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. ...

Featured Member

Marilyn Braiterman

New York, NY
http://www.braitermanbooks.com

Design & Decorative Arts, Architecture & Landscape, Press Books& Fine Printing, 16th-20th Century Illustrated Books, Performing Arts, Costume & Fashion, Trade Catalogues

Bookseller interviews

Brattle Book Shop

Joyce Kosofsky grew up in a small oceanside town on the outskirts of Boston and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she studied journalism and mass media. After working for local news outlets for a few years, Joyce entered the trade in the late 1970s, when she began working at the Brattle Book Shop with Ken Gloss, her future husband and business partner. The rest, as they say, is history. Joyce has been a member of the ABAA since 1984. She serves on the Board of Governors and is the current Chair of the Ethics Committee. The celebrated Brattle Book Shop is located in Boston, MA and has over 150,000 books on all subjects. They specialize in not specializing. ABAA Member since 1984. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg on November 11, 2017 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.

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Member Catalogs

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Civil Liberties, 1682–1986: 30 Items

Special List 531: Sixteen Recent Acquisitions

The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Richard C. Ramer, Old & Rare Books

E-list 30 Items

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A new special list, fully illustrated in color

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