Rare Book Cafe regular Barbara Loe, owner of Cardtique LLC in Osprey, Florida, shares some of the paper items she’s bringing to the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair.
Among the items Barbara shows to co-hosts Ed Markiewicz and Lee Linn are:
• A hidden image of Napoleon Bonaparte on a tourist card from St. Helena, the island off the coast of Africa, where the French emperor was exiled, and eventually died.
• A diecut accordion storyboard of the children’s tale Hansel and Gretel that was created as an advertising piece for C.D. Kenny, a Baltimore tea and coffee importer.
• A friendship token hair memorial from the mid-1800s.
• An intricate multi-fold Rose of Canada greeting card.
• A brightly colored promotional hand fan for Le Bon Marche, the legendary Paris department store. It was printed by chromolithography, a once-popular printing method that produced brilliant and beautiful scenes.
• An elaborately designed party invitation.
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Co-hosts Ed Markiewicz and Lee Linn are veteran antiquarian booksellers. Ed owns Montgomery Rare Books & Manuscripts (soon to be located in Massachusetts) and Lee owns The Ridge Books in Calhoun, Georgia.
Rare Book Cafe COFFEE BREAK is made possible by the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, the oldest and largest rare, used, and collectible book fair in the southeastern United States. The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair will be presented March 1-3, 2024 at The Coliseum in downtown St. Petersburg. More information at floridaantiquarianbookfair.com
The program also is made possible by Biblio.com, a website featuring used, rare, and out-of-print books from independent booksellers. Biblio is celebrating 20 years of serving book lovers. It’s better than ever. Biblio spotlights “the core of our business model: the independent booksellers who bring their expertise, enthusiasm, and professionalism to soon the used and rare book trade.”
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