The Codex Bookfair
If you are interested in reserving a table at the bookfair, please see the registration page for information and forms.
In keeping with the mission of the Codex Foundation, to preserve and promote the art and craft of the book, every two years, the foundation hosts an International Book Fair on the campus of the University of California Berkeley.
The inaugural fair, in 2007, gathered together a congress of the world's finest private presses, book artists, artisans, curators, collectors, and scholars in the spirit of an Old West rendezvous. The depth and breadth of the work represented at the fair is archived in the Codex Publication BOOK ART OBJECT
The 2009 bookfair brought together over 140 artists from around the globe. Along with the strong representation of American presses and publishers, the Codex Foundation was pleased to see the attendance of book artists from France, Germany, Japan, England, Canada, Colombia, Italy, Australia, Russia, and Israel.
The fair is acknowledged as the “world's fair” of the book as art and artifact.
book art object [volume 2]
We are currently making preparations to publish a companion volume to book art object that will include selected 2009 & 2011 symposium papers, additional essays, and books exhibited by artists and publishers at the 2011 book fair. More information will be forthcoming soon. Please check the website regularly.
Support the Foundation that works for you!
We are a very small group of friends and volunteers who do the enormous job of making the book fair and symposium a pleasurable and hopefully profitable experience for you. The Codex Foundation has a tradition of offering cocktail parties, an open bar at the gala dinner, and other delightful amenities and subventions. Please consider making a donation to help provide our hospitality.
CODEX 2011 Exhibitors
CODEX 2009 Archives
CODEX 2007 Archives
There are many other pictures of every Codex Bookfair on our Flickr photostream.
Donald Farnsworth of Magnolia Editions has a slideshow of every exhibitor from 2009 here.