Meet the latest batch of booksellers granted membership of the ABAA.

 

Full Membership:

Keith Botelho, Crow Hop Rare Books

Born and raised in New England, Keith moved to the South in 2006 after completing his Ph.D and taking a job as an English professor. His scholarly research and writing (including two books) has greatly benefited him as a bookseller, where he applies the same curiosity to the material he catalogues. After attending CABS in 2017, he launched Crow Hop Rare Books the following year. Keith’s bookselling interests focus primarily on the cultural, political, and social movements from the 1950s-1980s, particularly the histories of the African American and LGBTQ+ communities. He firmly believes that booksellers have a responsibility to be caretakers and curators of culturally significant artifacts, and he is committed to telling the stories not only of the ephemeral but also of the communities and histories from which these materials emerge.

 

Jennifer Duszynski, Evening Star Books 

Jennifer Duszynski grew up in Madison, WI, and entered the book trade when she started high school. After high school she earned a degree in Classical Studies and Philosophy from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. During her school years, she worked at Evening Star Books, the Bookhouse in Dinkytown, and Rulon-Miller Books in St. Paul, MN. She has worked full-time for Evening Star Books since 2019 and subsequently became a partner in the firm in 2022. Jennifer has taken two Rare Book School courses (and will complete a third this summer) and has volunteered for the CABS-Minnesota Seminar every summer since 2019. Her bibliophilic interests are broad, but she greatly enjoys books on ancient history, children’s literature, mid-twentieth century history, travel and exploration of all periods, and books on the American Temperance Movement. When she is not working, Jennifer enjoys hiking, cooking, indulging her cats, and of course, reading.

 

Joe Fay, McBride Rare Books 

Joe Fay is an owner/partner at McBride Rare Books in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Joe began his bookselling career at Half Price Books shortly after graduating from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas in May 2000. He then worked as Manager of Rare Books at Heritage Auctions for eight years. In 2014, much to his surprise, he was hired by Bill Reese (mainly because he was a Texan, as it turned out). He worked in various capacities in the Americana Department of the William Reese Company until October 2021. In May 2021, he earned an MLIS from the University of Alabama, which he has no plans to use anytime soon.

Joe has attended numerous sessions at Rare Book School. He is a member of the Grolier Club, the Book Hunters Club of Houston, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Crew of the Barque Lone Star of Dallas, and the American Antiquarian Society. He lives in New Haven with his wife, Lisa, his twins Austen and Zooey, and a Cavachon named Fozzie.

Angela Haines, Argonaut Book Shop

Bookselling is in Angela’s blood. Angela Haines is the third-generation owner of the Argonaut Book Shop, and is now a third-generation member of the ABAA. Her grandfather, Robert Haines, founded the Argonaut in 1941 in San Francisco, and was a founding member of the Northern California chapter of the ABAA. Angela’s father, Robert Haines, Jr., joined the business in 1969. Angela grew up with the book shop, and was a voracious reader as a young girl, always with a book in her hand. But had you told her she would own the family book shop one day, she would have laughed out loud. Angela graduated college in 1998 with a degree in theater arts, and while she realized she loved theater, her main realization was that she loved it as a hobby, not a career. So she asked her father if she could “come and work at the shop, for just a little while, until I figure out what to do with my life”. Twenty-seven years later, it seems Angela figured it out. She has been working in the shop continuously since graduation, and took over as owner of the Argonaut after her father’s passing last year.

The Argonaut is an open shop a few blocks away from Union Square in downtown San Francisco. The shop specializes in California and Western American history, but also carries a wide selection of other subjects. You can also find Angela at California book fairs a few times a year.
 

Douglas Marshall Kibbey, Marshall Kibbey Rare Books LLC

Marshall Kibbey established Marshall Kibbey Rare Books in 2021. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, in Yale’s Saybrook College, where he and his wife are Resident Fellows. Marshall Kibbey Rare Books specializes in European books from the hand-press era, manuscripts, prints, and ephemera.

Marshall was an undergraduate at the University of South Carolina (Art History & Classics) before attending graduate school at Yale (History of Art & Medieval Studies). While at Yale he worked as a student assistant to the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Beinecke Library. From 2014 to 2020, he was the cataloguer of rare books at Martayan Lan Rare Books in Manhattan.

Marshall is a member of the Grolier Club, the American Library Association (RBMS), the Bibliographical Society of America, the Medieval Academy of America, the Renaissance Society of America, the College Art Association, and the Elizabethan Club at Yale University. 

 

Andrew Lenior, Ellipsis Rare Books

A graduate from Brown University's arts-semiotics program, Andrew Lenoir was the former student head of the Charles H. Watts program through the John Carter Brown Library and holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. A former speechwriter and journalist, his publishing credits include academic articles on HP Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, and religious themes in underground comix.

Andrew founded Ellipsis Rare Books in 2019 and attended CABS the same year. A member of IOBA and the Bibliographical Society of America, Andrew is particularly interested in books as repositories of unusual and forgotten histories. Through Ellipsis, he specializes in Weird fiction, psychedelia, surrealism, occultism, spiritualism, New Thought, folklore, psychical research, and the history of alternative spirituality. Along with his wife, the lovely and talented Charlotte Anderson, he operates online, at fairs, and through a by-appointment studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn. 

 

Sean Lynch, Books 4 Ewe Rare Books 

Sean Lynch is a licensed attorney holding both a doctorate in jurisprudence and a Legum Magister (LL.M) from Boston University School of Law’s, Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law. His love of books and literature began with a childhood reading of the Wilson Rawls classic, “Where the Red Fern Grows.” After years of study and collegiate athletics, he finally began to read for the sheer joy of reading again. It was a beat-up copy of John Irving’s, “The World According to Garp,” followed by the purchase of a signed first edition, that lead to his opening of, Books 4 Ewe Rare Books in York, SC, an open shop with regular hours. Sean specializes in modern first editions with a particular focus on Southern Literature and the works of Cormac McCarthy.

 

Miranda Garno Rossa, Marginalia Rare Books

Across more than twenty years of working with antiquarian books, Miranda Garno Rossa has been a professor, a private collection development manager, and a specialist bookseller. With a doctorate from Vanderbilt University, Rossa began her career with a research and teaching focus on seventeenth-century women’s books and manuscripts. Over her time in the book trade, her expertise has expanded up to the early twentieth century, and she has gained a deeper appreciation for the intersections among femme, queer, BIPOC, and disabled communities across these periods. In 2024, alongside her business partner Kelsey Clarke Grode, Rossa founded Marginalia Rare Books, a women-owned shop that collaborates with institutional collections to preserve early books and manuscripts centering the cultural heritage of marginalized communities. Rossa’s background in education has made the support of scholars and librarians central to her mission and a core of Marginalia Rare Books: Platforming traditionally marginalized voices through research, teaching, and exhibits is only possible when those primary materials are accessible and celebrated. Recognizing the privilege of handling such materials, and approaching bookselling as more than the preservation of the past, Marginalia contributes to the present and future flourishing of these communities through its ongoing Community Alliance Project, which re-invests into grassroots organizations run by, for, and within these groups.

 

Steve Turner, Steve Turner Antiquarian 

Steve, a graduate of UC San Diego and Loyola Law School,  has been an active collector and dealer of rare California and Western Americana since the late 1980s. In the early 2000s, together with his wife, Victoria Dailey, he was a partner in the California Curio Company which was a regular at the California book fairs. In addition, he has had an art gallery for over three decades, and when it closed in December 2024, Steve decided to focus his energies into being a full-time dealer of rare ephemera and photography. He is open by appointment at his new shop in West Hollywood, California. His website is currently under construction, but he has an active presence on Instagram: @steveturnerantiquarian and he can be reached by email steve@steveturner.la or by phone (310) 994 - 4613.

 

Associate Membership:
 

Danielle Bastone Barrettara, Wurlitzer-Bruck Music Antiquarians

Danielle Bastone Barrettara joined Wurlitzer-Bruck Music Antiquarians in 2019 and has enjoyed learning the trade ever since. As an eighteenth-century historian, she is most interested in material from that period, and has become especially partial to prints, broadsides, and ephemera. Danielle holds a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology, has published research on Mozart’s operas, and is also a longtime editor at the Music in Gotham project. She is very glad to join the ABAA.

Janet Van De Carr, Bookleggers Fine Books

 

Retiring Membership:

Sandra Dolmatch, L’estampe Originale

John Stroud, Stroud Booksellers

 

Change of Entity:

Adam Davis, Book & Tackle (previously Division Leap)