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Bibliophiles who visit the annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory each April won't want to miss this rare, rare book event! Also sponsored by the ABAA and ILAB, ILAB Book Fair 2006 is a biannual meeting of international rare book dealers that only happens in New York City about every 30 years.

Members of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers display and sell rare books of almost every genre. Exhibitors offer bibliophiles and collectors an extensive selection of rare books, manuscripts, autographs, finely bound volumes, maps, modern firsts, ephemera, and much more. There are specialties for every enthusiast: Travel and Exploration, Art, African-American, History, Law and Philosophy, Feminist Literature, Gastronomy, Architecture and Fashion, Music and Manuscripts, Fairy Tales, and Children's books.

Collectors and enthusiasts will find the world's premier antiquarian book dealers from the United States, Europe, and Australia in the jewel box setting of the Javits Center's Galleria and River Pavilion, which overlooks the Hudson River. The all-star roster includes Ars Libri, Bauman Rare Books, David Brass Rare Books, Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books, Robert Frew Ltd., Peter Harrington Antiquarian Bookseller, Imperial Fine Books, Jonkers Rare Books, La Scala Autographs, Lame Duck Books, Martayan Lan, Rulon-Miller Books, Librairie Sourget, University Archives and Ursus Books to name a few.

Selected highlights of the ILAB Book Fair include:

J.N. Bartfield Fine Books (New York, NY)

• Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book [with] The Second Jungle Book. 2 vols. London: Macmillan and Co. 1894, 1895. First edition of this classic, Kipling's best-known work. Exceptionally fine copies of both titles.



• Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires, 8 vols. Paris: Baudry 1844. First edition of Dumas' masterpiece based on the fabricated Mémoires de M. d'Artagnan by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (1700). Rare pristine bindings in Morocco slipcases with publisher's printed wrappers bound in at the front and rear of each textblock.

Between the Covers Rare Books (Merchantville, NJ)

• Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth. New York: John Day 1931. First edition, first issue.



• Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. First edition, first issue in first issue dust wrapper. This copy inscribed by Hemingway: "To Cuyler Stevens with all best wishes Ernest Hemingway.

Heritage Book Shop (Los Angeles, CA)

• Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brat'ya Karamazovy (Brothers Karamazov). St. Petersburg: Pateleevyi Brothers, 1881. First edition of Dostoevsky's masterpiece in the original Russian and in a contemporary Russian binding. The book deals with issues of decay within family relationships and the inability of science to answer man's deepest needs.
  
  
• Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy. London: Printed for the author; and sold at Mrs. Ashburn's, 1747. First edition, this book far exceeds any Thing of the Kind ever yet published.
  
  
• John Milton, Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books. London: Printed by S. Simons, and to be sold by S. Thomson, 1668. First edition.

Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books (Prahran, Australia)

• Motoring memorabilia from Mercedes, Lagonda, and Rolls Royce.
  
  
• Second edition of the Catholic Old Testament, published at Douay in 1635, in a contemporary French binding.
  
  
• First editions of A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh, P.G. Wodehouse's Carry on, Jeeves, and Virginia Woolf's The Waves, all with dust-wrappers.

The Lawbook Exchange (Clark, NJ)

• The first published edition of Bracton's De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (The Laws and Constitutions of England) 1569. Written between 1250 and 1259, it is the first systematic treatise on English law.
  

Sims Reed Ltd. (London, England)

• Lautréamont, Comte de (Isidore Ducasse). Les Chants de Maldoror. Paris. Albert Skira Editeur. 1934. Illustrated with 42 original etchings by Dalí, of which 30 are full-page hors-texte plates, printed by Lacourière. Bound in full black morocco by Georges Leroux, with inlaid panels of shaped black calf and ostrich skin and pastilles of ostrich and pink calf. From the edition limited to 210 copies signed by Dalí, the final 2 etchings are present in the suite alone. (see photo below)

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