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Rare & Collectible Books

Rare & Collectible Books Article

The antiquarian book trade in the United States is an aspect of book collecting and publishing. The term antiquarian, in general, refers to antiquities and collectible items usually considered old and rare, usually in reference to books, but is not limited to books. The word antiquarian could also be used to describe a person who collects rare books or other antique items.

Two key figures who have written largely on the U.S. antiquarian book trade specificically are Leona Rostenberg (1908 - 2005) and Madeleine B. Stern (1912 - 2007), both of whom were also in the business of collecting and selling rare books. Other histories having covered the topic include Isaiah Thomas, writing in 1810 his History of printing in America; Henry Walcott Boynton's Annals of American Bookselling, 1638-1850, first published in 1932; Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt's The Book in America: A History of the Making, the Selling, and the Collecting of Books in the United States (1939).

The antiquarian book trade has roots in Colonial America, and may be considered in the study of American history and literature, print culture, and book history. Antiquarian book fairs have long been an important aspect of the trade. Today, the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) is the primary organization of the trade in the United States. Other organizations include the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). The Rare Book School at the University of Virginia is the premier institution for those seeking an advanced education in the field.

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Murray's Adventures in the Wilderness
$5.00
German Luftwaffe 1939-1945 Photos Maps World War 2 WWII
$2.94
The Rescue Of Cuba Hardcover Book by Andrew Draper 1910
$4.99
SEEING LONDON by Dale Maxey
$18.95
SAROJINI NAIDU - Poet Poetry Indian Bengali
$48.00
THE GUNFIGHTERS BOOK COPYRIGHT 1959
$1.99
The Late Comers by E.M. Nathanson-Doubleday and Company
$4.95
JACK:SECERT HISTORIES F.P.WILSON SIGN/DATED NEW MINT1/1
$29.99
ACROSS THE YEARS 1917 CHARLES ERNEST BENNETT
$14.99
Sesame and Lilies Three Lectures 1893
$10.00
CHILD 44 TOM ROB SMITH SIGNED TITLE PAGE NEW MINT 1/1
$49.99
THE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT/DATED 1879
$0.99
ROMANOV PROPHECY STEVE BERRY SIGNED TITLEPAGE NEW MINT
$109.00
SWPA RAMP 3rd Engineer Special Brigade Philippines
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The Adventures of Pinocchio A splendor book Vintage!!!
$9.99
1909 Kellogg's Funny Jungleland Moving Picture Book
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Current Biography Yearbook 1997 Collectible Book
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SUSAN SONTAG "The Volcano Lover" SIGNED First Edition
$10.50
Gray Herbarium Expedition Nova Scotia by M Fernald 1922
$19.99
Mister Sharptooth Rare Children's book Joe Kerr 1903
$9.99
Our Great Benefactors Samuel Adams Drakes HC 1888
$9.99
The Illustrated Horse Doctor Mayhew 1873
$14.95
Angel City,A Book For Children From Six to Sixty,
$14.99
The Hound of the Baskervilles Pub. 1902 A. Conan Doyle
$24.99
FAULKNER LIGHT IN AUGUST Ugly true 1st 1932
$79.00
Little Wood Friends by Eva Mayne (c) 1906
$4.99
RARE AND UNUSUAL FLY TYING MATERIALS BY PAUL SCHMOOKLER
$222.00
GOODBYE PICASSO DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN 1ST EDITION
$29.95
1976 SIGNED - DEAN KOONTZ - NIGHT CHILLS - 1ST w/DJ NPC
$124.99
Des anges sur la neige by Sujet de Jolanda Colombini
$9.99
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Easton Press FINE!
$59.99
G. A. Henty The Cat Of Bubastes Tale Egypt Hard To Find
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SELECTA SENECAE PHILOSOPHI OPERA, FULL LEATHER 1761
$99.95
Ruth Fielding series #3, 4, & 12, Alice B. Emerson
$3.50
LEYLA & MEJNUN,BY FUZULI, FAMED EPIC WORK, HC/DJ
$8.99
Louisa May Alcott " Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag" from 1873 1ed.
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Dell Mario Puzo First Printing Dark Arena First Book!
$15.00
TRAVELING WITH THE BIRDS BY RUDYERD BOULTON ILLUS WEBER
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Easton Press OEDIPUS THE KING Sophocles NEW!
$21.61
Jane's Infantry Weapons 1976 Edited by Denis H R Archer
$5.95
THE HOUSE OF SIXTY FATHERS MEINDERT DEJONG 1956
$2.95
1941 Lily Haxworth Wallace-New American Cook Book
$19.99
1973 1st print CHINA JOURNAL Emmett Dedmon EXCHCDJ
$6.00
The Saturday Evening Post Sept "75 Kennedy cover A+cond
$0.99
7 DEADLY WONDERS MATTHEW REILLY SIGNED NEW MINT 1/1
$39.99
1945 printing American Red Cross First Aid Textbook NR
$1.99
LUCILE by OWEN MEREDITH (LORD LYTTON) 1800s EMBOSSED CV
$6.99
Easton Press THE TRAGEDIES Shakespeare
$18.50
Tom Swift in the caves of Ice 1911 1st? ill.V. Appleton
$4.99
(1914) Machinery's Handbook for Machine Shop & Drafting
$134.48
Heritage Press Pym by Edgar Allen Poe, Rare Classic
$5.95
1970 NO DRUMS OR THUNDER HB W DJ IRENE BROWN BARTEL
$8.00
Rare 1985 Files Magazine - Doctor Who Season 18
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THE SISTERS 1891 GEORG EBERS (A ROMANCE)
$14.99
Buffalo Bill's Wild West And Congress Rough Riders 1897
$99.95
THE RECTOR OF JUSTIN signed by LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
$30.00
THE ETHICS OF CONFUCIUS "THE SUPERIOR MAN" HRDBACK 1915
$24.99
UNSOLVED TEXAS MYSTERIES WALLACE CHARITON TEXANA BOOK
$2.50
SIGNED PROOF w/PROOF DJ: DEAN KOONTZ - THE BAD PLACE
$99.99
SIGNED 1973 K.R. DWYER/DEAN KOONTZ SHATTERED 1ST DJ NPC
$149.99
STUTTERIN' BOY THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MEL TILLIS
$10.00
The Broken Soldier & The maid of France H Van Dyke 1919
$24.95
Easton Press THE COMEDIES Shakespeare
$21.61
LOT OF 39 VINTAGE WESTERN PAPERBACKS 1950's, 1960's
$17.39
CAPTAIN AMERICA DAVID MORRELL SIGN/DATED RARE NEW MINT
$59.99
Richard Matheson The Night Strangler Jeff Rice!
$15.00
Famous 1925 Richard Halliburton book of adventures
$9.99
RIDE WITH ME by Thomas B Costain
$20.95
HOMCO Houston Oil Field Material Company Houston Texas
$26.00
1878 Ben Franklin Fifth Reader For Schools Illustrated
$3.99
FAULKNER - SNOPES TRILOGY 1st Thus RARE Slipcase 1964
$89.00
2 TOM SWIFT JR/C APPLETON II/FLYING LAD-54/SATTELITE 56
$4.75
Women's Institute Library of Cookery Soup, 1929
$25.00
The Story of the Roman People E.M.Tappan, 1938
$12.00
MARK TWAIN -- The Celebratedjumping frog & other storie
$3.00
Native Americans Plains People Beautiful Color Shields
$4.99
True 1sts of Jack Vance's DURDANE trilogy - F&SF - NR
$17.50
THE THIRTEENTH DISCIPLE BY BETTE M. ROSS
$15.00
ANTIQUE CHILDRENS BOOK/WOLFGANG MOZART ASCHILD/FIRST ED
$2.99
Easton Press TWO PLAYS Anton Chekhov
$14.50
Antique Magazines-2 Physical Culture May, June 1913
$16.83
TIME LIFE SET OF 23 VOLUMES MYSTERIES OF THE UNKNOWN
$13.24
Among the Folks in History Gaar Williams Cartoons 1947
$4.99
1973 DEAN KOONTZ "TERRA PHOBIA" ANDROIDS DJ 1ST N-FINE
$124.99
Images a la Sauvette/Decisive Moment H. Cartier-Bresson
$465.00
Eoin Colfer "ARTEMIS FOWL: The Arctic Incident" PROOF
$9.95
YEAR WITH THE BIRDS BY ALICE E. BALL ILLUS HORSFALL1916
$9.98
Wolfgang Tillmans BURG Photography Book
$50.00
The Robots of Dawn ISAAC ASIMOV 1983 FIRST ED. W/ DJ
$9.99
Other Things Being Equal Emma Wolf 1892
$0.99
Easton Press And Tyler Too, Library of the Presidents
$24.95
1948 Illustrated Jack and Jill Louisa May Alcott
$5.00
WORDS Antique Little Golden Book Golden Press. 1948
$4.99
National Geographic Collection Vol 148 July-Dec 1975
$2.99
1923 THE GOLDEN BOUGH-SIR JAMES FRAZER -BV?? LOW MIN
$0.99
The Works of James Barrie - Peter Pan Edition
$1.00
LA FIDELLE,OUVERTURE DE L'ART,KEY AND ESCUTCHEONS ART
$1400.00
Easton Press THE HISTORIES Shakespeare
$35.03
Gloxinias & How to Grow Them Peggie Schulz 1953 1st Ed
$9.95