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 Capitalist World-EconomyFirst Editionby Wallerstein, Immanuel
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1979
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I Want to Paint My Bathroom BlueFirst Editionby Krauss, Ruth; Sandak, Maurice (Illustrations)
New York : Harper & Brothers , 1956
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Phantom AfricaFirst Editionby Leiris, Michel; Edwards, Brent Hayes (Translator)
Calcutta : Seagull Books , 2017
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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literatureby Danker, Frederick William
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1979
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QuipuSignedby Mutz, Catherine Collins
San Francisco : Protean Press [Terry Horrigan] , 2004
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Bibliography of Yosemite, the Central and the Southern High Sierra, and the Big Trees, 1839-1900First Editionby Currey, Lloyd W. and Kruska, Dennis G.
Los Angeles / Palo Alto : Dawson's Book Shop / William P. Wreden [designed and printed by The Castle Press] , 1992
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