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

Appledore Books

Waccabuc, NY
http://www.appledorebookshop.com

Buying and selling widely in the areas of Children's, Art, Scholarly, Photography, Sports, Bindings. Have been actively selling for over 25 years and, though we're more generalists than specialists, we do place a particular focus on books and ephemera in the above areas. Will travel far and wide to look at interesting collections and always welcome inquiries.

Bookseller interviews

Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink

Don Lindgren has been involved with in varying ways books since he was a teenager, from promoting bestsellers at Barnes & Noble during their chain expansion to supplying intellectuals with their obscure academic needs at Powell’s Chicago bookstore. Other careers tempted him away from books for a while, but he returned to the trade in the late 1990’s and established Rabelais Inc. in 2006. Don became a member of the ABAA in 2011. He serves on the Board of Governors, chairs the Internet Committee, and is a member of the Book Fair, Public Relations, and Planning Committees. Rabelais Inc. operates out of Biddeford, ME, and specializes in Artists’ Books, Cocktails, Cookbooks, Farm and Garden, Gastronomy, History of Food, Rare Periodicals, and Wine. ABAA Member since 2011. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.

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Member Catalogs

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Special List 537: The Law—Civil, Criminal & Canon

STRUGGLE RESISTANCE REVOLUTION

Richard C. Ramer, Old & Rare Books

Charles Agvent

122 items, fully illustrated in color

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Our new catalog contains 25 items related to various struggles for rights and freedoms, including t...

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