The Thirteenth Annual Houston Book Fair will take place on Saturday, November 7, 2015 from 10am-5pm
On Saturday, November 7th, The Printing Museum will delight visitors with a wide range of items from moderately priced used books to rare and collectible volumes. The fair will provide a great variety of material for gift giving or personal enjoyment. The working studios will also be open for a variety of demonstrations led by artists. From papermaking to letterpress printing, to bookbinding and lithography, visitors will be introduced to the Museum’s workshop offerings.
From 10am-12pm, local book appraiser, Kurt Zimmerman will provide free book appraisals (limit 2) for Book Fair attendees. Visitors are encouraged to bring a couple of books and find out how much they are worth.
1:00 P.M.: Panel Discussion of Local Book Collectors will discuss their passion for book collecting; how they got started; and what they collect and why. Moderated by Kurt Zimmerman
Admission is $5.00 and free for Museum Members. Please click here for membership information.
For questions about this year’s Book Fair, please email Keelin Burrows, Curator.
Vendors for the 2015 Houston Book Fair:
- 12th Street Books, Austin, Texas; Modern First Editions
- Beckers Books, Houston, Texas Used; Out of Print, Rare
- Black Horse Books, Montgomery; Texas, Westerns
- Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, California; Children’s Books and Illustrated Books
- Commandant’s Cottage, College Station, Texas; Children’s books, Home Arts, and Ephemera
- Douglas Adams Books, Kingwood, Texas; First Editions
- First Folio, Paris, Tennessee; Illustrated, Rare Books, Fine Bindings
- Friends of the Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas
- Good Books in the Woods, The Woodlands, Texas; Literature, Modern Firsts, Signed
- Graham Book Gallery, Houston, Texas; Antiquarian
- Houston Book Arts Guild, Houston, Texas; Handmade books, Book Arts
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake city, Utah; Antiquarian, First Editions, Travel and Adventure, General Interest
- Langdon Manor Books, LLC, Houston, Texas; Collectible Books and Old Papers
- Houston Printers Guild, Houston, Texas; Letterpress items
- Rosewood Books, Katy, Texas
- Schroeder’s Book Haven, League City, Texas; History, Literature, Military, Texana
- Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts; English & American Literature, Detective Fiction
- Wanabee Books, Houston, Texas; Cookbooks
- Whiting Books, Fulshear, Texas; Used, Rare, and Out of Print
- William Allison Books, Houston, Texas; Used and Rare Books
Major support for The Printing Museum operations and programming is provided by the Houston Endowment, Inc., The Wortham Foundation, Inc., The Brown Foundation, Inc., and Mid-America Arts Alliance. The Printing Museum is funded by grants from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance. Additional support is generously provided by the George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation, the Kinder Morgan Foundation, the Albert and Ethel Herztein Charitable Foundation, Clampitt Paper, InfoVine Inc., Copy.Com, Spindletop Design, and Whole Foods Market.