Table Top Fair at Dawson’s Books

Local dealers and private collectors will be converging at Dawson’s Books on Sunday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm for the revival of a “tabletop fair” in which interesting books and related ephemera will be sold.

Highlights are works by Carleton Watkins, including a mammoth plate of “The Dalles, Columbia River, 1867” as well as stereo cards, and images of Yosemite, daguerreotypes, nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs of Southern California, views of the California Missions by A.C. Vroman, a selection of anonymous politically charged press photos from the 1960s, and work from the Los Angeles Police Department Archive.

The earliest work for sale will be William Henry Fox Talbot’s “The Pantheon, Paris 1843” from a private collection. Robin Blackman of fototeka (known for the exhibition and book “Scene of the Crime: Photographs from the LAPD Archive”) will feature “Mexotica,” a new series of 1950s pinup photographs produced from a vintage set of color transparencies discovered in a small antiques store in Mexico City.

Vendors: Robin Blackman/fototeka, Book Club of California, Joe Bray, California Curio Company, Michael Dawson, Amanda Doenitz, James Farber, Joseph Gatto, Bert Green, Jane Handel, Paul Hertzmann, Jim Hsieh, Bill McClatchy/El Dorado Books, Bobby McDermon, Phil Nathanson, John Nichols, Lee Silva, The Studio for Southern California History, Andrew Ward Fine Art Photographs, Inc., Larry Warnock…

Address: 535 N Larchmont Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Location: north of Beverly Boulevard, south of Melrose Avenue
west side of street

Phone Number: (323) 469-2186

Website: www.dawsonbooks.com