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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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Dawson's Book Shop

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

Photography, Californiana

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First Edition

Social Graces
by Larry Fink

New York : Aperture , 1984

offered by Dawson's Book Shop

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The Highway of Temptation & Redemption: A Gothic Travelogue in Two (2) Dimensions
by Richard Sexton

New Orleans : Capitola Arts Press , 2004

offered by Dawson's Book Shop

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RFK Funeral Train
by Paul Fusco

New York : Magnum Photos/Umbrage Editions , 2000

offered by Dawson's Book Shop

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Twenty Photographs
by Eudora Welty

Winston-Salem : Palaemon Press , 1980

offered by Dawson's Book Shop

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The Pageant Of History And The Panorama Of Today In Northern California A Photographic Interpretation By Ansel Adams With Text By Nancy Newhall
by Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall

San Francisco : American Trust Company , 1954

offered by Dawson's Book Shop

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Signed First Edition

My Camera on Point Lobos 30 photographs and excerpts from E.W.'s daybook
by Edward Weston

Yosemite/Boston : Virginia Adams/Houghton Mifflin Co. , 1950

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Bookseller interviews

Kenneth Mallory

Ken Mallory got his start in the book trade in the early 1990s working in an Atlanta bookstore that he had frequented since he was a teenager. After learning the ins and outs of running a book business, Ken decided to go out on his own. He became a member of the ABAA in 2009. Ken serves on the Board of Governors and is the Chair of the Internet Committee. Kenneth Mallory operates out of Decatur, GA and specializes in General Antiquarian material with an emphasis on Art, Architecture, and Photography. ABAA Member since 2009. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg on November 11, 2017 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.

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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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