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 White Elephant; And Other Tales from Old Indiaby Georgene Faulkner (Retelling); Frederick Richardson (Illustrations)
Joliet : The P.F. Volland Company , 1929
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Somebody Else's Nut Tree; And Other Tales From ChildrenFirst Editionby Krauss, Ruth; Sendak, Maurice (Illustrations)
New York : Harper & Brothers , 1958
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Job Printing in California, With Four Original Examples of Early California Printing. 1955.; Early California Travels Series, Volume XXVIby Ritchie, Ward
Los Angeles : Glen Dawson [printed by William M. Cheney] , 1955
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Open House for ButterfliesFirst Editionby Krauss, Ruth; Sendak, Maurice (Illustrations)
[New York] : Harper & Brothers , 1960
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Hetch Hetchy Valley; Report of Advisory Board of Army Engineers to the Secretary of the Interior on Investigations Relative to Sources of Water Supply for San Francisco and Bay Communities, February 19, 1913by [Wadsworth, H.H.]
Washington : Government Printing Office , 1913
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Early California Travels Seriesby Dawson, Glen (Publisher)
Los Angeles : Glen Dawson , 1954
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