Thirty years ago, a youngish aspiring bookseller walked into Boston’s Hynes Convention Center to attend his very first ABAA book fair. He walked out later that day with a copy of the first American edition of Robert Frost’s North of Boston, the signed poster Edward Gorey designed for the fair, and a commitment to find a way for himself in the rare book trade. How fitting, then, that we find ourselves exhibiting at our first ABAA fair in Boston during this inaugural year for Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books.

With great enthusiasm and gratitude, we invite you to pay us a visit, either in booth 424 during the run of the fair, or in our office a mere five blocks from the Hynes, where we will host a combination grand re-opening/open house on Thursday, 5 November from 1 to 5pm.

In the meantime, we have assembled a list of a dozen highlights that will make their Boston debut, just as I did three decades ago.

With an eye toward the next thirty…

Phil and all of us at P. S. & Co. Rare Books