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
Michael Laird Rare Books LLC
Lockhart, TXhttp://michaellaird.com
Fine and rare books in all fields; early printed books and manuscripts; literary manuscripts and archives; historical documents; curious ephemera; historic bookbindings, antiquarian bibliography, and illustrated books of every description.
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by [Labadie, Dom (author). Prevost d'Exiles, A.-F., dit Abbe Prevost (editor)]
Rome (i.e. Holland?) : Chez les Heritiers de Ferrante Pallavicini [ficticious imprint] , 1725
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by Holmes, Kenneth L. (editor)
offered by Michael Laird Rare Books
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by Holmes, Kenneth L. (editor)
offered by Michael Laird Rare Books
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First Edition
by Ushinosuke Kitani (author). Haruchiyo Uji (preface)
Osaka : Nakagawa Seijiro , 1887
offered by Michael Laird Rare Books
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by Raysse, Martial / Galerie Alexandre Iolas
Paris : The Artist / Expo 1969 - Galerie Alexandre Iolas , 1969
offered by Michael Laird Rare Books
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by Anonymous Ethiopian scribe
Ethiopia 1925
offered by Michael Laird Rare Books
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ABAA membership conveys recognition throughout the rare book world. A member of the ABAA is a bookseller with proven knowledge, expertise, and ethical standards.