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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History of Fayette County, Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest and the State of Ohio..First Editionby Dills, R. S.
Dayton, Ohio : Odell & Mayer , 1881
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The Indian Mutiny of 1857by Malleson, Col. G.B.
London : Seeley and Co., Ltd , 1896
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Picasso, A Pictorial Biographyby [Picasso, Pablo] Buchheim, Lothar-Günther
New York : A Studio Book, The Viking Press , 1959
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Mon Frere Yvesby Loti, Pierre; Dufour, D'Emilien (Illustrations)
n.p. : Calmann-Levy , 1936
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Fontwell Park, Accounting Ledger, 1967-1972[United Kingdom] : [Fontwell Park]
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Tropic of CancerFirst Editionby Miller, Henry
New York : Grove Press, Inc , 1961
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