The Virtual Showcase has the largest selection yet of international sellers taking part!

Exhibitors include:

Librairie Walden, Orléans, France: who offer rare and precious books and documents. Specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st century literature.

One highlight being: Théogonie. Georges Braque’s greatest book. With a spectacular binding by Renée Haas.

Kunstbroker, Goldach, Switzerland: who offer rare books, ephemera and photos. Specializing in photobooks, artists books, photographs, and catalogue raisonnés.

One highlight being: Pablo Picasso. Oeuvres de 1895 à 1906. Catalogue raisonné. 33 Teile in 34 Bänden. One of 500 numbered copies of this catalogue raisonné.

G. F. Wilkinson Books, Grass Valley, USA: Specializing in Western Americana, printing and fine press, small press poetry, and general antiquarian – including Yolla Bolly Press.

One highlight being: The Adventures of Chef Gallois. A Story by Idwal Jones, with a Salutation by MFK Fisher; Afterword by Thomas Keller; Illustrations by Milton Glaser. With a Copy of Making Books in the Woods. Signed, limited edition printed entirely by letterpress.

Librairie Casaubon, Paris, France: who offer everything from Japanese woodblock prints, to travel and exploration books, pamphlets, and esoteric and alchemical books. Specializing in old and rare books, first editions and manuscripts.

One highlight being: La vie des abeilles. The work of a passionate beekeeper, in a Jansenist binding by Charles Meunier.

Haec City / Also Books, Pittsburgh, USA: who offer manuscripts and folk art, games, children’s books, Americana, and giftworthy miscellany. Specializing in decorative arts, design, education, ephemera, original art and manuscripts.

One highlight being: Specimens of Melvina Townsend’s work in the Kindergarten School, 1893 & 1894, 5 & 6 years of age… A delightful period scrap book album, with decorative embossed covers and 30 album leaves.

Nik’s Bookstore Versandantiquariat, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany: who offer rare books and magazines. Specializing in modern first editions and 19th / 20th century literature.

One highlight being: Angels and Damons (Signed First Ed. 2000). A signed first edition, in a fine dust jacket.

We’re pleased to announce the dates for the next viaLibri Virtual Showcase will be:

Wednesday 3rd December (3pm GMT) – Monday 8th December (10pm GMT)

Following the success of our October showcase, which drew record visitor numbers from around the globe, we’re excited to open our virtual doors once again. This December also marks one year since our inaugural Virtual Showcase.

Registration for exhibitors is open now.

The registration fee is just $75 and allows you to list up to 60 items. viaLibri Harvest subscribers can register for free and easily copy items directly from their website into their showcase booth.

A commission applies when items sell through the showcase. You can find details of how this works here.

We look forward to welcoming even more visitors in December. Register today to secure your booth.

Register as an exhibitor

Find out more

After more than 18 years as head of viaLibri, the time has come for me to retire and step back from the day-to-day grind of being CEO. Someone younger, smarter, and more energetic needs to move forward and take my place. Fortunately, my long tenure has also given me the great good fortune of knowing exactly who that person should be: our long-standing CTO, Alasdair North.

Booksellers who have worked with Alasdair already know that the viaLibri-dependent parts of their business will continue in excellent hands. His deep technical understanding and commitment to our mission make him the ideal person to lead viaLibri into its next chapter.

As for me, fear not. I have no plans to disappear completely. While Alasdair will be taking over my former role as CEO, I’ll be moving into a more congenial position as retired founder and Chairman of the Board. I’m entirely at ease knowing that the operation of the company I founded is being left in such capable hands.

A special thank you is due to the many booksellers, collectors, and librarians who have taken an interest in viaLibri over the years and helped to make it what it is today.

The viaLibri Blog will continue as before, and I hope to make an occasional appearance there when I have something new to say. I also hope to see new voices join the conversation, making it livelier and, I trust, more frequent.

Jim Hinck

You can find more details in our press release, or leave a comment below the blog post.

viaLibri Limited announces the appointment of Alasdair North as CEO of viaLibri Ltd., the world’s largest search engine for rare, antiquarian and out-of-print books.

North will assume his new role as CEO of viaLibri Ltd. as of October 24th, 2025. Mr. North has served as Chief Technology Officer of the company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, since 2015 – working there with founder, James A. Hinck, who will now retire as CEO and continue to serve as Chairman of the Board and strategic advisor.

“I’m deeply honored to lead viaLibri into its next chapter. Jim has built something truly special: a platform that has become an essential tool for the rare book trade. My focus will be on preserving what makes viaLibri indispensable to dealers and collectors while expanding our capabilities to serve them even better. We’ll continue investing in the tools that help dealers run successful businesses, make it easier for collectors to find those elusive titles, and ensure that researchers can access the information they need. The rare book trade is evolving rapidly with virtual book fairs, online auctions, new selling platforms, and the expanding use of AI, and viaLibri will evolve with it while remaining true to our mission of being the most comprehensive and reliable resource for the antiquarian book community” said Alasdair North, Chief Executive Officer of viaLibri.

Mr. North brings over a decade of leadership at viaLibri to his new role as CEO, having shaped the platform’s technological evolution since joining the company. As CTO, North has been instrumental in many of the improvements that have been made to viaLibri.net over the past ten years, including the mobile-friendly redesign of the website, the development of the viaLibri Virtual Showcase book fair platform, the integration of eBay searching and innumerable smaller additions. A Cambridge University graduate and book collector himself, North combines deep technical expertise with genuine appreciation for the antiquarian book community. North attended the York Antiquarian Book Seminar (YABS) in 2022 and has become a familiar presence among English dealers and collectors, many of whom are daily visitors to a website he helped to build to its current position as the world’s largest search engine for old and rare books.

As Founder, Chairman and former CEO of the company, Jim Hinck says that he has “great confidence in Alasdair’s ability to continue growing our company in an age of many technical and entrepreneurial challenges, including the advancement of artificial intelligence in all businesses, the demands of marketing in a complex commercial environment, and the need for excellent team leadership in the achievement of our exciting and ambitious goals.”

Hinck founded viaLibri in 2006 after recognising that existing book search platforms failed to meet the sophisticated needs of serious bibliophiles and scholars. As a book dealer and self-taught programmer, Hinck created viaLibri.net to provide the best possible access to the rare book world for collectors, librarians, and booksellers. Under his visionary leadership, the website grew from a simple search tool to a cornerstone of the worldwide trade in rare and antiquarian books, connecting tens of thousands of dealers and collectors around the globe.

ViaLibri Limited, viaLibri.net, is a search engine for old, rare, and out of print books. The site can be used to search for books for sale across over 180 different websites, as well as providing quick access to many different Western institutional and library holdings. Regularly, viaLibri.net hosts a Virtual Showcase, an online book fair offering a chance for booksellers to feature their current important holdings for sale.