I have a few thoughts on that, but I’ll save it for the end. At this point I was getting the feeling we’d be stuck in lockdown for quite a while, so I wanted to test if Fully Booked’s online store would be a viable alternative. Looking at book covers through a screen didn’t quite emulate the experience, especially when half the catalogue was out of stock, but for the meantime it was enough. That’s how much I missed being inside a book store. Or famous feet: A pair of tap shoes worn by Donald O’Connor in “Singin’ in the Rain” is listed at $3,500.The day Fully Booked announced that they would be open for deliveries within Metro Manila amid the community quarantine, I was already on their online store browsing for books. Nearly 200 dealers from 17 countries will bring plenty of acknowledged treasures, like a copy of Shakespeare’s Third Folio (rarer, as it happens, than the First Folio, since many are believed to have been lost in the London Fire of 1666) and at least a dozen rare editions of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.”īut there are also pulp novels, letters, documents, posters, pamphlets, menus, children’s games and other items, many bearing the traces of famous hands, like a hand-colored 1954 book about cats by a not-yet-famous Andy Warhol, from the library of George Balanchine and Tanaquil LeClerc ($75,000). Hardened bibliomaniacs and casual browsers are welcome. Prices range from the sticker-shocking to the eminently affordable.
One of New York’s best window-shopping weekends is back, as the four-day New York International Antiquarian Book Fair returns on Thursday to the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan.įar from an old-fashioned aristocratic cabinet of curiosities, “the fair,” as regulars call it, can feel like an overwhelming explosion of history, beauty, charm and surprise.
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