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
Ten Pound Island Book Co.
Gloucester, MAhttp://www.tenpound.com
Maritime and Naval History, Shipbuilding, Pirates, Shipwrecks, Sea Charts, Voyages & Travels, Whaling, Yachting, Commercial Fisheries, Logbooks, Letters, Journals, Documents, and Manuscript Material pertaining to same. Also antiquarian New Englandiana and Americana.
Selections from Member's stock
-
Eldridges Coast Pilot. No. 2. Southern Section. From Chatham to the Rio Grande.First Editionby Eldridge, George.
Boston : S. Thaxter and Son , (1883)
offered by Ten Pound Island Book Co.
(click for more details) -
An Enquiry into the State of the Farm.by A Cheshire Farmer.
n.p. n.d.(New Hampshire circa 1808)
offered by Ten Pound Island Book Co.
(click for more details) -
The Autobiography of a Seaman.by Dundonald, Thomas.
London : Richard Bentley , 1860
offered by Ten Pound Island Book Co.
(click for more details) -
Nouveaux Tableaux de Paris.by Marlet (Jean Henri)
offered by Ten Pound Island Book Co.
(click for more details) -
Directions for Sailing Into the Harbours of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly, and Manchester.First Editionby Bowditch, Nathaniel.
Newburyport, MA : Edmund M. Blunt , 1806
offered by Ten Pound Island Book Co.
(click for more details) -
Report on the Ship-Building Industry of the United States.First Editionby Hall, Henry.
(Washington, DC) : (Government Printing Office) , (1884)
offered by Ten Pound Island Book Co.
(click for more details)
Joining ABAA
ABAA membership conveys recognition throughout the rare book world. A member of the ABAA is a bookseller with proven knowledge, expertise, and ethical standards.