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Bologna, 20-26 September 2010 - ILAB Congress and International Antiquarian Book Fair
ONLINE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
The full brochure, including programme, details, costs inclusive of VAT, etc. can be downloaded here: Brochure. In order to register, please click on the following link: Online Registration. Please note that the form must be filled for one participant at a time. If you had already pre-registered, you must nevertheless register again online in order to confirm your participation and settle the downpayment.
Meet the World’s Best Booksellers at the ILAB Congresses and International Antiquarian Book Fairs! The Italian Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ALAI) will welcome hundreds of bibliophiles from all over the world to the 39th ILAB Congress and 23rd International Antiquarian Book Fair. More ...
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Antwerpen - BELGIUM
Specialties: Art, Bibliography, History, Illustrated books, General antiquarian books-old and rare illustrated books-bibliophily-
fine arts- history and...
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18 Mar 2010
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The Leipzig Antiquarian Book Fair is part of the International Book Fair that is held in Leipzig every year in March. It takes place from March 18-21, 2010, organized by Detlef Thursch. [+] More
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19 Mar 2010
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Nearly 80 booksellers from all over the country offer for sale thousands of books on all subjects, as well as other items such as maps, prints and ephemera. [+] More
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We went to the Grand Palais this June to enjoy the fair, buy some books and see old and new friends. The Grand Palais near the Arc de Triomphe is very spacious compared to the previous location of the fair at the Maison de la Mutualité in the Latin Quarter. There were many French dealers of course, but there seemed to be fewer dealers from other countries this year as compared to a few years before.
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Poet, satirist, playwright, novelist, classicist, raconteur, star in the firmament of fashionable London of the 1890's, martyr in the dock at the Old Bailey, convicted felon, prison reformer and devoted lover of Bosie Douglas, the male beauty of the day. These are just a few of the reasons that many books, plays and films have been produced on Oscar Wilde and his friends and others who form the background to his rise and fall as an eminent man of letters ...
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In 1963 William Freeman, an Englishman, created the first Dictionary of Fictional
Characters. It made 458 pages and was published by J.M. Dent Ltd. in London.
The author was 83 years old when he finished this 2-year research project.
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