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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Engravings by Eric Gill; A Selection of Wood and Metal representative of his work to the end of the year 1927 with a complete Chronological List of Engravings and a Preface by the ArtistFirst Editionby Gill, Eric (Artist, Preface)
Bristol : Douglas Cleverdon , 1929
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WandererSignedby Hayden, Sterling
New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1963
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The Writings of John Muir, Manuscript Editionby Muir, John
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1924
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Shanghai Bundby Kung Tai (Gong Tai, Tuck Tai)
[Shanghai] 1893
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New Mexico Wildflowers; A Suite of Fourteen Linoleum Block PrintsSignedby Hughes, Phyllis; Hughey, Kirk (Illustrations)
Santa Fe, New Mexico : Press of the Palace of the Governors , 1982
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![Phaedrus, a Dialogue by Plato [with] A Search for the Typographic Form of Plato’s Phaedrus](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/656/807/1673807656.0.m.jpg)
Phaedrus, a Dialogue by Plato [with] A Search for the Typographic Form of Plato’s Phaedrusby Main Volume: Plato; R. Hackforth (Translator). Accompanying booklet: compiled by Jack W. Stauffacher
San Francisco : [Published by the Greenwood Press....printed by James Faris] , 1978
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