Flamingo Eventz and the Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers (an expanded incarnation of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Antiquarian Booksellers known as SNEAB) have joined forces to present the 11th annual Pioneer Valley Book and Ephemera Fair on Sunday, Oct. 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show will take place at the Smith Vocational School in Northampton, Mass., which is located at 80 Locust St. (Route 9) near the Cooley-Dickinson Hospital. There is free parking, and the event will be catered by Black Sheep Deli. Admission will be $6, $1 off with a show card or advertisement, $3 for ages 12 to 21 and free of charge for children under 12 with a paid adult.
Exhibitors from across the Northeast will fill the school's cafeteria, stage, corridors, and lobby with collectible, rare, antique, modern, fine, scholarly and used books, manuscripts, prints, maps, autographs, photographs, postcards and every other sort of printed ephemera.
Many local SNEAB members will be exhibiting. Barbara Smith will feature children's books and postcards; Joslin Hall will offer material on decorative arts; Lin and Tucker Respess, fine Americana and manuscripts; Rich West of Periodyssey, old magazines; Southpaw Books, pamphlets on social reforms; Michael Muilenberg specializes in natural history; Barbara Paulson, Victorian paper and postcards; John Kuenzig, scientific and technical books and instruments; and Steve Finer Rare Books, antique catalogs, technology, and history related material.
This is just a small selection of the wide ranging material to be offered at this diverse show.
For directions or additional information, visit www.pioneervalleybooks.com or www.flamingoeventz.com.

The SNEAB was born in 2014 as an expanded incarnation of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Antiquarian Booksellers, which began in 1976. The Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers encompasses Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The organization's members include bookselling firms founded as early as 1825. The booksellers offer books from the 16th through the 21st centuries, plus broadsides, maps, manuscripts, prints and ephemera. An index of specialties can be found at www.sneab.org.