It was February of 2013. I walked into the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, California, following the signs to the “Codex Book Fair and Symposium”… I had just handed in my resignation notice to my then-current employer, where I was selling software – and hating every moment of it. I had made the decision to make a career leap. A rather HUGE career leap – from selling software to being a bookseller. So I wanted to check out what this “Codex” thing was all about. The hall was a cacophony of sights and sounds: the glass wall with a view of the Harbour, soaring skyward, let in so much natural light it was like being outdoors on a warm spring day. Thousands of voices were talking, exclaiming, sharing, filled with delight and the joy of the discovery of the unexpected. As I walked down aisle after aisle of “artist books” I was o... [more Discovering Artists’ Books]
Blog posts by Laurelle Swan
Laurelle Swan was drawn to old books as a child. Having completed a successful career in business and corporate sales, Laurelle decided to share her love of fine books with others and thus Swan’s Fine Books was born.
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First Edition
by [Mediaeval Religious Play]; Isaacs, J. (Editor); Jones, David (Wood Engravings)
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire : The Golden Cockerel Press , 1927
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by Mathers, E. Powys; Gill, Eric (Engravings)
[Waltham Saint Lawrence] : The Golden Cockerel Press , 1926
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by Chaucer, Geoffrey; Pollard, Dr. A.W. (Editor of the Text); Chesterman, Hugh (Illustrations); Gaskin, Joscelyn V. (Decorations); Lamb, Lynton H. (Woodcuts)
Stratford-Upon-Avon : Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press...and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell , 1929
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Signed
by Crane, Hart; Cowley, Malcolm (Introduction)
New York : The Limited Editions Club [printed by Michael & Winifred Bixler] , 1981
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Signed First Edition
by Heaney, Seamus; Flanagan, Thomas (Introduction); Pearson, Henry (Editor/Illustrator)
New York : The Limited Editions Club [printed at The Wild Carrot Letterpress] , 1982
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First Edition
by Wilson, Edmund; Edel, Leon (Editor (first four volumes), Introduction); Dabney, Lewis M. (Editor, final volume)
New York : Farrar , Straus and Giroux , 1993
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