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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French Grand Opera and the Historical ImaginationFirst Editionby Hibberd, Sarah
(Cambridge) : (Cambridge University Press) , 2009
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François Couperin; and the French Classical Tradition; New Version, 1987by Mellers, Wilfrid
London : Faber and Faber , 1987
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The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's PhilosophyFirst Editionby Derrida, Jacques; Hobson, Marian (Translator)
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 2003
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Cathay; A Critical EditionFirst Editionby Pound, Ezra; Billings, Timothy (Editor)
New York : Fordham University Press , 2019
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The Life of MusorgskyFirst Editionby Emerson, Caryl
(Cambridge) : Cambridge University Press , 1999
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Speculation and Revelationby Shestov, Lev; Martin, Bernard (Translator, Preface); Berdyaev, Nikolai (Introduction)
Chicago : Ohio University Press , 1982
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