Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller News

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The Vermont Spring Book & Ephemera Fair

Sunday, April 19, 2009 ~ 10 am to 4 pm
Location: Sheraton Hotel
870 Williston Road ~ (exit 14 off I-89)
South Burlington, Vermont

Antiquarian Booksellers from New England and the Northeast
offering Scarce, Rare & Out of Print Books, both Antiquarian & Modern, Antique Maps & Prints, Postcards & Ephemera for sale

Sponsored by the
Vermont Antiquarian
Booksellers Association

Admission $4.00
Information: contact Donna Howard at 802-527-7243
or email eloquent.page@verizon.net

click here for more information

Half Price Book Sale at The Country Bookshop.

Starting today and lasting through July 13th, Plainfield's The Country Bookshop has placed on sale almost all of their 40,000 books, old postcards and other paper collectibles. Just take their prices and cut them in half. All consigned items are 20% off. Music CD's, which are already quite inexpensive, are not on sale.

This is a great sale and is well worth the trip to Plainfield. The variety of books and paper in this shop is extraordinary. The Country Bookshop is open seven days a week, from 10 until 5.

US Route 2 goes to Plainfield. Then turn off at the blinking light. The Country Bookshop is to the right of the church. You can't miss us!

For Saturday July 14: When the summer Saturday afternoon gets long and hot, leave the shop in the hands of your favorite money-hungry teenager and come up to St Johnsbury for the big Kingdom Books poetry event of the summer: Four Poets and a Publisher, with poets Ellen Doré Watson, Lesle Lewis, Nancy Lagomarsino, and Lesle Lewis, all published by Alice James Books -- and the publisher of AJB, April Ossmann. This is a great chance to become familiar with New England's strong poets (making you better able to sell their work!), and to connect with a publisher in person (if you're a closet poet, this is especially valuable, and Ossmann is great to talk with). Note that Ellen Doré Watson is also an editor for the Mass. Review and director of the Poetry Center at Smoth College. Kingdom Books is hosting the 3 p.m. event in the air-conditioned comfort of St. J's Catamount Arts building, and we'll have some books on hand -- plus we'll open our shop afterward, an easy 5 miles away, with a bite to eat for all of you who drive a ways to attend. (Booksellers: Your VABA discount is always good with us...)

Hope you can make it. Beth & Dave

(For more about the poets and press, check our blog at www.kingdombks.blogspot.com)

The Eloquent Page in Saint Albans is celebrating its 15th Anniversary! Join us from June 4-9 with a 15% sale, open house and many unadvertised specials!

The Eloquent Page is located at 23 Catherine Street, St Albans, VT 05478. Contact us at 802-527-7243 or email eloquent.page@verizon.net. Our hours are Monday to Saturday, 10-5:30.

From the vabamiallist, May 4, 2007: I just got the menu for our meeting at the Fair Haven Inn. We have a choice of three entrees: Chicken Tuscany, a chicken and pasta dish with artichokes; Fish L'Greque, fresh large fillet, sprinkled with nutlike crumbs, feta and butter then baked lightly, fresh fish to be determined; and Pork Tenderloin Madeira. The fish and pork come with a choice of pasta or rice pilaf. Dessert will be ice cream. Please let me know if you are coming and what you'd like for dinner so I can give the Inn a number.

Members are invited to begin gathering at 9:30 a.m. for coffee, pastry and book sales. The cost is a ridiculously low $10.00 per person.
The Fair Haven Inn is just off Rt 22A on Adams St in Fair Haven, 802-265-4907 or 800.325.7074, http://www.fairhaveninn.com/ for directions or contact me at bookshed@shoreham.net.

Bill Mattoon is away until just before the meeting. Any agenda items should be sent to me.

There will be an after meeting book sale at The Book Shed, 50% off any book date coded 2004 or earlier, 30% off the rest.

This summer The Book Shed will be running an on-going sale of all books stocked in 2004 and earlier. Any book with a date code of 2004 through 1999 will be sold at 30% off. Stock of earlier vintage or without date codes will go for 50% off. The sale will commence with a VABA Members Only Sale on the weekend of May 19-20. As noted in the email announcing the Spring Meeting in Fair Haven, all 2004 and earlier books will be for sale to members at 50% off and 30% off anything more recent. We are looking forward to seeing a lot of our colleagues that weekend, at the meeting and in the store!

Shop www.thebookshed.com where the books are discounted and Media Mail is free. We Have The Books You Want!

Joseph Trenn, The Book Shed, Lake Rd, PO Box 235, Benson VT 05731
Phone 802-537-2190 Fax 802-537-2010 bookshed@shoreham.net

The Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association
www.vermontisbookcountry.com/VABA.html

The Anthony Powell Society www.anthonypowell.org.uk/

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regards
Tom Veitch / Lightgate Books

The 14th Annual Vermont Antiquarian Spring Book Fair is happening on April 15th at the Sheraton Hotel in Burlington. See over thirty dealers in rare, used and antiquarian books and paper, including postcards, prints and ephemera. The fair runs from 10am to 4pm, and is located in the Sheraton Hotel, just off I-89 at exit 14W. For a list of exhibitors go to this link.

For more information call 802-527-7243.