The Old Book & Paper Show
Thornhill Community Centre
7755 Bayview Avenue
Thornhill, ON L3T 4P1
The GTA’s top old paper and antiquarian book show is now established at its new location. The Old Book and Paper Show sets up in the bright, easy to access facility in the Thornhill Community Centre. Make sure to get out to the October 31, 2010 show. New dealers, lots of great stock, plus great dealers in vintage rare and antiquarian books.
Hours: Sunday, October 31, 10am until 4pm
Admission: $6, free parking, no charge to children 12 and under
Ontario collectors and dealers in old paper and books get together for the biggest one-day ‘print-fest’ of the year.
Collectors can find the following vintage books, paper and more:
Transportation including railway and ocean liner items; Historical documents including land grants, mortgages and deeds; 30’s/40’s fashion magazines; airline memorabilia; Old magic books; Old farm equipment booklets; Eatons memorabilia; Pulp fiction – crime, detective, Sci-Fi – including Weird Tales, The Shadow, The Phantom Detective, Vintage paperbacks; Movie posters, stills, lobby cards; Vintage photography on paper plus daguerreotypes, armbrotypes and tintypes; Sporting material – baseball, hockey, hunting, fishing dating to the 1920’s; Autographs; Advertising; Letterheads; Postal covers; Nearly 100,000 vintage postcards, all villages, towns and cities in Ontario plus sports, transportation, holidays from Christmas to Halloween; Theatre and movie programs; Poetry; Scientific journals; Comic books; Magazines. Old books on a huge range of topics including: books on travel, military, science, literature, biographies, the Arctic, cooking, etc, plus fiction, and more.
A brief preview of the October 31, 2010 show:
Vintage Photography – Always a sought after category, severa dealers at the show will have a variety of photograph types and subjects. Examples from the March ‘09 show included an excellent promotional self portrait by S.J. Dixon, Toronto photographer and Niagara Falls wire-walker, albumen print cabinet card, c. 1891, and an image of the Sphinx at Gizeh, albumen print, c. 1875, by Felix Bonfils, Beirut.
Postcards galore – Canada’s best names in postcards are setting up to display tens of thousands of cards. Neil Hayne, Derek Dalton, John Sayers, Brian Wheeler have more than a dozen tables between them. Make sure to check out the other paper and book dealers, many of whom pick up a box or two of cards in their travels.
Sporting paper and collectibles – Sports collectors will enjoy browsing through the displays of Lionel Aubrey from Ottawa, and Brad Jacobs from Cambridge. Both are veteran dealers in nostalgia and sport collectibles and will have good sports paper for this show.
Rare and antiquarian books – A large selection of old books will be part of the show at the new location. Antiquarian booksellers include Marvin Post of Attic Books, London, Richard and Linda from Alphabet Books, Port Colborne, Arwen Greenwood from About Books, Owen Sound, John Rush Books, Hamilton, Trillium Antiquarian Books, Peterborough, Lord Durham Books, St. Catharines, Alexandre Prints, Maps and Books, Toronto, John Lord’s Books, Stouffville, and others.
Posters – Gord Beck from Infinity Books, will have a number of Polish posters, and some 1930’s era Canadian Pacific travel posters at this show. In addition, Daniel Cohen who could not attend the March 09 show, is back with an excellent selection of posters on a variety of topics.
