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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. ...
Featured Member
Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC
Virginia Beach, VAhttp://read-em-again.com
Unique Americana, that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, correspondence collections, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, culture, or society. Additionally, we always have a nice selection of philatelic material (primarily postal history) and other paper ephemera.
Selections from Member's stock
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1946 – Korean propaganda card celebrating the first anniversary of the country’s liberation from Japanese dominationKorea : P ostal Department of the U.S. Military Government in Korea , 1946
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1937 – Letter sent on the first flight of clipper mail service from Shanghai to Hong Kong then onto the United States carried by the airway’s more famous China Clipperby Eleanor
Shanghai 1937
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1865 – Letter from a Union soldier to the wife of a friend informing her of the circumstances of her husband’s deathLincoln Hospital - Washington, DC
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1853 – Letter from a Mormon in Springville, Utah to The Perpetual Emigrating Fund in Salt Lake City, pledging to provide for the resettlement of a family of eight from Worcester, Englandby Philip M Westwood to Tho’s Ballock
Springfield, Utah Co. to 1853
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1885 – Broadside advertising sleighs along with a handbill advertising harnesses enclosed in a postally used envelope that features an all-over illustration of the factory that made themBurlington, New Jersey : J. H. Birch , 1885
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1864-1906 – Collection of five scarce stock certificates relating to the U.S. printing industry
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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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.