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Richard Stephens is a contemplative artist who takes from real life and values people’s stories, and his artist book based on Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried will be shown at the Northampton Book Fair this year, his fourth year exhibiting. The book features responses from veterans when asked what they carried with them during their time of service, and is hand-bound and made with letterpress with great care.

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.

A member-run collective that has spent more than two decades building chapbooks one at a time. In an age of everything digital, Slate Roof Press does things the slow way. Founded in 2004, the independent, not-for-profit poetry publishing collective in Greenfield, Massachusetts, produces hand-bound, limited-edition chapbooks that are as much works of art as they are books of poems. From the beginning, the press has been dedicated to publishing Massachusetts, regional, and nati