īecause how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself – and his beloved cat – to the brink. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. Or famous feet: A pair of tap shoes worn by Donald O’Connor in “Singin’ in the Rain” is listed at $3,500.Our narrator’s days are numbered. Nearly 200 dealers from 17 countries will bring plenty of acknowledged treasures, like a copy of Shakespeare’s Third Folio (rarer, as it happens, than the First Folio, since many are believed to have been lost in the London Fire of 1666) and at least a dozen rare editions of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.”īut there are also pulp novels, letters, documents, posters, pamphlets, menus, children’s games and other items, many bearing the traces of famous hands, like a hand-colored 1954 book about cats by a not-yet-famous Andy Warhol, from the library of George Balanchine and Tanaquil LeClerc ($75,000). Hardened bibliomaniacs and casual browsers are welcome.
Prices range from the sticker-shocking to the eminently affordable. One of New York’s best window-shopping weekends is back, as the four-day New York International Antiquarian Book Fair returns on Thursday to the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan.įar from an old-fashioned aristocratic cabinet of curiosities, “the fair,” as regulars call it, can feel like an overwhelming explosion of history, beauty, charm and surprise.
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