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 Ways of Confucianism; Investigations in Chinese PhilosophyFirst Editionby Nivison, David S.; Van Norden, Bryan W. (Editor, Introduction)
Chicago and La Salle, Illinois : Open Court , 1996
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Correspondance (1951-1970); Avec un choix de lettres de Paul Celan à son fils Ericby Celan, Paul; Celan-Lestrange, Gisèle; Badiou, Bertrand (Éditée, Commentée avec le concours d'Eric Celan)
[Paris] : Éditions du Seuil , 2001
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Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love; The Short Text and the Long TextFirst Editionby Julian of Norwich; Barry Windeatt (Editor)
Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016
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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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