Auckland Book & Antique Fair
Old & Rare Books, Maps & Prints, Antiques, Curios & Collectables

2 Day Show

18 & 19 August

Saturday 10am - 3pm Sunday 10am 3pm

$3 entry fee

127 Symonds St, Newton, Auckland Central

Enquiries phone: Ron (09) 369-1414

Deborah & Ron Harcus have been operating Ariel Books in Auckland, New Zealand for the past five years. "We have been booksellers for about 10 years, "this is our 3rd shop, development pressures kept on making us move. We have purchased the premises here so we won't have to shift again" explains Deborah. "We consider ourselves a 'thinking persons' bookstore with specialties in history, local history, philosophy and the arts in all its forms."

Like most booksellers Deborah and Ron love books "we both enjoy non fiction, particularly histories in Ron's case and design books in mine". And it is probably this love of books, and love of selling books that gave them the idea to launch The Auckland Book and Antique Fair, which is set to run August 18 - 19 at 127 Symonds St, Newton.

"There hasn't been an annual fair in New Zealand for 6 years and we think there should be one". Although the title of the fair is The Auckland Book and Antique Fair books are front and centre at the event. 12 of the available 18 stalls have been reserved by booksellers. Deborah explains that while New Zealand may be a relativity small market due to the population size of the country, the population consists of heavy readers and there are many fine private and public collections for sellers to source from.

As this is their first year, The Auckland Book and Antique Fair have targeted dealers close to home in the Lower North Island of New Zealand. Future plans, however, involve attracting buyers and sellers from the whole country as well as Sydney and Melbourne in Australia.Fair attendees will be treated to a wide range of Antiquarian books, New Zealand historical texts, Map and old print dealers as well as all of the fictional first editions you come to expect from the knowledgeable dealers who frequent book fairs such as this.

The above announcement was taken from the IBook Collector newsletter # 73.

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