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**Anne Klein** (4 July 1908 - 15 December 1991). A founding member of the [[http://www.abaa.org | A.B.A.A.]] and a bookseller characterized by [[Leona Rostenberg]] as "bustling, energetic" and the proprietor of Caravan-Maritime Books. 

Per [[Donald C. Dickinson]] in the //[[https://books.google.com/books?id=x-6PBX7crnQC&lpg=PA111&ots=yioNddE58o&dq=anne%20klein%20caravan-maritime%20books%20abaa&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q&f=false|Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers]]// (Greenwood Press, 1998), Klein began in the book trade working for [[Brentano's]] in New York City during World War II and established her own mail-order business in Jamaica, NY in 1946. Dickinson says she published four or five catalogs a year from 1946 to 1989. Klein also republished "a number of early shipping logs and shipbuilding texts."


Rostenberg wrote in a talk delivered before the [[https://www.abaamidatlantic.org/|Middle Atlantic Chapter]] of the [[http://www.abaa.org|Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America]] on 26 March 1992 and printed in the //[[https://dev.abaa.org/images/newsletter_pdf/Summer%201992.pdf|A.B.A.A. Newsletter]]// (Vol. 3, #4), Summer 1992, "Annie was a self-made bookseller who specialized in books of the sea, voyages and travel. Although she demanded cash with orders, she was a pillar of the Association, providing boundless enthusiasm as well as coffee cake--the latter out of the $5 MAC dues."

Per [[Dickinson]], the business had been turned over to Klein's daughter in 1989 and continued in Madison, Wisconsin as [[J. Tuttle Maritime Books]].

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