Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair

10/18/2025

The 2025 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair is tomorrow! Please consider joining us for the largest annual book gathering in the Pacific Northwest. Tell your friends and neighbors. There is something special and unique to take home for every taste, every age, every budget.

Saturday 10am-6pm
Sunday 11am-4pm

09/11/2025

The 2025 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair
Saturday, October 18: 10am-6pm
Sunday, October 19: 11am-4pm
Seattle Center's Exhibition Hall
301 Mercer Street
$10 at the door.

09/09/2025

The 2025 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair is less than 6 weeks away! Please mark your calendars for October 18-19, and stay tuned here for updates as the show approaches.

Hope to see everyone down at Seattle Center's Exhibition Hall next month for the Pacific Northwest's biggest book event!

10/27/2024

We still have more books to show you! Please consider coming down to Exhibition Hall for our final day of action at The Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair on Sunday, October 27th, 11am-4pm. If you made it on Saturday, your ticket stub grants you free entry into the show on Sunday as well. Let's give these wonderful dealers a standing ovation for the remarkable material that they brought to show us this year!

10/26/2024

The 2024 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair starts tomorrow! Please do come join us for the largest, most impressive display of rare books, prints, maps and ephemera taking place anywhere in the Pacific Northwest all year long. We have so many beautiful items to show you!

10/21/2024

Calling all book lovers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond....

The Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair takes place this weekend!
Saturday, October 26th, from 10am-6pm
Sunday, October 27th, 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 early to ensure seeing the best material on the floor, and consider coming back for more on Sunday with your free return privileges when you purchase your ticket for $10.

We are excited to show off a wonderful array of beautiful and scarce material, often found nowhere else in the world.

There will be something inspiring to take home for all attendees on virtually any budget.

09/22/2024

We are just FIVE WEEKS AWAY from The 2024 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair! Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, come one, come all. It promises to be an unforgettable event filled with great people, great material, and book energy unmatched in the greater Pacific Northwest!

03/14/2024

SAVE THE DATE!

The 2024 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair will take place on October 26th-27th.

Mark those calendars, as we anticipate some really exceptional material to hit the floor from our outstanding dealers this year.

If you'd like to be mailed a postcard reminder in September, please visit www.seattlebookfair.com to join our mailing list.

Thanks very much!

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.

10/14/2023

Calling all book lovers in Western Washington and beyond. Behold, the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair begins tomorrow at 10am!!!

Come early to ensure seeing the best material on the floor, and come back on Sunday with your free return privileges.

We are excited to show off a wonderful array of beautiful and scarce material, often found nowhere else in the world.

Concessions will be available, and the locally famous El Gran Taco truck will be doing it's world class thing at Founder's Court, just outside of Exhibition Hall.

See you all at 10am tomorrow morning!

10/09/2023

We have officially entered Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair week! Exactly three days from now, exhibitors will begin loading in their books, and over the course of 24 hours, we will transform the floor of Exhibition Hall into the biggest and most wonderful display of rare books, prints, maps and ephemera the Pacific Northwest has to offer. Please spread the word to your family and friends, we do hope to see you there!