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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Sumner & Stillman

Yarmouth, ME
http://www.sumnerandstillman.com

19th & Early 20th Century Literary First Editions: Conrad, Dickens, Doyle, Hardy, James, Kipling, London, Stevenson, Trollope, Twain, Verne, Wells, Wilde, etc.

Bookseller interviews

After earning his BA and MA at Wichita State University, Michael Heaston was hired as the Curator of Special Collections in the University's new rare book and manuscripts library. After spending nearly a decade building and developing the collection, Michael worked as general manager for the Jenkins Rare Book and Publishing Company before starting his own antiquarian book business. Michael D. Heaston operates out of Witchita, KS and specializes in Western & General Antiquarian, Manuscripts, Maps of American West, Texas, and the Southwest. ABAA Member from 1983-2020. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg on February 16, 2013 at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair in San Francisco.

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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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