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Winter 2006

Includes:

  • The Fate and State of Removable Dust-Jackets
  • In Memoriam - Maury Bromsen
  • Report from ILAB President Bob Fleck
  • Roth Scholarship and Symposium at NYPL Announced
  • Recent Books by Members: What’s the Use of Walking if There’s a Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes & Their Songs by Paul Garon & Gene Tomko
  • Book Review: Motive for Murder: The Bombs, The Mormons and the Salamander
  • Nominating Committee Notice

And more.

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Fall 2005

Includes:

  • Members Vote to Change By-Laws
  • Giving is Easy; Valuing is Hard
  • Plath & Hughes Exhibit Opens at Grolier Club
  • Letter to the Editor from David Mason
  • The eBay Auction Experience
  • John Carter Brown Library Offers Fellowships
  • Stolen Books Lecture to Take Place in Boston
  • ILAB Congress to Take Place in Philadelphia
  • An Inventory of ABAA Listservs
  • In Memoriam - Tom Budd, Mary Ann Malkin, John McLaughlin

And more.

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Summer 2005

Includes:

  • In Memoriam - Leona Rostenberg
  • The Leaf Book Considered
  • Letters to the Editor from Harold R. Nestler
  • House Calls: Movie Mania II
  • ABAA does Book Expo at Javits
  • Letter from the President
  • Nominating Committee Announcement
  • Snapshots: New York
  • Books & Food: Cooperstown
  • Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar Returns for 27th Year
  • In Memoriam - Doris Harris

And more.

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Spring 2005

Includes:

  • 100 Years of Dawson’s Book Shop
  • Live…from Tokyo!
  • The Finer Print – Growing Concern Over Facsimile Dustjackets
  • Life in ILAB, or It Isn’t Always Dinner With Wine
  • Fear & Loathing in Denver
  • House Calls-Movie Mania
  • Getty at the Grolier
  • Book Club of California Joins ABAA in Offering Scholarships to the Colorado 2005 Antiquarian Book Seminar
  • Book Reviews: Rick Gekoski. Nabokov’s Butterfly and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
  • Book Reviews: Harold Nestler. Where Did You Find That? Adventures of an Antiquarian Bookman
  • Book Reviews: A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books. Illustrated Books Purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald at the Sale of the Library of C.W. Dyson Perrins
  • About ABAA Membership
  • In Memoriam: George Chamberlain, Muir Dawson, Leona Rostenberg, Josephine Ver Brugge Zeitlin

And more.

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Fall 2004

Including:

  • In Memoriam – Jacob L. Chernofsky, Pat Dunaway
  • The ILAB Congress in Australia
  • ABAA Website and Search Engine Updates
  • Boston Book Fair 2004: Observations from Booth 316
  • ABAA Benevolent Fund in Need
  • Sale of Dunning Work to Benefit ABAA Benevolent Fund
  • Changes at the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB)
  • Editorial Changes at the ABAA Newsletter
  • ABAA to Offer Two Scholarships to the Colorado 2005 Antiquarian Book Seminar
  • More on ILAB Congress
  • Books, Briefly Noted: Anton Gerits. Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia: Reminiscence of an Antiquarian Bookseller

And more.

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Summer 2004

Including:

  • A First-Time Exhibitor at Olympia
  • Ebb and Flow
  • ABAA and ILAB Efforts Thwart Thieves
  • Colorado Seminar from the Eyes of a Novice
  • William P. Wreden: A Joint Show
  • Compendium of Export and Import Regulations in the Countries United in The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB)
  • Books, Briefly Noted: Bound to be the Best: The Club Bindery by Thomas G. Boss and Martin Antonetti. Lasting Impressions: The Grolier Club Library by Eric Holzenberg and J. Fernando Pena. A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors with Short Biographies by Edward A Martin MD. The Western Pursuit of the American Dream. Selections from the Collection of Kenneth W. Rendell. Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press  by David Tatham
  • Members in the News – Stuart Bennett, Maury A. Bromsen, Peter Howard, Ken Karmiole
  • In Memoriam – Bernard Breslauer, William Matheson

And more.

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Spring 2004

Including:

  • Literary Con Man: David George Holt
  • In Memoriam – Harvey Tucker
  • Letter to the Editor from Barney Rosenthal
  • ABAA Hires Executive Co-Director
  • ABAA Committee Assignments 2004-2005
  • ABAA Offers Scholarships for ILAB Congress in Melbourne
  • ABAA at Book Expo America, Chicago, June 4-6
  • Recent Books by Members – Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles, 1660-1800 by Stuart Bennett. LA’s Early Moderns: Art/Architecture/Photography by Victoria Dailey, Natalie Shivers, and Michael Dawson. The Bookman’s Promise. A Cliff Janeway Novel by John Dunning. Early Mapping of the Pacific by Thomas Suarez
  • Books, Briefly Noted – Collecting Books by Matthew Budman. John Carter, The Taste & Technique of a Bookman by Donald C. Dickinson. Info & Tips for Book Sellers & Buyers by Independent Online Booksellers Association. A Book of Booksellers. Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade by Sheila Markham. A Portrait of the U.S. Used Book Market by Susan and David S. Siegal

And more.

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Winter 2004

Including:

  • Parting Words
  • The Future of the ABAA
  • Letters to the Editor from Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, Marvin Mondlin, Roy Meador
  • Board Approves Changes to Book Fair Rules
  • California Book Fair 2004: An Outsider’s View
  • ILAB online: Envisioning a Future for ilab.org and Celebrating Fifty-Seven Years
  • ABAA at 2004 RBMS Preconference at Yale
  • In Memoriam – Albert J. Phiebig, Charles R. Sanders, Harvey Tucker, Peter Tumarkin

And more.

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Fall 2003

Including:

  • In memoriam – Terence A. Tanner, Walter Alicke, Antoinette Howell
  • ILAB Affiliate Presidents Meet in Potsdam
  • A Message from the ABAA Nominating Committee
  • ABAA Welcomes New Board Members
  • Yankee Peddler Rises from the Ashes
  • ABAA Represented at Book Fest on The Mall
  • The Celebrated Reference Library of H.P. Kraus: Some Thoughts about the Catalog of the Sotheby’s Sale, New York, November 18-20, 2003
  • The Making of the ABAA Film Bibliomania, or How to Go Crazy in Only 185 Days
  • An Accounting and a Plea from the Benevolent Fund
  • The Grolier Club Library Offers Fellowships
  • Books, Briefly Noted – Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 by Raymond John Howgego. Encyclopedia of Union College History compiled and edited by Wayne Somers. Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905. Volume 5: Macmillan & Co.; Smith & Elder & Co. by Dr. Chester W. Topp

And more.

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Summer 2003

Including:

  • Fun with Fakes
  • ABAA Planning Committee Drafts Resolutions on Website, Staffing, Book Fairs, and Chapter Dues
  • Gilkey Sentenced for Book Thefts
  • ABAA Film Premiers in Seattle
  • Is it a Fankfurter?
  • ABAA Represented at SUNY Librarians Conference
  • Caveat Emptor: Lessons of Some Recent and Not-So-Recent Forgery Problems
  • In Memoriam – Peter Harrington

And more.

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