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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
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Galena, ILhttp://www.mainstreetfinebooks.com
General Antiquarian, First Editions & Signed Books, particular strengths in Americana, Civil War, Lincolniana, Fiction & Poetry. Autographs in all fields; Ephemera, Prints & Maps; Appraisals
Selections from Member's stock
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View of Illinois and Michigan Central Depot & c. From the Corner of Madison St. and Michigan Avenueby (CHICAGO -- COLOR LITHOGRAPH -- E. Whitefield)
Chicago : E. Whitefield , 1860
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Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Cañons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Countryby BRYANT, William Cullen (editor)
New York : D. Appleton and Company , 1872
offered by Main Street Fine Books & Mss.
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The Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland into English... in Two VolumesFirst Editionby CRAWFORD, John Martin (translator)
New York : John B. Alden , 1888
offered by Main Street Fine Books & Mss.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure WomanSignedby HARDY, Thomas
London : Macmillan and Co , 1926
offered by Main Street Fine Books & Mss.
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IV. Livres de l'Imitation de Iesvs-Christ, par Thomas a Kempis, Chanoine Regulierby KEMPIS, Thomas a.
Anvers (Antwerp) : l'Imprimerie Plantinienne , 1629
offered by Main Street Fine Books & Mss.
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ObservationsSigned First Editionby AVEDON, Richard (photographs), and CAPOTE, Truman (comments)
New York : Simon and Schuster , 1959
offered by Main Street Fine Books & Mss.
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