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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by Cynwal, Wiliam; Williams, Gwyn (Translator); Petts, John (Artist)
(London) : The Golden Cockerel Press , 1960
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First Edition
by Lewis, C. S.; Baynes, Pauline (Illustrations)
New York : The Macmillan Company , 1950
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First Edition
by Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)
London : Chatto & Windus , 1880
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by Bradbury, Ray
Berkeley : [Kenneth J. Carpenter, The Quenian Press] , 1957
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by [Mediaeval Religious Play]; Douglas Cleverdon (Publisher's Note); David Jones (Wood Engravings)
London [Cambridge] : Clover Hill Editions [Printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press] , 1977
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Signed First Edition
by Dame Shirley (Mrs. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe); Thomas C. Russell (Editor); Mrs. M.V.T. Lawrence ("An Appreciation")
San Francisco : Thomas C. Russell , 1922
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