Day four and the aftermath...

Sunday was,surprisingly, really quite busy and fun. It was a long day (11 to 6), but traffic was really quite steady right to the end. Seeing a good number of people still actively milling about and looking at 6pm on a Sunday is really nice and speaks well for the show.

Overall, we really enjoyed doing this show and have already signed up to do it again next year. The antique dealers were fun and the crowds they drew were a nice addition to the usually bookish crowd. With the exception of a bit of logistics, I think the show was very well run and that the pr/marketing before and after is among the best I've seen by any promoter.

On a related marketing note, I was interviewed by two different publications and it will be interesting to see what sort of feedback we get from them.

We managed, as we do far too often, to purchase more than we sold *laughing*. It was all for clients, but we really did do a fair amount of buying...most notably, a lovely set of the 1915 elephant folio of the monograph on McKim Mead in four volumes. Thus, as we left, our already filled car was *more* full than when we left Portland.

Then we went to Annapolis, MD, where my wife's parents own a home and picked up several largish things they asked us to bring up to Maine for them. The car, at this point, was basically completely full save the front seat.

Then we went to the Eastern Shore and met with a new client and picked up a rather nice W. Somerset Maugham collection. I managed, frankly to my surprise, to find room to tuck another FOUR shelves worth of WSM material. The car, at this point, is really stunningly full...and so tightly packed that I think I could roll it down an embankment and not have anything shift (though I hope not to test this theory). Back in Maine tomorrow for the big unpacking and a great show finished.