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

Columbia Books

Columbia, MO
http://www.columbiabooksonline.com

We buy and sell good books; with an emphasis on Children's Books, Illustrated Books, Missouriana, Civil War, Modern First Editions, Art, gardening. We also have a nice selection of vintage prints.

Bookseller interviews

Eugene Vigil was a botanist and began his book business, Antiquariat Botanicum, as a second career in 1987. He was constantly collecting and selling books, even while teaching, working for the Department of Agriculture, and later the National Institute of Health. Antiquariat Botanicum operates out of Lynden, WA, and specializes in Botany, Gardening, Herbals, Mathematics, Medicine, Natural History, Science, Travel and Exploration. ABAA Member from 1999, Emeritus since 2022. Interviewed by Taylor Bowie at the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair.

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Member Catalogs

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Civil Liberties, 1682–1986: 30 Items

Special List 531: Sixteen Recent Acquisitions

The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Richard C. Ramer, Old & Rare Books

E-list 30 Items

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A new special list, fully illustrated in color

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