**Doris Frohnsdorff** (b. [[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1732&h=394081769&tid=&pid=&queryId=02c8ce7abc4bd582bd2ad8d5689a7d90&usePUB=true&_phsrc=OAm663&_phstart=successSource | 11 July 1933]]). Bookseller based in Gaithersburg, Maryland. An undated copy of the [[https://www.abaa.org/chapter/details/southeast-chapter-antiquarian-booksellers-association-of-america | ABAA Southeast Chapter]] [[http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/abaa/abaa.htm#Frohnsdorff | membership directory]] notes her specialties as "Rare & Classic Children's Books, Drawings & Original Art, Illustrated Books, Fine Bindings, Miniature Books, Beatrix Potter." [[https://web.archive.org/web/20020606162713/http://www.trocadero.com/frohnsdorff/ | Cached copies]] of her commercial website suggest she also did business as Frohnsdorff Antiques. 

Frohnsdorff's [[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63867204/frohnsdorff-potter-collection-sale/ | Beatrix Potter collection]] went to auction at Christie's East on [[https://www.christies.com/SaleLanding/index.aspx?intsaleid=6264&lid=1&saletitle= | April 16, 1997]]. According to Frohnsdorff's [[https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/potter-beatrix-illustrator-a-happy-pair-218871-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=218871 | Foreward]] [//sic//] to that auction catalog (look for the link to the foreword just above the description of the lot), she had opened a book shop in 1967 in partnership with [[Gail Klemm]].

Frohnsdorff served on the Board of Governors of the ABAA sometime before 1990, during the presidency of Michael Ginsberg. (See "President Ginsberg's Farewell Message," [[https://www.abaa.org/images/newsletter_pdf/Spring%201990.pdf | ABAA Newsletter]] (vol. 1, no. 2) Spring 1990.) 

According to the 2008 [[https://www.abaa.org/images/newsletter_pdf/2008Annualreport.pdf | ABAA Annual Report]], Frohnsdorff resigned membership in the ABAA sometime in 2008.