In the Park Avenue Armory, the New York Antiquarian Book Fair kicks off in style this Thursday, April 7 at 5pm-9pm, with cocktails and a sneak peek at the amazing amount of books, ephemera, maps, photos, and so much more offered by over 200 exhibitors from all over the world.  Preview tickets are just $50 and include a return visit. Daily tickets are $25.

Highlights include:

Anna Pavlova's Pointe Shoe
A piece of history wrapped in pink satin, this slipper belonged to the infamous ballerina Anna Pavlova. The slipper is housed in a custom book encasement with a spectacular gilt design on the cover. This beautiful slipper can be found at Schubertiade Music & Art Booth #B12

American Indian Volumes
The greatest illustrated American travel narrative and the most important depiction of American Indians in the frontier era: a very rare issue with the best plates hand-coloured. Illustrations by Karl Bodmer, the text includes 3 separate volumes that include a lithographic plate, as well as wood-engraved vignettes.
Donald A. Heald Rare Books
Booth #C1 

Anne of Green Gables
By Lucy Maude Montgomery
Inserted frontispiece and seven half-tone plates after drawings by Mary Austin Claus and William Klaus. Housed in a fleece-lined half black morocco clamshell case.
David Brass Rare Books Booth #D4

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Collection
The 1st appearances anywhere, in the original monthly parts, of the Adventures, Memoirs, Hound (NY and London), Return, Valley, Last Bow, and Casebook, being all 56 Holmes short stories that Doyle ever wrote, and the 2 novels that were published in these magazines (only A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four were not published in The Strands).
Biblioctopus Booth #C7