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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Beasley Books

Chicago, IL
http://www.beasleybooks.com

Modern First Editions, African American, Radicalism/Labor, Jazz/Blues, Surrealism, Science Fiction, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

Bookseller interviews

Agnes Dawson

Agnes Dawson learned the book business in the offices of Dawson’s Book Shop as a part time employee. She married Muir Dawson, threw herself into the business,and never looked back. Agnes is now retired and an Emeritus member of the ABAA. ABAA Member Since 1985, Emeritus since 2020. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg on February 8, 2014 at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena.

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Incunabula: 15 Items

WA-153

The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Buckingham Books

E-list 15 items

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