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Welcome to TomFolio.com, a website for buying and selling used, rare and collectible books, ephemera, and periodicals. This website is owned and operated by A Book CoOp, which is legally incorporated in the state of Wisconsin. As a cooperative, our site is jointly owned by independent member booksellers. Owner-membership is open to all independent booksellers who purchase member stock. A Book CoOp began in 1999 as a small discussion group of independent booksellers. We wanted to develop a bookselling site that would not be vulnerable to the kind of corporate interference that can dictate selling terms or reap undue profit from our efforts. We wanted a Code of Ethics that requires professional standards of our sellers. We wanted to be able to guarantee the highest quality service to our customers, and to be able to deal with our customers directly. We wanted a database that would, in short, be bookseller and bookbuyer friendly. A cooperative was our answer. We hired an attorney experienced in the laws regarding cooperatives. We incorporated, and made our Charter Member stock offer late in December of that year. The name of our website is taken from an 18th Century literary reference: TOM FOLIO, (from The Tatler, April 13, 1710, by Joseph Addison) Tom Folio is a broker in learning, employed to get together good Editions, and stock the Libraries of great men. There is not a Sale of books begins till Tom Folio is seen at the door. There is not an Auction where his name is not heard, and that too in the very nick of time, in the critical moment, before the decisive stroke of the hammer. There is not a Subscription goes forward, in which Tom is not privy to the first rough draft of the Proposals; nor a Catalogue printed, that doth not come to him wet from the press. He is an universal Scholar, so far as the Title-page of all Authors, knows the Manuscripts in which they were discovered, the Editions through which they have passed, with the praises or censures which they have received from the several members of the learned world. Footnote: The reference is to caricaturist and illustrator Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725), also known as Tom Folio, the bibliomaniac. (information from the Penkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich)

 

Address: TomFolio.com, P.O. Box 392, Readville, MA 02137
Website: http://www.tomfolio.com/