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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. ...

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Heldfond Book Gallery,Ltd.

San Anselmo, CA
http://www.heldfond.com

Fine Illustrated Books, Fine Bindings & Sets, Art Deco, Historical Military Aviation, Graphic Design, General Antiquarian,Gastronomic, Ephemera, Vintage Pulp Paperbacks

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The Battle of Leyte Gulf - A Gathering of Original Combat Despatches and Various Original Ephemera From History's Greatest Naval Battle.

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A Treatise on Carriages...The Joseph T. Cunningham Copy
by Felton, William

London. : Printed for the Author by J. Debrett. , 1794

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Wessex Tales. Stange Lively and Commonplace
by Hardy, Thomas

London. : Macmillan & Co. , 1888.

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Shapes of Clay
by Bierce, Ambrose

San Francisco : W.E.Wood , 1903.

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The Breviary Treasures
by Aurelius, Virgil, Epictetus,Romanorum,Anacreon, Horace,Homer,Aristophanes, Lucian,Pindar,Aristophanes.

Boston : Nathan Haskell Dole , 1904

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A Rogue's Life
by Collins,Wilkie

London. : Richard Bentley and Son. , 1879.

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Bookseller interviews

Honey & Wax Booksellers

Heather O'Donnell got her start in rare books in the stacks of the Beinecke Library, where she worked as a curatorial assistant during her grad school years at Yale, and learned the trade in the New York gallery of Bauman Rare Books. In 2011, Heather launched Honey & Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn, specializing in rare, striking, and curious examples of literary classics. She is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and Rare Book School, and a member of the Grolier Club. ABAA Member since 2015. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg on February 14, 2016 at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena.

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

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

Second Story Books

76 economics titles from the Gabler Collection.

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171 fiction titles from the Gabler Collection.

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ABAA membership conveys recognition throughout the rare book world. A member of the ABAA is a bookseller with proven knowledge, expertise, and ethical standards.

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