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Printable list of Open Shops & Appointment Only Booksellers

2005 printed directory now available. - Visit your local open-shop and pick one up!
Or call (301)949-9416 or email wababooks@gmail.com for a copy.

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For inquiries on books, booksellers, or waba please email wababooks@gmail.com CATALOG NEWS William & Nina Matheson Books, Inc. Catalog 12 Fiction & Literature - Books published mainly between the 1850s and 1950s [436 items] is now available at their website: www.mathesonbooks.com Featured are many inscribed and association copies (ee cummings, Stanley Elkin, Anais Nin, Eudora Welty), some uncommon American fiction from 1901-1925, crime fiction and science fiction. An e-mail copy of the catalog is available on request. A few printed catalogs are also available. E. Wharton & Co. "In Praise of Irretrievables" with 78 items in the areas of first editions, decorated trade bindings, pop-ups, suffrage and women's rights. Bartleby's Books Catalogue 47 Americana: Colonial and American Revolution with 1386 items.

MOVINGS - NEW LOCATIONS banning+Low has a new location! New Address: 4229 Howard Ave. Kensington, MD 20895 Basset Books has a new location! New Address: The Old Weave Building, Historic Savage Mill, Box 2017, 8600 Foundry St., Savage, MD 20763 Osiris Books has a new location! New Address: 4233 Howard Ave Suite E Kensington MD 20895 Read Articles on Book Collecting by Rock of Back Creek Books. WABA SHOPS IN THE NEWS!! Voice Curl up this summer with a good book - Silver Spring Books "Selling used books is difficult. Dealers enter their profession through love of books, not love of money. Perhaps economic necessity explains why Silver Spring Books operates as a cooperative..." Washington Post, Sunday, June 27, 2004 Secondhand Treasure Haunts Customers of Used-Book Shops Are After More Than Bargains "...the owner of a used-book store tends to view his or her shop as a knowledge center, not just a business..." Second Story Books & Antiques opens new store in Bethesda! Second Story Books(Bethesda) Article in the Gazette: Story to end for Bethesda bookshop Georgetown Book Shop Article in the Washington Post: In a Bethesda Bookstore, the Prints of Propaganda The Kensington Bookshops Article in the Gazette: Kensington booksellers ready to roll out the red carpet banning & Low Article in the Gazette: Gallery's Cuban art exhibit transcends both politics, time

 

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