Kenneth Gloss

Brattle Book Shop
9 West Street, Boston, MA 02111
(800) 447-9595
info@brattlebookshop.com
Specialties: Autographs, Books, Letters by Notables, Maps, Printed Ephemera

Kenneth Gloss is the proprietor of the Brattle Book Shop, one of America’s oldest and best known antiquarian bookshops.

Kenneth Gloss is a member of the following organizations/museums:

The Antiquarian Booksellers of America (ABAA)
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB)
The New England Antiquarian Booksellers of America (NEABA)
The Massachusetts and Rhode island Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MARIAB)
The Committee for the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
The Bostonian Society
Board of Overseers of the USS Constitution Museum
UMass Library Directors Council
Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Some of the institutions for which he has submitted appraisals are:

Boston Public Library
Harvard University
Boston College
Boston University
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Tufts University
Simmons College
Babson College
Suffolk University
Northeastern University
Brandeis University
Massachusetts Historical Society

Kenneth Gloss has appeared as an appraiser on PBS Antiques Roadshow, as an expert witness for the Federal Prosecutor in Boston and as a guest on numerous radio and television shows.

Kenneth Gloss lectures all around New England on the value of old books. He also writes columns on rare books and on collecting for several antique journals and consumer publications.