IOBA is happy to admit and welcome the following applicants to full membership: Michael DiPadova, Bright Arrow Books Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin USA Tristan Navarro, Tristan Navarro Rare Books & Manuscripts Oakland, California USA Paola Pugliese, La Fenice Antiquaria Los Angeles, California USA

IOBA is happy to admit and welcome the following applicants to full membership: Ian Barfield, Peak Dragon Books Alfreton, Derbyshire UNITED KINGDOM Jim Collette, Collette's Books Flagstaff, Arizona USA Martin Frenette, MFLIBRA Antique Books Montreal, Quebec CANADA Fowler Jones, About Those Books Overland Park, Kansas USA Donald Prescott, Circle City Books, LLC Tucson, Arizona USA Brandon Purvis, The Book Rapport Rare Books Springfield, Virginia USA Michael Slicker, Lighthouse Books, ABAA Dade City, Florida USA Philip David Treece, CollectingMagicBooks.com Sheffield, South Yorkshire UNITED KINGDOM Sara Winn, Sutter & St. P Booksellers San Antonio, Texas USA

As told by Blake to Colleen Barrett, Cataloguer Blake joined the staff of the Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company (PRB&M), an antiquarian bookstore in northeast Philly, in late 2011. This loveable tabby cat had big paws to fill as her predecessor Sessa had many admirers, his own email address, and even his own division of the business: “SessaBks,” which continues to offer good used, “medium rare,” and simply serendipitous stock complementing our core early books of Europe & the Americas. After much thought, PRB&M’s proprietors Cynthia Buffington and David Szewczyk decided to name her after the English poet, painter, and printer William Blake, a surprisingly fitting name considering the variety of activities in which Blake participates — not to mention that some people say she’s a “tiger”! Blake spends her days here at The Arsenal patrolling the bookstore, which served for over 100 years as U.S. Army officers’ quarters before it became home to PRB&M’s stock and offices. Her lack of opposable thumbs prevents her from greatly contributing to cataloging efforts, but she makes up for it through her phenomenal public relations skills. She often greets visitors at our Saturday Open Houses, occasionally contributes to emails, and “helps” employees with their daily work by cleaning their desks of notes with her tail or demanding attention when they need a break. Her most famous appearance in print to date has been in the Lifestyle section of Cat Fancy, where she was a featured cool cat, but she is even more enthusiastic about being featured in a truly bookish publication. Save

MEMBER DIRECTORY LIST OF BUSINESS NAMES GO GO GO GO 20 Ants Fine Books Michael Watson Offering fine press, small press, limited editions, literature, and eclectic categories that strike our fancy. Online and catalogs issued since 1998. Member of Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) since 2004 and an adherent to its Code of Ethics. VIEW PROFILE VIEW WEBSITE books@20ants.com 317-514-3829 90 Indian Trail Rd, Williamsville, NY, 14221, United States 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera Theodore Jablonski Offering an eclectic assortment of used, rare and out of print books and print materials. VIEW PROFILE VIEW WEBSITE info@32.1rarebooks.com 6177211317 255 Nassau Street Unit 202 , Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States 84 Charing Cross Road Books Dr Marino Guida Dreaming in Books! VIEW PROFILE VIEW WEBSITE twitterdeleuze@googlemail.com 07903092702 10 Vawser Way, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0AR, United Kingdom 86 Books Jeremy Moberg-Sarver VIEW PROFILE VIEW WEBSITE 86books@gmail.com 718-344-0346 50 BURROUGHS WAY, MAPLEWOOD, NY, 07040, United States A.M. Rapach Angling Books Andy Rapach antiquarian, collectible, and out-of-print fishing and sporting books. VIEW PROFILE VIEW WEBSITE bksales@anglingbooks.com 724.216.6770 PO Box 2, Harrison City, PA, 15636, United States Aardvark Rare Books Joshua Hirschstein VIEW PROFILE VIEW WEBSITE office@aardvarkrarebooks.com 541-683-3131 2141 Crest Drive, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States About Those Books Fowler Jones Rare, Vintage & Collectible Books — Connecting Good Books with the Right People VIEW PROFILE VIEW WEBSITE AboutTBooks@gmail.com 9135682453 10100 W 87th Street, Ste. 116, Overland Park, KS, 66212, United States Ainsworth Books D.E. (Betty) Kilner VIEW PROFILE VIEW WEBSITE ainsworthbooks@gmail.com 604-818-7014 #118 - 6540 Dogwood Drive, Chilliwack, BC, V2R 0W7, Canada Alan Angele Popular Culture Alan Angele VIEW PROFILE VIEW WEBSITE aapcbooks@aol.com 845-353-2650 11 Riverton Drive, Nyack, NY, 10960-1400, United States Alkahest Books Patricia Martinak VIEW PROFILE VIEW WEBSITE alkahestbooks@toast.net 847-236-1154 P.O. Box 492, Deerfield, IL, 60015, United States LOAD MORE

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MEMBER DESK IOBA FILTER BY CATEGORY CATALOGUING AIDS KNOWLEDGE BASE REGULATORY SALES AIDS JUMP TO TITLE SALES AIDS July 28, 2026 Dealer Etiquette at In-Person Book Fairs In-person book fairs are built on more than the books brought into the room. They also depend on trust, referrals, good judgment, and the small courtesies that booksellers often learn by example. Lynne Owens’ question-and-answer exercise offers an experience-based discussion of common fair-floor situations involving customers,… VIEW POST KNOWLEDGE BASE July 26, 2026 Roman Numerals for Booksellers and Cataloguers Roman numerals appear frequently in publication dates, volume statements, chapter headings, preliminary pagination, and plate counts. IOBA_Roman_Numerals_for_Booksellers_and_Cataloguers.pdf provides a quick conversion table, examples of common publication dates, and notes on historic forms that may be encountered in older books. It also explains such cataloguing conventions as… VIEW POST KNOWLEDGE BASE July 28, 2026 Early Printed Letterforms and Transcription Older books often contain letterforms and printing conventions that can be mistaken for modern letters or numerals. Early Printed Letterforms and Transcription provides a quick guide to the long s, terminal j, interchangeable u/v and i/j, ligatures, and other forms that booksellers may encounter when reading… VIEW POST KNOWLEDGE BASE July 27, 2026 Latin and Latinate Terms Encountered in Books Latin and Latinate terms still appear frequently in older books, title pages, bibliographies, footnotes, provenance notes, and cataloguing references. This one-page guide provides booksellers and cataloguers with quick practical meanings for commonly encountered citation terms, editorial abbreviations, book features, imprint phrases, and ownership and provenance language. VIEW POST SALES AIDS April 16, 2026 SELLING ON IOBA TRADEBOOKS As many of you know, I post somewhat prolifically on IOBA's Tradebooks listserv. I've noticed over the years that relatively few members post on Tradebooks and I've never really understood why. We all have books to sell, and it is a worthwhile venue to sell them… VIEW POST SALES AIDS November 19, 2024 iPhone Photography for Booksellers Presented by Ed Lefkowicz In this visual culture, great photos will help you sell books, manuscripts, and ephemera. This webinar will help you up your photographic game using just your iPhone. (And if you have an Android phone, don't worry—this webinar applies to either platform.) Topics… VIEW POST KNOWLEDGE BASE August 20, 2021 Useful Links A part of our collective knowledge comes from knowing how to makes use of the wide variety of resources that are now available on the Internet. This note will list some of those sources of information related to books and bookselling. FEdPo.com : First Edition Criteria and… VIEW POST KNOWLEDGE BASE August 20, 2021 Bookjacking [ Andrew Langer, Andrew Langer, Bookseller (Editor)]: Bookjackers are a part of the world of Internet selling for booksellers. These are sellers that work with data describing books and not with the books themselves. They use databases with basic information about books and use automated pricing to offer… VIEW POST SALES AIDS August 27, 2021 Garry Austin's Guidelines for using Trade Lists to SELL books Editor's Note: I first met Garry at the 2013 edition of the Colorado Antiquarian Bookselling School. He was from the opposite side of our country and very much seemed to know what he was doing. We struck up a conversation that lasted on occasion until his… VIEW POST CATALOGUING AIDS January 13, 2023 Watermark identification using catalogs, databases, and library holdings A watermark is a distinguishing mark or design incorporated in paper during the making. The mark may be incorporated by die impression or rolling, or by variation in the mesh used for making laid paper. The mark varies in thickness and is thus translucent and visible when… VIEW POST REGULATORY March 7, 2022 US HARMONIZED TARIFF CODES FOR BOOKSELLERS The following quick guide to the codes most likely to be used by booksellers has been provided by Nathan Barker of Kayleigh Books. Before he was a bookseller, Nathan was a licensed import/export broker so if you have questions not answered below, he has offered to… VIEW POST KNOWLEDGE BASE April 23, 2026 ASSOCIATIONS ON ABEBOOKS VIEW POST CATALOGUING AIDS June 23, 2026 Special Character Keys The Easy Way to Insert Special Characters into Your Descriptions Booksellers frequently encounter accented letters, ligatures, fractions, currency symbols, and other typographic characters in titles, author names, publishers, and bibliographic descriptions. Entering these characters correctly improves accuracy, professionalism, and searchability in online catalogues and marketplaces. The… VIEW POST