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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. ...

Read 'Em Again Books

Featured Member

Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC

Virginia Beach, VA
http://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.

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  • 1946 – Korean propaganda card celebrating the first anniversary of the country’s liberation from Japanese domination
    1946 – Korean propaganda card celebrating the first anniversary of the country’s liberation from Japanese domination

    Korea : 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 Clipper
    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 Clipper

    by 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 death
    1865 – Letter from a Union soldier to the wife of a friend informing her of the circumstances of her husband’s death

    Lincoln 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, England
    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, England

    by 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 them
    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 them

    Burlington, 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
    1864-1906 – Collection of five scarce stock certificates relating to the U.S. printing industry


    offered by Kurt A Sanftleben

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Bromer Booksellers & Gallery

Anne and David Bromer of Bromer Booksellers in Boston, MA began their career as antiquarian booksellers in 1966 and became members of the ABAA in 1976. Last year David completed and published Aun Aprendo: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Writings of Aldous Leonard Huxley. The Bromers recently gave $2 million to the Boston Athenaeum to create the Anne C. and David J. Bromer Fund. Their donation will also support the Bromer Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Athenaeum. Bromer Booksellers specializes in First Editions, Fine Printing from Aldus to Ashendene, Illustrated Books, Calligraphic Manuscripts, Bindings, Children's Books, Miniature Books, and Fore-Edge Paintings. ABAA Member Since 1976. Interviewed by Michael Ginsberg at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.

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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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