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Kevin Mullen became a bookseller in February 1993, after terminating a two and one-half year career in the environmental consulting field. Prior to that, he spent five years in the land surveying business in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He would probably still be doing this if there had been no serious slump in the real estate market in late 1988. He received his B.S. from Marietta College in Ohio in 1984, with an emphasis on petroleum Geology. Prior to college, he spent a year in the wholesale nursery business after graduating from Pingry School in Hillside (now Martinsville), New Jersey. He was raised on a farm in Oldwick, New Jersey, with three brothers and three sisters. Kevin grew up in a house surrounded by books and learning (on the inside) and animals and countryside (on the outside). His grandfather, Gerald Tyne, was the worlds leading authority on the history of Vacuum Tubes, and wrote the still-standard work on the subject, The Saga of The Vacuum Tube. During his lifetime, Gerald Tyne assembled one of the pre-eminent collections of books and printed matter relating to the history of electricity and magnetism, and the visions of these centuries old books, many bound in sheepskin and vellum, made an indelible impression on Kevin as a youngster. His father, Thomas J. Mullen Jr. is a renowned military historian whose field of specialty is the Involvement of soldiers, regiments and armies of Irish origin in conflicts throughout time. Kevins mother has assembled an impressive collection of books related to Pewter and American Decorative Arts. So books and scholarship have always been a part of Kevins life. He acquired an interest in American art while in college and began to develop his own small library in 1988. It was then that he discovered how limited the sources were for out-of-print material in this field. When he finished up his career in environmental consultation, he decided that there was plenty of room for another specialist in American art books, hence beginning his present occupation.

 

Address: P.O. Box 472, Marietta, Pennsylvania 17547,
Telephone: 717.492.0092
Fax: 717.492.0093
Website: http://www.mullenbooks.com/index2.html