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ABAA membership is a privilege extended only to those booksellers who have demonstrated the highest levels of professionalism, ethics, and expertise in the trade. Our more than four hundred members hail from an impressively diverse array of backgrounds. Some have spent their entire careers in the book business, while others have been lighthouse keepers, poets, helicopter pilots, and professional musicians. Some members own brick-and-mortar shops, some operate internet-only businesses from their home or office, some fashion livelihoods from exhibiting at book fairs. Many combine these retail strategies, or add services such as appraising and collection development. A few earn additional income and professional prestige from research and writing. But all our members share an appreciation for the printed page and for the scholarly and ethical practices which exemplify professional bookselling. ...

John Howell for Books

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John Howell for Books

Los Angeles, CA
http://www.johnhowellforbooks.com

Artist's Books, Fine Press, Los Angeles and California, Miniature Books, Book Art, Typography

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  • Dearest Joana A Selection of Joan Hassall's Lifetime Letters and Art
    First Edition
    Dearest Joana A Selection of Joan Hassall's Lifetime Letters and Art

    by Brian North Lee (1936-2007), editor. John Dreyfus (1918-2002), Introduction. Joan Hassall (1906-1988), Illustrator.

    Denny Dale, UK : The Fleece Press , 2000


    offered by John Howell for Books

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  • Twelve Flowers Arranged According to the Month With Which They are Commonly Associated
    Signed First Edition
    Twelve Flowers Arranged According to the Month With Which They are Commonly Associated

    by Carmen Voss

    Fullerton, CA : Ampersand Workshop , 1988


    offered by John Howell for Books

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  • L'Histoire D'Un Tournesol
    Signed First Edition
    L'Histoire D'Un Tournesol

    by Carol Cunningham (1925-2013)

    Mill Valley, CA : Sunflower Press , 1992


    offered by John Howell for Books

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  • The Old Homestead [or,
    Signed First Edition
    The Old Homestead [or, "Barker Homestead," cf. Wichita Art Museum online]

    by Herschel Cary Logan (1901-1987)

    No Place : Herschel C. Logan , [1930]


    offered by John Howell for Books

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  • A Rossetti Spring
    Signed First Edition
    A Rossetti Spring

    by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

    Bexhill-on-Sea, UK : Silver Thimble Books , 1996


    offered by John Howell for Books

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  • Landacre & Quince
    First Edition
    Landacre & Quince

    by Ward Ritchie (1905-1996)

    Los Angeles, CA : Dawson’s Book Shop , 1989


    offered by John Howell for Books

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Bookseller interviews

Wonder Book

After graduating from college, Chuck took a summer job in a bookstore in Maryland before heading to graduate school in the fall. He never made it to grad school. He grew up loving books, seeking them out wherever he could, pestering his siblings for rides to the local used bookshops and raiding his brothers’ rooms. Quickly adapting to the internet, he now has over 2.5 million items for sale online, from antiquarian material to records, movies, software and games. He does still enjoys those quiet moments when he can sit down with a stack of books and work with them himself. Chuck joined the ABAA in 2003. Wonder Book operates out of Frederick, MD and specializes in general antiquarian material. ABAA Member since 2003. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg on November 17, 2018 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.

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Member Catalogs

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E-List #176: Economics #1, from the Gabler Collection

E-List #175: Fiction #3, from the Gabler Collection

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Second Story Books

Second Story Books

76 economics titles from the Gabler Collection.

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171 fiction titles from the Gabler Collection.

View 171 fiction titles from the Gabler Collection. Online >

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