The GTA’s ONLY old paper and antiquarian book show, back again in a new user-friendly Toronto location. The Old Book and Paper Show sets up in the bright, easy to access and spacious facility – the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. Lots of free on-site parking.

Make sure to get out to the November 8, 2026 show. New dealers, lots of great stock, plus great dealers in vintage rare and antiquarian books. This show is Toronto’s ONLY old book and vintage paper show. You should plan now to attend.

EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LRT NOW OPEN!
The show is easy to get to…from anywhere in the city. The new Eglinton Crosstown LRT is up and running. Jump on at any Crosstown station and enjoy an stress-free ride to Aga Khan station from which the show is an 8 minute walk.

Sunday, November 8, 2026
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
6 Sakura Way (formerly Garamond Court)
Toronto, ON M3C 1Z5

Hours: 10am – 4pm
Admission: Adults $12 cash
Children 12 and under no charge
Free on-site parking

Best TTC option not called Eglinton LRT:
Bus 100 – Broadview Station to Wynford Drive and Sakura Way.
Bus 34C – Eglinton Station to Wynford Drive and Sakura Way.

Enter your address in the box at right!

We’ll send you an email containing a $1 off admission discount coupon (and other show details).
We’ll send the discount coupon a few days prior to the show date.

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Transportation including railway and ocean liner items; Historical documents including land grants, mortgages and deeds; 30’s/40’s fashion magazines; airline memorabilia; Old magic books; Old farm equipment booklets; Eatons memorabilia;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 much else.

• George Brown
• Wesley Begg, Contact Editions
• Ronald Good Vintage Advertising
• C. Frank Hoyles Postcards
• The River Trading Company
• Wilfrid deFreitas, Bookseller, Montreal
• Mordy Bubis, Ottawa
• The Usual Suspects
• Hollywood Canteen
• Attic Books
• Arwen Greenwood, About Books
• Peterson Lim, Covers Only
• Alan Foljambe, Bookseller
• Douglas Armour, Smoot Books
• Stephen McCanse, McCanse Art, Toronto
• Yara Doleh, Unique Books
• RZabas Books, Toronto
• Alain Masson Photography
• Davis Military Books
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Mathew Ross
• Alphabet Bookshop, Richard Shuh and Linda Wooley
• Media History MTL David Sternfeld
• Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps and Books
• Kitchener Kollectibles
• The Scribe Bookstore, Toronto
• Karol Krysik Books
• Keen Eye Antiques
• Boz and Friends Rare Books
• Serafin Books and Ephemera
• How Fetch Vintage, Toronto
• Smoot and Co. Books, Toronto
• Classically Driven Ltd
• S & D Postcards
• Michael Bakker
• Cineimages, Albert McFadden
• The Farmhouse Photography & Ephemera
• Miriam Hart, TimewarpItems.com

Yara Doleh, Unique Books, Toronto 

Unique Books is a locally owned independent bookstore that mainly focuses on selling good-condition used books that include a quality selection of rare and antiquarian books.

Two books coming to the March show:
1) ‘From Sea Unto Sea; Art & Discovery Maps of Canada.’ By Joe C.W. Armstrong,1982.
2) ‘The Hours of Etienne Chevalier. ‘ By Jean Fouquet, 1971.

Alain Masson Photography
Over the past couple of decades. Alain Masson’s passion for vintage photography has resulted in extensive research and collection of British , French and other 19th century salt and albumen prints

Alan Foljambe, Bookseller, Kingston
Dealing in rare books, Japanese material, art and art books, plus unusual ephemera. Among other items, Alan is bringing to the show:
1 – Franklin Library in full leather
2 – Paris Magazines from the 1930s
3 – 1970s magic book collection
4 – copperplate engravings of Roman art, published in 1746

A note from Alan Foljambe – Just acquired for the show!! One hundred issues of MAD magazine from the ’60s and ’70s

Michael Umansky, Classically Driven, Toronto Classically Driven specializes in unique automotive, racing and transportation memorabilia sourced from around the world – vintage photographs, sales brochures, original art and much more. My eclectic inventory also includes vintage photographs and ephemera related to movies and television, business / industry, politics, style / design, military, circus and society figures, among countless other subjects. Below is a short list of a few highlighted categories that I will be bringing to the Old Book and Paper Show:

• Incredible vintage racing photographs covering legendary drivers from Formula One, Indy, Motorcycle Racing, Rallying and more spanning the 1910s to 2010
• Rare 1920s-60s era Circus act photographs and postcards including acrobats, jugglers, bicycle / unicycle acts, roller skating acts, clowns and more
• Vintage car sales brochures including rare Japanese and European market pieces
• One of a kind original automotive art
• Original hand drawn animation storyboard concept art featuring iconic characters from The Animanics including Pinky and the Brain
• Dozens of autographed theatre playbills
• Hundreds of unique vintage photographs from the 1800s – 2000 – something for every collector
  

Beez Antiques, Midhurst
Barbara and Randall have a great eye for vintage paper. The photos they sent for the March show indicate the range of paper they will bring to the show.

Mark Tooth, The Curiosity Shoppe
Step into the past at the upcoming show with late 19th-century Cuban photographs, vibrant early 20th-century Sears catalogue illustrations, antique fruit crate labels, Victorian advertising cards, and antique photo albums.

Alphabet Book Shop, Richard Shuh and Linda Wooley
Alphabet Book Shop has one of the best collections of ephemera in the country. Well researched and carefully displayed, their inventory always includes some great finds.

The Robot Typewriter Company, Caledon, Ontario

Specializing in the sales and service of vintage manual typewriters. Excited to be at the Old Book and Paper Show for the first time. We will be bringing a beautiful curated collection of vintage typewriters.
Here are a few photos:

Hollywood Canteen, Mike Orlando Mike’s shop on the Danforth is a mecca for collectors – movie memorabilia, books, posters, photos and more. Mike sent photos of some of the paper collectibles he’ll have on March 29. The box contains about 200 stereo views; The Munsters; Deluxe Marilyn Monroe 1952 calendar; 4 rare first editions.

Patricia McGregor, McGregor Books
(formerly Lock, Stock & Barrel Antiques)

“McGregor Books carries a selection of scarce, out of print and/or used books and ephemera of interest to genealogists and historians. Check our inventory list at: www.pasttimes.ca

Here are a few pics of some of the things I’ll be bringing (in addition to my usual collection of Canadiana)…

• a selection of vintage knitting books
• some bird watching booklets
• 1976 Eaton’s catalogue
• some archaeology books

See you in March
Patty

Mary McGowan, The River Trading Company, Hamilton
Attached are 3 pics for books I’ll be bringing to the show. The first is a 4 volume set of the works of David Hume, pubished in 1964. It is a reprint of the 1886 London edition.

Next is great kids book illustrated by Maurice Sendak. It is very much a kid’s imaging of what could be.

Last is a grim book documenting the Soviet cruelty to the Ukrainians, published in 1953. It certainly explains why Ukraine refuses to submit to the Russian yoke again.

Douglas Armour, Toronto
Joining us for the third time, Toronto-based Smoot Books – @smoot_books – presents a curated selection of antique, vintage, and notable works, ranging from 20th-century masterpieces by Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Cather to 19th-century authors and explorers such as Dickens and Henry Morton Stanley. Among the many volumes offered will be distinguished early printings and specially bound editions carefully chosen for their literary and aesthetic appeal.

Wilfrid De Freitas, Bookseller, Montreal Wilfrid and partner Susan Ravdin sell old and antiquarian books at many shows in Canada and USA. They have an extremely broad range of subjects, including great ephemera, and always bring a few quirky titles. They sent photos of a few things they’re bringing.

Jeff Coopman, The Usual Suspects, St. Catharines

“Coming to the Old Books and Paper Show : First and second UK editions of The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien; First revised edition ( 1913) of Flint & Feather by E. Pauline Johnson; A superb set of the Works of Jane Austen in 10 volumes ( unread) in custom case.”

Ron Good, Vintage Advertising, Port Hope

“I vend colourful vintage periodical advertising covering a plethora of topics. A great way to decorate (when framed) very economically. Mostly LIFE magazine size.”

Cineimages, Albert McFadden, Scarborough
We specialize in ORIGINAL FILM PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL primarily NON USA movie posters and film paper material from Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries.

Stephen McCanse, McCanse Art, Toronto
“McCanse Art brings a fresh selection of original art, prints, and posters – all things paper, antique and vintage, from Hogarth to Honest Ed’s.”

Peter Lim Beng, Covers Only
Stamps, first day covers, albums, miscellaneous philately

Directions

By Car

From North:
Take HWY 401 East or West, or HWY 404 South to Don Valley Parkway South.
Go south on the D.V.P. to Wynford Drive exit.
Turn right on Wynford Dr, and turn right again on Garamond Court

From South:
Take Don Valley Parkway North to Eglinton Avenue East exit.
Turn left on Eglinton Avenue, and turn right on Gervais Drive.
Turn right onto Winford Drive, then left on Garamond Court.

Free Parking

Ample free parking onsite for visitors.

By Transit

EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LRT NOW OPEN!
The show is now easy to get to…from anywhere in the city. The new Eglinton Crosstown LRT is up and running. Jump on at any Crosstown station and enjoy a stress-free ride to Aga Khan station from which the show is an 8 minute walk.

Other TTC options:
Bus 100 – Broadview Station to Wynford Drive and Sakura Way.
Bus 34C – Eglinton Station to Wynford Drive and Sakura Way.