Portland Book Fair (revisited)...

The Portland Book Fair was great fun. It is held about 5 blocks from home, making it wildly convienient and this year, was not overwhelmingly hot. My son was a great help and had a fair amount of fun (having his gameboy did, I'll admit, help).

I love this fair in part because I get to see a lot of the Maine dealers who do not come to other event and in part because it is just way too much fun (in that strangely pleasing Theatre of the Absurd way).

Best of all, I get to see my favorite Young Maine Female Dealer Who Blogs (ok, also probably the only one). Sarah is wonderful and if you have not read her blog, I highly recommend it. She annoys me a bit...started blogging far after me, but is so much better about posting regularly and pleasingly. I bought a wonderful copy of Design for Death from her...a wonderfully strange little tome.

My best buy of the weekend, however, was wickedly userous. Another young dealer friend (but "from away") attended the show and sadly (for him) had a rather drearly day. I managed to turn the show around for him in the last minutes (and buy him and his extremely lovely partner another night in Old Orchard Beach) by picking up a wonderful set of Edmund Spencer's, The Faerie Queene (the 1897, 6 volume set by George Allen) *and* a beautiful copy of Gertrude Stein's, The World Is Round (a very round book, complete with the promo balloon). It is nice when you can take advantage of a friend and have everyone be happy.