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

John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

San Francisco, CA
http://www.johnwindle.com/

Books and manuscripts in all fields, especially medieval manuscripts; California, Hawaii, and Pacific voyages; illustrated books and fine bindings of all periods; children's books from 1750 to 1950; fine press printing; antiquarian Bibliography. William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Frognall Dibdin are special interests. Appraisals for Institutions and private collectors

Bookseller interviews

Kenneth Karmiole

Ken Karmiole of Santa Monica, CA got his start in the trade in 1970. By 1972 he had established his own business, Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller, Inc., and became an ABAA member in 1976. Ken has served on the Board of Governors and as Membership Committee Chair. Ken is also an active alumnus at UCLA, where he received his masters in library science. In 2002 he endowed the Karmiole Fellowship, which each year supports one student in the study of rare books and manuscripts, and in 2006 Ken established the Kenneth Karmiole Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts, which supports the acquisition of special collections throughout UCLA's libraries. Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller, Inc. specializes in Early Printing, Travel, History of Printing, Science and Technology, and Incunabula. ABAA Member since 1976. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.

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EAT, READ and be MERRY

E-List #132: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror

David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

Second Story Books

This catalogue contains 176 fine and rare items, divided into categories of Caricature, Children’...

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224 science fiction, fantasy, and horror books.

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