Germany's Rare Book Fair Stuttgart, 24th - 26th January 2020: Growing number of international firms, an expanded events programme and the new Young Collectors' Award

The German Antiquarian Booksellers Association, Verband Deutscher Antiquare, welcomes the new and returning exhibitors including Librairie Clavreuil, Librairie Lamort, Paris Rare Books, Librairie Yvinec (Paris), Peter Harrington (London), Bernard Quaritch (London), Antiquariaat De Roo (Zwijndrecht, Netherlands), Erasmushaus (Basel), Treptower Bücherkabinett (Berlin) and Stefan Müller (Mönchengladbach).

To compliment the 2020 fair the organisers have announced an exhibition in the field of book art: "Internationale BilderBuchKunst der Gegenwart" (International Contemporary Picture Book Art) and have expanded this year's events programme significantly by introducing a series of talks at the fair, "The Red Sofa" ("Das Rote Sofa").

Amongst the invited guests are one of Germany's and a worldwide leading literary institution, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach. Its archive holds around 1,400 papers and collections of authors and scholars, archives of literary publishers and over 450,000 images and objects; its library being the largest special collection of modern German literature.

Sibylle Wieduwilt, Chairwoman of the organising Verband Deutscher Antiquare e.V.: "We dealers spend our daily lives searching and often finding such interesting works, people and backgrounds. This is a not inconsiderable reason why many of my colleagues take on the ever new challenges that make their profession a vocation. We would like to share some of these stories with a wider audience. It is important to us to capture people's enthusiasm for the beauty of the printed book, language and works on paper, even in the multimedia age, just as we are".

New this year: The announcement and awarding of the €1000 prize for young collectors in cooperation with the Bibliophile Maximilian Society and the German rare book magazine Aus dem Antiquariat.

The number and also the quality of applications were a clear testimony to the organisers: books have not lost their appeal even for the younger generation!

The award ceremony will take place on Sunday, 26 January at 15h00 at the fair.

The fully illustrated catalogue - with a total sales value of around 5.25 million Euro - is available on the Internet or as a print version from the Verband Deutscher Antiquare e.V.
Please contact the organizer's office: buch@antiquare.de

Link to the catalogue: https://www.antiquariatsmesse-stuttgart.de/en/catalogue/catalogue-as-pdf

The fair runs from 24th to 26th of January 2020 at the Kunstverein in the heart of the city.

Stuttgart welcomes the book trade, book lovers and collectors from around the world!

All information about the fair is available on the website: https://www.antiquariatsmesse-stuttgart.de/en/