Join us for a fun-filled day of shopping unique and affordable handcrafted creations, and sharing holiday cheer with your friends at the Center for Book Arts! Enjoy cocktails and holiday treats (some homemade by the Center staff and volunteers!), and bid on silent auction items you won't find elsewhere.

This year's Holiday Gift Fair will feature over 20 exhibitors selling an array of book arts related items that will make wonderful holiday gifts. Fill your family and friends' stockings (as well as your own!) with letterpress printed and handmade cards, journals, marbled paper, boxes, scarves, and artists' books. You'll even find necklaces made with bonefolders!

We will also hold an Auction of goods and experiences donated by friends of the Center for Book Arts. Bid on private tours and tutorials at major museums and libraries, handmade crafts, and gourmet dining. Online bidding will go live early in December, and will conclude as a Silent Auction during the Fair. Proceeds from the auction go toward general operating costs crucial to continuing all the programs at the Center for Book Arts.

See below for a list of the exhibitors, auction items and donors, and the many supporters who make this annual event a holiday favorite!

Exhibitors

Eileen Arnow-Levine
artist's books, handmade boxes and cards

Andre Lee Bassuet
art books, journals, boxes

B.Impressed
Bessie Anderson
letterpress cards and journals

Doug Beube
Breaking the Codex
artist monograph

Borbonesa
artists' books
(incl. a reworking of Shakespeare's Othello)
www.borbonesa.co.uk

Brenda Colling
cards, jewelry made from books and other papers

Yarisa Colon
Aydasara Ortega
handmade books and diaries, handmade paper

Four Winds Fine Art
Marvin Bolotsky
Eastern European etchings and book plates

Furious Day Press
editioned and unique artists' books

Lynn Gall - Paper Artist
original collage cards and paste papers

Sharon Gross
handprinted greeting cards and linoprints

Harsimus Press
Barbara Henry

ITDO Creative
printed cards

Katherine Radcliffe Art
hand-marbled papers, collage packs, hand painted/marbled scarves

Babette Katz
artist's books and cards

Cara Lichtenstein
letterpress prints, coasters, and handmade books

Franco Marinai
artist's books and prints

Sarah Mottaghinejad
books, cards, posters, and calendars

Meg Quarton
books, cards, posters, and calendars

Ruthology
Ruth Edwards
CRAP: Creative Remnants for Artistic People; Gourmet Books With Edible Looks, Bejeweled Toolery: necklaces with bonefolders

Small Oak Press and Bindery
Carrie Tuccio
handbound, screenprinted journals

Vincent Torre
artist's books

Jennifer Verbit

Shanna Yarbrough

Silent Auction

Our Holiday Auction is Live! Click to go to auction website.
NOTE: online bidding will be suspended prior to the Fair; live silent auction will continue and conclude during the Fair on December 10
Contact mjin@centerforbookarts.org with any questions

Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Brooklyn Museum's Artists' Book Collection
Value: $300

Private tour for 6 of the Thaw Conservation Center at the Morgan Library & Museum
Value: $300

Cooking Lesson with Stephen Schmidt, chef and author of Master Recipes: A New Approach to the Fundamentals of Good Cooking & 3-Course Meal for up to 9
Value: $320

Private tour of the Grolier Club and cocktails for four, hosted by the Librarian, Meghan Constantinou
Value: $300

Private tour of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library
Value: $300

Private tour of the Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University, including a hands-on session in the Arts of the Book Collection
Value: $300

Private tour of the Troll Museum with Reverend Jen
Value: $20

Private 3-hour Hot Stamping Workshop with Susan Mills
Value: $350

Private 3-hour Bookbinding Workshop with Shanna Yarbrough
Value: $300

Private 3-hour Platen Press Workshop with Barbara Henry
Value: $350

Family Level Membership to Symphony Space
Value: $125

2012 Membership to Ugly Duckling Presse
Value: $50
2 lots available

$50 toward membership or class at 3rd Ward
Value: $50

Two-year subscription to Central Booking Magazine
Value: $88

One-year subscription to Cabinet Magazine
Value: $32

Trademark Application and Filing Preparation
Value: $975

Massage at Pacific College Acupunture Center
Value: $53

Acupuncture treatment at Pacific College Acupuncture Center
Value: $45

$100 gift certificate to Talas
Value: $100

$50 gift certificate to New York Central Art Supply
Value: $50
2 lots available

Private 4-hour Cooking Lesson & 3-course meal with Chef Stephen Schmidt
Value: $320

Fondue Dinner and Instruction by Swiss chef Tobi Joi Kolliker
Value: $175

$75 gift card to Blue Smoke Restaurant
Value: $75

$50 gift card to Birch Coffee
Value: $50

Bottle of Napa Valley Sparkling Wine - DVX 2001 by Mumm Napa
Value: $60
2 lots available

Selections from Vandercook Book, by Roni Gross and Barbara Henry
Value: $350

Boxes with Respect, by Kimiko Hahn
Value: $350

Another Day on Earth, by Kim Addonizio
Value: $150

Breaking the Codex, by Doug Beube
Value: $60

Visual Complexity, by Manuel Lima
Value: $50

The Machine, by K. G. Pontus Hulten - Museum of Modern Art catalog
Value: $50

Assortment of Center for Book Arts Exhibition Catalogs
Value: $200

The Book Art of Richard Minsky, inscribed to winner bidder
Value: $40

Selection of books from Off the Park Press
Value: $45

Mark Boyle's Journey to the Surface of the Earth, by J. L. Locher
Value: $40

The Poster Book: Toulousse-Lautrec to Sagmeister, signed by Stefan Sagmeister
Value: $40

Pin Hole Cameras, by Chris Keeney
Value: $19

Set of 2 handmade candle holders from Henri Bendel
Value: $100

Ceramica Coffee Pot, Made in Italy
Value: $100

Geometric brass pendant with chain, handmade by Katherine Mojzsis
Value: $75

Handmade jewelry by Paul Pavese
Value: $12

Moroccan demitasse cups with saucers, set of 5
Value: $75

Handmade sculptural vase
Value: $75

Digital Photo Frame
Value: $60

Kolo Photo Albums, set of 2
Value: $100
2 lots available

Kolo Photo Album
Value: $50
3 lots available

Glass Bell Jar
Value: $50

Collage pack of decorative papers hand marbled or painted by Katherine Radcliffe
Value: $24

Yuri Nozdrin Deck of Playing Cards
Value: $15

Flukebook
Value: $12
2 lots available

Matline, a mat cutting tool
Value: $10

And more!

Especially: Ellen Zeifer and the Center for Book Arts Board of Directors, Lea Feng, and Center for Book Arts volunteers Veronica Fuentes, Faith Hale, Lucy Schofield

Auction donors: Doug Beube, Marvin Bolotsky, Meghan Constantinou, Roni Gross, Barbara Henry, Tobi Joi Kolliker, Deirdre Lawrence, Susan Mills, Anne Mininberg, Richard Minsky, Katherine Mojzsis, Paul Pavese, Katherine Radcliffe, Reverend Jen, Maddy Rosenberg, Jae Rossman, Stefan Sagmeister, Stephen Schmidt, Frank Trujillo, Shanna Yarbrough, Ellen Zeifer, 3rd Ward, Birch Coffee, Blue Smoke Restaurant, Brooklyn Museum, Cabinet, Central Booking, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Four Winds Fine Art, Grolier Club, Hass Family Arts Library at Yale, Morgan Library and Museum, Off the Park Press, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Patents + TMS, P.C., Princeton Architectural Press, Symphony Space, Tara Books, Ugly Duckling Presse