one of our first guests here. how do you do? welcome. great to have you. you are one of the rare book sellers. yes i am. i have a business here in san francisco. i ve been for many years on the committee that helps organize the antiquarian book fair we have every two years at the concourse exhibition hall coming up i see. it is three days. three days. friday, saturday, and sunday. this is at concourse at 8th and brannon. we sell three day passes or tickets that are good for either saturday and sn or just for sunday depending when people want to come. tell us about the history. is it books from all over the country? all over the world? there are 200, more than 200 exhibitors bringing from probably ten different countries. many from the u.s. but also from england, france, canada. i don t know that we have any japanese dealers this year. i don t think so. italian dealers. but many from many european countries i understand there is an asian theme also this year.
Are loaning things for an exhibit. Uhhuh. Are you have you participated many times over the years . Ive participated in the fair many times, going back to when i first began working in the business, far too long ago. I see. Well, one of the questions i had asked you earlier is why would persons be interested in rare books . What makes a rare book . Well, a rare book is a book that theres a reason for someone to want in the first place, either because its a great work of literature or it represents the first publication of some interesting or important discovery in science or exploration or because its particularly beautiful for its illustrations or the binding or the printing. People collect all kind of things. And some people are particularly attracted to books that they read when they were children. Are they best sellers necessarily . They are not necessarily best sellers. Often, best sellers will be produced, even if they were suspected to be best sellers, would have been produced i