ABA INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR
JUNE 7–9
www.olympiabookfair.com

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This antiquarian book fair, which runs alongside the Summer Fair Olympia in the same exhibition

ABA International Book Fair: illustrated letter from Sir Edward Burne Jones to Violet Maxse, Viscountess Milner, from a group of 50 unpublished letters.

complex, is the British book trade’s main fair as well as one of the top such events in the world. (Tickets to the book fair also allow entry to the Summer Fair Olympia.) “There is quite a lot of overspill from the antiques fair, and it gives us the opportunity to introduce books to a new audience,” says Lucinda Boyle of the noted dealer Bernard Shapero, while Pierre Lombardini of Adrian Harrington Rare Books says, “The combination works very nicely for both.”

The range of offerings from the 140 international dealers is enormous—from illuminated manuscripts through the earliest printed books (incunabula) to modern first editions such as the highly popular James Bond books by Ian Fleming.


LONDON WEEK EVENTS

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Because an increasingly large part of most dealers’ business is conducted at fairs, collectors visit their actual premises less and less often. And yet the gallery is where dealers are best able to put on in-depth shows and get to know potential clients’ tastes. The solution is for galleries to put on special “event weeks,” and London is offering two in June: London Sculpture Week (June 15–23, in which seven top Mayfair dealers hold special exhibitions and a joint vernissage on June 13) and Master Drawings in London Week (June 29–July 6), which brings together drawings dealers offering everything from Old Masters to modern works. For more information, visit www.londonsculptureweek.com and www.masterdrawingsinlondon.co.uk.

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Georgina Adam is the Art Market Editor for The Art Newspaper and served as Art & Antiques’ Tokyo correspondent. She reports on the new breed of young British artists in this issue.