July 4th weekend through the end of September

The secret is out… Rabelais will be in Portland this Summer with a pop-up bookshop! For the past year, we’ve been working hard to assemble an excellent selection of books, ephemera, and culinary artifacts; new, used, and rare. We'll be open for...

One of our favorite events of the antiquarian calendar is the Ephemera Society of American Conference & Fair in Greenwich CT , coming up this weekend, March 18th & 19th. We will be exhibiting a big selection of so many types of ephemera, while still sticking to our food and drink specialization. Our special...

They started back in June, but this fall they're coming fast and furious. I'm talking about the Virtual Antiquarian Book Fairs. There are growing pains and some different formats, but they are an interesting substitute for the real book fairs which we are all missing. You can browse fresh material...

Rabelais is pleased to host Maine Farmland Trust as they celebrate the fifth(!) issue of their annual journal, 'Maine Farms', and five years of gathering the stories of Maine's farm and food landscape. Wednesday, July 18th 5:30-7:30 Rabelais Books North Dam Mill Building 18 2 Main Street Biddeford, Maine 04005...

Please join Rabelais as we exhibit our very best culinary ephemera at the 38th annual conference and ephemera fair on March 15–18, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.

 Culinary ephemera includes all sorts of printed items intended for somewhat short-term use, including menus, trade cards, advertising...

The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery is an annual, weekend-long conference on food, its culture and its history. The oldest and most important gathering on this topic, it brings together up to 220 international scholars, journalists, chefs, scientists, sociologists, anthrolopogists—and even committed amateurs—among others, for a serious discussion about...

Ou annual sale is postponed due to an illness in the family. As soon as we are able, we will reschedule, and post news here, and on social media.