With all due respect to Amazon's Kindle, the digital book-reading device, there's something great about an actual book with pages and acover. For avid readers and collectors, the 28th Annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair is a great opportunity to look over rare, out-of-print and special-edition books as well as maps, manuscriptsand autographs.
Held at The Coliseum in St. Petersburg, 535 4th Avenue North, you'll find rows and rows of dealers with booths filled with unusual books. More than 110 are expected to participate, so you'll have access to just about any genre or time period that interests you. This is much different than visiting Barnes and Noble. It's probably your only opportunity to see so many rare and unusual books this year.
The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair starts on Friday night and is open Saturday and Sunday as well. The cost is just $6, but if you go Friday night you can get a weekend pass for just $10. If you want to spend time seeing everything in detail, you might want to go back more than once.
For more information, call 727-234-7759 or send e-mail to floridabookfair@verizon.net.
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