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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. ...

Appledore Books

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Appledore Books

Waccabuc, NY
http://www.appledorebookshop.com

Buying and selling widely in the areas of Children's, Art, Scholarly, Photography, Sports, Bindings. Have been actively selling for over 25 years and, though we're more generalists than specialists, we do place a particular focus on books and ephemera in the above areas. Will travel far and wide to look at interesting collections and always welcome inquiries.

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  • Secrets of Redding Glen: The Natural History of a Wooded Valley
    Signed First Edition
    Secrets of Redding Glen: The Natural History of a Wooded Valley

    by Jo Polseno

    New York / Racine, Wisconsin : Golden Press / Western Publishing Company , 1973


    offered by Appledore Books

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  • Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (In Dustjacket)
    First Edition
    Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (In Dustjacket)

    by Truman Capote

    New York : Random House , 1958


    offered by Appledore Books

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  • Twelve Japanese Painters
    Signed First Edition
    Twelve Japanese Painters

    by Arthur Davison Ficke

    Chicago : Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co. (The Alderbrink Press) , 1913


    offered by Appledore Books

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  • Seegar & Cigareet
    First Edition
    Seegar & Cigareet

    by Jack Hines

    New York 1912


    offered by Appledore Books

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  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    First Edition
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    by Carson McCullers

    Boston : Houhton Mifflin Co , 1940


    offered by Appledore Books

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  • The Third H Book of Harvard Athletics 1963-2012 (2 Vols.)
    First Edition
    The Third H Book of Harvard Athletics 1963-2012 (2 Vols.)

    Cambridge, MA : The Harvard Varsity Club , 2014


    offered by Appledore Books

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Bookseller interviews

Agnes Dawson

Agnes Dawson learned the book business in the offices of Dawson’s Book Shop as a part time employee. She married Muir Dawson, threw herself into the business,and never looked back. Agnes is now retired and an Emeritus member of the ABAA. ABAA Member Since 1985, Emeritus since 2020. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg on February 8, 2014 at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena.

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Special List 542: Mathematics

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