The 2025 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair is just days away!

*PLEASE NOTE THAT THE “NO KINGS” RALLY & MARCH ON OCTOBER 18TH WILL IMPACT TRAVEL TO AND FROM EXHIBITION HALL ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SO WE STRONGLY ADVISE ARRIVING AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY. OUR DOORS WILL OPEN AT 10:00 AM.*

Saturday, October 18, 2025, from 10am-6pm
Sunday, October 19, 2025, from 11am-4pm

Dealers from across North America and beyond descend annually upon Seattle, offering for sale thousands of collectible books, prints, maps, autographs, photographs, posters, postcards, ephemera, manuscripts, broadsides, fine bindings and more.

Come tour the aisles of this most literate city’s beloved event. Meet with specialists from all over the world. Browse this veritable museum of cultural and historical artifacts. There is something interesting and unique to take home for all attendees on any budget.

Tickets $10.00 at the door (cash, check or digitally via QR code) good for both days.

Join an Insider’s Tour of the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair

Hosted by the Book Club of Washington – Booth 806

Curious where to start at the Book Fair? Join us for an Insider’s Tour designed especially for first-time fairgoers and new collectors. Led by Portland dealer Scott Brown of Downtown Brown Books, these small-group tours offer a friendly introduction to the fair, with stops at selected booths and insights into books, collecting, and the trade.

Each tour lasts about 45 minutes and is limited to 10 participants.

Tours begin at 1:00 pm on both Saturday (Oct. 18th) and Sunday (Oct. 19th) at Booth 806.

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About the Book Club of Washington

The Book Club of Washington is a community of readers, collectors, and book lovers who celebrate the history, artistry, and ongoing life of the book. Visit us at Booth 806 to learn more about our events, publications, and member activities.

About the Tour Leader

For over twenty years, Scott Brown has helped readers, collectors, and institutions fall in love with rare books. He was co-owner of Eureka Books in California and now runs Downtown Brown Books in Portland. A member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), he also founded Fine Books & Collections magazine and the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest at the Library of Congress. His newsletter, Dispatches from the Rare Book Trade, offers an insider’s view of the ever-evolving world of bookselling.

It’s All About the Books: Enjoyable Presentations 2025

Saturday, 11 AM - Shawn Eyer, Managing Director of Education at the George Washington, Masonic, National Memorial

The heart of the museum collections of the George Washington Masonic national Memorial is the 1792 edition John Brown’s Self Interpreting Bible that belonged to General Washington himself. It was against British law for colonist in North America to print their own Bibles, necessitating expensive shipment of the sacred volume from approved printers in England or Scotland. Immediately following the revolution, George Washington helped sponsor this Bible, the first printed in New York. He subsequently used it as his family’s Bible, scribing it with genealogical records. Learn about how this important early American Bible is being conserved and prepared for a major new exhibition in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington DC.

Saturday, 2 PM - Rick Harris, Principal at Archetypal Artworks

Dip your toes into the ocean of The Knights Templar, the Tarot, and Their Enduring Resonance for modern minds. A copy of the newly printed Knights Templar Tarot will be available to view. Dan Brown will not be in attendance.

Sunday, 11 AM - Pablo Guzman, Owner of the Midnight Oil Bookstore

Join us for an inspirational presentation on the success of the Midnight Oil Bookstore; from a 700 sq. ft. space into a thriving multi-location hub, including the leap from renting to owning a 4,500 sq. ft. building, and now opening a second (new books) bookstore. He will share ideas for implementing the secrets to his success.

Sunday, 2 PM - John Geraghty, Private Collector of English Renaissance Literature

The IΩTA Key, a novel discovery and technique for enhancing your understanding and enjoyment of some of the greatest poetry in the English language. This talk will briefly introduce a concealed technique poets like Shakespeare, John Milton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin), Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Walter Owen used to weave subtle beauty and complexity into their poetic compositions. John will have editions of John Milton's Poems (1645), Paradise Lost (1669 and 1674), Paradise Regain'd (1671, 1680), three of Shakespeare's Plays from the Second Folio (1634), and Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden (1791) and Temple of Nature (1803). These fascinating and fresh observations on these canonical authors will surely fascinate and inform your perspectives on their respective works.

Exhibitor registration is now closed for SABF 2025. To enquire about booth space in 2026, please contact Bill Wolfe at collinsbooks@collinsbooks.com