https://booksellerwiki.org/ 2026-05-18T23:01:41+00:00 https://booksellerwiki.org/ https://booksellerwiki.org/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2020-08-16T09:18:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=adams_marjorie_parrott&rev=1597591091&do=diff Marjorie Parrott Adams. Member for an unknown period of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America. The A.B.A.A. Newsletter (Vol. 2, #2) April 1991 (page 5) updates her business address to Holsbeek, Belgium. The A.B.A.A. Newsletter (Vol. 8, #2 ) Winter 1997 (page 20) updates her business address to Lancaster, Massachusetts. Author and evident publisher of the series of guides under the titles of text/html 2022-05-23T09:51:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=ahearn_pat&rev=1653321102&do=diff Patricia Ahearn (27 June 1937 - 27 May 2014). Partner at Quill & Brush and co-author with husband and business partner Allen Ahearn of such titles as Collected Books: The Guide to Values. See a collection of memorials on the Quill & Brush website. See also Nicholas Basbanes, "In Memoriam, Bookseller and Author Patricia Ahearn." text/html 2020-08-21T12:57:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=baker_james_gordon&rev=1598036236&do=diff Baker, James Gordon was a used and antiquarian bookseller. Gordon Baker, as he was known, opened his first shop, Two East Market Street Book Store, about 1980 in Rhinebeck, NY in a shop on the second floor of 2 East Market Street across Route 9 from the Beekman Arms. text/html 2020-08-25T11:39:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=barker_margery&rev=1598377150&do=diff Margery Barker (8 January 1901 - 6 May 1980). With partner Frances Hamill, Hamill & Barker, Inc. was a leading antiquarian book firm in Chicago from 1928. The firm was taken over by shop employee Terence Tanner after Hamill's death in 1987. Tanner moved Hamill & Baker to Evanston, Illinois in 1988, and continued the business until his death in 2003. text/html 2022-05-23T15:06:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=benson_deborah&rev=1653339974&do=diff Deborah Benson (31 May 1924 - 26 February 2002), also known by her married name of Deborah Benson Covington. She traded under the name of Deborah Benson, Bookseller. (For a fairly detailed summary of her business and her career, see for instance [this] [profile] of her in the Hartford text/html 2020-08-16T09:55:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=berliawski_lillian&rev=1597593314&do=diff Lillian Berliawski (d. 1993). Proprietor of the ABCDE Book Shop in Camden, Maine. The brief obituary in the A.B.A.A. Newsletter (Vol. 4, #4), Summer 1993 (page 6) excerpts her obituary from AB Bookman's Weekly (July 12, 1993), noting her death at age 80 and characterizing her as a “ text/html 2020-11-27T09:37:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=bibby_beth_l&rev=1606495040&do=diff Beth L. Bibby (i.e., Bethel Luc Burton Bibby), (30 June 1921 - 7 April 1984). Presumed proprietor of Beth L. Bibby Books, ABAA. Per the American Horticulturalist of August 1993 (vol. 72, no. 8), the firm was still in business under this name in 1993 and located at 1225 Sardine Creek Rd., Gold Hill OR 97525. text/html 2022-05-23T14:24:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=biographies_of_women_in_the_antiquarian_book_trade&rev=1653337484&do=diff Biographical sketches of women in the antiquarian book trade Adams, Marjorie Parrott Ahearn, Pat Barker, Margery Benson, Deborah Berliawski, Lillian Bibby, Beth L. Burton, M. K. Cohn, Marguerite DeCamp, Donnis Driscoll, Emily DuPriest, Margaret Duschnes, Fanny Frohnsdorff, Doris Glaser-Schon, Marlys Hamill, Frances Kendall, Aubyn Klein, Anne Kowan, Rachel Lazare, Kathleen Lefkowicz, Karen P. Mott, Phyllis Nelson Needle, Cheryl O'Brien, Jean Marie Paine, Carola Peterson, … text/html 2020-08-21T12:48:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=burton_m._k&rev=1598035685&do=diff Mary Kathryn Burton (12 July 1925 - 4 March 2012). Appears to have traded under the name of M. K. Burton Books as a mail-order concern using a Box 447 address in Ann Arbor from ca. 1963-1966. She was a member of the A.B.A.A. See Sheppard's Book Dealers in North America (1963-1965) and the AB Bookman's Yearbook for 1966. text/html 2020-08-24T11:18:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=cohn_marguerite&rev=1598289499&do=diff Marguerite Arnold Cohn (31 October 1897- 9 August 1984). Pioneering bookseller in the field of modern first editions. Founder along with her husband Louis Henry Cohn (1888-1953) of the House of Books, Ltd. in New York. For a brief sketch of the House of Books and the scope of Cohn's career, see the text/html 2026-01-28T10:23:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=decamp_donnis&rev=1769620987&do=diff Donnis DeCamp (21 September 1951 - 28 January 2006). Partner with her husband Marc Selvaggio in Schoyer's Books of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and later Berkeley, California. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America. DeCamp's election to membership in the Association was announced in the A.B.A.A. Newsletter (vol. 1, #3), Summer 1990 (page 9). text/html 2026-03-31T07:29:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=driscoll_emily&rev=1774963795&do=diff Emily Driscoll (11 November 1898 - 18 September 1992). Manuscript and art dealer. Member of the A.B.A.A. Per the obituary notice published in the A.B.A.A. Newsletter (Vol. 4, #1), Autumn 1992 (page 14), Driscoll had been a “self-employed arts and manuscript dealer” text/html 2020-08-22T09:17:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=dupriest_margaret&rev=1598109428&do=diff Margaret DuPriest. Noted in passing in the ABAA Newsletter (Vol. 7, #3), Spring 1996 (page 7) as from Columbia, S.C. and as having been mentioned at the Association's annual meeting in April as one of the “long-time members who died in the preceding year” text/html 2022-05-23T09:29:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=duschnes_fanny&rev=1653319787&do=diff Fanny Duschnes. Mentioned in Dickinson as the successor in 1970 to the firm of her late husband, Philip C. Duschnes. text/html 2020-11-23T14:07:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=frohnsdorff_doris&rev=1606165627&do=diff Doris Frohnsdorff (b. 11 July 1933). Bookseller based in Gaithersburg, Maryland. An undated copy of the ABAA Southeast Chapter membership directory notes her specialties as “Rare & Classic Children's Books, Drawings & Original Art, Illustrated Books, Fine Bindings, Miniature Books, Beatrix Potter.” text/html 2020-11-24T08:51:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=hamill_frances&rev=1606233099&do=diff Frances Hamill (1904-1987). With Margery Barker a partner in the firm Hamill & Barker, Inc. text/html 2020-08-21T12:31:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=kendall_aubyn&rev=1598034679&do=diff Mary Aubyn Kendall (d. 12 August 1995). Member of the A.B.A.A. and proprietor of the Limestone Hills Book Shop, Glen Rose, Texas. Obituary appears in the ABAA Newsletter (Vol. 7, #1) Fall 1995 (page 12). text/html 2020-08-17T08:21:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=klein_anne&rev=1597674114&do=diff Anne Klein (4 July 1908 - 15 December 1991). A founding member of the 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 Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers (Greenwood Press, 1998), Klein began in the book trade working for text/html 2020-08-20T11:24:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=kowan_rachel&rev=1597944260&do=diff Rachel Howitz Kowan (16 December 1913 - 15 September 2000). Partner with her husband Michael Kowan in operating Kay's Book and Magazine Supermarket in downtown Cleveland. See the finding aid for the Michael Kowan Family Papers at the Western Reserve Historical Society. A patronizing column by Ron Simon in the Mansfield (Ohio) News-Journal text/html 2020-08-19T07:26:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=lazare_kathleen&rev=1597843567&do=diff Kathleen Adair Lazare (d. 26 January 1995). Owner of Scarlet Letter Books and Prints in New Milford, Connecticut for 23 years until her death at age 60. Per the remembrance by Michael L. Lazare published in the A.B.A.A. Newsletter (Vol. 6, #2), Winter 1995 (page 13), Lazare established the Scarlet Letter in 1971 in Maryland, specializing in children's books and later expanding into illustrator art. In 1975, the Lazares moved to Connecticut and Lazare became text/html 2020-08-17T07:48:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=lefkowicz_karen_p&rev=1597672083&do=diff Karen P. Lefkowicz (d. 16 January 1992). According to her obituary in the A.B.A.A. Newsletter (Vol. 3, #3), Spring 1992 (page 6), Lefkowicz was vice president of the Fairhaven, Massachusetts bookselling firm of Edward J. Lefkowicz, Inc. She died at age 43 of pneumonia. Karen Lefkowicz “went on [after the business had been established by her husband text/html 2020-08-16T09:17:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=mott_phyllis_nelson&rev=1597591039&do=diff Phyllis Nelson Mott (2 January 1912 - 13 January 1997). Obituary in the A.B.A.A. Newsletter (Vol. 8, #2), Winter 1997 (page 14). text/html 2022-05-23T09:38:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=paine_carola&rev=1653320338&do=diff Carola Paine. See Dickinson (reference to come). text/html 2020-12-08T07:49:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=peterson_diane&rev=1607438947&do=diff Diane Peterson (b. 1933, d. 2006). Peterson founded Diane Peterson--Book Lady and was a member of the ABAA for more than 20 years. She dealt in miniature books, and also specialized in authors John Steinbeck and Wallace Stegner. In 1991 and 1992, she published two catalogs focused on Steinbeck and Stegner after acquiring the Alexander Summers and Maurice Dunbar collections. text/html 2021-03-29T10:47:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=pike_sybil_hillman&rev=1617036439&do=diff Pike, Sybil Hillman (27 July 1929 - 9 March 2021). Retired research librarian at the Library of Congress and then a bookseller. She operated the book shop Wayward Books (of Washington, D.C. and then Sargentville, Maine) with her partner, the writer Doris Grumbach. text/html 2020-08-18T08:38:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=schoyer_maxine&rev=1597761496&do=diff Maxine Allem Schoyer (d. 5 August 1990). Proprietor of Schoyer's Books in Pittsburgh with her husband William T. Schoyer, until the Squirrel Hill neighborhood shop was sold to Marc Selvaggio and Donnis DeCamp ca. 1 January 1986. In a profile of Maxine Schoyer in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of 12 June 1985 prior to her retirement, she characterizes the business of selling old books as text/html 2021-03-27T15:47:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=sloan_dorothy&rev=1616881648&do=diff Sloan, Dorothy (1943-2021). Died March 14, 2021. Bookseller and auctioneer who dealt largely in Texas material. text/html 2026-03-31T07:32:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=start&rev=1774963946&do=diff Welcome to a (preliminary) Antiquarian Bookseller Wiki Established 15 August 2020 by Garrett Scott. Initially conceived as a venue for parking information about antiquarian booksellers prior to having sufficient documentation to create documented Wikipedia entries. text/html 2020-08-22T09:48:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=swindells_ann_gottert&rev=1598111309&do=diff Ann Gottert Swindells. Noted in the ABAA Newsletter (Vol. 7, #3), Spring 1996 (page 16) as having been elected to full membership in the Association at the Board of Governors' meeting in April, 1996. Her business operated under the name of Dower House in Athol, Mass. Dower House seems to have specialized in children's literature. text/html 2020-11-24T09:57:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=tisza_magda&rev=1606237077&do=diff Magda Tisza (6 July 1922 - 12 October 2020), born Magda Pollaczek in Vienna to mathematicians Hilda Geiringer Pollaczek and Felix Pollaczek. Came to the United States with her mother in 1939 after Geiringer-Pollaczek was offered a lecturer position at Bryn Mawr: “Because the U.S. immigration law exempted professors and ministers from the restrictive quota system, the Bryn Mawr appointment enabled Geiringer to obtain a non-quota visa. Mother and daughter arrived in New York in November 1939. text/html 2020-08-19T07:36:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=trace_betsy&rev=1597844174&do=diff Elizabeth Kling Trace (12 November 1914 - 2 October 2006). Known to friends and colleagues as Betsy. A graduate of Hunter College, Trace entered the antiquarian book trade after her marriage on 15 November 1939 to Timothy Trace. At her death, she was the owner of Timothy Trace, Booksellers. The text/html 2020-08-23T14:43:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=wells_elizabeth&rev=1598215423&do=diff Elizabeth Wells. Wells was manager of the Antiquarian Book Center in New York. See passing mention in Rostenberg & Stern, “The Changing Rare Book Trade.” RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage (Vol. 5, #1), Spring 2004. text/html 2022-05-20T11:39:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=wilgress_jane&rev=1653068370&do=diff Jane Wilgress (27 August 1917 - 20 July 2010). Per her obituary, Wilgress “was born in Chipping Campden, England, in 1917. . . . In 1936 she married John Wilgress, and in 1939 the couple immigrated to California, where John had secured a teaching position at Midland School in Los Olivos. Jane and John spent the summers of the war years on the Monterey Peninsula, and in 1945 the family shifted its base to Carmel. text/html 2020-08-15T14:34:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=woodburn_elisabeth_h&rev=1597523685&do=diff Elisabeth Woodburn (1912? - 18 November 1990). Founding member and one-time president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America. See her obituary in the New York Times, 19 November 1990. text/html 2020-12-08T07:49:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=younger_helen&rev=1607438978&do=diff Helen Younger (b. 1949 in Brooklyn, NY, d. 2018 in Pound Ridge, NY). Younger founded Aleph-Bet Books in 1977 and joined the ABAA in 1983. She specialized in children’s and illustrated books. With her spouse Marc and Daniel Hirsch, she authored First Editions of Dr. Seuss Books: A Guide to Identification. text/html 2022-05-23T10:24:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=zahn_mabel&rev=1653323049&do=diff Mabel Zahn (1890-1975). Philadelphia bookseller and from 1955 the president of the firm of Charles Sessler. From a description of the Charles Sessler records at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, “When owner Charles Sessler died in 1935, responsibility for its operations was divided between J. Leonard Sessler and Mabel Zahn. Zahn was in charge of rare books, manuscripts, and prints, servicing many important collectors and institutions, such as text/html 2020-08-20T10:44:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=zeimer_thelma&rev=1597941855&do=diff Thelma Ziemer (4 May 1901 - 2 April 1994). Antiquarian bookseller with her husband Otto Ziemer in Berekley, California in the 1930s and 1940s. Thelma Zeimer then moved to New York City and with Ethel Weed as a partner operated the East and West Shops, Inc. According to the Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012, Thelma Brown Ziemer was born in Michigan and died in Hamden, Connecticut. Her occupation is recorded on her death record as Book Seller. text/html 2020-08-20T10:50:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://booksellerwiki.org/doku.php?id=ziemer_thelma&rev=1597942213&do=diff Thelma Ziemer (4 May 1901 - 2 April 1994). Antiquarian bookseller with her husband Otto Ziemer in Berekley, California in the 1930s and 1940s. Thelma Zeimer then moved to New York City and in 1954 with Ethel Weed as a partner operated the East and West Shops, Inc. The shop moved to Newton, Connecticut in 1969.