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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. ...

Athena Rare Books

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Athena Rare Books

Fairfield, CT
http://www.athenararebooks.com

Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Literature, History, Alcoholism

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  • Scientology 8-8008
    Scientology 8-8008

    by Hubbard, L. Ron

    London : Grant Production Co. Ltd. , 1965


    offered by Athena Rare Books

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  • Yearly Lease
    Yearly Lease

    by Lewton, Val

    New York : Triangle Books , 1948 (c.1932)


    offered by Athena Rare Books

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  • Ninety-Two in the Shade
    First Edition
    Ninety-Two in the Shade

    by McGuane, Thomas

    New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1973


    offered by Athena Rare Books

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  • Sickert: Paintings and Drawings (First Edition)
    First Edition
    Sickert: Paintings and Drawings (First Edition)

    by [Walter Sickert] Wendy Baron

    New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2006


    offered by Athena Rare Books

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  • Rotella: Roma Parigi New York (First Edition)
    First Edition
    Rotella: Roma Parigi New York (First Edition)

    by [Mimmo Rotella] Alberto Fiz

    Milan : Skira , 2009


    offered by Athena Rare Books

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  • Original photograph of Patricia Highsmith at home in 1984
    Original photograph of Patricia Highsmith at home in 1984

    by Patricia Highsmith (subject); Sophie Bassouls (photographer)

    N.p. : N.p. , 1984


    offered by Athena Rare Books

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Bookseller interviews

John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

John Windle has been in the antiquarian book business since 1967. John trained with Bernard Quaritch Ltd. in London and John-Howell Books in San Francisco before opening his open business in San Francisco in 1974. John is a long-time member of the ABAA and has served on the Board of Governors. He was formerly Chair of the PR and Publications Committee. John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller specializes in Bindings, Early and Fine Printing, Illustrated Books, William Blake and His Circle, Illuminated Manuscripts, Private Press Books, T.F. Dibdin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Children's Books. ABAA Member since 1991. Interviewed by Taylor Bowie on October 12, 2008 at the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair.

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Member Catalogs

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Signal & Noise

Special List 544: Central America

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Mark Funke, Bookseller

Richard C. Ramer, Old & Rare Books

In this catalogue we explore the progression from telephone switchboards to computer networking. Pl...

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10 items, fully illustrated in color

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