe Harris’ paintings exist somewhere between worlds of abstraction and representation, often containing subject matter of the natural world painted with unnaturally vibrant, saturated tones.

Rhea Mack is an artist living in Northampton, MA.  She makes original colored pencil drawings of sometimes strange people in strange landscapes.

Static Frame is the moniker of Western Massachusetts multidisciplinary artist Megan Minior. Megan’s work is realized through illustration, printmaking, design work, zines, and more.

Vegan Pizza Land is a pop-up pizza shop that makes hot and fresh vegan pies. From the tomato sauce to the cashew cheese to the pizza dough, every ingredient is handmade or locally sourced. 

Zoárd Tyeklár is an artist living and working in Providence, RI who creates screenprinted zines, prints, apparel, and more. Tyeklár has partnered with Hurrikán Press from Budapest, Hungary to bring their unique risograph zines, prints and books to the NPBF. 

Rare Book Monthly

  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    27th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 27: Dürer (Albrecht) Hierin sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion, 4 parts in 1, first edition, Nuremberg, Hieronymus Andreae for Agnes Dürer, 1528. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 26 fine hand-painted miniatures, 17th century dark brown morocco, [Lyon], [c. 1475 and later c. 1490-1500]. £25,000 to £35,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Brontë (Emily) The North Wind, watercolour, [1842]. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Titanic.- Mudd (Thomas Cupper, one of the youngest victims of the sinking of the Titanic, 1895-1912) Autograph Letter signed on board RMS Titanic to his mother, April 11th 1912. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    27th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 27: [Austen (Jane)] Emma: A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, for John Murray, 1816. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Picasso (Pablo).- Ovid. Les Metamorphoses, one of 95 copies, signed by the artist, Lausanne, Albert Skira, 1931. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: America.- Ogilby (John) America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World..., all maps with vibrant hand-colouring in outline, probably by an early hand, 1671. £15,000 to £25,000.
    Forum, Mar. 27: Iceland.- Geological exploration.- Bright (Dr. Richard )and Edward Bird. Collection of twenty original drawings from travels in Iceland with Henry Holland and George Mackenzie, watercolours, [1810]. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Library of Barry Humphries
    26th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 26: Beckford (William) [Vathek] An Arabian Tale, first (but unauthorised) edition, Lady Caroline Lamb's copy with her signature and notes, 1786. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal, first edition containing the 6 suppressed poems, first issue, contemporary half black morocco, Paris, 1857. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Beardsley (Aubrey).- Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock, one of 25 copies on Japanese vellum, Leonard Smithers, 1896. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Douglas (Lord Alfred) Sonnets, first edition, the dedication copy, with signed presentation inscription from the author to his wife Olive Custance, The Academy, 1909. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum Auctions
    The Library of Barry Humphries
    26th March 2025
    Forum, Mar. 26: Crowley (Aleister) The Works..., 3 vol. in 1 (as issued)"Essay Competition" issue on India paper, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1905-07. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Rodin (Auguste).- Mirbeau (Octave) Le Jardin des Supplices, one of 30 copies on chine with an additional suite, bound in dark purple goatskin, Paris, 1902. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Pellar (Hans) Eight original book illustrations for 'Der verliebte Flamingo' [together with] a published copy of the first edition of the book, 1923. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 26: Cretté (Georges, binder).- Louÿs (Pierre) Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, 2 vol., one of 99 copies, with 2 original drawings, superbly bound in blue goatskin, gilt, Paris, 1930. £3,000 to £4,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 78: Victor H. Green, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas, Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann
    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 263: Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 267: Langston Hughes, Gypsy Ballads, signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 367: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
  • Koller, Mar. 26: Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Mar. 26: BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000

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