The Brooklyn Rare Book FaIr is a new rare book, ephemera and photo fair that will bring together 50 dealers from across the metropolitan region and beyond. Finally ending the post-pandemic Brooklyn fair drought, the setting for the Brooklyn Rare book Fair will be the XX venue located at 61 North 11th Street in North Williamsburg. XX venue, on the top floor of a renovated circa-1920 mercantile building, is located in the middle of a vibrant neighborhood with numerous shops, restaurants, and boutique hotels that make for an ideal location for the Brooklyn Rare Book FaIr. The fair will open on Friday, December 4, 2026 with a ticketed Preview from 5 to 8 pm and continue on Saturday with hours from 10 to 4. Mass transit access is excellent, with subway and ferry connections nearby. The fair venue is next to the Wythe Hotel, one of Brooklyn's newer boutique hotels, featuring Le Crocodile, a top 100 rated NYC restaurant.
The Brooklyn Rare Book FAIR will accommodate 50 dealers in a variety of booth configurations within the 15,000 square foot top floor of the XX venue. The architecturally appealing space evokes a white-box gallery motif, with a good mix of open space and side rooms — all with ample natural lighting. Located along the East River waterfront, XX venue offers stunning views of the Manhattan skyline and the surrounding area.
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Andrew Lenoir, owner of Ellipsis Rare Books ABAA, is a reformed speechwriter, Lovecraft scholar, and former head of the Charles Watts program at the John Carter Brown Library, who trained under Glenn Horowitz and John McWhinnie. Along with his wife Charlotte Anderson, former producer for GQ and editorial and design consultant for the New York City Ballet, he runs Ellipsis between Red Hook, Brooklyn and East Hampton, New York, appearing at numerous fairs and providing curation for private and hospitality clients.
Duane A. Stevens, owner of Wiggins Fine Books ABAA has been exhibiting at antiquarian book fairs for many years and has promoted fairs in Northampton, Amherst, Great Barrington and most recently, Boston, Massachusetts where he promotes RARE BOOKS BOSTON, the "shadow show." Along with his wife Deborah Stevens, an attorney, he is a regular exhibitor at the ABAA's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair in Manhattan.
