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The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) will celebrate its 57th birthday by hosting a virtual celebration of the book online at http://www.ilab.org from May 19-22, 2004. The 4-day event will include a virtual auction, book fair, lectures, appraisals, and a Biblio Quiz where entrants can win prizes by testing their book knowledge.
ILAB will also launch new features on its Web site, including educational resources for book collectors and highlighting its powerful new search engine which searches a database of over 3 million books, maps, prints and autographs from nearly 2000 booksellers from all over the world.
The celebratory event will kick off Wednesday, May 19, 2004, at 6:00 p.m. Amsterdam time (the site of ILAB's first conference in 1947) with a virtual auction to benefit Unicef, a non-profit organization helping children in need around the world, and will continue through May 22nd. Donated by ILAB booksellers, books and prints will be up for auction at http://www.ilab.org during the 4-day event.
Thousands of antiquarian books, prints, maps and autographs will be available for purchase from trusted ILAB booksellers through the Virtual Book Fair, beginning at 6:00 p.m. Amsterdam time on Thursday, May 20th and running until 10:00 p.m, May 22nd. The virtual Celebration of the Book concludes Saturday, May 22nd, with Appraisal Day. ILAB booksellers will be available for live online appraisals from 4:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m., Amsterdam time. Check the Web site for the complete schedule of events
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, an organization of national associations of antiquarian booksellers around the world, speaks for twenty nations and nearly two thousand leading booksellers bound by a code of ethics to promote the integrity and professionalism of the antiquarian book trade worldwide.
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