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 in it’s new location. The Old Book and Paper Show sets up in a bright, easy to access facility in the Thornhill Community Centre. Make sure to get out to the April 25th show. New dealers, lots of great stock, plus great dealers in vintage rare and antiquarian books.
Hours: Sunday, April 25, 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Transportation including railway and ocean liner items; Historical documents including land grants, mortgages and deeds; 30’s/40’s fashion magazines; airline memorabilia; Old magic books; Old farm equipment booklets; Eatons memorabilia;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 April 25, 2010 show:
Vintage photography – Always a sought after category, several dealers will have a variety of photograph types and subjects.
Sporting paper and collectibles – Sports collectors will enjoy browsing through the displays of a number of paper dealers who carry vintage sports paper.
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 Shuh and Linda, Alphabet Books, Port Colborne, Arwen Greenwood, About Books, Owen Sound, John Rush Books, Hamilton, Trillium Antiquarian Books, Peterborough, Lord Durham Books, St. Catharines, Alexandre Prints, Maps and Books, Toronto, and John Lord’s Books, Stouffville. Newcomers include Steven Temple Books, Toronto, George Brown, Toronto and The Book Not Mad (Michael Serafin and Larry Ford) Midland.
Vintage 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.
