12/01/2025
by Xin Yi Zhao
"The shift from Wall Street to the antiquarian book trade is not as improbable as it sounds. The best dealers bring to their work a connoisseurship of detail, a tolerance for risk, and a respect for the long view. Michael possessed all three."
11/28/2025
Browse some highlights from the material available at this week's ABAA Virtual Book Fair: Holiday Edition.
11/24/2025
by Xin Yi Zhao
The Fall 2025 ABAA Diversity Initiative Discovery Program proudly announces its 2025 recipients: Madeline Huh, Grace Kuhlman, and Cherry Martinez. Get to know these rising booksellers and follow their journey through the program…
06/03/2026
Our Holiday Virtual Book Fair will take place December 4-6, 2025!
08/18/2025
Every year, the presidents of bookselling associations affiliated with the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) meet together with the ILAB Committee in a different host city. For the first time in more than two decades, ILAB held its meeting in the Southern Hemisphere this year.
03/19/2026
The latest catalogs of rare books and print ephemera from ABAA members...
09/24/2025
Ken Sanders Rare Books are hosting a couple of events to celebrate their 50th anniversary!
07/21/2025
Exciting podcasts about rare books, book collecting, and ephemera from leading members of the ABAA.
01/08/2025
by Xin Yi Zhao
The 2025 winner of the California Young Book Collector’s Prize is Kierra Duncan.
09/16/2024
The ABAA invites you to attend the September Brown Bag Lunch Series, a panel discussion: Meet the ABAA: Demystifying the Application Process.
04/29/2024
May 1 marks the hundredth birthday of Agnes Dawson, a mainstay of the Southern California book trade for over seventy-five years.
05/10/2024
The Raab Collection this year marks its 35th anniversary in the business of discovering, buying, and selling important historical documents and autographs.
04/18/2024
by Xin Yi Zhao
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America is proud to announce sponsorship of the David Ruggles Prize.
12/01/2023
Please join the Gender Equity Initiative on Zoom on December 13th, 2023, at 2 PM ET for a Brown Bag Lunch Series with Megumi Hill and Mårten Söderblom Saarela from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.
03/13/2024
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the ABAA, the March Brown Bag Lunch Series will feature a panel discussion with veteran and young ABAA members.
10/09/2023
Mystery Pier Books' recently sourced a particularly rare book for Pope Francis.
09/13/2023
Kenneth Gloss will speak at New York’s Grolier Club about the "improbable finds" of his decades-long career on Thursday, October 5, 2023.
05/22/2024
Join the Brown Bag Lunch Series on May 29th, 2024 when Jim Owens of Thorn Books delves into the historical significance of Victorian bookcloth.
06/12/2024
Please join us on June 19th, 2024, at 2 PM ET for a Zoom with Zhenya Dzhavgova, Andy Nettell, and Lizzy Young discussing who they are and what they do aside from being a rare book dealer.
03/29/2024
The ABAA Gender Equity Initiative is proud to announce the fourth year of the ABAA Mentorship Program.
09/06/2023
For most people, managing one career, mastering a sport, or overcoming a major medical challenge are the work of a lifetime. ABAA-member Zhenya Dzhavgova, owner of ZH Books in Fremont, California, has done all these and more in a very short time!
08/20/2024
Please join us on August 27th, 2024 for a Brown Bag Lunch Series with Alexander Akin of Bolerium Books, "At the Intersection of Literature and Numismatics: 1,600 Years of Poetry on Money."
09/18/2023
Meet the booksellers admitted as members of the ABAA in 2022.
07/21/2025
Meet the latest members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.
08/12/2015
by Zoe Abrams
Zoe Abrams reports from the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar, where rare book collectors meet and learn from experts.
09/18/2024
Allan Stypeck, owner of Second Story Books, discusses his long career in bookselling and appraising and his parallel career in television and documentary making.
04/19/2024
by Xin Yi Zhao
The April Brown Bag Lunch Series will feature a panel discussion with ABAA members on the Expansion of Materials of the Antiquarian/Rare Books Trade.