The Northern & Southern California Chapters of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America would like to announce The California Young Book-Collector's Prize. UPDATE: Deadline extended until D... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from November 2018
The following item was sent to London but was mis-delivered and is now missing (photo below): NORTON, Thomas. To the Quenes Maiesties poore deceiued Subiectes of the North Countrey A warning against t... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
We were alerted to a news story that Kevin Schuwer of Lehi, Utah has confessed to selling forged LDS material. In addition to these materials, he is being investigated for selling items stolen from BY... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Re: Notice of CENSURE of Seyla Martayan and Richard Lan The Board of Governors of the ABAA, pursuant to the Association's ByLaw Article V, section I (2), hereby CENSURE Seyla Martayan and Richard Lan... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
In the Jim Crow era, travel was fraught with difficulty for African Americans. The growing black middle class could afford to buy cars and travel for leisure, and throughout the South, the purchase of... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Please contact us if offered this book. In addition to the description below, it also is housed in a clamshell case. HUGHES, Henry. Treatise on Sociology, Theoretical and Practical. Philadelphia: Publ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
In the spring of 2016, I set up a Facebook group called 'We Love Endpapers'. My idea behind it was to create a forum where like-minded people—booksellers, librarians, collectors, book designers—co... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Welcome the latest full- and associate-members of the ABAA. Full Members David Meikle, Archway Books (Dover, NH) David Meikle bought his first “old books” at age eleven, paying a bargain price for... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Enjoy this selection of preview items that our members will be exhibiting at the upcoming 42nd annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. We'll be adding items to this page all week, so check ... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The following book went missing or was stolen from the main sorting facility of the USPS in Los Angeles between October 17 and October 21, 2018: Twain, Mark. THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG. London: Routl... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]