Book Fair Tour Guide: Chris Browne
There were several tours of the ANZAAB Book Fair offered this year, with one, called “Meet me at the Book Fair” offered on Saturday 29th July. Chris led his party of nine “book tourists” around the fair, engaging with the book dealers and encouraging the tourists to explore the offerings. There were many highlights: Peter Harrington gave a masterclass on his Shakespeare Second Folio; Dawn Albinger showed the group her Fanfrolico Press Aristophanes; Kay Craddock spoke to the group on the importance of the accurate descriptions of books and of building the relationship between buyer and dealer; Rachel Robarts at Horden House described the complexities of part issues of Dickens; Andrew Leckie explained some of his manuscript pages; Mark Burgess showed the group the varied nature of literary ephemera; Andrew Long showed what a general book dealer has to offer and pointed to some special mountaineering items. Several tourists made their first ever purchases at a Book Fair, and two who met during the tour have organised to visit regional bookshops in Victoria together.
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