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 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 Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America on 26 March 1992 and printed in the 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.
