Rare Books Sale - Autumn and Spring Bookfairs
The Kakadu Room contains the rarer and more expensive items on offer at the Bookfair. There is also a large range of more reasonably priced books (some under $20), pamphlets,from $3, and serials.
When?
Friday 11:30am-4:30pm
Saturday 10am-4pm
Where?
Kakadu Room, Budawang Building, Exhibition Park in Canberra
What?
First editions, rare, old, fragile and collectable items - a wide range of adult and children's books, also pamphlets, posters and ephemera
Click here to download a list of the items that will be on sale at the Spring 2010 Bookfair.
Categories can include:
- ACT and NSW local history
- Antarctica and the Arctic
- Art reproductions, prints and posters
- Art, architecture and photography
- Asia and the Pacific
- Australian Aborigines
- Australiana
- Canberra and region
- Children's annuals, pop-up books and novelties
- Children's Australian and overseas classics
- Collectable vinyl records and music CDs
- Folio editions
- Journals and magazines
- Military
- Nature and environment
- Overseas literature and non-fiction
- Signed editions
Before entering the Kakadu room during the Bookfair, please leave all bags of already purchased books outside the Kakadu room at the cloakroom.
Sponsors
We are grateful to our current Bookfair sponsors, including the Toll Group, PRIME TV, Canberra's 104.7, Subway and King O'Malley's Irish Pub. Their valuable contributions help us to keep costs down and make each Bookfair a huge success.
