

Peter Stern: An Intellectually Curious Bookseller and Bibliophile
Peter Stern is a long-time exhibitor at the upcoming Northampton Antiquarian Book, Ephemera, and Book Arts Fair. Stern specializes in selling and collecting old and rare fiction books from the nineteenth and twentieth century. He has a few thousand books at the moment, and in his collection aside from fiction, are poems and photographs and much more. For the last twenty-five years he’s been running his own online store and a bricks and mortar shop in Newton, Massachusetts th


Gary Metras, poet and publisher of Adastra Press
Gary Metras, the Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts in 2018, has published 118 chapbooks, broadsides, and full length books since the founding of Adastra Press in 1979. Adastra Press, the oldest independent poetry publisher in the Pioneer Valley, is a one-person printing and publishing operation, specializing in limited editions of poetry, mostly in chapbook size, letterpress printed using hand set type, with a paper cover that has a flat spine glued to the hand sewn


Bridge Press & Brian D. Cohen's Etchings
Crow , from Bestiary, etching, 4 3/8 × 7 3/8 ", 2019 Angel , from The Fool's Journey, etching with aquatint and calligraphy on handmade paper, 10 × 7 " (image); 12 × 9" (sheet), 2005 Brian D. Cohen returns to this year’s book fair with over a hundred different prints, mostly etchings, as well as one artist’s book, a few trade books, and cards. The last time Cohen showcased was in 2019, where he was able to see old connections and create new ones; he's back this November afte

