The Les Compagnons du livre association is organizing a thriller, comic strip and science fiction fair on Sunday November 17, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Aire room located in Plan du Bassin behind the SNCF station in Frontignan. A collection of 6,000 Books will be presented to the public.
The Compagnons du livre association honors science fiction, comics, thrillers and criminology: literary genres and their legendary characters which still make millions of insatiable readers dream of the exploits of their legendary characters. . We no longer present them. San Antonio, Tintin, Jules-Verne, Asterix and even Agatha Christie have given their nobility to thrillers and comic strips.
A collection of 6,000 books
The show organized on Sunday November 17, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Aire room located in Plan du Bassin behind the SNCF station in Frontignan. A collection of 6,000 books will be presented to the public. “This event will be an opportunity for amateurs to discover or rediscover significant works in these literary genres, to exchange with writers and to obtain rare books from the second-hand book sellers present” explains Jean-Pierre Roberti, president of the Les Compagnons du livre association, which is organizing this first fair in partnership with the town of Frontignan la Peyrade.
Literary horizons
This 2024 edition offers an exhibition and sale of comics, detective novels and science fiction by second-hand booksellers and specialist publishers. The public will be able to come to the Aire room to meet writers, illustrators and authors. The reader will discover different literary horizons. Some are part of a popular framework and therefore accessible to the greatest number of people. “These are books that are not made to last. They get damaged quicklyexplains the show commissioner. These are collections that are made to go on the metro or the train. On the other hand, the covers are illustrated by these great designers who were not known at the time. They became so afterwards.”.
A catch-all
Distinguished consumer of the printed page Jean-Pierre Roberti arrived in Frontignan 24 years ago. He is supported by booksellers from the region, men and women whom he calls by their first name: Michel, Claude, Jeanine, Olivier and Youssef. The president of the association Les Compagnons du Livre has the infectious laugh of a bon vivant who, at 73 years old, says he has “the age of its arteries”. If he were to write a book, it would surely be in the self-deprecating register. This Sunday show on November 17 is “a kind of catch-all”he said. The curator of this Sunday’s literary event was a photographer in Paris for twenty-six years. He worked as a freelancer at Le Matin de Paris which later became Libération.
In the library section
The great literary unboxing offers everyone the opportunity to renew their library section. You will find books that cost €5 as well as works that cost three figures. It is the signature of very great authors who worked in the forties. A first edition thriller or a first edition anticipation is therefore not financially within the reach of any reader. These are books that can be worth €100 to €150. And the price can still go up. For example, the first Asterix is worth around €250. For the first Tintin, you have to count around €2,000. And as for Jules-Verne, you have it for €600. Who today is able to buy a book at that price? “A collector!” replies Jean-Pierre Roberti.
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