Deventer Book Market

Last Sunday saw the 19th annual book market held in the town of Deventer. There were 878 stalls set out in the town. If they were laid end-to-end, that’s six kilometres of stalls groaning with books. I managed to pick up some bargains: The Science Book for €5 and a hardcover first edition of Robert Nye’s Merlin for €4. There was one stall devoted to pop-up books, which are a particular weakness of mine. They had a nice example of a pop-up devoted to the works of Alfred Hitchcock, and another that had pop-ups of six of Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses, but alas, the prices asked I could not justify to myself. Frankly, Amazon is far cheaper, even with the postage. And then there was the stall that had an amazing book on Magritte, a snip at €225 in place of the original price of €995. I left that one behind as well.