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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. ...

Lorne W. Bair

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Lorne Bair Rare Books

Winchester, VA
http://www.lornebair.com

The history, literature, and art of American social movements, including Civil Rights, Feminism, Labor History, Radical Politics, and Counterculture.

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  • Paracelsus; The Life and The Doctrines of Philipus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim
    Paracelsus; The Life and The Doctrines of Philipus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim

    by [ESOTERICA] HARTMANN, Franz

    Philadelphia : David McKay Company , 1932


    offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

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  • Serendipities: Language and Lunacy [Signed]
    Signed
    Serendipities: Language and Lunacy [Signed]

    by ECO, Umberto (essays); WEAVER, William (translation)

    New York : Harvest / Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1999


    offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

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  • The Men's Club [Inscribed]
    Signed First Edition
    The Men's Club [Inscribed]

    by MICHAELS, Leonard

    New York : Farrar Straus Giroux , 1981


    offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

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  • Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition [Uncorrected Proof Copy, Signed]
    Signed First Edition
    Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition [Uncorrected Proof Copy, Signed]

    by ECO, Umberto (essays); MCEWEN, Alastair (translation)

    New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1997


    offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

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  • The Book of Craving
    First Edition
    The Book of Craving

    by RODNEY, Janet

    Sedro-Woolley, WA : Grey Spider Press , 1996


    offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

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  • Types From City Streets
    Signed First Edition
    Types From City Streets

    by [CRIME & UNDERWORLD] [NEW YORK] HAPGOOD, Hutchins

    New York : Funk & Wagnalls , 1910


    offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

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Bookseller interviews

Robert Dalton Harris and Dianne de Blois founded aGatherin' in 1973. aGatherin' is located in West Sand Lake, NY and specializes in Manuscripts, Transportation, American Ephemera (especially Letters), and Aviation History. ABAA Member since 1977. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.

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Summer Short List July 2025

Horticulture Catalogue #28

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Bluemango Books and Manuscripts

Woodburn Books, ABAA, ILAB

Just a few new arrivals in printed and manuscript Americana (Women. Primary Source Account Books.)

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Horticulture Catalogue #28 - Summer Sale & Recent Acquisitions (July 2025) contains 106 items from ...

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