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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Tolstoy's Letters; Volume I: 1828-1879; Volume II: 1880-1910by [Tolstoy, Leo]; Christian, R.F. (Editor, Translator)
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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Tolstoy's Diaries; Volume 1: 1847-1894; Volume 2: 1895-1910by [Tolstoy, Leo]; Christian, R.F. (Editor, Translator)
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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Men Without Womenby Hemingway, Ernest
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1928
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East of the Sun, West of the MoonFirst Editionby [Asbjornsen, Peter Christen] and [Moe, Jorgen Engebretsen]; Nielsen, Kay [Illustrations]
[London] : Hodder & Stoughton , 1914
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Etymological Dictionary of Greek; Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Seriesby Beekes, Robert; van Beek, Lucien (Assistant)
Leiden, Boston : Brill , 2010
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Life Work of Dard Hunter; A Progressive Illustrated Assemblage of His Works as Artist, Craftsman, Author, Papermaker, and PrinterSigned First Editionby [Hunter, Dard]; Hunter, Dard, Jr.
Chillicothe, Ohio : Mountain House Press , 1983
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