Records, 1949-

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Records, 1949-

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Founding documents, minutes, correspondence, financial records, publications, legal material and miscellaneous memos and notes. Correspondence files include exchange between the association's president and broadcaster Alistair Cooke in 1957 concerning Cooke's description of dealer behavior at a book auction. Records include papers of some presidents, particularly those of: Leona Rostenberg, Warren Howell, Lawrence J. Witten and Robert D. Fleck. Also: some records for Antiquarian Booksellers Benevolent Fund (ABBF) and the Antiquarian Booksellers Center (ABC), as well as material documenting activities and relationship with the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Proceedings of meetings 1990-1997 are on audiocassette.

69 boxes (29 linear ft.)audiocassettes ca. 100.

Grolier Club

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Grolier Club

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Howell, Warren R.

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Fleck, Robert D., 1947-

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International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

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Gomme, Laurence J. (Laurence James), 1882-

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Bookseller, of New York City; publisher of The Circus and Other Essays (1916) by Joyce Kilmer. From the description of Papers relating to Joyce Kilmer, 1915-1928 (bulk 1915-1918). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122429057 The Gommes were collectors of performing arts ephemera. Laurence Gomme was a bookseller, publisher and also an appraiser who evaluated collections of performing artists. Florence Cornell Gomme, his wife was an actress. From the guide to the Laure...

Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004

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Epithet: journalist and broadcaster British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000975.0x0000cd ...

Rostenberg, Leona

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Madeleine Bettina Stern, born in New York City on 1 July 1912, and Leona Rostenberg, born in New York on 28 Dec. 1908, first met in 1929 while teaching Hebrew School at Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El. At the time, Stern was a freshman at Barnard College, and Rostenberg was completing her undergraduate studies at New York University. Four years later, after Stern received her Master's Degree in medieval English literature from Columbia University, the two women met again and began a lif...

Witten, Lawrence.

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Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America

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Founded 1949 as a professional association for antiquarian booksellers in the United States. In the years immediately following the end of World War II, antiquarian book dealers in a number of European countries formed national associations and in 1947 came together to establish the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). In this spirit of cooperation, some fifty members of the antiquarian booktrade met 1949 Feb. 24 at the Grolier Club in New York City an...

Antiquarian Booksellers Benevolent Fund.

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