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Weekly Highlights
Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year. Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions... Real Sailor-Songs. Two Hundred...
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Latest Catalogs of Rare Books
Browse the latest catalogs, newsletters, and e-lists of rare books, fine bindings, incunabula, print ephemera, and much more from the members of the ABAA below. (Also includes podcasts, blog posts,...
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Weekly Highlights
Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year. Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions... Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed...
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Latest Catalogs of Rare Books
Browse the latest catalogs, newsletters, and e-lists of rare books, fine bindings, incunabula, print ephemera, and much more from the members of the ABAA below. (Also includes podcasts, blog posts,...
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Weekly Highlights
Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year. Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions... Picture Story of Mu Lan China: n.p.,...
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Latest Catalogs of Rare Books
Browse the latest catalogs, newsletters, and e-lists of rare books, fine bindings, incunabula, print ephemera, and much more from the members of the ABAA below. (Also includes podcasts, blog posts,...
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Latest Catalogs of Rare Books
Browse the latest catalogs, newsletters, and e-lists of rare books, fine bindings, incunabula, print ephemera, and much more from the members of the ABAA below. (Also includes podcasts, blog posts,...
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Get Ready for the California Virtual Book Fair
Bibliophiles everywhere are invited to join the hunt for rare books and all manner of fine works on paper March 4-6 during the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s California Virtual Book...
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Weekly Highlights
Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year. Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions... Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (wood...
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Third Annual California Young Book Collector’s Prize Awarded
The 2021 winner of the California Young Book Collector’s Prize is Jessica Camille Jordan of Palo Alto, California. Her collection, “Women in Subscription Bookselling” explores the role of women book...
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California Virtual Book Fair Special Programs
The public programs at the upcoming California Virtual Book Fair have been announced. The events are free, but pre-registration is required. Thursday, March 4 3:00 PM EST: Virtual Tour: What's...
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The Ranger of Lost Art
When Doug Leen was a young park ranger working at Grand Teton National Park, he was cleaning up a barn when stumbled across a dusty old poster that caught his eye. It was a poster promoting the Park...
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Weekly Highlights
Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year. Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions... I Met a Lonesome Cowboy, Four Color...
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Discovering Artists’ Books
It was February of 2013. I walked into the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, California, following the signs to the “Codex Book Fair and Symposium”… I had just handed in my resignation notice to my...
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California Book Fair Virtual Tours
Imagine walking through the California International Antiquarian Book Fair with some of the foremost experts in a collecting field, listening as they discuss the significance of items offered for...
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Special Event: A Matter of Time
A further addition to our lineup of special events during the California Virtual Book Fair is a special panel on horology, timepieces, and the history of watchmaking with experts in the field....
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Visit the California Virtual Book Fair
**The California Virtual Book Fair is now open. Visit the fair... ** [This article was originally published in February 2021.] Bibliophiles everywhere are invited to join the hunt for rare books and...
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In Memoriam: Bob Petrilla
Longtime ABAA member Robert “Bob” Petrilla of Roosevelt, NJ passed away at his home on September 1, 2020. Petrilla started in the book business in 1970 as he operated two open shops in Bucks County,...
View ArticleUpdate/Recovered: Possible Fraudulent Activity: Essex, UK Area, Finnegans Wake
Update: this item has been recovered as of 1/22/21. Report of an alleged theft over the holidays, possibly linked to previously fraudulent activity from the Essex area of the UK. The item is a...
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Visit the California Virtual Book Fair
Bibliophiles everywhere are invited to join the hunt for rare books and all manner of fine works on paper March 4-6 during the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s California Virtual Book...
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