Owner Kenneth Gloss on the Brattle Book Shop
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The Brattle Book Shop, founded in the Cornhill section of Boston in 1825, has been in the hands of the Gloss Family since 1949.\\xa0Over the years George and his son Kenneth built this shop into one of the largest antiquarian book shops in the United States.\\xa0Ken is the current proprietor of The Brattle Book Shop.\\xa0He is a past President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America\\u2019s New England Chapter.\\xa0He also sits on the Associate Board of the Boston Public Library.\\xa0
Ken appraises books and libraries for Harvard, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern, Simmons, Suffolk, Tufts, Babson, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the FBI and others. He lectures on the antiquarian book field to library groups, historical societies and other book-interested groups throughout the New England area.
Appearing on numerous local and national television and radio programs, Ken is often featured talking about books and their values. He also has written many articles on appraising books, book collecting and selling.\\xa0
We spoke in the basement of his venerable shop.\\xa0
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