Heil Ho! The Frankfurt Fair.

BOOK industry exhibitions; PUBLISHING; HISTORY of the book exhibitions; BOOK illustration; LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATION (Art) -- Exhibitions

FRANKFURT am Main (Germany); GERMANYReport Available

The Frankfurt book fair, in spite of the dreary city in which it takes place, is usually an enjoyable publishers' outing. True, the long days spent in the hangar like buildings containing thousands of exhibits tend to be tiring and depressing, and even publishers, faced with so many new books, begin to have doubts. But the opportunity to meet friends and engage in late-into-the-night talks is attractive enough to lure people back year after year. The fair has long been a major event in Frankfurt, offering to this provincial city and to German publishers an extraordinary look at the cultural life of nearly whole of the world.