Thanks to the ABAA for hosting the first (but not last) networking event for women in the book trade at this year's Boston Antiquarian Book Fair, the inaugural program in the ABAA's Women in Bookselling Initiative. The Boston gathering was inspired by a series of lively events in London this year, the first one organized by the women of Maggs, with later events sponsored by Peter Harrington, Quaritch, and (next up) Daniel Crouch. We were also motivated by ongoing conversations about the place of women in the trade at the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS) and York Antiquarian Book Seminar (YABS) this summer. Ashley Wildes (Between the Covers), Alanna Miles (Caliban), and Kim Schwenk (Lux Mentis) Our point of departure is this: while individual women have played key roles in the American book trade for at least a century, they remain... [more ABAA Women in Bookselling Initiative Launches in Boston]
Blog posts by Heather O'Donnell
Heather O'Donnell got her start in rare books in the 90s, sorting fiction on the floor of the Strand, shelving photobooks in the Avery Library, and working as a curatorial assistant at the Beinecke. For seven years, she was a bookseller in the New York gallery of Bauman Rare Books, and in 2011, she launched Honey & Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn, specializing in literary and cultural history. Heather represents the Mid-Atlantic Chapter on the ABAA Board of Governors, teaches at the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar, and runs the annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
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To Every Thing There Is a Season. Verses from Ecclesiastes; with: signed publisher's posterby Dillon, Leo and Diane
New York : The Blue Sky Press / Scholastic , 1998
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The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese and Other Tales of the Far North; with: signed publisher’s posterSigned First Editionby Dillon, Leo and Diane (illustrators); Norman, Howard
New York : Gulliver Books / Harcourt Brace & Co , 1997
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Northern Lullaby; with: signed publisher’s posterSigned First Editionby Dillon, Leo and Diane (illustrators); Carlstrom, Nancy White
New York : Philomel Books , 1992
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Jazz on a Saturday Night; with: signed publisher’s posterSigned First Editionby Dillon, Leo and Diane
New York : The Blue Sky Press / Scholastic , 2007
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No Dress Rehearsal, Babyby [EPHEMERA]; Woolf, Virginia; Chandler, Raymond; Nabokov, Vladimir; Anouilh, Jean; Stevens, Wallace; Whitridge, Thomas (printer)
New York : Ink, Inc , no date
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Here & There: A Fashion View with a Point-of-View. June 1978by [FASHION]; Horn, Francine (editor)
Westport, Connecticut : Here & There , 1978
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On February 8th, at the Book Fair Exhibitor Reception in Pasadena, the ABAA Women's Initiative sponsored the first in a series of tributes to women booksellers who have left a lasting impression on the American trade. Our first honoree was Carol Sandberg, an accomplished career bookseller whose contributions extend beyond the great businesses she helped to build. Carol started bookselling in 1974, when Ken Karmiole hired her fresh out of UCLA library school to join Ben and Lou Weinstein at Heritage Book Shop. In 1985, Carol went into partnership with Michael and Kathleen Thompson at Michael R. Thompson Rare Books, working for more than three decades to make that firm a mainstay of the trade in Los Angeles. At the Pasadena event, Carol's longtime friend and colleague John Windle toasted her as “one of the finest individuals our trade has... [more A Toast to Carol Sandberg]