NEW YORK, NY.- The New York City Book and Ephemera Fair holds its debut running on Saturday, April 11th at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola’s Wallace Hall on Park Avenue. The new fair joins of Rare Book Week, - the annual spring round-up of auctions and selling exhibitions aimed at book collectors, curators and those fascinated by historical maps, vintage photographs and ephemera – by presenting more than 50 dealers.

Marvin Getman, President of Impact Events Group, a respected New England producer of specialty antiques and book fairs since 1981, stated the event is an affordable complement to the ABAA Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory.

Hours: 8 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. A free shuttle bus will take buyers to the ABAA Fair from 8 a.m. to noon.

The fair promises items that will appeal to both seasoned collectors and new audiences. Given the range of material, it could be said the New York City Rare Book and Ephemera Fair at Wallace Hall is for music lovers, art lovers, photography collectors, educators, historians and readers.

Book highlights include:

· a signed 24-volume set of Arthur Conon Doyle’s complete works, valued at $15,000.

· #26 of 50 copies of “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There,” with illustrations by Barry Moser. It includes two un-bound artist’s prints.

· Gertrude Stein’s “Portraits and Prayers,” with inscription, $1,750.

· Edward Weston book of photographs, 1932, inscribed and signed. $3,500

· Rimbaud’s “Season in Hell,” with photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. Bi-lingual translation. $1,150

Ephemera Highlights:

· Dmitri Shostakovich photograph, signed. $1,400

· “Kundur Tartars, hand colored print, circa 1800. $50

· Grateful Dead-Lightening Hopkins-Loading Zone poster from a Fillmore concert will go for $350.

Maps and Manuscript highlights include:

· A Tyler-Giles facsimile of the Declaration of Independence. $6,000

· Early Manhattan Sanitary and Topographical map. $5,000

· Abraham Lincoln’s funeral march musical manuscript, by Army Bvt. Major General J. C. (G.) Barnard. Played by the U.S. Marine Band at the Washington, DC ceremony. $5,000

With a wealth of collectibles in highly desirable “portable” formats, some antecedents of the digital age and others part and parcel of it, the New York City Rare Book and Ephemera Fair at Wallace Hall promises to be the best place to spend a few hours exploring on Saturday, April 11th. A discount admission coupon is available at www.bookandpaperfairs.com. Tickets at the door are $15 and $10 if purchased online in advance.