The sixth viaLibri Virtual Showcase is now open!
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.
Registration is now open for our December showcase
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.
A change of leadership at viaLibri
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.
The fifth viaLibri Virtual Showcase is now open!
Today is the first day of the latest viaLibri Virtual Showcase…
This online book fair has many international booksellers taking part – and we’re introducing you to some of them here, and on social media – so take a look at their chosen highlights and their booths:
The Alta Collection
Specialists in early books and manuscripts related to William Shakespeare.
One highlight being: Manuscript fragment of Vincent of Lérins’ Commonitorium. A previously unknown manuscript written in Elizabethan handwriting with palaeographic features linking it closely to Shakespeare’s.
Plain Wrapper Press Redux
Specialists in finely-printed contemporary limited editions of poetry, short stories, and scholarly texts, illustrated with photogravures, wood engravings, silk-screen prints, and archival inkjet prints.
One highlight being: Declaration of Sentiments. A manifesto that emerged from the 1848 women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, re-published on its 175th anniversary.
Harrison-Hiett
Specialists in caricature, and illustrated items, Catholic and Anti Catholic material. Plus (as French residents) wine and winemaking!
One highlight being a ‘Showcase Exclusive’: Le Canard. A wonderful illustrated satirical attack on the Parisian aristocracy for their perceived disrespect following the funeral of Victor Hugo in 1885.
Crossroads Books
Specialists in occult and geology – books, maps, and ephemera.
One highlight being: The Occult Sciences. The Philosophy of Magic, Prodigies and Apparent Miracles. Going back to Egypt and the priesthood which was hidden from the public eye. It compares the author’s time to that time, and the Church hidden mysteries held by the priests.
Peter Austern & Co/ Brooklyn Books
Specialists in signed books and ephemera.
One highlight being a ‘Showcase Exclusive’: US Army Vietnam Combat Correspondent 1969-1970. A spiral bound album from SSGT Timothy F. Palmer, who was a military war correspondent. Many of the images are footnoted with a narrative, along with the photographs and Palmer’s uniform patches & Press ID cards.
La Bouquinerie du Varis
A generalist seller, based in beautiful Switzerland.
One highlight being: Eloge de la folie. Nouvellement traduit du latin par Pierre de Nolhac. In English ‘In praise of madness’. Newly translated from Latin by Pierre de Nolhac. Coloured images by Chas-Laborde. Magnificent binding signed Lucy Weith and dedication by the illustrator with a pencil drawing for the bookbinder.
Visit the Virtual Showcase Wednesday 8th October – Monday 13th October:
- Browse rare works on paper from international dealers entirely at your convenience, at any time of the day, or night.
- Start collecting, or expand your collection, discovering newly-listed items and hidden gems
- Discover items which are ‘exclusive’ as they are not yet on the open market.
- Search and filter using viaLibri’s advanced online tools, and tailor your search to match your collecting interests and budget.
- Easily compare items and prices across booths and dealers, maximising value and saving time.
Head to the Showcase now!
