Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of Canada

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Founded in 1966, the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of Canada was founded works to foster interest in rare books and manuscripts and to maintain high standards in the antique book trade. The ABAC also sponsors the Toronto International Antiquarian Book Fair to stimulate interest in book collecting by private collectors and public institutions.
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About Books, ABAC

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Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada

About Books is a second generation shop specializing in second hand, out of print and antiquarian books in most subjects.

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Acadia Art & Rare Books Est. 1931

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Acadia Bookstore established in 1931 is been operating in the same building for the past 60 years. Over the span of these so many years we have bought and sold 1000s of books. We focus in books on the visual…

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Alan Foljambe, Bookseller [ABAC/ILAB]

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Alan Foljambe, Bookseller specializes in illustrated books from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Particular interests include natural history, French Modernism, Japanese craft and aesthetics, early anatomy books, fine press and bindings.

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Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB

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Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada

General used bookstore, Mon-Sat. 10: -5pm. Used, ou-of-print, scarce, and rare books. Literature, first editions, Canadiana etc. ABAC/ILAB Member

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Aquila Books

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Aquila Books specializes in books dealing with Polar Exploration, Western Canadiana, Mountaineering, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Early Voyages as well as many other areas. We also deal in antique maps and prints, historic photos, autograph letters, postcards, antique scientific instruments…

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Attic Books

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London, Ontario, Canada

Attic Books is one of the premier retail locations for antiquarian and collectable books in Canada. We recently celebrated our thirtieth year in business. Please browse our select online stock on a wide range of subjects in books and paper…

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BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB

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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Bison Books is a welcoming and sunny open shop in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, and we maintain a meticulously-curated eclectic selection of about 20,000 antiquarian and secondhand books.

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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB

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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Home to an eclectic collection of over 100,000 titles, our store specializes in History-- Canadian history, Military history, Local history, Philosophy, and Law. We have antiquarian books, scarce books, Modern Firsts, Fiction, fine bindings, sets, Art history, and much more.…

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CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB

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London (Birr), Ontario, Canada

Cardinal Books is located in London (Birr), Ontario, Canada (not far from Detroit & Port Huron, MI)). We maintain a USA address for ease of contact with American and international customers. We offer a medium select stock (approximately 20,000 volumes)…

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Contact Editions

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

We are located at 491 Davenport Road, Toronto, Ontario in our little house of all sorts in the shadow of CASA LOMA, Toronto's only castle. Our south side location has parking out front and our hours are 11:00 a.m. to…

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D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Retail shop with large stock, comprising: Old & Rare Books in most fields Modern Books on Art, Decorative Arts, and Architecture Antique Maps & Prints

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E. C. Rare Books [ABA / ABAC]

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Specializing in Fine Bindings, Children's Illustrated, Fore-edge paintings, Sets, voyages and classic literature.

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Jason Rovito, Bookseller

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

We work closely with institutional and private collectors to source materials with compelling research and exhibition value. Currently specializing in the human sciences, design, and radicalism, across the long-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because the Cloud forgets.

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Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)

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Librairie Bonheur d'occasion

Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Since 1969 we've been selling rare books. We have published 292 catalogues of rare, scare and interesting books in a wide variety of subjects. Our specialites include.... Arctic, Canadian History and Travel, The Americas, Fishing and Angling, Ireland, General Antiquarian,…

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Purpora Books

Comox, British Columbia, Canada

Purpora Books is a full-time business specializing in literature first editions, signed copies, poetry broadsides and fine press. Over 50% of our inventory is devoted to Canadian authors. We are committed to finding and providing our customers the nicest and…

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ROBERT CAMPBELL BOOKSELLER

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada

We previously operated an open shop, Ex Libris Books, in downtown Montreal, but are now a mail order business in private premises. We carry a select stock of titles in our specialities of General Antiquarian, History of Medicine & Science,…

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Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

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Tamworth, Ontario, Canada

We operate an open bookshop in Tamworth, Ontario. The shop is open daily in July and August from 11 am - 4 pm. We also maintain a general Antiquarian stock available online or by appointment only. Most of our online…

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Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA

St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

My wife and I have been operating Scene of the Crime Books since 1996. In 2004 we attempted to go against the market and open a storefront on Oakville Ontario. In August 2006 we closed the brick and mortar and…

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Schooner Books Ltd

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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

We are an open shop with a large general inventory of rare used and out of print books.We have been in business for over 30 years and welcome vistors to both our open shop as well as to our internet…

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Spafford Books

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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

50 + years buying and selling. Large stock dealing with western Canada, fur trade, Indigenous Peoples, general antiquarian. Open by appointment or chance! Call 1-306-525-4910.

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The Edmonton Book Store

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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

In business for nearly 30 years, we offer thousands of out-of-print and antiquarian books, with specialities in Western Canadian studies, signed Canadian literature and art books.

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Thompson Rare Books

Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada

Michael John Thompson Member of: The Antiquarian Booksellers\\\' Association of Canada The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers All purchases are guaranteed under the ILAB. For more information on this you may visit the ABAC site at: http://www.abac.ca

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Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB

Port Hope, Ontario, Canada

Webster's Fine Books & Maps are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC),The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and International Map Collectors Society (IMCoS) . We deal in Books on travel and antiquarian & maps of all…

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Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller

Westmount (Montreal), Quebec, Canada

We are general dealers in antiquarian and out-of-print books with a few specialties in subjects/authors of particular interest to us, including Lewis Carroll, Gilbert & Sullivan, Tennis & other sports, and Vanity Fair caricatures. We are members in good standing…

William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop

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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada

Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.

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