The Old Book Fair, a meeting that brings together bibliophiles, booksellers and readers around outstanding and ancient pieces on paper, tendrá su 12° edición hasta el domingo 11 in the CCK, where the public will be able to tour samples and acquire unfindable books, curiosities and first editions.

Starting this Wednesday and for five days, old books will be exhibited and sold. Como anticipates Lucio Aquilanti, president and organizer of the fair by the Association of Antiquarian Booksellers of Argentina (Winged), the ambiguity of the ancient term coins hard-to-find books, exquisite, unique, with authors' signatures, manuscripts, first editions and incunabula.

A little of all that range of rarities can be found in this edition of the meeting, in which besides books, bookstores will offer pieces on paper such as engravings, maps, old photographs, paintings and posters. There will also be a comic book stand with carefully selected selections.

The bulk of the catalog will be as eclectic as the bibliophile diversity that exists although, as anticipated by Aquilanti, this edition will bring together Argentine history and literature as main genres; It will be followed by old European books related to the chronicles in America and titles of artistic and literary avant-gardes of the 20th century..

Among the striking works, the public will find a first edition of “moon in front” (1925), the second book of poems by Borges, signed by the author, with the cover illustrated by her sister Norah Borges and illustrations by the cartoonist María Clemencia; and a first edition of the book “Twenty poems to be read on the tram” by Oliverio Girondo, with illustrations by the author (1922).

further, will see the catalog that accompanied the “International Exhibition of Surrealism”, the first of that movement held in post-war Europe, organized by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp.

And also a Buenos Aires colonial manuscript that contains detailed official information on the fiscal contributions of ranches and pulperías of the parties and towns of the Buenos Aires campaign for the year 1797.

After twelve editions, the Old Book Fair was positioned as one more date in the cultural calendar of the city, “people ask for it, not only the public but the institutions”, maintains the owner of the Fernández Blanco bookstore & Aquilanti, and the largest Argentine collector of the work of Julio Cortázar.

“The fair -adds Aquilanti- has definitely been placed on the agenda, for our public and book lovers we feel that it is a party that is expected. Beyond that it is a fair, it is a meeting point for many people around an issue that unites us”.

According to the antiquarian bookseller, the fair managed to expand and cover new audiences, beyond collectors. “Many people think that they are more expensive books or that to have them you have to be a specialist; the fair has been demonstrating that it is not necessary. The only thing you feel is pleasure for books, by parts”, indicates.

In this sense, the organizer anticipates that not all books for sale prices will be impossible for pockets, Because readers will find first Argentine editions at affordable prices, that cost less than a current news.

The fair will bring together a representative group of booksellers as Alberto Casares, Antiquarian “Poema 20”, Aquilanti & Fernandez Blanco, Mar Dulce Gallery, Helena de Buenos Aires, Hilario Art, Arts and crafts, L. Figueroa, Ávila Bookstore, The library Hideout, Books Theater, Seven Pillars, Red Ray, The Antique Book Shop, The Book Cellar & Henschel, Victor Duran Aizenman and Antiqvaria.