ABAA BOOKSELLERS
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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
Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC
Virginia Beach, VAhttp://read-em-again.com
Unique Americana, that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, correspondence collections, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, culture, or society. Additionally, we always have a nice selection of philatelic material (primarily postal history) and other paper ephemera.
Selections from Member's stock
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1951 – Three hand-illustrated humorous orders submitted by W. G. Williams of San Francisco to Stanely D. Harris, a prominent stamp dealer who operated out of New York and Vermont in the mid-twentieth-centuryby W. G. Williams
San Francisco, California 1951
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1920 – Two printed postcard requests from Austria asking American relatives to purchase and send Food Drafts exchange for rations from the American Relief Warehouse in Viennaby Herbert Hoover
Vienna, Austria 1920
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1864 – Letter from a Union sergeant on the battle lines near Petersburg describing mortar bombardments how Northern and Southern troops would call cease-fires so they could have friendly conversationsby Sergeant Aaron Crouch
Petersburg , Virginia 1864
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1863 – Letter from a Union soldier at a contraband camp near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, reporting the cold-blooded murder of one former slave by another in a fit of jealousyby Henry Eller
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 1863
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1829 – Letter from an early lead miner encouraging a friend and his brother in Pennsylvania to join him in Galena, Illinois via river travel to St. Louis where he could receive assistance from the not-yet-famous gunsmiths, Jacob and Samuel Hawkensby Joeseph Mace
Galena, Illinois 1829
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1955 – Letter from the Pennsylvania Department regarding the unnecessity of disinfecting mail originating at a Tuberculosis Sanitoriumby Dr. R. H. McCutcheum
Hamburg, Pennsylvania 1955
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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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.