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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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeareby Shakespeare, William; Jones, Gwyn (Editor); Buckland-Wright, John (Decorations)
[London] : The Golden Cockerel Press , 1960
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The Odyssey of Homerby [Lawrence, T.E. (Translator)]
[London] : [Printed and published by Sir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers] , 1932
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The Double Axe; & Other PoemsSigned First Editionby Jeffers, Robinson
New York : Random House , 1948
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Complete Writings of Oscar Wildeby Wilde, Oscar
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago : The Nottingham Society , n.d.
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CaliforniaSignedby Coolbrith, Ina; Sweeney, Dan (Frontispiece Portrait); Haste, Lawrence B. (Decorations)
San Francisco : The Book Club of California (printed by John Henry Nash) , 1918
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![The Original Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/861/985/1652985861.0.m.jpg)
The Original Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]Signedby Graves, Robert; Ali-Shah, Omar (Translators / Commentaries)
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc , 1968
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