THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR

Mid April · Park Avenue Armory, New York · Four Days

2027: 15 to 18 April

The red-brick Park Avenue Armory on a spring afternoon, the fair’s banner over the entrance. The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — I · The Armory

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is held at the Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, and presented by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America.

In 2027 it runs from the fifteenth to the eighteenth of April.

Rows of dealers’ stands under the iron trusses of the Armory’s Drill Hall, seen from above. The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, Wade Thompson Drill Hall, Park Avenue Armory, New York, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — II · The Drill Hall

The Drill Hall

The dealers’ stands fill the Armory’s Drill Hall, under its iron trusses, with cases of rare books and framed prints along the aisles.

Collectors browse glass cases of rare books and framed prints along an aisle of the fair. The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — III · The Aisles

Sixty Years

The association gives the fair’s age as more than sixty years.

Collectors examine leather-bound volumes at a dealer’s stand (2025). The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — IV · At a Stand

What to Know

The Court wears a lounge suit.

TEFAF New York is held in the same building in May. The two are separate fairs.

A hand-coloured double plate of fencing masters from Girard Thibault’s Académie de l’Espée (1630). A book of the kind offered at the fair, shown for The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — V · Thibault’s Académie de l’Espée

The Court

The book fair is not the Court’s own. The Court arranges the visit on a member’s behalf, and the table afterward.

How one becomes a member is set out under Admission.