ABAA BOOKSELLERS

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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Pazzo Books

Roslindale, MA
http://pazzobooks.com

Fine, rare and out of print books with an emphasis on literature, cookery, early printed books, and the unusual.

Bookseller interviews

Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC

Following his retirement as Army officer in 1994, Kurt Sanftleben was selected to be the Director of the Marine Corps Research Center at Quantico, Virginia, which included the Library of the Marine Corps and the U.S. Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections as subordinate components. After he retired from that position in 2012, he began to focus more attention on his part-time bookselling business, Read’Em Again Books. Although Kurt and his wife, Gail, have a small general stock of non-fiction books, their inventory consists primarily of ephemera and unique 'personal narrative' items such as diaries, photograph albums, correspondence collections, scrapbooks, and similar materials. ABAA Member since 2014. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg on February 14, 2016 at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena.

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WA-153

Occasional List - April ‘25

Buckingham Books

Palinurus Antiquarian Books

Presented in this catalog are many rare and noteworthy offerings such as Rare & Important Books, Ma...

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Short-list of 15 items.

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