..... to the website of the first annual Kerrytown® District BookFest, to be held on Sunday, September 14, 2003 at the Farmer's and Artisans Market on Detroit Street in Ann Arbor from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

We will feature authors, storytellers, publishers, bookbinders, book artists, book illustrators, poets, letterpress printers, wood engravers, calligraphers, papermakers, and booksellers, both new and used & rare. We have 80 booths of exhibitors and numerous presenters, discussing topics from culinary history and publishing to early printed maps to getting started as a writer.

The goal of the BookFest is to create a colorful mix of regional book related exhibitors, events, and speakers in one location on a single day. Visitors will watch as hand bookbinders demonstrate how to bind and do simple book repairs, papermakers demonstrate hand papermaking, and a paper marbler shows how to turn swirling colors into the shape of peacock feathers. There will even be an opportunity for visitors to print a commemorative bookmark themselves with an antique letterpress printing machine.

Old and rare book appraisers, award winning authors, storytellers, calligraphers, book artists, booksellers, and even a presentation from a local printing firm that printed some of the Harry Potter books will be part of the festivities. Good food and music will also add to the atmosphere of the first ever book festival of its kind held in Ann Arbor.

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Incunable Partners Ltd. &
the Kerrytown® District BookFest