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
Type Punch Matrix
Silver Spring, MDhttp://www.typepunchmatrix.com
pivotal books in all fields. We also maintain a strong children's book department (TPM: ABC).
Selections from Member's stock
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THE SHORT-TIMERSFirst Editionby Hasford, Gustav
New York : Harper & Row , 1979
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THE OUTSIDERSSigned First Editionby Hinton, S.E.
New York : Viking Press , 1967
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MADAME CHRYSANTHEMEFirst Editionby Loti, Pierre; [Johanna Birkenruth]
Paris : Calmann Lévy , 1888
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![LETTERS [...] WRITTEN DURING HER TRAVELS IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/300/274/1651274300.0.m.jpg)
LETTERS [...] WRITTEN DURING HER TRAVELS IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICAby Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
London : Printed for T. Cadell [...] J. Murray [...] and R. Baldwin , 1784
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SOUTH STREETFirst Editionby Smith, William Gardner
New York : Farrar, Straus and Young , 1954
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PATHOLOGY OF ATOMIC BOMB CASUALTIESSigned First Editionby Liebow, Averill; Warren, Shields; De Coursey, Elbert
Ann Arbor : American Journal of Pathology , 1949
offered by Type Punch Matrix
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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.